Dallas Wrestling Results

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, January 4, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Jimmy Blood and Duke Keomuka b. Otto Kuss and Dick Raines
(2/3) (Kuss had to wrestle the third fall by himself because of an injury suffered by Raines)
… Larry Chene and Maurice Vachon drew … Billy Darnell and Polo Torres drew … Rocky
Columbo b. Leo Newman … Tony Baillargeon (local debut) b. Buck Weaver … (promoter:
Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, January 11, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Jim Blood b. Bull Curry (2/3) (third fall by countout) (Curry was
brawling with Blood’s second Ted Cox) … Polo Torres b. Vern Taft … Larry Chene and
Billy Darnell drew … Tony Baillargeon b. Leo Newman … Duke Keomuka b. Otto Kuss …
Rocky Columbo b. Maurice Vachon (DQ) … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, January 18, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Bull Curry b. Jim Blood (no-holds-barred match) … Tony
Baillargeon and Larry Chene b. Joe Christie and Duke Keomuka … Billy Darnell and Dick
Raines drew … Maurice Vachon b. Tony Ross … Polo Torres b. Leo Newman … Rocky
Columbo b. Professor Roy Shire … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, January 25, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Bull Curry b. Don Eagle (local debut) (2/3) (third by DQ) … Duke
Keomuka and Danny Savich b. Tony Baillargeon and Larry Chene … Maurice Vachon b.
Pete Mendietta (Mendietta was a substitute for Ray Gunkel) … Rocky Columbo b. Jim
Blood (DQ) … Billy Two Rivers b. Vern Taft (DQ) … (promoter: Ed McLemore) …
(referees: Roy Carter, Tommy Phelps) … (benefit for the March of Dimes, contributing
almost $8,000 to the fund) … (large crowd in attendance)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, February 1, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Bull Curry b. Ray Gunkel (2/3) (Curry received some help from his
second, Roy Graham) … Larry Chene and Danny Savich wrestled to a no contest (1-1) …
Don Eagle b. The Sheik of Araby … Billy Two Rivers and Maurice Vachon wrestled to a
draw … Rocky Columbo b. Professor Roy Shire … Tony Baillargeon and Duke Keomuka
drew … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, February 8, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka and Danny Savich b. Tony Baillargeon and Larry
Chene (2/3) … Don Eagle b. Bull Curry (2/3) (third fall by DQ) … Ray Gunkel b. Roy
Graham … Bob “Mr. America” McCune b. Jim Blood … Rocky Columbo and Maurice
Vachon drew … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, February 15, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Bull Curry (2/3) (Curry was hit by a chair by Duke’
s second Savich) (Curry was carried from the ring) … Ray Gunkel b. Danny Savich (2/3)
(third fall by DQ when Keomuka interfered) … Larry Chene b. Rey Urbano … Tony
Baillargeon and Maurice Vachon drew … Tonina (local debut) b. Joe McCarthy …
(promoter: Ed McLemore) … (referee: Otto Kuss)
Note: Tonina was billed as being 260 pounds from Mexico.

