Dallas Wrestling Results

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, January 7, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Vacant Texas State Tag Team Title Tournament with 12 teams …
The McShain Brothers (Casey and Danny McShain) b. Jesus Cardenas and Enrique
Romero in the finals to capture the vacant championship (McShains won three other
matches) … (others involved in the tournament: Oni Wiki Wiki and Rod Rodriguez, Jerry
Gordet and Dick Raines, Stu Gibson and Johnny Valentine, Rocky Columbo and Billy
Edwards (a newcomer from Chicago), Hans Rommell and Maurice Vachon, Bill Melby and
Jack Pesek, Tito Carreon and Juan Diego, Pierre DeGlane and Otto Kuss … (promoter:
Ed McLemore)
Notes: After the tournament, Texas Commissioner Bill Hughes cited some controversy in
the finals and declared that the championship was still vacant; every seat in the arena
were priced at 90 cents as an “anniversary special.”

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, January 14, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … The McShain Brothers (Casey and Danny McShain) b. Jesus
Cardenas and Enrique Romero to capture the vacant Texas State Tag Team Title (2/3)
… Bill Melby and Johnny Valentine wrestled to a double disqualification in the “hottest
match of the evening” … Pierre DeGlane and Billy Edwards drew … Col. Stu Gibson b.
Rod Rodriguez … Jerry Gordet b. Dick Raines … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, January 21, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Johnny Valentine b. Bill Melby to capture the Texas State
Heavyweight Title (2/3) … Texas State Junior Heavyweight Champion Danny McShain b.
Larry Chene … Stu Gibson b. Jesus Cardenas (for the Texas Brass Knuckles Title) …
Pierre DeGlane b. Oni Wiki Wiki … Casey McShain and Enrique Romero drew …
(promoter: Ed McLemore)
Note: Melby reportedly held the title since “last November.”

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, January 28, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion Johnny Valentine and Danny
McShain wrestled to a no contest (1-1) (the referee was smashed with a chair) … Jack
Pesek b. Oni Wiki Wiki … Bill Melby b. Col. Stu Gibson … Casey McShain b. Jesus
Cardenas … Dick Raines b. Pierre DeGlane … Jerry Gordet b. Billy Edwards …
(promoter: Ed McLemore) … (referee: Marvin Jones) … (annual benefit for the March
of Dimes)
Note: McLemore’s 19th anniversary as a promoter in Dallas.

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, February 4, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Jesse Cardenas and Johnny Valentine b. The McShain Brothers
(Casey and Danny McShain) (wrestlers grappled all at once while wearing street clothes)
(according to the Dallas Morning News, “the team stripped down to tights and shoes
were the losers” and Valentine’s red “tie was the only article of clothing remaining”) …
Bill Melby b. Bull Curry (DQ) … Jerry Gordet and Jack Pesek drew … Pierre DeGlane b.
Rocky Columbo … Willie Love b. Emerson Crozier (Negro match) … (promoter: Ed
McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, February 11, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion Johnny Valentine b.
Gorgeous George (2-0) (George initially won the first fall but the decision was reversed
by the referee) (George was accompanied by Cherie) … Bull Curry b. Bill Melby …
Danny McShain b. Ox Anderson … Billy Edwards b. Jack Pesek … Jesus Cardenas and
Jerry Gordet drew … (promoter: Ed McLemore) … (referee: Marvin Jones)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, February 18, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion Johnny Valentine and Danny
McShain drew (1-1) (90:00) (reportedly, during the second fall Valentine suffered an
injured neck and was “advised” not to continue by a ringside doctor) (Valentine was
taken to a local hospital after the bout) … Ox Anderson and Billy Edwards drew … Jerry
Gordet b. Jack Terry … Bull Curry b. Tito Carreon … Bill Melby b. Benny Mata (Mata was
a substitute for Enrique Romero) … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, February 25, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion Johnny Valentine vs. Danny
McShain (match didn’t happen because Curry challenged the winner, then smashed
McShain with brass knuckles) (officials put Curry in McShain place against Valentine) …
Bull Curry b. Texas State Heavyweight Champion Johnny Valentine (Curry knocked
Valentine out) (14:32) (Valentine was unable to return for the second fall) (non-title
match) … Bull Curry b. Jerry Gordet … Tito Carreon b. Billy Edwards … Ricky Romero
and Al Torres drew … Enrique Torres b. Ox Anderson … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, March 4, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion Johnny Valentine b. Bull
Curry (“anything goes” match) (Curry was smashed several times by Danny McShain
with a chair, leading to the finish) … Danny McShain and Enrique Torres drew (20:00) …
Al Torres b. Lou Plummer … Enrique Romero b. Pierre DeGlane … Sam Steamboat b.
Billy Edwards
Note: Sam Steamboat was billed as a sergeant on a “short leave” from Fort Hood.

