

El Paso, Texas: Tuesday, April 18, 1950 (The Coliseum) … Andy Tremaine b. Monty LaDue to capture the “Light Heavyweight World’s Wrestling Championship” (2/3) … Gorilla Ramos b. Black Prince (DQ) … Alberto Campos b. Jack Pappenheim (14:30) … (promoter: John McIntosh) … (referee: Yaqui Joe) Notes: The LaDue-Tremaine bout was for the “175 pound title of the Natonal Wrestling Association.” Tremaine had completed a tour of the Pacific Northwest and Canada, where he won the Canadian Light Heavyweight Title. It was scheduled for a two hour limit. LaDue was “Canadian-born.” Tremaine was immediately planning a Midwestern tour, which was being scheduled by McIntosh and was to begin in late May. “Although he claims El Paso his home, his family lives in Nogales,” Arizona. The El Paso Herald Post stated that “Tremaine first entered into the wrestling game in 1932. He joined the Border Patrol in 1940 and quit the game. He returned to the ring in 1949.” |
| El Paso Wrestling Results - 1950 |
