Albuquerque, NM: Thursday, January 4, 1951
(Armory) … Frank Murdock beat Juan Hernandez … Monte LaDue beat George Drake …
Bob DeMarce drew Paul Mischler

Albuquerque, NM: Thursday, January 11, 1951
No Report

Albuquerque, NM: Thursday, January 18, 1951
(Armory) … Dory Funk beat Juan Hernandez … George Drake beat Pat O’Dowdy (dq) …
Lee Grable vs Monte LaDue (nc)

Albuquerque, NM: Thursday, January 25, 1951
(Armory) … Lee Grable beat Monte LaDue … George Drake beat George Thomas …
Pat O’Dowdy beat Johnny James

Albuquerque, NM: Thursday, February 1, 1951
(Armory) … (Tournament) winner: Benny Trudell

Albuquerque, NM: Thursday, February 8, 1951
(Armory) … (WJTM) Verne Gagne* beat Benny Trudell … Bill Sledge beat Monte LaDue
… Johnny James drew Jacobo Macias

Albuquerque, NM: Thursday, February 15, 1951
(Armory) … Monte LaDue and Benny Trudell beat Lee Grable and Bill Sledge … Jacobo
Macias beat George Thomas

Albuquerque, NM: Thursday, February 22, 1951
(Armory) … Monte LaDue beat Dory Funk (dq) … Bill Sledge beat Benny Trudell … Lee
Grable beat Johnny James

Albuquerque, NM: Thursday, March 1, 1951
(Armory) … Dory Funk beat Monte LaDue … The Mask drew Bill Sledge … Lee Grable
beat Benny Trudell

Albuquerque, NM: Thursday, March 8, 1951
(Armory) … Bill Sledge beat Benny Trudell … Dutch Schultz drew Billy Weidner … Al Getz
drew Jack Pappenheim

Albuquerque, NM: Thursday, March 15, 1951
(Armory) … Monte LaDue, The Mask and Benny Trudell beat Billy Parks, Bill Sledge and
Whitey Wahlberg … Billy Parks beat Monte LaDue … The Mask drew Whitey Wahlberg
… NOTE: All these results came from the Bob Nitsche files.

Albuquerque, NM: Thursday, March 22, 1951
(Armory) … Benny Trudell beat Billy Weidner (2-1) … Gus Johnson beat Bill Sledge (2-1)
… (Man vs Alligator) Tuffy Truesdale beat Rodney III … NOTE: This was the first date
that Newspaper Archives has for the Albuquerque Tribune. Likely Bob Nitsche used the
Albuquerque Journal for his research.

Albuquerque, NM: Thursday, March 29, 1951
(Armory, att.-2,000) … (Southwestern JH title match) Dory Funk* beat Benny Trudell (2-
1) … Billy Weidner beat Al Getz (dq) … Gus Johnson drew Johnny James … referee:
Gorilla Poggi … NOTE: Ernest (Gorilla) Poggi recently had a baby daughter named Anita
Louise.

Albuquerque, NM: Thursday, April 5, 1951
(Armory) … (No dq) Bill Sledge beat Benny Trudell (2-1) … Jack Pappenheim drew Ted
Bell (45:00, 1-1) … Johnny James beat Dutch Schultz

Albuquerque, NM: Thursday, April 12, 1951
(Armory) … Jack Pappenheim beat Ted Bell … Ivan Kalmikoff vs Billy Parks (nc) … Billy
Hickson beat Johnny James … (results from the Bob Nitsche files)

Albuquerque, NM: Thursday, April 19, 1951
(Armory, att.-1,800) … Ivan Kalmikoff and Jack Pappenheim beat Billy Hickson and Billy
Parks (2-1) … Billy Weidner beat Dutch Schultz (2-0) (first fall by dq) … Billy Hickson
drew Jack Pappenheim (20:00) … referee: Paul Mischler

Albuquerque, NM: Thursday, April 26, 1951
(Armory) … Dory Funk vs Ivan Kalmikoff (nc-stopped by blood) … Billy Hickson drew Jack
Pappenheim (45:00, 1-1) … George Curtis beat Benny Trudell (2-1)

Albuquerque, NM: Thursday, May 3, 1951
(Armory) … Ivan Kalmikoff vs George Curtis … Billy Hickson vs Jack Carter … Gus
Johnson vs Leo Wallick … NOTE: Paul Rippberger was called the 20-30 Club wrestling
director.