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, March 11, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Texas State Brass Knuckles Champion Bull Curry b. Danny
McShain (countout) (McShain was brawling with Johnny Valentine outside the ring) …
The Torres Brothers (Al and Enrique Torres) wrestled Jan Madrid and Johnny Valentine
to a draw … Sam Steamboat b. Jack Terry … Ramon Zavalza b. Jerry Gordet (Zavalza
was a substitute for Billy Edwards) … Enrique Romero b. Ox Anderson … (promoter: Ed
McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, March 18, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Johnny Valentine b. Bull Curry and Danny McShain (“free-for-all”
match with all three competitors battling at the same time) (fence surrounded the ring)
(McShain was eliminated first, then Valentine beat Curry) … Enrique Torres b. Jan
Madrid … Lulu Mae Provo b. Babs Wingo … Al Torres b. Tito Carreon … Enrique
Romero and Sam Steamboat drew … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, March 25, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion Johnny Valentine and
Enrique Torres drew (1-1) (60:00) (Torres remained undefeated locally) … El Medico b.
Danny McShain (McShain was unable to continue) … Bull Curry b. Jesse Cardenas …
Sam Steamboat and Al Torres drew … Ethel Johnson and Lulu Mae Provo b. Betty White
and Babs Wingo (Negro girls) … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

*The March 29, 1958 edition of the Dallas Morning News reported: “Fritz Von Erich, the
new ring name of Jack Adkisson, who played football as (sic) Dallas Crozier Tech high
and SMU.”

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, April 1, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Wrestling Tournament for International Title Match … Bull Curry b.
El Medico (decision) … Bull Curry b. Sam Steamboat … Sam Steamboat b. Tito Carreon
… Sam Steamboat b. Fritz Von Erich (DQ) … Johnny Valentine b. Chief Ava … Johnny
Valentine b. Enrique Torres … Johnny Valentine b. Bull Curry in the finals to win the
tournament … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, April 8, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … International Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz b. Johnny
Valentine (2/3) … El Medico b. Bull Curry … Fritz Von Erich b. Larry Chene … Enrique
Torres b. Kato (2/3) (third fall by DQ) … “Sgt.” Sam Steamboat b. Col. Stu Gibson … Rip
Rogers b. Chief Ava … (promoter: Ed McLemore)
Note: Thesz was billed as “recently acclaimed international world wrestling champion.”

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, April 15, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion El Medico b. Johnny
Valentine (countout) … Texas State Tag Team Champions The Torres Brothers (Al and
Enrique Torres) b. Stu Gibson and Rip Rogers … Fritz Von Erich b. Bull Curry to capture
the Texas State Brass Knuckles Title (Curry was unable to continue after suffering a leg
injury) … Kato b. Larry Chene to capture the Texas State Junior Heavyewight Title
(referee stopped the match due to Chene’s blood loss) … Texas State Negro Champion
Tiger Conwy b. Willie Love (2-0) … (promoter: Ed McLemore) … (referee: Paul Boesch)
Note: Show featured five title matches.

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, April 22, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Texas Heavyweight Champion El Medico b. Fritz Von Erich (2/3)
(DQ in third fall) … Texas State Junior Heavyweight Champion Kato b. Larry Chene …
Rip Rogers and Johnny Valentine b. The Torres Brothers (Alberto and Enrique Torres)
to capture the Texas Tag Team Title … The Masked Lady b. Tonia LaTapatia … Stu
Gibson b. Johnny Swenski … (promoter: Ed McLemore)
Notes: Kato was billed as the “newly crowned” Texas Junior Heavyweight Champion; The
Masked Lady and Tonia LaTapatia wrestled in what was billed as their “debut for the
girls from old Mexico.”

