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A few notes on 1963. I have included the St. Louis TV show Wrestling at the Chase results because they came from Larry Matysik's own files. As Larry notes in his book, "the dates for WatC are the air dates, as the programs were taped usually one or two weeks earlier." Air Dates. I generally don't include air dates for TV shows in ring records but including them here explains better the impact Bruiser had on St. Louis. There are also a few Indianapolis TV results floating around from January of 1963 but I chose not to include them. I have those results in my files on my computer. However they look a little fishy to me. Bruiser probably did wrestle a few times on Indianapolis TV during January of 1963. I'm not including them for the reason listed above. You will also see two different promotions called the AWA. Most people are familiar with Verne Gagne's AWA, the American Wrestling Association. Some people are familiar with Jim Barnett & Johnny Doyle's AWA, the American Wrestling Alliance. 1/1/63 Indianapolis, IN @ State Fair Coliseum Art Neilson & Stan Neilson beat Kurt Von Brauner & Karl Von Brauner to win AWA Tag Team Title Dick The Bruiser beat Saul Weingeroff by winning 3 falls in less than 20 minutes Alberto Torres & Ramon Torres beat Don Jardine & Pierre LaBelle Dr. Bill Miller drew Joe Blanchard The Mongol beat Rudy Kay Mark Lewin beat Nicoli Volkoff 1/4/63 Flint, MI Bill Miller beat Dick The Bruiser 1/5/63 Columbus, OH wire mesh around ring Bill Miller beat Dick The Bruiser Leon Graham & Frankie Talaber beat Ramon Torres & Alberto Torres Joe Blanchard beat Emile Dupre Don Leo Jonathan drew Don Jardine 1/15/63 Denver, CO @ Auditorium Arena Wilbur Snyder ddq Fritz Von Erich in the 3rd fall 1 Von Erich beat Snyder with an Iron Claw 2 Snyder beat Von Erich with an abdominal stretch 3 Both men were dq'ed Dick the Bruiser beat Ray “Thunder” Stern on a 3rd fall COR International Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz beat Mark Lewin The Sheik beat Guy Mitchell with an Arabian backbreaker Bob “Czaya” Nandor drew The Sheik 20:00 promoters: Jim Barnett and Johnny Doyle Att: 3,017 fans, gate: $7,988 benefit known as the “Stock Show” 1/17/63 Indianapolis, IN @ State Fair Coliseum Bill Miller beat Lou Thesz dq when Lou hit Miller with a chair Dick The Bruiser & Mark Lewin beat The Sheik & The Mongol (subs for Kurt Von Brauner & Karl Von Brauner) Pee Wee Lopez & Chico Santana beat Little Boy Blue & Marcel Semard Joe Blanchard beat Nicoli Volkoff The Sheik beat Emile Dupre The Mongol beat Willis Kirby att: 2,000 1/19/63 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Jesse James beat Ray Collins Buddy Austin draw John Paul Henning NWA Champion Buddy Rogers beat Buddy Hack Dick the Bruiser in his debut beat Emile Dupre Ray Gordon beat The Alaskan dq Note: The dates for WatC are the air dates, as the programs were taped usually one or two weeks earlier. 1/19/63 Detroit, MI One wrestling show bred another when Dick the Bruiser failed to reach Detroit because of bad flying weather. His bout with Verne Gagne was rescheduled for monday night (with a new supporting card) and promoter Johnny Doyle said any of the 7,018 spectators may get in free by presenting their ticket stubs. Verne Gagne beat Mark Lewin Fritz Von Erich beat Czaja Nandor 2/3 The Sheik no contest Bearcat Wright Rudy Kay drew Alberto Torres Ramon Torres beat Pierre LaBelle Emile Dupre drew Chief Kit Fox Note: Original Card below 2 Main Events at the Same Time in 2 Adjoining Rings: Dick The Bruiser (sub Fred Blassie) vs Verne Gagne Fritz Von Erich vs Czaya 'Bob' Nandor Ray Stevens vs Mark Lewin Bearcat Wright vs The Sheik Alberto Torres vs Karl Von Brauner Ramon Torres vs Kurt Von Brauner Kit Fox vs Emile DuPre 1/21/63 Detroit, MI Verne Gagne drew Dick The Bruiser Mark Lewin drew Ray Stern Ray Stevens beat Alberto Torres Bill Miller beat Ramon Torres Czaja Nandor beat Pierre LaBelle Kit Fox beat Rudy Kay att: 7,000 1/22/63 Kansas City, MO @ Municipal Auditorium Dr. Big Bill Miller beat Dick the Bruiser on a 3rd fall dq Duke Keomuka & Taro Myaki beat Ray Gordon & Jesse James 2/3 Stan Stasiak (sub Rip Hawk) drew The Mask Roy Collins beat Guy Taylor 1/27/63 Cincinnati, OH Bill Miller beat Dick The Bruiser dq 2/1/63 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium Buddy Rogers beat Edouard Carpentier 2/3 when Carpentier could not continue in the third fall after being caught in Rogers’ figure four grapevine in the second fall. Since Lou Thesz beat Rogers for the NWA title Jan. 24 in Toronto, but this match had been announced and tickets sold at higher championship prices, the bout went on as scheduled. Johnny Valentine & John Paul Henning beat Taro Myaki & Duke Keomuka. 1 Keomuka beat Henning 2 Valentine beat Myaki 3 Henning beat Keomuka Pat O’Connor beat The Alaskan Dick the Bruiser beat Ray Gordon Pepper Martin draw Buddy Austin Ivan Zukoff beat Carlos Rodriguez att: 8689 Notes: Bruiser's St Louis house show debut. One could make the argument this was a NWA Title defense by Rogers. I don't agree but the argument could be made. 2/2/63 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Pepper Martin draw Duke Keomuka Ray Gordon beat Jesse James Johnny Valentine beat The Alaskan as Valentine won the only fall achieved in the 30 minute time limit Dick the Bruiser beat Dennis Hall Taro Myaki draw Stan Stasiak 2/2/63 Indianapolis, IN @ State Fair Coliseum NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Dr. Bill Miller Dick The Bruiser beat The Mongol Argentina Rocca beat Angelo Poffo Joe Blanchard beat Duke Keomuka Bob Nandor beat Taro Myaki dq Ramon Torres drew Angelo Savoldi Alberto Torres drew Nicoli Volkoff Att: 3,000 2/8/63 Denver, CO @ Coliseum Antonino Rocca beat Dick the Bruiser on a 3rd fall dq 1 Bruiser pinned Rocca in 9:30 after a knee drop 2 Rocca beat Bruiser in 9:31 3 Bruiser was dq'ed in 4:13 Wilbur Snyder beat Waldo Von Erich 2/3 Wahoo McDaniel beat Angelo Savoldi in 17:14 Ray Stevens beat Bob “Czaya” Nandor in 20:45 promoters: Jim Barnett and Johnny Doyle referee: Bob Sauer Att: 2,059 fans, gate: $4,213 2/9/63 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Taro Myaki draw Pepper Martin Dick the Bruiser beat Rudy Kay Jr. John Paul Henning beat Ivan Zukoff NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Alberto Torres 2-0 Taro Myaki drew Ray Gordon, a match added when the original lineup fell short of filling the time slot 2/9/63 Detroit, MI Wilbur Snyder beat Dick The Bruiser Antonino Rocca & Bearcat Wright beat Ray Stevens & The Sheik Bob Nandor beat Angelo Savoldi Chief Kit Fox beat Rudy Kay Mark Lewin beat Alberto Torres Joe Blanchard drew Ramon Torres att: 8,858 2/14/63 Fort Wayne, IN NWA Champion Lou Thesz drew Dick The Bruiser Joe Blanchard beat Angelo Savoldi Argentina Rocca beat The Sheik Taro Myaki drew Mark Lewin Nicoli Volkoff The Mongol beat Alberto Torres & Ramon Torres Att: 3000 2/15/63 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Pat O’Connor John Paul Henning ddq Dick the Bruiser and broken up by three referees, Bobby Bruns, Bill Longson, Gino Marella and Ray Gordon The Alaskan draw Gino Marella Ray Gordon & Pepper Martin beat Ray Collins & Taro Myaki 2/3, 2nd fall by dq 1 Myaki beat Martin. 