Albuquerque, NM: Thursday, May 10, 1951
(Armory) … Dory Funk beat Ivan Kalmikoff (2-1) … Billy Hickson beat Benny Trudell (2-1)
… George Curtis beat Jack Pappenheim … referee: Paul Mischler

Albuquerque, NM: Thursday, May 17, 1951
(Armory) … Ray Clements and Benny Trudell beat George Curtis and Billy Hickson …
Rolando Vera beat Gus Johnson … George Curtis vs Ray Clements … (results from the
Bob Nitsche files-The Tribune was missing)

Albuquerque, NM: Friday, May 25, 1951
(Armory) … Ray Clements vs Frankie Murdock (nc) … Roland Vera vs Billy Hickson …
Leo Wallick vs George Curtis … referee: Paul Mischler … NOTE: Dory Detton, booking
agent for the 20-30 Club, had to break up the main match to restore order.

Albuquerque, NM: Friday, June 1, 1951
(Armory) … Frankie Murdock beat Ray Clements (2-1) … Rolando Vera drew Leo Wallick
(45:00) … Balk Estes beat Jack Carter

Albuquerque, NM: Friday, June 8, 1951
(Armory) … (SJTM) Dory Funk* beat Frankie Murdock … Rolando Vera drew Leo Wallick
(60:00) … Balk Estes beat George Overhuls

Albuquerque, NM: Friday, June 15, 1951
(Armory) … Balk Estes and Rolando Vera beat Frankie Murdock and Jack O’Reilly …
George Overhuls beat Jack Carter … Gene Blackley drew George Curtis (20:00) …
(results from the Bob Nitsche files-no Albuquerque Tribune for results)

Albuquerque, NM: Friday, June 22, 1951
(Armory) … Balk Estes beat Frankie Murdock (2-0, dq) … Gene Blackley and Jack O’
Reilly drew George Curtis and George Overhuls (1-1) … referee: Dory Detton

Albuquerque, NM: Friday, June 29, 1951
(Armory) … (Southwestern JH Title Match) Frankie Murdock* beat Balk Estes (1-1, utc) …
George Overhuls beat Gene Blackley (dq) … Jack Carter drew Alex Perez (said to be pro
debut) (20:00) … referee: Dory Detton

Albuquerque, NM: Friday, July 6, 1951
(Armory) … Dory Funk beat Frankie Murdock (1-0, utc) … Balk Estes and George
Overhuls beat Gene Blackley and Jack Carter (2-1) … Alex Perez beat Gene Blackley …
referee: Dory Detton

Albuquerque, NM: Friday, July 13, 1951
(Armory) … (Tournament) (first round) George Overhuls beat Frankie Murdock …
George Shindo beat Alex Perez … Dory Funk beat Balk Estes … (second round) George
Shindo beat George Overhuls … (final) George Shindo beat Dory Funk (2-1) … referee:
Jack Carter … NOTE: The Albuquerque Tribune missed the Overhuls-Murdock bout.
Likely Bob Nitsche used another paper.

Albuquerque, NM: Friday, July 20, 1951
(Armory, att.-2,000) … (WJTM) Verne Gagne* beat George Shindo (2-1) … Frankie
Murdock drew George Overhuls (45:00, 1-1) … Balk Estes drew Gene Blackley (30:00)
… referees: Jack Carter (title match) and Paul Mischler

Albuquerque, NM: Friday, July 27, 1951
(Armory) … Gene Blackley and Frankie Murdock beat Balk Estes and George Overhuls
(2-0) … (ladies) Nell Stewart beat Carol Cook (2-0) … George Shindo beat Jack Carter
… Alex Perez drew Pat O’Dowdy

Albuquerque, NM: Friday, August 3, 1951
(Armory) … (Judo Jacket match) George Shindo beat Frankie Murdock (2-0, dq) … Bob
Cummings beat George Overhuls (1-0) … Pat O’Dowdy beat Rolando Vera … referee:
Gene Blackley

Albuquerque, NM: Friday, August 10, 1951
(Armory) … (Southwestern JH Title Match) George Shindo beat Frankie Murdock* (2-1,
dq) … Dory Funk drew Bob Cummings (45:00, 1-1) … Alex Perez and Rolando Vera beat
Gene Blackley and Pat O’Dowdy (dq) … referee: George Overhuls

Albuquerque, NM: Friday, August 17, 1951
(Armory) … Gorgeous George beat George Shindo (2-1) … Dory Funk beat Bob
Cummings (result missed by Albuquerque Tribune) … Frankie Murdock beat Howard
Cantonwine … Rolando Vera beat Pat O’Dowdy

Albuquerque, NM: Friday, August 24, 1951
(Armory) … Rassle Royal: (Final) Ace Freeman drew George Shindo (1-1) … George
Drake beat Ace Abbott (dq) … eliminated were Rolando Vera and Pat O’Dowdy … NOTE:
Likely Big Train Clements was a no show … referee: Bill Sledge