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, February 22, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Otto Kuss b. Jim Blood (“loser leaves town” match) (25:00) …
Danny Savich b. Bull Curry … Tonina b. Duke Keomuka (DQ) … Larry Chene and Maurice
Vachon drew … Ray Gunkel b. The Sheik of Araby … Tony Baillargeon b. Leo Newman …
(promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, March 1, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Bull Curry b. Danny Savich (“loser leaves town”) (decision in the
fifth fall of a scheduled 10-round “Australian” style match) (Curry won the second, fourth
and fifth rounds) … Duke Keomuka b. Tony Baillargeon … Larry Chene b. Tommy Phelps
… Big Humphrey and The Sheik of Araby drew … Tonina b. Maurice Vachon (DQ) … The
Sheik of Araby and Maurice Vachon b. Big Humphrey and Tonina … (promoter: Ed
McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, March 8, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Bull Curry b. Duke Keomuka (2/3) (Curry won the second fall by
disqualification and the third by countout) (Curry reportedly lost a tooth in the bout) …
Larry Chene b. Tommy Phelps (countout) … Tonina b. Joe Christie (DQ) … The Sheik b.
Leo Newman … Tony Baillargeon b. Bob McCune … (promoter: Ed McLemore) …
(referee: Otto Kuss)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, March 15, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Texas Brass Knuckles Champion Bull Curry b. Joe Christie (2/3) …
Texas State Junior Heavyweight Champion Larry Chene b. Duke Keomuka (DQ)
(Keomuka put his stomach claw on the referee) … Tommy Phelps b. Tonina … Billy
Darnell and The Sheik drew … Vern Taft b. Bob McCune … (promoter: Ed McLemore) …
(referee: Otto Kuss)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, March 22, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Paul Boesch (Boesch suffered a stomach injury)
… Tommy Phelps b. Joe Christie (2/3) … Tonina b. Vern Taft … Larry Chene b. Billy
Darnell … Ray Gunkel b. The Sheik … (promoter: Ed McLemore) … (6,000 fans)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, March 29, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Ray Gunkel (2/3) (third fall by DQ) (Gunkel hit
the referee) … Tarzan Mike b. Tommy Phelps (less than 3:00) … Cyclone Anaya b. Bob
McCune … Larry Chene b. Leo Newman … Ronnie Etchison b. Joe Christie (decision) …
(promoter: Ed McLemore) … (referee: Jack Kennedy)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, April 5, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Ray Gunkel (2/3) … Tarzan Mike b. Joe Christie
… Millie Stafford b. Judy Glover … Cyclone Anaya and Maurice Vachon drew … Larry
Chene b. Herb Parks … Ronnie Etchison b. Art Nelson … (promoter: Ed McLemore)
Note: The newspaper claimed Gunkel had adopted a new style, which was a rougher and
more in the vein of a heel.

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, April 12, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Tarzan Mike b. Duke Keomuka (2-0) (second fall by countout)
(Keomuka brawled with Ray Gunkel outside the ring) … Ray Gunkel b. Maurice Vachon …
Ethel Brown b. Millie Stafford … Cyclone Anaya b. Larry Chene … Art Nelson b. Herb
Parks … Johnny Rougeau b. Joe Christie … Ronnie Etchison and Pierre LaSalle drew …
(promoter: Ed McLemore) … (6,000+ fans)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, April 19, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Ray Gunkel and Tarzan Mike b. Bull Curry and Duke Keomuka (2/3)
… Johnny Rougeau b. Maurice Vachon (decision) … Cyclone Anaya and Pierre LaSalle
drew … Ronnie Etchison b. Tony Baillargeon (Etchison was undefeated locally) … Rocky
Columbo b. Jose Castillo … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, April 26, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Tarzan Mike (Mike was disqualified in the second
and third falls) (ends Mike’s local winning streak) … Pepper Gomez b. Bull Curry … The
Masked A-Bomber b. Tony Baillargeon … Johnny Rougeau b. Tonina … Cyclone Anaya
and Ronnie Etchison drew … Ray Gunkel b. Pierre LaSalle (decision) … (promoter: Ed
McLemore) … (referee: Roy Carter)
Note: Tarzan Mike was reportedly 6’8” tall.

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, May 3, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Tarzan Mike b. Duke Keomuka (Mike remained unpinned in Dallas,
earned the “main event purses of the last two weeks and a world title match with mat
champion Louie Thesz”) … Pepper Gomez b. Pierre LaSalle (DQ) … Pepper Gomez and
Tonina b. Bull Curry and Pierre LaSalle … Bull Curry b. Tonina … Ronnie Etchison b. The
“Son of Ali Baba” … The Masked A-Bomber and Johnny Rougeau drew … (promoter: Ed
McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, May 10, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … NWA World Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz b. Tarzan Mike
(Mike won the first fall, Thesz won the second with a flying dropkick and then won the third
with a back body drop) … Duke Keomuka b. Dick Raines (claw hold) … Pepper Gomez b.
Stu Gibson (decision) … Johnny Rougeau b. Bull Curry (decision) … The Masked A-
Bomber and Ronnie Etchison drew … (promoter: Ed McLemore) … (gate: $7,209.50)
Note: The Dallas Morning News announced that Leo Nomellini had recently defeated
Thesz by disqualification in California and would wrestle Ray Gunkel next week.