2 Martin was awarded a fall by dq when he was attacked by Myaki between falls 3 Gordon beat Collins Karen Kellogg beat Lola Loray Joe Blanchard beat Ivan Zukoff att: 11,198, described as a “near sellout” - regular ticket prices were charged since the title change before Feb. 1 did not allow enough time for prices to be dropped to regular levels for that show, thus this gave fans a title match at regular prices 2/16/63 Cincinnati Bill Miller beat Dick The Bruiser 2/22/63 Louisville, KY Bill Miller beat Dick The Bruiser 2/23/63 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Bob Geigel beat Farmer Marlin Gino Marella beat Ivan Zukoff Pat O’Connor beat Pepper Martin 2-0 Dick the Bruiser beat Joe Blanchard John Paul Henning beat Cry Baby Cannon (billed exactly like this) 2/23/63 Denver, CO @ Coliseum Bob Ellis beat Dick the Bruiser 2/3 to capture the United States Heavyweight Title 1 Bruiser beat Ellis in 6:25 2 Ellis beat Bruiser in 8:40 3 Ellis beat Bruiser when the referee stopped Dick from continuing in 3:20 Bruiser reportedly had a broken blood vein on his head Antonino Rocca drew The Sheik Ricky Romero beat Angelo Savoldi in 18:20 Wahoo McDaniel beat Taro Myaki promoters: Jim Barnett and Johnny Doyle 3/1/63 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium Special Referee: Bronko Nagurski Dick the Bruiser beat John Paul Henning Johnny Valentine & Pat O’Connor beat Killer Kowalski & Rip Hawk. 1 O’Connor beat Hawk 2 Kowalski beat O’Connor 3 Valentine beat Kowalski Gino Marella beat Stan Stasiak dq The Alaskan beat Thor Hagen Tiny Bell & Marcel Semard beat Pee Wee Lopez & Chico Santana 2/3 1 Bell beat Santana. 2 Semard beat Santana. Taro Myaki beat Pepper Martin Karen Kellogg beat Jessica Rogers Ray Gordon beat Cry Baby Cannon att. 12,695 sellout Notes: Chico Santana actually was a midget wrestler. Bruiser was an instant success at the box office. 3/2/63 Detroit, MI @ Olympia Stadium NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Mark Lewin Dick The Bruiser beat Wilbur Snyder Antonino Rocca beat Bill Miller Ray Stevens drew Bearcat Wright Bob Nandor beat Taro Sakura The Sheik beat Angelo Savoldi Pee Wee Lopez beat Tiny Bell Frenchy Semard beat Chico Santana Kit Fox drew Pepper Martin Joe Blanchard beat Pierre LaBelle att: 7,322 3/6/63 Toledo, OH @ Sports Arena Dr. Big Bill Miller vs Dick the Bruiser Joe Blanchard vs the Mongol Czaya ‘Bob’ Nandor vs Howard Martin Mark Lewin vs Taro Myaki Chief Kit Fox vs Les Thatcher Rudy Kay vs Nicoli Volkoff Russ Denver vs Ray Snyder Promoter: Walter J. Moore 3/9/63 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Joe Blanchard draw Taro Myaki Dick the Bruiser beat Rico Lopez NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat The Alaskan John Paul Henning beat Ivan Kravschenkov Rip Hawk draw Gino Marella 3/9/63 Denver, CO @ Auditorium Arena Australian Blood Match Dick the Bruiser beat Bob Ellis in 26:13 Dory Funk Sr. beat Nelson Royal in 16:49 Verne Gagne beat Ricky Romero in 19:01 Fritz Von Erich beat Bearcat Wright on a 3rd fall dq 1 Wright beat Von Erich in 9:49 2 Von Erich beat Wright with aclawhold in 9:40 3 Wright was dq'ed for attacking the referee in 6:31 Att: 2,433 fans, gate: $5,225 3/12/63 Indianapolis, IN @ Tyndall Armory NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Taro Myaki Dick The Bruiser beat Bearcat Wright dq Dr. Bill Miller drew Mark Lewin 30:00 The Sheik beat Joe Blanchard Kit Fox beat Pierre LaBelle 3/15/63 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Dick the Bruiser on a 3rd fall dq Johnny Valentine beat The Alaskan John Paul Henning drew Gino Marella when Marella injured knee but Henning would not accept win Pat O’Connor draw Rip Hawk Ray Gordon & Joe Blanchard beat Taro Myaki & Ray Collins 2/3 1 Myaki beat Gordon 2 Gordon beat Myaki 3 Blanchard beat Collins Pepper Martin beat Danny Dusek att: 12,727 sellout Note: Gino Marella eventually became Gorilla Monsoon. 3/16/63 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Joe Blanchard beat Corsica Joe Dick the Bruiser beat Bill Garrett Johnny Valentine & Rudy Kay beat Fritz Von Erich & Bulldog Danny Plechas on a 3rd fall COR 1 Von Erich beat Kay 2 Valentine beat Plechas 3 Valentine beat Plechas, who was counted out outside the ring while Von Erich caught Kay with the Iron Claw. Valentine then attacked Von Erich and a brawl between them ensued. Young Szabo draw Taro Myaki 3/19/63 Indianapolis, IN @ Tyndall Armory Bearcat Wright beat Dick The Bruiser COR The Sheik beat Kit Fox Taro Myaki beat Dennis Hall Mark Lewin beat Rudy Kay Nicoli Volkoff drew Joe Blanchard Dr. Bill Miller drew The Mongol 20:00 3/23/63 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Gino Marella beat Al Gomez Fritz Von Erich beat Joe Blanchard Dick the Bruiser beat Young Szabo Johnny Valentine beat Danny Plechas Rudy Kay beat Corsica Joe dq 3/23/63 Detroit, MI @ Cobo Arena Dick The Bruiser beat Bob Nandor Antonino Rocca beat The Sheik Bearcat Wright beat Taro Myaki Dick Steinborn beat Nicoli Volkoff Hans Schmidt beat Angelo Savoldi Ivan Kalmikoff beat Larry Hennig Bill Miller beat Chief Kit Fox John Paul Henning beat Joe Blanchard Mark Lewin beat Karol Kalmikoff Jim Hady drew The Mongol Att: 4,789 3/28/63 Fort Wayne, IN NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Dick The Bruiser Argentina Rocca beat Bill Miller Bob Czaya Nandor & Mark Lewin beat The Mongol & Nicoli Volkoff The Sheik beat Joe Blanchard Chief Kit Fox drew Angelo Savoldi Att: 3,129 3/30/63 Cincinnati, OH NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Dick The Bruiser 4/3/63 Denver, CO @ Coliseum Fritz Von Erich beat Bearcat Wright on a 3rd fall COR 1 Wright beat Von Erich 2 Von Erich beat Wright 3 Wright was counted out of the ring Dick the Bruiser vs Antonino Rocca, no result listed Verne Gagne beat The Sheik Bill Miller drew Wilbur Snyder Danny Loos beat Angelo Savoldi Att: 2,515 fans, gate: $6,415 Between April and July 1963, Johnny Doyle and Jim Barnett sold their interest in Denver to Dory Funk Sr. More talent came into the territory from the West Texas circuit. Dory Funk Jr. later explained it by saying: “There was a time that my father/The Amarillo Territory bought Denver from Doyle and Barnett and the surrounding towns. Later he sold Denver itself to Verne, however in the contract he did not sell the surrounding towns.” 