El Paso, Texas: Tuesday, January 8, 1946 (Liberty Hall) … Milt Olsen and Charley Trejo b. Alberto Campos and Tommy Felis (2/3) (Felis attacked his partner, then left him to wrestle alone) (Trejo was a substitute for Ted Torres) … Ernesto Poggi b. Oso Blanco (2/3) … Jim Parker b. Roberto Navarro … (promoter: Don Hill) Note: First show of the year. El Paso, Texas: Tuesday, January 15, 1946 (Liberty Hall) … Charley Trejo b. Milt Olsen to capture the Texas State Junior Heavyweight Title (2/3) … Tommy Felis b. Alberto Campos (2/3) (third fall by DQ when Campos punched the referee) … Gorilla Poggi b. George Curtis (2/3) … The Red Devil and Ted Torres drew (30:00) … (promoter: Don Hill) … (referee: Billy Hallas) Notes: Red Devil wore red trunks and a robe with horns jutting out from the top of his skull cap. He wasn’t masked, but preferred anonymity. Devil spent the last two years in Honolulu. Torres performed in a wrestling role in the movie, “Sudan.” George Curtis was the brother of Jack Curtis, who claimed the junior heavyweight title of the Midwest. The El Paso Times (1/13/46) reported that “In Leon, Mexico, back in 1935, the promoter’s wife fainted with five policemen leveled cocked rifles at the Red Devil, then a green grapplers.” El Paso, Texas: Tuesday, January 22, 1946 (Liberty Hall) … Gorilla Poggi b. Charley Trejo to capture the Texas State Junior Heavyweight Title (2/3) … Tommy Felis b. Red Devil (2/3) (third fall by DQ) … Ted Torres b. Alberto Campos (2/3) … George Curtis b. Oso Blanco … (promoter: Don Hill) Notes: Poggi reportedly left Argentina 13 years earlier to wrestle around the world. He was adept to the Graeco-Roman style. Torres’ mother was ill in California. El Paso, Texas: Tuesday, January 29, 1946 (Liberty Hall) … Gorilla Poggi and Red Devil b. Tommy Felis and Ted Torres (2/3) … Alberto Campos and George Curtis drew (1-1) … Gorilla Sanchez b. Osa Blanco (13:00) … (promoter: Don Hill) Note: Blanco was from Chihuahua City. El Paso, Texas: Tuesday, February 5, 1946 (Liberty Hall) … Alberto Campos b. The Red Devil (2/3) … Gorilla Poggi and Ted Torres drew (45:00) (1-1) … George Curtis b. Tommy Felis … The Mask b. Oso Blanco … (promoter: Don Hill) El Paso, Texas: Tuesday, February 12, 1946 (Liberty Hall) … Ken Ackles b. Ernesto “Gorilla” Poggi (2/3) … George Curtis b. Alberto Campos (2/3) … The Red Devil b. Ted Torres … Ricardo Cortez and Mexican Matty … (promoter: Don Hill) … (2,000 fans) El Paso, Texas: Tuesday, February 19, 1946 (Liberty Hall) … Ken Ackles b. Alberto Campos in the finals of a wrestle royal … Billy Goelz b. The Red Devil (2/3) (third fall by DQ) … Tarzan Lopez and Gorilla Poggi drew (30:00) … Laredo Cyclone b. Mexican Matty … (promoter: Don Hill) … (referee: Ramon Navarro) … (2,700 fans) Notes: Tarzan Lopez claimed the Mexico Light Heavyweight Title and once held the World middleweight title, beating Gus Kallio “several years ago.” At one time, Goelz was listed as an Army casualty in the “Alaskan theater.” The Laredo Cyclone wrestled barefoot. El Paso, Texas: Monday, February 25, 1946 (Liberty Hall) … Red Devil b. Ken Ackles (2/3) (Ackles suffered a leg injury) … Tarzan Lopez b. Gorilla Poggi (2/3) (third fall by DQ) … Billy Goelz b. George Curtis (2-0) … Laredo Cyclone and Taro Sato drew (20:00) … (promoter: Don Hill) Notes: Ackles had been wrestling for 13 years. He held the “National Boxing and Wrestling Association of America” junior championship. He was from Boston and attended the Los Angeles City College. He turned professional wrestler in 1939. El Paso, Texas: Tuesday, March 5, 1946 (Liberty Hall) … Milt Olsen b. Tarzan Lopez (2/3) … Red Devil b. Gorilla Poggi (2/3) … Billy Goelz b. Alberto Campos (first fall by DQ) … Laredo Cyclone b. Rudy Alcantar … (promoter: Don Hill) … (referee: Roberto Navarro) Notes: Olsen was the Texas Junior Heavyweight champion. He’d reportedly been in Chicago for the last two months wrestling in that region. He was said to have beaten Leon Kirilenko “in two consecutive matches.” How and when Olsen regained the belt was not printed. El Paso, Texas: Tuesday, March 12, 1946 (Liberty Hall) … Black Guzman vs. Red Devil … Cyclone Anaya vs. Alberto Campos Notes: Anaya was coming in from Chicago. There seems to be a strong working relationship between Fred Kohler and the El Paso promotion. Olsen, Goelz, and Anaya were among the workers from Chicago to also tour El Paso. Research by Tim Hornbaker February 21, 2011 |
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