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, April 29, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … International “World” Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz and
Pepper Gomez wrestled to a draw (90:00) (1-1) (it marked Gomez’s first appearance in
Dallas this year) … Texas Tag Team Champions Rip Rogers and Johnny Valentine b.
Kato and Fritz Von Erich (DQ) … Irma Gonzales (local debut) b. The Masked Lady
(Mexico) (Gonzales was billed as “Mexico’s woman wrestling champion) … Larry Chene
and El Medico drew … Zorro b. Col. Stu Gibson … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, May 6, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion Pepper Gomez b. Kato (2/3)
(during the third fall, Kato fought with Paul Boesch, leading the final pinfall) … Mexican
Women’s Champion Irma Gonzales and Tonia LaTapatita b. The Masked Lady and
Chabella Romero … Johnny Valentine and Zorro wrestled to a double disqualification …
Larry Chene and Rip Rogers drew … Rod Rodriguez b. The Jungle Man (decision) …
(promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, May 13, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Pepper Gomez and Zorro b. Texas State Tag Team Champions
Rip Rogers and Johnny Valentine (2-0) (second fall by DQ when the champs threw the
referee out of the ring) (title did not change hands) …Paul Boesch and Kato wrestled to
a no contest (judo jackets match) … Mad Man Martin b. Bill Wright … Pierre LaSalle b.
Juan Sebastian … Ali Bey and Larry Chene drew … (promoter: Ed McLemore) …
(referee: Lou Plummer)
Note: Paul Boesch demonstrated his sleeper on willing members of the audience.