4/5/63 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium Dick the Bruiser beat Rip Hawk Johnny Valentine beat Fritz Von Erich Von Erich had won with the Iron Claw, but when he did not break after the bell, the decision was reversed by referee Charlie Venator Joe Blanchard & John Paul Henning beat The Alaskan & Rock Hunter 1 Henning beat Hunter 2 Hunter beat Blanchard 3 Blanchard beat Alaskan Pepper Martin beat Taro Myaki Timothy Geohagen drew Mike Paidousis Ray Gordon beat Eric Pomeroy att: 8062 4/9/63 Indianapolis, IN @ Tyndall Armory Dick The Bruiser beat Bearcat Wright COR Dr. Bill Miller & The Sheik beat Mark Lewin & Kit Fox Hans Schmidt beat Rudy Kay Taro Myaki beat Johnny King 4/13/63 Detroit, MI @ Cobo Arena Antonino Rocca beat Dick The Bruiser dq The Sheik beat Jim Hady Hans Schmidt beat Mark Lewin (sub Wilbur Snyder) Bill Miller beat Joe Blanchard (sub Mark Lewin) Bob Nandor beat Taro Myaki Chief Kit Fox beat Manny King Skyscraper Evans beat Angelo Savoldi att: 8,324 4/16/63 Indianapolis, IN @ Tyndall Armory NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Dick The Bruiser COR Dr. Bill Miller & The Sheik drew Mark Lewin & Joe Blanchard 45:00 Hans Schmidt beat Dennis Hall Moose Evans beat Pierre LaBelle Saul Von Brauner beat Johnny King Annette Palmer beat Kay Noble 4/18/63 Flint, MI NWA Champion Lou Thesz drew Dick The Bruiser 4/19/63 Milwaukee, WI @ Auditorium Crusher Lisowski beat Jack Pesek Antonino Rocca beat Dick The Bruiser COR NWA Champion Lou Thesz vs Bearcat Wright Jack Wilson beat Angelo Savoldi Angelo Poffo drew Bob Nandor June Byers beat Kay Noble 4/20/63 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Stan Stasiak beat Don Slatton Dick the Bruiser beat Sam Steamboat, who was Lou Thesz protégé. Thesz came to the ring and kept Bruiser from attacking Steamboat after the match. NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Ray Gordon Rock Hunter beat Herb Larson The Alaskan beat Tony Nero 4/20/63 Cincinnati, OH Dick The Bruiser & Bill Miller beat Lou Thesz and Joe Blanchard 4/23/63 Bar partly owned by Alex Karras in Detroit, MI Bruiser and Karras get in to a fight. Bruiser is arrested for Assault and Battery. Bruiser walked into court on May 13, 1963 and gave $400 to the Detroit police pension fund. The charges of assualt and battery were then dismissed by the judge. Bruiser eventually got his money back on June 26, 1963 from the Detroit police citing Bruiser's donation was "blood money." 4/26/63 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Dick the Bruiser 2/3 when the third fall was stopped because Bruiser was bleeding so badly. Bruiser went berserk at the decision, this requiring Bobby Bruns, Bill Longson, Rock Hunter, Bill Dromo, Lorenzo Parente and Ray Gordon to restrain him. John Paul Henning & Johnny Valentine beat Stan Stasiak & Fritz Von Erich 1 Valentine beat Von Erich 2 Von Erich beat Valentine 3 Henning beat Stasiak Rip Hawk draw Joe Blanchard Rock Hunter beat Pepper Martin Taro Myaki beat Farmer Marlin Ray Gordon beat The Alaskan dq Lorenzo Parente beat Bill Dromo att: 10,651 4/27/63 Detroit, MI @ Olympia Stadium NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Big Bill Miller Dick the Bruiser beat Alex Karras in 11:21 Ray Stevens beat Mark Lewin Fritz Von Erich beat Skyscraper Evans Antonino Rocca beat Bob Stanlee Hans Schmidt beat Emile Dupre Jim Hady beat Steve Stanlee Joe Blanchard drew Bob Nandor The Sheik beat Chief Kit Fox Angelo Savoldi beat Johnny King Att: 6,500 4/30/63 Kansas City, MO @ Municipal Auditorium Fritz Von Erich beat The Sheik (sub Bearcat Wright) on a 3rd fall dq Dick the Bruiser beat Joe Blanchard 2/3 The Sheik beat Mark Lewin Hans Schmidt beat Emile Dupre Bill Miller beat Pepper Martin Taro Myaki beat Farmer Don Marlin promoter: Paul “Pinkie” George Att: 4,000 Notes: Bruiser was billed as being from Reno, Nevada and Blanchard from Parsons, Kansas. Pepper Martin was from Indianapolis and Farmer Marlin from Pine Bluff, Arkansas 5/3/63 Louisville, KY Dick The Bruiser beat Bill Miller 5/5/63 Detroit, MI NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Dick The Bruiser Note: This might be from the 5/12/63 card. 5/7/63 Indianapolis, IN @ Tyndall Armory Dick The Bruiser beat Ray Stevens to win US Title Dr. Bill Miller & The Sheik beat Steve Stanlee & Bob Stanlee Hans Schmidt beat Joe Blanchard Taro Myaki drew Emile Dupre Moose Evans beat Pierre LaBelle Note: Stevens won a tournament for the US Title on 4/23 in Indianapolis. 5/10/63 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium Johnny Valentine & John Paul Henning beat Fritz Von Erich & Dick the Bruiser 1 Bruiser beat Henning 2 Valentine won by dq 3 Henning beat Bruiser after Von Erich mistakenly hit Bruiser with a drop kick. Von Erich and Bruiser then got into a battle. Big Bill Miller beat Joe Blanchard Jackie Fargo beat Lorenzo Parente Rip Hawk beat Timothy Geohagen Ray Gordon drew Stan Stasiak Bill Dromo beat Farmer Marlin Pepper Martin beat Ray Collins att: 5,619 5/11/63 Milwaukee, WI @ Auditorium NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Dick The Bruiser Antonino Rocca drew Hans Schmidt Crusher Lisowski beat Chief Kit Fox Mark Lewin vs The Sheik Angelo Poffo drew Jack Wilson Bob Nandor beat Angelo Savoldi 5/12/63 Detroit, MI @ Olympia Stadium NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Dick the Bruiser Antonino Rocca & Bob Nandor beat Steve Stanlee & Bob Stanlee Bearcat Wright vs Fritz Von Erich Kit Fox vs Hans Schmidt Emile Dupre vs Pierre LeBelle 5/15/63 Indianapolis, IN @ Tyndall Armory NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Dick The Bruiser dq Dr. Bill Miller & The Sheik beat Steve Stanlee & Bob Stanlee Hans Schmidt beat Emile Dupre Joe Blanchard beat Taro Myaki Moose Evans beat Pierre LaBelle 5/17/63 Atlanta, GA @ Municipal Auditorium World Title Claimant Tarzan Tyler no contest Dick the Bruiser Ray Gunkel beat Danny Plechas Scufflin’ Hillbillies beat Lenny Montana & Charlie Keene Derrell Cochran beat Tito Kopa Silento Rodriguez vs Chief Little Eagle Bill Dromo beat George Bell 5/18/63 Detroit, MI NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Dick The Bruiser 2/3 this match replaced Lou Thesz vs Hans Schmidt when the Michigan wrestling/boxing commission lifted Dick