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, May 17, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Leo Nomellini (billed as a world heavyweight title claimant) (local
debut) b. Ray Gunkel (2/3) … Duke Keomuka b. Johnny Rougeau … Pepper Gomez b.
Stu Gibson (DQ) … Pierre LaSalle b. Tonina … The “hooded” A Bomber and Hard Boiled
Haggerty wrestled Ronnie Etchison and Dick Raines to a draw (Bomber was unmasked to
be Bob Geigel) … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, May 24, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion Edmund Francis b. Duke
Keomuka (2/3) (third by DQ) … Tarzan Mike b. Pierre LaSalle (DQ) … Pepper Gomez b.
Johnny Rougeau … Stu Gibson and Ray Gunkel drew … Hard Boiled Haggerty b. Tonina
… Ronnie Etchison b. the Son of Ali Baba … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, May 31, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Tarzan Mike (2/3) … Ronnie Etchison and Raul
Zapata drew … Larry Chene and Stu Gibson drew … Ray Gunkel b. Hard Boiled Haggerty
(DQ) … Pepper Gomez b. Maurice Vachon … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, June 7, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka and Pepper Gomez wrestled to a no contest (1-1)
(match stopped by the referee due to blood) … Texas Tag Team Champions Stu Gibson
and Hard Boiled Haggerty b. Larry Chene and Tarzan Mike … Stu Gibson and Tarzan
Mike drew (15:00) … Larry Chene b. Hard Boiled Haggerty (DQ) … Tonina b. Paul
Murdock … Renato El Hermoso (local debut) b. Raul Zapata … (promoter: Ed McLemore)
… (referee: Roy Carter)
Notes: The Dallas Morning News reported that Gibson and Haggerty were the “new” tag
team champions; Renato El Hermoso was billed as the “South American Gorgeous
George.”

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, June 14, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Pepper Gomez (2/3) (Keomuka received some
outside help from Hard Boiled Haggerty) (Gomez was managed by Miguel “Black” Guzman
and seconded by Tarzan Mike) … Tarzan Mike b. Hard Boiled Haggerty (DQ) … Cyclone
Anaya b. The Sheik of Araby … Renato El Hermos b. Tommy Phelps … Larry Chene and
Raul Zapata drew … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, June 21, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Hard Boiled Haggerty and Duke Keomuka b. Pepper Gomez and
Tarzan Mike … Texas Women’s Champion Nell Stewart b. Olga Zepeda … Larry Chene b.
Renato El Hermoso (DQ) … Tommy Phelps b. Tonina … Ray Piret b. Cyclone Anaya …
(promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, June 28, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka and Mr. Moto b. Paul Boesch and Otto Kuss (2/3)
… Hard Boiled Haggerty b. Pepper Gomez (DQ) … Belle Starr b. Kathy Branch (Branch
was a substitute for Nell Stewart) … Ray Piret and Raul Zapata drew … Tarzan Mike and
Polo Torres drew … (promoter: Ed McLemore) … (referee: Tommy Phelps)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, July 5, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Pepper Gomez b. Duke Keomuka (Keomuka was unable to answer
the bell for the 11th fall) (Gomez was accompanied by his manager Miguel Guzman, who
had a claw put on him by Mr. Moto, Keomuka’s second) (Gomez led in falls 6-4) … Tommy
Phelps b. Renato El Hermoso … Rito Romero b. Hard Boiled Haggerty (DQ) … Mr. Moto b.
Larry Chene … Ray Piret and Hans Schnable drew … Tony Martin b. Tonina …
(promoter: Ed McLemore) … (record crowd in attendance)
Notes: Gomez’s manager Miguel “Black” Guzman reportedly “retired due to ring injuries;”
The Dallas Morning News reported “the match set records in number of falls and also in
attendance figures as another throng jammed the Sportatorium.”

