El Paso, Texas: Monday, March 19, 1973 (The Coliseum) … Rocky Mountain Heavyweight Champion Ricky Romero vs. Hank James (2/3) … Western States Tag Team Champions The Fargo Brothers vs. Lord Al Hays and Les Thronton (2/3) … Black Angus vs. Karl Von Krupp … (promoter: Gory Guerrero) Notes: Romero reportedly regained the Rocky Mountain Title from Karl Von Steiger “last week in Pueblo.” Von Krupp was called the European Heavyweight Champion. The Fargos were also the “East Coast Tag Team” champions and Hays and Thornton were the British Empire Tag Champs. El Paso, Texas: Monday, April 16, 1973 (The Coliseum) … Western States Tag Team Champions The Fargo Brothers b. The Kozak Brothers (Jerry and Nick Kozak) (2/3) … Rocky Mountain Heavyweight Champion Ricky Romero b. Goliath (2/3) … Lord Al Hays b. The Beast (15:45) … Tomi Tsuruta b. Apache Gringo (8:15) (sleeperhold) … Espectro Tapia b. Dan Burr El Paso, Texas: Monday, May 21, 1973 (The Coliseum) … Western States Tag Team Champions Moose Marowski and Ricky Romero b. Curtis Iaukea and Killer Karl von Krupp (2/3) (Iaukea and von Krupp ended up fighting each other) … Mr. Wrestling and his two partners b. The Fargo Brothers and Mr. X (six-man tag team elimination match) (Mr. Wrestling was the lone survivor) … Nick Kozak and Tsuruta Tomomi drew (20:00) … Ciclon Negro b. Hank James (James was “kayo’d … with his own championship belt,” according to the report) … (promoter: Gory Guerrero) Notes: Next week, the first ever German Blood Match would be staged between Killer Karl von Krupp and King Curtis Iaukea. The type of match had never been held in the U.S. El Paso, Texas: Monday, July 9, 1973 (The Coliseum) … Mil Mascaras and Ricky Romero b. Buck Robley and Karl von Krupp (2/3) … Ciclon Negro b. Moose Marowski … Man Mountain Mike b. Salchmo Boagie and Hank James (6:44) … Nick Kozak and Tomi Tsuruta drew … Gordon “Mr. Wrestling” Nelson b. Lord Al Hays (9:47) … (promoter: Gory Guerrero) Note: Robley was called the “TV champ.” El Paso, Texas: Monday, August 6, 1973 (El Paso County Coliseum) … Man Mountain Mike b. “Professor” Boris Malenko (6:35) (Russian Chain Match) … Ciclon Negro and Dick Murdock b. Moose Marowski and Ricky Romero (2/3) (after the match, Negro and Murdock ended up challenging each other) … Y. B. “Buck” Robley b. Tsuruta Tomomi (2/3) … Mike Paidousis b. Nick Kozak … Stan Hansen b. Lord Al Hays … (promoter: Gory Guerrero) El Paso, Texas: Monday, December 3, 1973 (The Coliseum) … Tag Team Champions El Santo and Gory Guerrero b. Black Gordman and (?) (2/3) … Don Fargo, Hank James and Karl Von Krupp b. The Viking and The Kozak Brothers (Jerry and Nick Kozak) (Krupp pinned Viking) (17:30) … Jim Dillion b. Karl Von Steiger (12:00) … Killer Karl Kox and Dick Murdoch were both disqualified … The Masked Patroit b. Alex Perez (11:45) Research by Tim Hornbaker September 6, 2010 |
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