the Bruiser's indefinite suspension for his inciting a brawl prior to his match with Alex Karras on April 27th. Fritz Von Erich beat Bearcat Wright 2-0 Czaja Nandor (sub Jim Hady) & Antonino Rocca beat Gene Stanlee & Steve Stanlee 2/3 Masked Terror beat Joe Blanchard (sub Nandor) Hans Schmidt (sub Angelo Savoldi) beat Chief Kit Fox Emile Dupre beat Pierre LaSalle att: 6,368 5/21/63 Indianapolis, IN @ Tyndall Armory Hurricane tag match (all four wrestlers in the ring at the same time) Dr. Bill Miller & The Sheik beat Dick The Bruiser & Hans Schmidt Bob Nandor beat Steve Stanlee Bob Stanlee beat Johnny King Joe Blanchard beat Tony Angelo Kit Fox beat Pierre LaBelle 5/25/63 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Taro Myaki drew Lorenzo Parente Pepper Martin beat Ray Collins dq Dick the Bruiser beat Steve Bolus John Paul Henning beat Dennis Hall Stan Stasiak beat Steve Kovacs 5/29/63 Indianspolis, IN @ Tyndall Armory Bob Ellis (sub Ray Stevens) beat Dick The Bruiser to win US Title Dr. Bill Miller & The Sheik beat Joe Blanchard & Jack Allen Moose Evans beat Tony Angelo Steve Stanlee beat Johnny King Ethel Johnson beat Lola LaRay 6/4/63 Indianapolis, IN @ Tyndall Armory US Champion Bob Ellis beat Dick The Bruiser The Sheik drew Jack Allen Dr. Bill Miller beat Moose Evans Johnny King beat Dennis Hall Steve Stanlee & Bob Stanlee beat Joe Blanchard & Kit Fox 6/7/63 Atlanta, GA @ Ponce DeLeon Park NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Tarzan Tyler (sub Dick The Bruiser) Tarzan Tyler beat Dick Steinborn Ray Gunkel beat Corsica Joe Dolly Darcel beat Baby Cheryl Derrell Cochran & Chief Little Eagle beat Lenny Montana & Tito Kopa Betty Ann Spencer beat Sweet Georgia Brown Scufflin’ Hillbillies beat George Bell & Bulldog Lawley Bill Dromo beat George Harris Silento Rodriguez beat Chris Averoff 6/11/63 Indianapolis, IN @ Tyndall Armory Dick The Bruiser beat Bob Ellis to win US Title Dr. Bill Miller beat Moose Evans Pee Wee Lopez & Chico Santana beat Marcel Semard & Little Boy Blue Sailor Art Thomas beat Saul Von Brauner Masked Terror beat Les Thatcher Jack Allen beat Johnny King 6/15/63 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Big Bill Miller 2/3 Dick the Bruiser ddq Fritz Von Erich John Paul Henning & Cowboy Bob Ellis beat Rip Hawk & Rock Hunter 2/3, 1st fall by dq 1 Henning won by dq 2 Hunter beat Henning 3 Henning beat Hawk Jackie Fargo beat Pepper Martin Jessica Rogers beat Mars Monroe Joe Blanchard drew Stan Stasiak Taro Myaki beat Timothy Geohagen att: 12,293 sellout 6/18/63 Indianapolis, IN @ Tyndall Armory US Champion Dick The Bruiser beat The Sheik on a 3rd fall dq when Bill Miller interfered Joe Blanchard & Jack Allen beat Steve Stanlee & Bob Stanlee Masked Terror beat Moose Evans Dr. Bill Miller beat Don Jardine Guy Mitchell beat Johnny King Hurricane Tag Team Match (all four wrestlers in the ring at the same time) Marcel Semard & Little Boy Blue beat Pee Wee Lopez & Chico Santana 6/25/63 Indianapolis, IN @ Tyndall Armory US Champion Dick The Bruiser beat Dr. Bill Miller by reverse decision Masked Terror beat Joe Blanchard Angelo Poffo beat Guy Mitchell Jack Allen drew Bob Stanlee Marcel Semard & Mary Reynolds beat Pee Wee Lopez & Mary Hillis 6/29/63 Detroit, MI @ Cobo Arena Dick The Bruiser & Lord Athol Layton beat Masked Terror & Fritz Von Erich Bob Nandor drew Waldo Von Erich Hideki Tanaka (sub Moose Evans) beat Guy Mitchell Jack Allen drew Angelo Poffo Steve Zold beat Dennis Hall (sub Bobby Whitlow) Dave Luttrall beat Roger Kirby Little Boy Blue & Frenchy Semard beat Pee Wee Lopez & Chico Santana 7/3/63 Flat Rock, MI @ Speedway US Champion Dick The Bruiser beat The Sheik 2/3 Masked Terror beat Czaya Nandor Hideki Tanaka beat Guy Mitchell Tony Angelo drew Jack Evans Dr Bill Miller drew Joe Blanchard att: 1,200 7/9/63 Minneapolis, MN The Crusher beat Verne Gagne to win AWA Title with help from Dick the Bruiser AWA Tag Team Champions Ivan Kalmikoff & Karol Kalmikoff beat Tiny Mills & Stan Kowalski Dick the Bruiser beat Doug Gilbert 16:47 Don McClarty beat Maurice Mad Dog Vachon 9:58 Eddie Sharkey beat Joe Tomasso 10:23 Att: 8,065 7/16/63 Indianapolis, IN @ Tyndall Armory US Champion Dick The Bruiser ddq Masked Terror Bob Clark & Don Jewel beat Steve Stanlee & Bob Stanlee Hideki Tanaka beat Jack Allen Doug Gilbert beat Johnny King Joe Blanchard dcor Angelo Poffo 7/20/63 Detroit, MI @ Cobo Arena German Death Match Lord Athol Layton beat Fritz Von Erich Dick The Bruiser drew Masked Terror Karl Gotch beat Billy Red Lyons The Sheik beat Waldo Von Erich Hideki Tanaka beat Frankie Talaber Jim Hady beat Jack Allen Doug Gilbert beat Angelo Poffo att: 10,037 7/12/63 Atlanta, GA @ Municipal Auditorium Dick the Bruiser beat Derrell Cochran Chief Little Eagle beat Tarzan Tyler dq Bill Dromo & the Proud Rebel beat Jack Bence & Corsica Joe Tim Geohagen beat Rip Tyler 7/26/63 Atlanta, GA @ Municipal Auditorium NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Dick the Bruiser Kurt Von Brauner & Karl Von Brauner beat Tex Riley & the Proud Rebel Derrell Cochran beat Carlos Mendoza Tim Geohagen beat Rube Wright Bill Dromo beat Rip Tyler 7/27/63 Oak Park Dick The Bruiser beat Bill Miller 7/30/63 Indianapolis, IN @ Tyndall Armory Masked Terror & Tony Angelo beat Dick The Bruiser & The Sheik COR Hideki Tanaka beat Gerd Topsick Doug Gilbert beat Angelo Poffo Margie Garcia & Darling Dagmar drew Fran Gravette & Baby Cheryl 30:00 8/2/63 Elnora, IN @ Daviess County Fair Dick The Bruiser vs Joe Blanchard Women's tag bout featuring Little Darling Dagmar Bill Miller vs Doug Gilbert 8/3/63 Minneapolis, MN Haystack Calhoun won a 15 man battle royal Order of elimination from first to last Gary Kevins, Stan Kowalski, Paul Christy, Larry Hennig, Don McClarty, Iron Mike DiBiase, Bill Wright, Bill Green, Pat O'Connor, Butch Levy, Bruiser and Karol Kalmikoff (together), Ivan Kalmikoff and last man The Crusher. Haystack Calhoun beat Red Grupe in 4:15 Dick The Bruiser beat Jack Thornton in 7:02 Don McClarty beat Stan Kowalski Larry Hennig beat Gary Kevins in 10:15 Eddie Sharkey beat Bill Green in 9:59 Att: 7,386 8/5/63 Valparaiso, IN @ Porter County Fair Dick The Bruiser vs The Sheik Joe Blanchard vs Doug Gilbert Fran Gravette & Baby Cheryl vs Margaret Garcia & Little Darling Dagmar 8/6/63 Indianapolis, IN @ Tyndall Armory Lumberjack match Dick The Bruiser & The Sheik beat Masked Terror & Tony Angelo Doug Gilbert beat Bob Stanlee Joe Blanchard beat Steve Stanlee Johnny King beat Gerd Topsick Margie Garcia & Darling Dagmar beat Fran Gravette & Baby Cheryl 8/10/63 Detroit, MI @ Cobo Arena Lord Athol Layton beat Hideki Tanaka