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, July 12, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Pepper Gomez vs. Mr. Moto (2/3) … Larry Chene vs. Tommy
Phelps (will not be televised) (one fall to a finish) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion
Polo Torres vs. Marvin Jones (non title match) (Jones was a substitute for Duke Keomuka,
who was injured last Wednesday when he was stabbed during the matches in San
Antonio) … Tony Martin vs. Ray Piret … “Killer” Karl Davis vs. Rito Romero … Hard Boiled
Haggerty vs. Hans Schnable … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, July 19, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Mr. Moto and Hans Schnable b. Pepper Gomez and Rito Romero …
Tommy Phelps b. Otto Kuss (masked referee, who turned out to be Al Lovelock) … Lou
Newman b. Raul Zapata … Larry Chene b. Tony Martin … Ronnie Etchison b. Stu Gibson
(decision) … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, July 26, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka, Mr. Moto and Hans Schnable b. Paul Boesch,
Pepper Gomez and Rito Romero (2/3) … Otto Kuss b. Tommy Phelps … Mike Clancy and
Al Lovelock drew … Stu Gibson b. “Killer” Karl Davis … Ronnie Etchison b. Lou Newman
(DQ) … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, August 2, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Pepper Gomez (2/3) (Keomuka won the second
and third fall by forfeit after Gomez suffered an injury when he missed a flying head
scissors in the second fall) (Rito Romero offered to take Gomez’s place in the main event,
but was refused by Keomuka) … Rito Romero b. Col. Stu Gibson … Ronnie Etchison and
Wilbur Snyder b. Lou Newman and Hans Schnable … Tony Martin b. Johnny James …
Mike Clancy b. “Killer” Karl Davis … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, August 9, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Rito Romero (2/3) (Keomuka won by reverse
decision) … Pepper Gomez b. Hans Schnable … Ronnie Etchison and Wilbur Snyder b.
George Bollas and Tony Martin … Wilbur Snyder b. Tony Martin … Ronnie Etchison b.
George Bollas … Mike Clancy and “Shoulders” Lou Newman drew … Stu Gibson b. Ray
Piret … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, August 16, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Rito Romero (2/3) … George Bollas and Stu
Gibson b. Mike Clancy and Polo Torres (Clancy suffered an injury and was replaced by
Rito Romero) … Wilbur Snyder b. Tarzan Mike … Lou Newman b. Jack O’Brien … Ronnie
Etchison and Tony Martin drew … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, August 23, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka and Wilbur Snyder drew (60:00) … Rito Romero b.
George Bollas … Sky Low Low b. Lord Littlebrook … Ronnie Etchison and Stu Gibson
drew … Tarzan Mike b. “Shoulders” Lou Newman (countout) … Tony Martin b. Mike Clancy
Note: According to the Dallas Morning News: “Ray Gunkel made a ring appearance and
laid out plans for his daily workouts at the Sportatorium this week prepatory to his title
match with champio (sic) Lou Thesz next Tuesday at the Sportatorium.”

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, August 30, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … NWA World Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz b. Ray Gunkel (2/3)
(Gunkel won the first fall and during the second fall, Thesz used an airplane spin that sent
Gunkel from the ring, where he injured his knee) (Gunkel returned for the third, but the
referee stopped the match due to the injury) (Thesz was accompanied by his manager Ed
“Strangler” Lewis) … Duke Keomuka b. Tarzan Mike … Jimmy James b. Bozo Brown (DQ)
… Mike Clancy and Lou Newman drew … Stu Gibson and George Bollas b. Rito Romero
and Polo Torres … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, September 6, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Texas Heavyweight Champion Pepper Gomez b. Stu Gibson (2/3)
(Gibson was accompanied by George Bollas, who helped him score the second fall) …
Tarzan Mike failed to beat both Duke Keomuka and Tommy Phelps in a special handicap
match (Keomuka beat Mike with a clawhold) … Ray Gunkel and Wilbur Snyder b. George
Bollas and Bozo Brown … Ray Gunkel b. George Bollas (decision) … Wilbur Snyder b.
Bozo Brown … “Shoulders” Lou Newman b. Jimmy James … (promoter: Ed McLemore) …
(referee: Dick Raines)
Note: According to the Dallas Morning News on September 7, 1955, “referee Dick Raines
doffed his refereeing gear and took Keomuka on in an impromptu bout, in protest” of the
handicap affair’s finish.