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, May 20, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Wrestling Tournament for World Title match … 12-Man Wrestle
Royal started the tournament to select the first round parings and Pepper Gomez and
Kato were finalists … Kato b. Pepper Gomez (countout) … Zorro b. Juan Sebastian …
Rip Rogers b. Tito Carreon … Johnny Valentine b. Pierre LaSalle (decision) … Larry
Chene b. Mad Man Martin … Ali Bey b. Paul DeGalles … Johnny Valentine b. Ali Bey …
Rip Rogers b. Larry Chene … Zorro b. Kato (DQ) … Zorro b. Rip Rogers … Zorro by
Johnny Valentine in the finals to win the tournament … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, May 27, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … NWA World Heavyweight Champion Dick Hutton b. Zorro (2/3)
(Zorro reportedly broke free from Hutton’s famed abdominal stretch) … Pepper Gomez b.
Johnny Valentine (DQ) … Kato b. Larry Chene … Ali Bey b. Col. Stu Gibson … El
Medico b. Rip Rogers … Pierre LaSalle and Mad Man Martin drew … (promoter: Ed
McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, June 3, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Pepper Gomez and Rito Romero b. Kato and Duke Keomuka (2/3)
(Keomuka went wild, brawling with Gomez, Romero, referees Boesch and Jones, and
arena police) … Pierre LaSalle b. Gene Darval (decision) … Tarzan Zorro b. Johnny
Valentine … El Medico and Mad Man Martin drew … Jack Curtis Jr. b. John Tolos (DQ)
… (promoter: Ed McLemore) … (referees: Paul Boesch, Marvin Jones)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, June 10, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Zorro (2/3) (the Dallas Morning News referred
to the winner as being the “new” Duke Keomuka) (Zorro was forced to unmask because
of the loss, and “gave his name as Hans Schneider of Germany”) … Pepper Gomez and
John Tolos drew … El Medico b. Mad Man Martin (DQ) … Pierre LaSalle b. Tony Morelli
… Gene Darvel b. Paul DeGalles … Irma Gonzales b. Chabella Romero … (promoter:
Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, June 17, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Bull Curry (2/3) (third fall by DQ) … Mad Man
Martin b. Pierre LaSalle … Ed Francis b. Leo Wallick … John Tolos b. Kangaroo
Kennedy … Dick Steinborn b. Gene Darval … Jack Curtis and Tony Morelli drew …
(promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, June 24, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka and John Tolos b. Larry Chene and Pepper
Gomez to capture the Texas State Tag Team Title (2/3) (Tolos was a substitute for Kato,
who “couldn’t make it because of an auto accident”) … Paul Boesch b. Gene Darval
(Boesch was a substitute for Tolos, who was bumped up to the main event) … Dick
Steinborn b. Mad Man Martin (DQ) … Ed Francis b. Tony Morelli … Pierre LaSalle and
Leo Wallick drew … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, July 1, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Bull Curry (2/3) (Curry stated that John Tolos
helped Keomuka win the bout) (according to the stipulation, the loser would take a bath
at ringside) (Curry and Mad Man Martin ended up pushing Keomuka and Tolos into the
bath following Curry’s own dip) … Dick Steinborn and John Tolos drew … Mad Man
Martin b. Paul Boesch (Boesch was a substitute for Ed Francis) … Larry Chene b. Paul
DeGalles … Joe Pizzatola and Leo Wallick drew … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, July 8, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Texas State Tag Team Champions Duke Keomuka and John
Tolos wrestled Bull Curry and Mad Man Martin to a double disqualification (1-1) … El
Medico b. George Drake … Larry Chene and Dick Steinborn drew (according to the
Dallas Morning News, this match “proved to be one of the best liked bouts in years) …
Dick Raines b. Leo Wallick … Paul DeGalles b. Joe Ramiro … (promoter: Ed McLemore)
… (referees: Paul Boesch, Marvin Jones)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, July 15, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Bull Curry and Mad Man Martin b. Paul DeGalles and Duke
Keomuka (2/3) (ring surrounded by a fence) (DeGalles was a substitute for John Tolos,
who was injured in a car accident on Saturday) … Bull Curry b. Paul DeGalles (DeGalles
was a sub for Tolos) … Duke Keomuka b. Mad Man Martin (DQ) … Dick Steinborn b.
Marvin Jones … Princess Tonah Tomah (local debut) b. Betty Hawkins … Benny Mata b.
Jack Curtis … Larry Chene and El Medico drew … (promoter: Ed McLemore) …
(referee: Marvin Jones)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, July 22, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka and Dick Steinborn drew (1-1) (Steinborn
remained undefeated locally) (John Tolos helped Keomuka score a fall and was “forcibly
removed” by Bob Ellis) … John Tolos b. Bull Curry (Curry was injured and unable to
continue) … Princess Tonah Tomah b. Peggy King … El Medico b. Mad Man Martin (DQ)
… Larry Chene and George Drake drew … Bob Ellis b. Benny Mata … (promoter: Ed
McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, July 29, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Rito Romero b. Mad Man Martin (2/3) … Black Hawk b. Al Denny
… Pepper Gomez b. George Drake … Bob Ellis and Dick Steinborn wrestled Duke
Keomuka and John Tolos to a draw (45:00) (1-1) … Nick Londos b. Jack Curtis Jr. …
(promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, August 5, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Rito Romero (2/3) (third fall by countout) … Bill
Longson b. Fritz Von Erich to capture the Texas Brass Knuckles Title … Black Hawk b.
John Tolos (DQ) … Bob Ellis b. Mad Man Martin … Ike Eakins b. Ali Bey … Nick Londos
and Raul Reyes drew … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, August 12, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka and Bill Longson drew (1-1) (the wrestlers were
counted out in the first fall) … El Medico, Pepper Gomez and Rito Romero b. Ike Eakins,
Mad Man Martin and John Tolos … Rito Romero b. Ike Eakins (DQ) … Pepper Gomez b.
Mad Man Martin … El Medico and John Tolos drew … Bob Ellis b. Larry Chene … Black
Hawk b. Bob Corby … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, August 19, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … “Wild” Bill Longson b. Pepper Gomez … Rito Romero b. Duke
Keomuka (2/3) … John Tolos b. Ali Bey … Bob Ellis b. Bob Corby … El Medico b. Col.
Stu Gibson … Black Hawk and Ike Eakins drew … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, August 26, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Wrestling Tournament for World Title shot … Rito Romero b.
Duke Keomuka (DQ) … Rito Romero b. John Tolos … Duke Keomuka b. Pepper Gomez
(overtime) … Bill Longson b. Bob Ellis (Ellis’s first local loss) … Bill Longson b. Rito
Romero in the finals to earn the title match … Mad Mad Martin b. Marvin Jones (match
stopped due to Jones’s blood loss) … El Medico and Ike Eakins drew … Black Hawk b.
Col. Stu Gibson … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, September 2, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … NWA World Heavyweight Champion Dick Hutton b. Bill Longson
(2/3) (Longson won the first fall with a piledriver, Longson won the second with an
abdominal stretch and then took the third) … Dick Steinborn b. Mad Man Martin (after
the match, Martin hit the referee Marvin Jones with a chair) (Martin was handcuffed by
arena police) … Pepper Gomez and Rito Romero b. Duke Keomuka and John Tolos …
Black Hawk and Larry Chene drew … Ike Eakins b. Ali Bey … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, September 9, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Rito Romero (2/3) (third fall by DQ) (Romero hit
the referee) … Mad Man Martin failed to beat both Marvin Jones and Dick Steinborn both
in 60-minutes (Steinborn beat Martin in 10:00) (Jones didn’t have to wrestle) … Johnny
Valentine b. “Cowboy” Bob Ellis … El Medico b. Bad Boy Hines (Medico was a substitute
for Pepper Gomez) … Luis Martinez b. Ali Bey … (promoter: Ed McLemore) … (referee:
Paul Boesch)
Note: Gomez was unable to wrestle because he “rushed home in time for the birth of his
fourth daughter,” according to the Dallas Morning News.