Albuquerque, NM: Friday, August 31, 1951
(Armory) … Ace Freeman beat George Shindo (2-1, dq) … George Drake and Rolando
Vera beat Ace Abbott and Pat O’Dowdy (dq) … Ray Duran beat Bill Sledge … referee:
Dory Detton

Albuquerque, NM: Friday, September 7, 1951
(Armory) … George Drake and Ace Freeman beat Ace Abbott and George Shindo (2-0,
dq) … Pat O’Dowdy (sub for Leo Wallick) beat Ray Duran (2-0, dq) … Rolando Vera
drew Bill Sledge … referees: Pat O’Dowdy and Bill Sledge

Albuquerque, NM: Friday, September 14, 1951
(Armory) … (Judo Jacket match) George Shindo beat Ace Freeman (2-1) … George
Drake and Bob Cummings beat Pat O’Dowdy and Ace Freeman (2-1) … Ray Duran beat
Bill Sledge … referees: Dory Detton and Bill Sledge … NOTE: Lineup has Drake and
Rolando Vera vs Cummings and O’Dowdy.

Albuquerque, NM: Friday, September 21, 1951
(Armory) … Alex Kasaboski beat George Shindo (2-1) … Ace Freeman beat Ray Duran
(2-0, dq) (first fall by dq) … Gory Guerrero beat George Drake … referee: Bob Cummings

Albuquerque, NM: Friday, September 28, 1951
(Armory) … Alex Kasaboski beat Ace Freeman (2-1, dq) … Dizzy Davis drew Gory
Guerrero … Bob Cummings beat Ray Duran … referee: Ace Abbott

Albuquerque, NM: Friday, October 5, 1951
(Armory) … Dizzy Davis beat Ace Freeman (2-1) … Gory Guerrero beat Ace Abbott (2-0)
… Bob Cummings beat Alex Kasaboski (dq) … referee: Billy Weidner

Albuquerque, NM: Friday, October 12, 1951
(Armory) … Ace Freeman and Gory Guerrero beat Dizzy Davis and Alex Kasaboski (2-1)
… Jesse James drew Bob Cummings (1-1) … Johnny James beat Ray Duran (dq) …
referee: Dory Detton

Albuquerque, NM: Friday, October 19, 1951
(Armory) … Dizzy Davis vs Gory Guerrero (nc) … Ace Freeman and Jesse James beat
Ray Duran and Alex Kasaboski … Johnny James beat Leo Wallick … (results from the
Bob Nitsche files)

Albuquerque, NM: Monday, October 22, 1951 (Mike London promotion)
(Ice Arena, att.-2,000) … Baron Michele Leone beat Dave Levin (2-1) … Tony Morelli
beat Bob Clay (2-1) … Pierre LaBelle drew Leon Kirilenko … Tony Falletti beat George
Drake

Albuquerque, NM: Friday, October 26, 1951
(Armory) … Gory Guerrero beat Dizzy Davis (2-1, co) … (midgets) Little Beaver (sub for
Irish Jackie) beat Tom Thumb … Jesse James and Johnny James drew Bob Cummings
and Leo Wallick (last result from the Bob Nitsche files)

Albuquerque, NM: Thursday, November 1, 1951 (Mike London promotion)
(Ice Arena) … Elephant Boy (Seconded by Moolah) beat Nature Boy (2-1) … Lord Dizzy
Pinkerton beat Zebra Kid (dq) … Caesar Sando beat Tony Falletti … Alberto Campos
beat Lee Savoldi

Albuquerque, NM: Friday, November 2, 1951
(Armory) … Gory Guerrero beat Alex Kasaboski … Dizzy Davis beat Jesse James … Leo
Wallick drew Tommy Martindale … Salvadore Flores drew Ace Freeman (results from the
Bob Nitsche files)

Albuquerque, NM: Thursday, November 8, 1951 (Mike London promotion)
(Ice Arena) … Elephant Boy beat Lord Dizzy Pinkerton … (ladies) Slave Girl Moolah beat
Daisy Mae … Nature Boy drew Bunny Rogers (sub for Zebra Kid) (1-1) … Alberto
Campos beat Tony Falletti (dq)

Albuquerque, NM: Friday, November 9, 1951
(Armory) … Dizzy Davis and Alex Kasaboski beat Gory Guerrero and Salvadore Flores (2-
1) … Ace Freeman beat Bob Cummings (2-0) …Tony Angelo drew Tommy Martindale

Albuquerque, NM: Thursday, November 15, 1951 (Mike London promotion)
(Ice Arena, att.-3,500) … Elephant Boy beat Gorgeous George Grant … (ladies world JR
HW title*) Daisy Mae beat Slave Girl Moolah (cor) (won title) … Nature Boy beat Super
Zebra Kid (dq) … Alberto Campos drew Tony Falletti … NOTE: This was a different and
bigger Zebra Kid than the one 2 weeks ago.