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, September 13, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Dick Raines (2/3) (Raines used judo chops to
score the first fall, Keomuka won the second with a sleeperhold and the third with his claw)
… Ray Gunkel b. Stu Gibson (DQ) … Pepper Gomez b. George Bollas (2-0) (second fall
by DQ) … Larry Chene b. Mike Clancy … Wilbur Snyder b. The Great Scott (decision) …
(promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, September 20, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Stu Gibson, The Great Scott and Duke Keomuka b. Pepper Gomez
and Wilbur Snyder (Ray Gunkel was scheduled to be teamed with Gomez and Snyder, but
was unable to compete due to being “knocked out during an earlier skirmish) (the winners
earned $4,500, the “richest purse in Dallas mat history” … Duke Keomuka vs. Ray Gunkel
(before the match, Keomuka and Danny Savich teamed to pummel Gunkel, sending him
into the ringpost) … Pepper Gomez b. The Great Scott (DQ) … Wilbur Snyder b. Stu
Gibson … Larry Chene and Roy Heffernan drew … Gino Nicloni b. Jack O’Brien (O’Brien
was a substitute for Dick Raines) … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, September 27, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Ray Gunkel b. Danny Savich (2/3) (third fall by reverse decision) …
Pepper Gomez and Wilbur Snyder b. Stu Gibson and Duke Keomuka … Gino Nicolini b. Al
Lovelock … Doug Donovan b. Mike Clancy … Roy Heffernan and Tony Martin drew …
(promoter: Ed McLemore) … (referee: Otto Kuss)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, October 4, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka and Danny Savich b. Pepper Gomez and Rito
Romero to capture the Texas State Tag Team Title (2/3) … Ray Gunkel b. Stu Gibson
(DQ) … Doug Donovan and Gino Nicolini drew … Jim Dobie (local debut) b. Tony Martin
(decision) … Roy Heffernan b. Jack O’Brien … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, October 11, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka and Wilbur Snyder drew … Pepper Gomez b.
Danny Savich (DQ) (Svaich hit the referee after dropping the second fall) … The Mongol
and Gino Nicolini drew … Tiny Mills b. Roy Heffernan … Dick Raines b. Hans Hermann
(DQ) … (promoter: Ed McLemore) … (referee: Marvin Jones)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, October 18, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … “United Nations” Wrestling Tournament … (first round) … Duke
Keomuka vs. The Mongol … Tiny Mills vs. Wilbur Snyder … George Bollas vs. Pepper
Gomez … Gino Nicolini vs. Danny Savich … Leo Garibaldi vs. Stu Gibson … Hans
Hermann vs. Gregario Jarque … (promoter: Ed McLemore)
Notes: Each wrestler posted $500 to enter the tournament and the winner would receive a
$5,000 purse. The runner-up would receive $1,650 and third $750. The 12 wrestlers
paid $6,000 in total and McLemore added the additional $1,500. Garibaldi was reportedly
a member of the United States Air Force and was stationed at Austin, Texas.

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, October 25, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Pepper Gomez b. Tiny Mills (2/3) (Gomez won the “holdover purse
of $6,750 from the previous week’s United Nation’s tournament, plus the Tuesday gate
percentage) … Hans Hermann and Wilbur Snyder b. Duke Keomuka and Danny Savich
(Hermann pinned Savich) (Keomuka and Savich ended up fighting each other) … Jack
Laskin b. Bozo Brown … Stu Gibson b. The Mongol … Tony Morelli and Gino Nicloni drew
… (promoter: Ed McLemore)
Note: Duke Keomuka and Danny Savich dropped the Texas Tag Team Title last Friday.