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, September 16, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka and Tokyo Joe b. Pepper Gomez and Rito
Romero (2/3) (Romero was injured during the second fall, leaving Gomez to wrestle
alone) … Dick Steinborn b. Johnny Valentine (DQ) … Danny McShain b. Stan Hoza …
Jose Castillo (local debut) b. Bad Boy Hines … El Medico b. Ali Bey … (promoter: Ed
McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, September 23, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … “World” Tag Team Champions El Medico and Pepper Gomez b.
Duke Keomuka and Tokyo Joe (2/3) (Keomuka and Joe initially won the match and the
championship, but the decision was reversed then Joe continued to beat Gomez)
(Keomuka and Joe then began to brawl, leading to a fight outside in a “nearby parking
lot”) … Paul Boesch b. Johnny Valentine (DQ) … Dick Raines b. Chico Bonales …
Danny McShain and Rito Romero drew … Danny McShain b. Jose Castillo (McShain was
a substitute for Dick Steinborn) … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, September 30, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Tokyo Joe b. Duke Keomuka (2/3) (a bloody match) (reportedly
the “first all-Japanese match in Dallas”) … Penny Banner b. Kay Noble … Rito Romero
and Dick Steinborn drew … Danny McShain b. Jesse Cardenas (DQ) … El Medico b.
Gino Spindola (local debut) … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, October 7, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … “World” Tag Team Champions El Medico and Pepper Gomez b.
Duke Keomuka and Tosh Togo (DQ) … Rito Romero b. Johnny Valentine (forfeit)
(Valentine “drew the ire of arena policemen and was handcuffed and dragged from the
ring because of his out-of-hand tactics,” according to the Dallas Morning News) … Jesse
Cardenas b. Sugi Sito … Danny McShain b. Gino Spindola … Laura Martinez b. Penny
Banner … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, October 14, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Johnny Valentine b. Pepper Gomez (winner had to put handcuffs
on his opponent within 30 minutes) … Rito Romero b. Rip Hawk … Duke Keomuka b.
Tokyo Joe … Tosh Togo b. Danny McShain (DQ) … El Medico b. Sugi Sito … Jesse
Cerdenas b. Luis Martinez … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, October 21, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Johnny Valentine b. Pepper Gomez and Danny McShain (special
handicap match) (Gomez and McShain tried to handcuff their opponent) (the referee
halted the match due to Gomez and McShain’s blood loss) … Duke Keomuka and Tosh
Togo wrestled Rito Romero and Dick Steinborn to a draw … Jesse Cardenas b. Marvin
Jones (Jones was a substitute for Red Berry, who seemingly “refused to wrestle”) … Karl
Karlson b. Jerry Woods … Tokyo Joe b. Gino Spindola … (promoter: Ed McLemore) …
(referee: Dick Raines)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, October 28, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Lou Thesz b. Johnny Valentine (2/3) (Valentine initially won the
third fall by pinfall with the ropes for leverage) (the referee reversed the decision and
disqualified Valentine) … “Wild” Red Berry b. Dick Steinborn (Steinborn’s first local loss
in Dallas) … Danny McShain and Rito Romero drew … Sputnik b. Tokyo Joe … Pepper
Gomez b. Gypsy Joe … Jesse Cardenas b. Swede Karlsson … (promoter: Ed
McLemore) … (referee: Dick Raines)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, November 4, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Jesse Cardenas b. Johnny Valentine (2/3) … “World” Tag Team
Champions The Kangaroos (Al Costello and Roy Heffernan) wrestled The Fraleys (Fred
and Pat Fraley) to a draw … Swede Karlsson b. Rito Romero (DQ) (Karlsson was thrown
over the top rope) … Gypsy Joe and Luis Martinez drew … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, November 11, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Jesse Cardenas b. Tosh Togo (2/3) … The Kangaroos (Al
Costello and Roy Heffernan) wrestled The Fraleys (Freddy and Pat Fraley) to a double
disqualification … Dick Raines b. Sputnik … Gypsy Joe b. Rito Romero (DQ) … Duke
Keomuka b. Luis Martinez … (promoter: Ed McLemore)
Note: Tosh Togo reportedly lost the Texas State Title to Pepper Gomez on Friday in
Houston.