Dick The Bruiser & Doug Gilbert beat Masked Terror & Tony Angelo Fritz Von Erich no contest The Sheik Bill Miller beat Joe Blanchard Killer Kowalski drew Ilio DiPaolo Jim Hady drew Czaja Bob Nandor Att: 8,524 8/12/63 Dearborn, MI Dick The Bruiser vs Bill Miller 8/15/63 Connerville, IN @ Fayette County Fair Featuring Dick The Bruiser, The Sheik; Dr. Big Bill Miller, Doug Gilbert and midget girls tag team match 8/20/63 Minneapolis, MN Dick The Bruiser & The Crusher beat Ivan Kalmikoff & Karol Kalmikoff to win AWA tag title Haystack Calhoun beat Mike DiBiase in 9:45 Don McClarty beat Tiny Mills in 13:45 Larry Hennig beat Jack Allen in 10:03 Paul Christy beat Bill Wright in 6:45 Att: 5,408 8/23/63 Atlanta, GA @ Municipal Auditorium NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Dick the Bruiser World Tag Team Champions Kurt Von Brauner & Karl Von Brauner beat Joe Scarpa & Derrell Cochran Tarzan Tyler beat Tim Geohagen Matt Jewell beat Bulldog Clark Lenny Montana beat Bill Dromo 8/27/63 Indianapolis, IN @ Tyndall Armory Dick The Bruiser beat Masked Terror dq on a reverse decision when manager Tony Angelo, who was handcuffed to Sheik, tripped Bruiser to cause him to be pinned. The ref was alerted and changed his verdict Mitsu Arakawa beat Jack Allen Doug Gilbert beat Bob Stanlee Angelo Poffo beat Steve Stanlee Marcel Semard & Bernard Semard beat Pee Wee Lopez & Chico Santana 2/3 8/31/63 Detroit, MI @ Cobo Arena Dick The Bruiser & Lord Layton beat Fritz Von Erich & Masked Terror Wilbur Snyder beat Big Bill Miller Karl Gotch beat Professor Myaki Doug Gilbert drew Jim Hady Dr. Jerry Graham beat Frankie Talaber Bob Nandor beat Tony Angelo Chuck Bruce beat Bob Stanlee Steve Stanlee beat Frank Brown att: 6,987 9/3/63 Flint MI @ I.M.A. Auditorium Dick The Bruiser & Wilbur Snyder beat Tony Angelo & Masked Terror Steve Zold drew Mitsu Arakawa Dr. Jerry Graham beat Bob Nandor Great Mephisto beat Steve Stanlee Att: 1673 9/3/63 Indianapolis, IN @ Tyndall Armory Masked Terror & Tony Angelo beat Dick The Bruiser & Doug Gilbert Wilbur Snyder beat Mitsu Arakawa Angelo Poffo beat Bob Stanlee Jack Allen beat Steve Stanlee Note: Two cards held on the same date. Hmmm. 9/5/63 Kansas City, KS @ Memorial Hall Dick The Bruiser dcor Bob Geigel in 3rd fall Mongolian Stomper beat Jose Azteca & Harley Race as Danny Race by pinning both men Rock Hunter beat Joe Millich (sub Les Thatcher) Enrique Torres beat Larry Williams Bulldog Danny Plechas beat Jim Grabmire 9/7/63 Minneapolis, MN @ Auditorium AWA Tag Team Champions Dick The Bruiser & Crusher no contest Ivan Kalmikoff & Karol Kalmikoff Larry Hennig drew Don McClarty 30:00 Paul Christy beat Bill Wright in 18:00 Stan Kowalski beat Eddie Sharkey Att: 5,006 9/10/63 Indianapolis, IN @ Tyndall Armory Masked Terror & Tony Angelo beat Dick The Bruiser & Doug Gilbert after Bruiser & Gilbert began fighting with each other Wilbur Snyder beat Dr. Bill Miller AWA "Indiana" Champion Karl Gotch beat Joe Blanchard Bob Nandor beat Bozo Brown Bob Bruce beat Jack Allen 9/19/63 Canyon, TX @ West Texas State Fieldhouse The Sheik beat Luis Martinez with the camel clutch in 12:08 1-0 utc Dory Funk Jr beat Sputnik Monroe 2/3 Dick The Bruiser beat Dick Steinborn 2/3 Dale Lewis & Ricky Romero beat Tokyo Tom & Rasputin when Lewis pinned Rasputin in 15:45 9/21/63 Minneapolis, MN Dick the Bruiser beat AWA Champion Verne Gagne dq Don McClarty beat Larry Hennig Rene Goulet beat Marquis de Paree Paul Christy & Eddie Sharkey beat Bill Wright & George Catalina Drake Att. 4,501 9/22/63 Detroit MI @ Cobo Arena US Champion Fritz von Erich drew Masked Terror Dick the Bruiser beat Lord Layton Wilbur Snyder & Doug Gilbert beat Ivan Kalmikoff & Karol Kalmikoff Karl Gotch beat Jim Hady Jerry Graham beat Bill Dromo Bob Nandor beat Ox Anderson Emile Dupre beat Ciclon Negro dq Tony Angelo beat Firpo Zbyszko 9/24/63 Indianapolis, IN @ Tyndall Armory US Champion Dick The Bruiser dcor Dory Funk Jr Wilbur Snyder beat Masked Terror AWA "Indiana" Champion Karl Gotch beat Bill Dromo AWA "Indiana" Tag Team Champions Ivan Kalmikoff & Karol Kalmikoff beat Jack Allen & Doug Gilbert Handicap Match Tony Angelo beat Bob Bruce when he failed to pin Angelo within 5 minutes Ciclon Negro beat Emile Dupre 9/28/63 Detroit, MI Dick The Bruiser beat Lord Athol Layton Masked Terror beat Fritz Von Erich COR Doug Gilbert & Wilbur Snyder beat Ivan Kalmikoff & Karol Kalmikoff Karl Gotch beat Jim Hady Dr. Jerry Graham beat Bill Dromo Czaja Nandor beat Ox Anderson Ciclon Negro beat Emile Dupre 10/2/63 Wallaceburg, Ontario, Canada @ Memorial Arena Dick The Bruiser vs Lord Layton 10/5/63 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Joe Blanchard beat Johnny King John Paul Henning beat Tony Angelo NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Bobby Graham Dick the Bruiser beat Maurice LaPointe Reggie Parks beat Frank Altman John Paul Henning beat Danny Dusek 10/5/63 St. Paul, MN AWA Tag Team Champions Dick The Bruiser & The Crusher beat Ivan Kalmikoff & Karol Kalmikoff Bob Geigel beat Moose Evans dq Don McClarty beat Larry Hennig Rene Goulet beat George Catalina Drake Paul Christy beat Marquis de Paree Att: 6,661 10/12/63 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Reggie Parks beat Miguel Perez Dick the Bruiser beat Jack Wilson Maurice LaPointe drew Joe Blanchard Wilbur Snyder beat Al Gomez Karl Gotch beat Rocky Montero 10/15/63 Minneapolis, MN Mitsu Arakawa beat Crusher dq Dick The Bruiser beat Stan Kowalski Moose Evans beat Tom Bradley Rene Goulet beat Don McClarty Paul Christy & Eddie Sharkey beat Marquis DeParee & John Ramirez Att: 4,002 10/19/63 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Bulldog Brower beat Guy Mitchell Reggie Parks beat Don Rice Wilbur Snyder & Emile Dupre drew Ciclon Negro & Dick the Bruiser 1 Snyder beat Negro 2 Bruiser beat Dupre 3 The 30 minute limit before either team could score the deciding fall Karl Gotch drew Pat O’Connor 10/25/63 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium Cowboy Bob Ellis beat Dick the Bruiser dq Fritz Von Erich & Rip Hawk beat Ronnie Etchison & John Paul Henning 2/3 1 Von Erich beat Henning 2 Henning beat Von Erich 3 Hawk beat Etchison Karl Gotch beat Danny Plechas Jessica Rogers & Mars Monroe beat Ann Regan & Jean Antone 2-0 1 Monroe beat Antone 2 Rogers beat Regan Bulldog Brower beat Joe Blanchard Sam Thomas beat Jim Baker Joe Tangaro drew Angelo Poffo Emile Dupre beat Frank Altman att: 7608 10/26/63 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Joe Tangaro beat Hans Grabmire Reggie Parks drew Joe Blanchard Dick the Bruiser beat Johnny Kace when Kace could not answer