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, November 1, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Danny Savich b. Duke Keomuka (2/3) (Keomuka received some
outside help from Tiny Mills) … Ray Gunkel and Tiny Mills drew … Hans Hermann b.
Tommy Phelps … Gino Nicolini b. Jack O’Brien … Pierre DeGalles b. The Mongol …
Wilbur Snyder b. Jim Dobie … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, November 8, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Hans Hermann b. Danny Savich (2/3) … Pepper Gomez b. Paul
DeGalles (decision) … Pepper Gomez won a 10-man Battle Royal … Tiny Mills b. Gregario
Jarque … Tony Borne b. Gino Nicolini … Gina Marie b. Dot Dotson (Marie was a substitute
for Lee Chona LaClaire) … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, November 15, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Paul DeGalles, Tiny Mills and Danny Savich b. Pepper Gomez,
Hans Hermann and Rito Romero (2/3) (Savich battled “several irate mat fans” outside the
ring) … Women’s World Champion June Byers b. China Mira (10:00) … Rito Romero b.
Danny Savich (DQ) … Pepper Gomez b. Paul DeGalles … Hans Hermann b. Tiny Mills
(countout) … Tony Borne b. Jack Laskin … Doug Donovan b. Larry Chene … (promoter:
Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, November 22, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Danny Savich (no falls, no time-limit match)
(Savich needed medical attention after the match) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion
Pepper Gomez b. Hans Herman … Tommy Phelps b. Jim Dobie … Doug Donovan and Rito
Romero drew … Larry Chene b. Paul DeGalles (DQ) … Tony Borne b. Gregario Jarque …
(promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, November 29, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Texas State Heavyweight Champion Pepper
Gomez (2/3) (third fall by DQ) (the two brawled for ten minutes after the match) (title could
not change hands by DQ) … Larry Chene b. Tony Borne … Doug Donovan and Rito
Romero drew (30:00) … Ray Gunkel b. Paul DeGalles … Danny Savich b. Jack Laskin …
(promoter: Ed McLemore) … (referees: Marvin Jones, Tommy Phelps)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, December 6, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Danny Savich to capture the Texas Brass
Knuckles Title (Savich had been ahead 3-1 when Keomuka won the finish bout) (wire
fence surrounded the ring with barbed wire along the top) … Pepper Gomez b. Tommy
Phelps (countout) … Gregario Jarque b. Jack Laskin … Doug Donovan and Ray Gunkel
drew … Larry Chene and Rito Romero drew … (promoter: Ed McLemore) … (referee:
Otto Kuss) … (capacity crowd)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, December 13, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Gorgeous George (2/3) (third fall with a
sleeperhold) … Luther Lindsey b. Tex Grady (Grady was the Texas Negro Heavyweight
Champion) (likely a title change) … Luther Lindsey and Rito Romero b. Doug Donovan
and Stu Gibson (Lindsey was a substitute for Larry Chene) … Ray Gunkel b. Tony Morelli
… Danny Savich b. Gregario Jarque … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, December 20, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … NWA World Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz and Luther Lindsey
drew (2/3) (Lindsey won the first fall and Thesz won the second) (Thesz was counted out
on the mat, receiving a 10-count while Lindsey was counted out outside the ring ropes,
receiving a 20-count) … Texas State Tag Team Champions Duke Keomuka and Tiny Mills
b. Stu Gibson and Tommy Phelps (Keomuka pinned Gibson) … Texas State Heavyweight
Champion Pepper Gomez and Texas Junior Heavyweight Champion Doug Donovan drew
… Larry Chene b. Paul DeGalles … Hans Hermann b. Jack Laskin … (promoter: Ed
McLemore) … (referee: Otto Kuss)
Note: The Dallas Morning News reported that Thesz had to “resort to rough tactics to
come out with a draw” with Lindsey.

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, December 27, 1955
(The Sportatorium) … Otto Kuss b. Tommy Phelps (1-0) (“loser leaves town” match) …
Texas State Tag Team Champions Duke Keomuka and Tiny Mills b. Pepper Gomez and
Ray Gunkel (2/3) … Tony Borne b. Paul DeGalles … Larry Chene and Joe Christie
wrestled to a no contest … Rocky Columbo b. Hans Hermann … (promoter: Ed McLemore)
Notes: Phelps reportedly “headed north to the cold climes (sic) of Canada” after losing
the bout. He “will be forced to accept similar duty in Calgary, Canada, were the weather is
often 30-below,” according to the Dallas Morning News.

Research by Tim Hornbaker

Dallas Wrestling Results - 1955