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, November 18, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion Pepper Gomez b. Jesse
Cardenas (2/3) (third fall by DQ) (because of the loss, Cardenas would wrestle a
wrestling bear on a future show) … The Fraleys (Fred and Pat Fraley) (father and son)
b. “Wild” Red Berry and Gypsy Joe … Duke Keomuka b. Luis Martinez … Al Costello and
Rito Romero drew … Roy Heffernan b. Sugi Sito … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, November 25, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … “World” Tag Team Champions The Kangaroos (Al Costello and
Roy Heffernan) b. The Fraleys (Fred and Pat Fraley) (2/3) … Brownie the Wrestling
Bear b. Jesse Cardenas … Doris Palmer b. Peggy Allen … Duke Keomuka b. Gypsy Joe
(judo chops) … Pepper Gomez b. Rube Wright … (promoter: Ed McLemore)
Note: Brownie was a 400 pound live bear.

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, December 2, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Rito Romero b. Marvin Jones … “World” Tag Team Champions
The Kangaroos (Al Costello and Roy Heffernan) b. Jesse Cardenas and John Tolos (2/3)
… Duke Keomuka b. Karl Karlsson … Pat Fraley vs. Danny McShain … Judy Grable b.
Silva Torres … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, December 9, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … “World” Tag Team Champions The Kangaroos (Al Costello and
Roy Heffernan) wrestled Luther Lindsey and Rito Romero to a draw (2/3) … John Tolos
b. Jesse Cerdenas … “Wild” Red Berry b. Duke Keomuka (DQ) … Danny McShain b.
Luis Martinez … Dick Raines b. Sugi Sito … (promoter: Ed McLemore) … (referee:
Marvin Jones)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, December 16, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Luther Lindsey b. Texas State Heavyweight Champion Danny
McShain (2/3) (third fall by DQ) (title did not change hands) … Lou Thesz and John
Tolos drew (60:00) (1-1) … “World” Tag Team Champions The Kangaroos (Al Costello
and Roy Heffernan) wrestled “Wild” Red Berry and Dick Raines to a draw … Duke
Keomuka b. Lou Plummer … Sugi Sito b. Babe Juarez … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, December 23, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … Pepper Gomez and Ray Piret b. “World” Tag Team Champions
The Kangaroos (Al Costello and Roy Heffernan) (2/3) (non-title match) (Piret was a
substitute for the Amazing Zuma) … Danny McShain b. “Wild” Red Berry (2/3) … Duke
Keomuka and Tosh Togo b. The Fraleys (Fred and Pat Fraley) … Gypsy Joe b. Sugi
Sito … Tex Brady b. Emerson Crozier (Negro match) … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, December 30, 1958
(The Sportatorium) … “World” Tag Team Champions The Kangaross (Al Costello and
Roy Heffernan) b. Pepper Gomez and Ray Piret … Fred Fraley and Danny McShain
drew … Benny Mata and Sugi Sito drew … Duke Keomuka b. Rod Rodriguez … Tosh
Togo b. Gypsy Joe … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Research by Tim Hornbaker

Dallas Wrestling Results - 1958