bell for second fall Ronnie Etchison beat Dannt Plechas 2/3 Jack Allen beat Mark Starr Note From Larry Matysik: George Abel named regular play-by-play announcer 10/28/63 Denver, CO @ Auditorium Arena AWA Champion Verne Gagne beat Dick the Bruiser on a 3rd fall dq 1 Bruiser beat Gagne 2 Gagne beat Bruiser 3 Bruiser was dq'ed Dory Funk Jr beat Sputnik Monroe 2/3 Dory Funk Jr & Dory Funk Sr beat Bill Fletcher & The Sheik dq Alex Perez drew Rocky Smith 15:00 Att: 2,480 fans 11/2/63 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Guy Mitchell beat Hans Grabmire John Paul Henning beat Johnny Kace Wilbur Snyder drew Dick the Bruiser 1 Bruiser was counted out of the ring 2 Bruiser beat Snyder 3 The 30 minute time limit before either man could score the deciding fall Joe Tangaro beat Johnny Ramirez Emile Dupre drew Mark Starr 11/5/63 Indianapolis, IN @ Tyndall Armory Dick the Bruiser & Wilbur Snyder beat Ivan Kalmikoff & Nikita Kalmikoff to win AWA "Indiana" Tag Team Title Masked Terror & Ciclon Negro & Tony Angelo beat Emile Dupre & Guy Mitchell & Doug Gilbert Mr. Kleen beat Ken Yates Pee Wee Lopez drew Marcel Semard 11/7/63 Kansas City, KS @ Memorial Hall Dick the Bruiser beat Enrique Torres 2/3 Bob Geigel & Larry Hamilton beat Mongolian Stomper & Moose Cholak 2-0, 1st fall by dq Rock Hunter beat Jack Allen Bulldog Danny Plechas beat Tony Manousos referee Richard Moody 11/8/63 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium Handicap match Fritz Von Erich & Cowboy Bob Ellis beat Dick the Bruiser A coin toss determined who met Bruiser first 1 Bruiser beat Ellis 2 Von Erich beat Bruiser Wilbur Snyder & John Paul Henning beat Rip Hawk & Bulldog Brower 1 Hawk beat Henning 2 Henning beat Hawk 3 Snyder beat Brower Karl Gotch beat The Alaskan dq Angelo Poffo drew Ronnie Etchison Joe Tangaro beat Dan Plechas Emile Dupre beat Johnny Kace att: 8272 11/9/63 Columbus, OH Karl Gotch beat Bill Miller COR Dick The Bruiser beat Guy Mitchell Leon Graham beat Bruce Afflis Bobby Clark beat John Galloway Brenda Scott & Toni Rose beat Judy Grable & Kay Noble 11/12/63 Indianapolis, IN @ Tyndall Armory AWA "Indiana" Tag Team Champions Dick the Bruiser & Wilbur Snyder beat Ivan Kalmikoff & Nikita Kalmikoff Masked Terror & Ciclon Negro beat Doug Gilbert & Emile Dupre Guy Mitchell beat Kenny Yates Brenda Scott beat Judy Grable Mr. Kleen beat Masked Terror & Ciclon Negro (sub Tony Angelo) via walkaway COR in 7:00 11/15/63 Atlanta, GA @ Municipal Auditorium Dick the Bruiser no contest Mighty Hercules Ray Gordon drew the Outlaw Derrell Cochran beat Lenny Montana Tim Geohagen beat Ivan Zukoff Gene Anderson beat Tito Kopa 11/18/63 Denver, CO @ Auditorium Arena Dick the Bruiser & Sputnik Monroe vs Dory Funk Jr & Verne Gagne Ricky Romero vs The Sheik Alex Perez vs Tokyo Tom Bill Fletcher vs Rocky Smith 11/22/63 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Fritz Von Erich from a 3rd fall dq Wilbur Snyder & Cowboy Bob Ellis & John Paul Henning beat Big Bill Miller & Rip Hawk & Dick the Bruiser 2-0, 1st fall by dq 1 Snyder won by dq 2 Snyder beat Miller Bulldog Brower drew Reggie Parks Ronnie Etchison beat Swede Hanson Taro Myaki beat Emile Dupre Joe Tangaro beat Johnny Kace att: 7175 Note: The Day JFK Was Killed 11/28/63 Indianapolis, IN @ Tyndall Armory AWA "Indiana" Tag Team Champions Dick the Bruiser & Wilbur Snyder drew Masked Terror & Ciclon Negro 60:00 European Rules AWA "Indiana" Champion Karl Gotch beat Czaya Bob Nandor Emile Dupre & Guy Mitchell & Doug Gilbert beat Saul Von Brauner & Nikita Kalmikoff & Tony Angelo Big Bill Miller beat Bob Bruce Guy Mitchell beat Saul Von Brauner dq 12/3/63 Indianapolis, IN @ Tyndall Armory Ciclon Negro & Masked Terror beat Dick the Bruiser & Wilbur Snyder to win AWA "Indiana" Tag Team Title Mr. Kleen beat Tony Angelo Doug Gilbert beat Saul Von Brauner Emile Dupre drew Czaya Bob Nandor Guy Mitchell beat Paul Richards 12/3/63 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium Dick the Bruiser beat Wilbur Snyder Cowboy Bob Ellis & John Paul Henning beat Rip Hawk & Big Bill Miller 2-0, 1st fall by dq 1 Henning won by dq 2 Ellis beat Hawk Fritz Von Erich beat Ronnie Etchison Angelo Poffo draw Reggie Parks Lorenzo Parente beat Rocky Montero dq Ray Gordon beat Ciclon Negro att: 4821 Note: Once again conflicting dates. 12/5/63 Kansas City, KS @ Memorial Hall Dick the Bruiser ddq Mongolian Stomper in 3rd fall Ronnie Etchison beat Rock Hunter dq Pat O’Connor & Enrique Torres beat Mike Sharpe & Bulldog Danny Plechas Darling Dagmar beat Diamond Lil Larry Hamilton beat Johnny Kace referees Les Thatcher and Joe Tangaro 12/7/63 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Ciclon Negro beat Doug Lindsey Wilbur Snyder beat Paul Richard Karl Gotch beat Jack Wilson when Wilson could not answer the bell for the second fall after losing the first Dick the Bruiser beat Alex Perez Ray Gordon drew Rocky Montero 12/7/63 San Francisco, CA @ Cow Palace Pat O'Connor beat US Champion Ray Stevens 1-0 60:00 1 O’Connor pinned Stevens in 40:20 2 The 60 minute time limit expired before either man could score another fall World Tag Team Champions Pepper Gomez & Jose Lothario beat Mitsu Arakawa & Kinji Shibuya when Gomez beat Arakawa in the 3rd fall Dick the Bruiser beat Red Bastien when the referee stopped the match because Bastien had taken too much punishment Dick Steinborn beat Great Pampero Edouard Carpentier beat The Spoiler Jack Dalton & Jim Dalton beat Andre Drapp & Joe Scarpello Att: 7,825, Gate: $20,706 12/10/63 Indianapolis, IN @ Tyndall Armory Dick The Bruiser & Wilbur Snyder beat Masked Terror & Ciclon Negro to regain AWA "Indiana" Tag Team Title Bob Nandor beat Steve Zold Bob Bruce beat Guy Mitchell Mr. Kleen beat Jack Wilson Emile Dupre beat Paul Richards 12/14/63 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Doug Lindsey beat Paul Richard Ray Gordon beat Al Gomez Karl Gotch beat Ciclon Negro Rocky Montero & Dick the Bruiser drew Joe Tangaro & Lorenzo Parente when the 30 minute limit expired in the 3rd fall 1 Bruiser beat Parente 2 Parente beat Montero 3 The 30 minute limit expired before either team could score another fall 12/21/63 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Farmer Marlin drew Pepe Perez Lorenzo Parente beat Carlos Mendoza Dick the Bruiser beat Bob Nandor Wilbur Snyder beat Rocky Montero 12/27/63 Fresno, CA @ Memorial Auditorium US Champion Ray Stevens vs Andre Drapp 2/3 60:00 World Tag Team Champions Pepper Gomez & Jose Lothario vs Jack Dalton & Jim Dalton Dick The Bruiser vs Black Hawk Dick Steinborn vs Great Pampero Dominic DeNucci vs Pete Martin Paul Diamond vs Roy Collins 12/28/63 San Francisco, CA @ Cow Palace World Tag Team Champions Pepper Gomez & Jose Lothario beat Dick the Bruiser & Ray Stevens 2/3 1 Bruiser beat Lothario in 8:53 2 Lothario beat Bruiser in 21:05 3 Gomez pinned Stevens in 3:10 Dominic DeNucci beat Stan Neilson via pin with a reverse cradle in 13:37 Jack Dalton & Jim Dalton beat Red Bastien & Black Hawk in 11:21 The Spoiler beat Paul Diamond with a Backbreaker in 8:12 Dick Steinborn beat Andre Drapp by submission with a side surfboard hold in 11:41 Bill Miller beat Pete Martin in 7:51 with a Backbreaker Att. 7,320, Gate: $20,042 Note: Bruiser walked out on Stevens during the 3rd fall of the main event. Credit to the usual suspects. Tim Hornbaker. Mike Dupree. Don Luce. Rich Tate. Justahamandegger. Jim Mandl. Mark Bujan. Larry Matysik. JMK. George Lentz. Note: Added a Wallaceburg, Ontario listing from Kriss