Albuquerque, NM: Friday, November 16, 1951
(Armory) … (SJTM) Dizzy Davis* vs Gory Guerrero (nc) … Alex Kasaboski and Leo
Wallick beat Ace Freeman and Tommy Martindale (2-1) … Tony Angelo drew Salvadore
Flores (20:00) … NOTE: Davis won the Southwestern JR HW title from Frank Murdock
last month in Amarillo.

Albuquerque, NM: Thursday, November 22, 1951 (Mike London promotion)
(Ice Arena, att.-2,950) … Elephant Boy beat Super Zebra Kid (unmasked after) …
(ladies) Conchita Pons beat Slave Girl Moolah (2-1) … Gorgeous George Grant beat
Nature Boy … Bunny Rogers beat Canadian Angel (dq) … referee: Yaqui Joe

Albuquerque, NM: Friday, November 23, 1951
(Armory) … (SJTM) Dizzy Davis* beat Frankie Murdock (2-0, dq) … Gory Guerrero and
Jesse James beat Alex Kasaboski and Leo Wallick … Tony Angelo drew Tug Wilson …
referee: Johnny James

Albuquerque, NM: Thursday, November 29, 1951 (Mike London promotion)
(Ice Arena) … Elephant Boy beat Canadian Angel (2-1) … (Women World JH Title*)
Conchita Pons beat Daisy Mae (2-1) (won title) … Gorgeous George Grant beat Super
Zebra Kid  … Nature Boy beat Bunny Rogers … referee: Yaqui Joe … NOTE: Moolah
was the second for Elephant Boy and tripped the Angel.

Albuquerque, NM: Friday, November 30, 1951
(Armory) … Gorgeous George (Wagner) beat Dizzy Davis … Frankie Murdock and Leo
Wallick drew Gory Guerrero and Salvadore Flores … Tug Wilson beat Johnny James
(last result from the Bob Nitsche files)

Albuquerque, NM: Thursday, December 6, 1951 (Mike London promotion)
(Ice Arena) … (Moolah barred from ringside) Elephant Boy beat Canadian Angel …
(LJTM) Slave Girl Moolah beat Conchita Pons* (possibly won title) … Gorgeous George
Grant beat Orchid Clark Grable … Nature Boy beat Super Zebra Kid … (Nitsche files)

Albuquerque, NM: Friday, December 7, 1951
(Armory) … Frankie Murdock and Leo Wallick beat Gory Guerrero and Salvadore Flores
… (SJTM) Dizzy Davis* beat Jesse James … Bob Cummings beat Tug Wilson

Albuquerque, NM: Thursday, December 13, 1951 (Mike London promotion)
(Ice Arena) … Elephant Boy beat Carlos Mendoza (2-1, dq) … Slave Girl Moolah beat
Daisy Mae (2-1) … Pancho Morales beat Nature Boy … Gorgeous George Grant beat
Canadian Angel (dq) … referee: Yaqui Joe

Albuquerque, NM: Friday, December 14, 1951
(Armory) … Frankie Murdock beat Dory Funk (sub for Dizzy Davis) … Bob Cummings
beat Tommy Martindale … Salvadore Flores and George Overhuls drew Leo Wallick and
Tug Wilson (sub for Tony Angelo) … (results from the Bob Nitsche files)

Albuquerque, NM: Thursday, December 20, 1951 (Mike London promotion)
(Ice Arena) … Elephant Boy and Gorgeous George Grant drew Carlos Mendoza and
Pancho Morales … Pancho Valentino beat Tony Falletti … Nature Boy beat Canadian
Angel

Albuquerque, NM: Friday, December 21, 1951
(Armory) … Frankie Murdock and Leo Wallick beat Salvadore Flores and Dory Funk …
(ladies) Carol Cook beat Mars Bennett … Bob Cummings drew George Overhuls …
(results from the Bob Nitsche files)

Albuquerque, NM: Thursday, December 27, 1951 (Mike London promotion)
(Ice Arena) … No Wrestling

Albuquerque, NM: Friday, December 28, 1951
(Armory) … Salvadore Flores beat Frankie Murdock (2-0) … Bob Cummings and Tug
Wilson beat George Overhuls and Whitey Walberg…. Gus Johnson drew Tony Angelo …
NOTES: Gorilla Poggi was matchmaker for this group. Dory Detton seemed to be the
booking agent. George Overhuls was known in the Chicago promotion as Doran O’Hara.
He was George O’Hara in Ohio.

Lord Dizzy Pinkerton was Eddie Faieta. Super Zebra Kid was Frank Hickey according to
the Pfefer records.


Research by Don Luce, Bob Nitsche
Albuquerque Wrestling Results - 1951