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Not the greatest photos but I got them from a guy who ran an antiques store in the Twin Cities.
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Still cool photos though. I will send them to the guy (Redman) that is writing the book on Bruiser.
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Bruiser was probably the best drawing non NWA champ in STL.
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1964 almost finished. Will post it Sunday or Monday. Still have to check a few more sources.
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Wednesday, October 2, 1963 - Memorial Arena - Wallaceburg, ON
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Added and credited. Thanks Kriss.
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These are the exact words on Mike DuPree on rasslinrelics.com. Mike descibes what happened in Indianapolis far better than I ever could. Over the years, the Indianapolis based WWA (World Wrestling Association/Alliance) has gained a sort of cult following, and is always associated with its founder/co-owner, William Afflis a.k.a. Dick the Bruiser, who was also its first champion, and who went on to hold that belt 9 times. Championship Wrestling of Indiana, Inc, first started in March of 1964, and was the brainchild of both the Bruiser and his partner, Wilbur Snyder. They had previously been working for the local promoters of the time, Jim Barnett and Balk Estes, and in fact, were their AWA tag team champions at the time they went into business for themselves. Unlike most wrestlers of the time that took over a territory, Bruiser and Snyder made no bones about the fact they owned the promotion outright, and it had a dramatic effect on their fledgling business for some time to come. Since wrestlers could not hold a license to promote and wrestle at the same time, Bruiser and Snyder simply put the promotional license in their wives' names, and the early ads for their cards read, "L. Afflis presents.... Championship Wrestling. The real problem with this idea was, in 1964, audiences of "sports entertainment" were not as accepting of the fact that professional wrestling was more "entertainment" than "sport". There were already rival shows across town, and on October 31,1963, there was an explosion at the Indianapolis Fairgrounds Coliseum that left no suitable year round venue for some considerable time (and local fans were a bit paranoid about going to any event in the explosion's aftermath). Bruiser and Snyder going into business for themselves seemed then like a logical step on paper. Local big stars (like the Sheik, Verne Gagne, Ray Gunkel, etc.) had long realized there was much more profit to be made by being in business for themselves, and through hook or crook, managed to slot themselves at the top of their respective territories. Bruiser and Snyder, though in the ring were a contrast, outside the ring had much in common (such as being from well to do families, being college men, being ex pro football players, being family oriented, and being fond of beer) and had formed a lasting friendship. Bruiser had taken to working in southern California for Eileen Eaton's (Mike LeBell's) WWA office, and between the WWA office, and Verne Gagne's, they put together a loose alliance to take over and build a large Midwest territory. When Dick and Wilbur started showing TV tapes prior to running their first wrestling card (at the Southside Armory in Indianapolis, April 25, 1964) they were showing tapes from Los Angeles. On April 22,1964,Bruiser won the WWA (California version) heavyweight title from Freddie Blassie. The California WWA title was an offshoot of Fred Kohler's heavyweight title, stemming from a match between Edouard Carpentier and Lou Thesz on 6/14/57, where Carpentier won a disputed decision over Thesz and was recognized as champ. Even though Carpentier lost that claim to the title in Omaha to Verne Gagne in August of 1958, Carpentier was recognized as champ going into a 6/12/61 match with Freddie Blassie in Los Angeles, and lost the title to Blassie. The title had gone through a succession of hands and would go back to Blassie before the April 1964 match with Bruiser. (Dick would eventually lose the California version to Dick "the Destroyer" Beyer on a count out on 7/22/64), and the tape of that match was used to build a feud between him and Bruiser in the Midwest. On their first card, Bruiser and Snyder defended their "World tag team titles" against the Miller Brothers, going to a 60 minutes draw. Bruiser and Snyder had been Estes' AWA Tag Team champs, as a result of a victory over Cyclone Negro and the Masked Terror (Jay York) on 12/10/63 in Indianapolis. They continued to claim the now Worldwide Wrestling Alliance tag team titles, as well as Dick having the heavyweight belt. This might have been pure ego, but more than likely, it was done to establish the straps and the viability of anyone who would take them off of Bruiser and Snyder. Dick and Wilbur, in the future, would use their reps to get new talent over and develop new stars. Bruiser bought into Kohler's promotion in 1964, it wasn't until March 6,1964, when bigger stars started to appear in Chicago, with Pat O'Connor and Art Thomas being brought in to headline at the Amphitheater. Bruiser finally headlined his first show on May 15,1964, going to a no contest with O'Connor. There were no more cards held that year in the Amphitheater until September 12, when Dick defended his WWA Heavyweight belt against O'Connor, and the team of Angelo Poffo and Nicoli Volkoff defended their newly awarded NWA Tag Team titles against Roger Kirby and Dennis Hall. Now… are you ready for this? Volkoff and Poffo had won the WWA belts from Bruiser and Snyder on 7/30/64, and lost them back to Snyder and Bruiser on 9/4/64 in Indianapolis. Poffo and Volkoff were the new tag champs in Chicago. On October 8, 1964, Bruiser and Snyder did their first live TV taping in Indianapolis at the Southside Armory, which was to be shown in Chicago as well as Indianapolis. Poffo and Volkoff, who had lost the WWA Tag Team titles, defended their newly awarded NWA Tag Team titles against Bobby Managoff and Bobby Hire. And this was in an era of kayfabe! One other market that they went into was Detroit, working with Olympia Stadium general manager Lincoln Cavaleri. They brought in talent from Verne Gagne's AWA, including tag champs Larry Hennig and Harley Race. So, the whole territory that was the original WWA included Chicago, Indianapolis, Detroit, Louisville, and possibly parts of Ontario (I have yet to confirm this as of this writing). It also included such towns as Champaign, Danville, Peoria, and Springfield, Ill., Evansville, Ft. Wayne, Hammond and Elkhart, Indiana. Balk Estes folded his office in Indianapolis in September of 1964, leaving Bruiser and Snyder with run of the entire territory. Though nothing has been substantiated, there were rumors that Bruiser and Snyder may have used political pull with the athletic commission to keep anyone "unapproved" from getting a promoter's license, and therefore there was little opposition to Bruiser and Snyder in Indiana until the early 1980's, when the athletic commission was dismantled. The territory, on paper, looked great. However, there are always logistic problems in trying to run an organization this large, coupled with the fact that in many cases, the crowds weren't that large, and in some areas, like Detroit, there was steady competition. Whatever the problems, by 1965, Bruiser and Snyder seemed to start dismantling their territory. First, they closed up shop in Detroit in May of 1965, and wouldn't go back there until 1971. Next, Bruiser, Wilbur and Verne Gagne set up a partnership in Chicago in 1966, with Verne finishing buying Kohler out.The WWA titles were systematically eliminated, starting on February 26, 1966,with a wrestle-off between AWA champion Maurice Mad Dog Vachon and WWA champion Bruiser (leaving only Verne's AWA belts). Bruiser, as stated above, had been using several of Verne's guys in Detroit, and they may have in fact, been partners there as well. They "leased" Louisville and Evansville to Nick Gulas in the late 60's, who eventually lost the towns to Jerry Jarrett in the 70's. They had smaller promoters such as Don Pruitt run towns in southern Indiana and Kentucky, Hammond and the Illinois towns became AWA, while Elkhart and Fort Wayne remained WWA. After that, Indianapolis basically became a farm league for the AWA and St. Louis. What Bruiser and Snyder lost in territory, they gained in power, and they had a lot of stroke in the wrestling business for most of the remainder of their careers. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1/1/64 Indianapolis, IN @ Tyndall Armory Ciclon Negro beat Masked Terror Dick the Bruiser & Wilbur Snyder beat Bill Miller & Dan Miller Bob Bruce beat Doug Gilbert Les Thatcher drew Tiger Longorio Roger Kirby vs Les Thatcher Dennis Hall beat Angelo Poffo 1/3/64 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium John Paul Henning & Cowboy Bob Ellis won a handicap tag match from Fritz Von Erich when Henning beat Von Erich Penny Banner & Mars Monroe & Kay Noble beat Mae Goodson & Cora Combs & Jessica Rogers 1 Rogers beat Noble 2 Noble beat Goodson 3 Banner beat Combs. Ronnie Etchison draw Rip Hawk Lorenzo Parente & Joe Tangaro beat Dick the Bruiser & Hercules. 1 Tangaro won by dq when Bruiser jumped off top rope while Hercules had Tangaro in the hangman hold 2 Parente beat Hercules after he was punched by Bruiser. Bruiser and Hercules then staged a donnybrook. Pancho Lopez beat Fuzzy Cupid Big Bill Miller ddq Stan Stasiak Ray Gordon beat Taro Myaki att: 9285 1/4/64 Columbus, OH Karl Gotch beat Dick the Bruiser Tiger Longoria & Frankie Talaber beat Doc Gallagher & Mike Gallagher Ciclon Negro beat Dennis Hall Leon Graham drew Hiro Matsuda Bob Bruce beat Saul von Brauner 1/11/64 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Rocky Montero drew Joe Tangaro Wilbur Snyder beat Tony Angelo Dick the Bruiser beat Chuck Conley 2-0 Big Bill Miller beat Lonnie Brown Gordie Nielson drew Emile Dupre Notes: Air Date. Please remember St. Louis TV was taped one to two weeks in advance. 1/14/64 Des Moines, IA @ Veteran’s Auditorium Pat O'Connor beat Dick The Bruiser 2-0 Mongolian Stomper & Bulldog Danny Plechas beat Ronnie Etchison & Sonny Myers Art Thomas beat Jim Grabmire Referee Jack Crawford Ronnie Etchison no contest Mongolian Stomper 1/16/64 Windsor, Ontario, Canada Dick The Bruiser drew Hans Schmidt 1/18/64 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Joe Tangaro beat Johnny Kace Ronnie Etchison drew Big Bill Miller NWA Champion Lou Thesz & Emile Dupre beat Dick the Bruiser & Rocky Montero dq 1 Bruiser beat Dupre 2 Thesz beat Montero 3 Thesz beat Bruiser by dq Gordie Nielson drew Guy Mitchell 1/18/64 Detroit, MI Shohei Giant Baba beat Lord Layton Dick The Bruiser beat Ray Stern Fritz Von Erich beat Jim Hady Lou Klein drew Johnny Valentine Wilbur Snyder beat Hans Schmidt Jay York drew Billy Red Lyons The Lawman beat Lee Henning Fred Atkins beat Emile Dupre Att: 6,899 1/24/64 Atlanta, GA @ Municipal Auditorium Fritz Von Erich beat Joe Scarpa Lorenzo Parente beat Dick the Bruiser dq Mighty Hercules beat Corsica Joe Stan Stasiak beat Tim Geohagen Taro Myaki drew Red Steiner 1/25/64 Cincinnati, OH Dick the Bruiser beat The Alaskan Wilbur Snyder beat Ciclon Negro dq Shohei Baba beat Joe Blanchard Doc Gallagher & Mike Gallagher beat Gordon Nelson & The Lawman Fred Atkins beat Paul Richards Emile Dupre drew Les Thatcher 1/28/64 Indianapolis, IN @ Tyndall Armory Wilbur Snyder vs Ciclon Negro Dick the Bruiser beat Jay York Doc Gallagher & Mike Gallagher beat The Lawman & Les Thatcher Moose Cholak beat Paul Richard Bob Bruce beat Dennis Hall Moose Cholak won battle royal 2/1/64 Waterloo, IA @ Hippodrome Winner gets held up US Title Missouri Mauler Rocky Hamilton beat Sonny Myers 2/3 to win held up US Title Art Thomas beat Mongolian Stomper in 7:17 Dick The Bruiser & Victor The Bear beat Al Szasz Pat O’Connor & Steve Bolus beat Assassin I & Bob Geigel on a 3rd fall dq Steve Bolus drew Bob Geigel 15:00 Att: 5,280 Note: Bruiser was not advertised. Clipping also says Bruiser with his wrestling bear beat pro wrestler Al Szasz. Szasz was the handler of the bear that was sometimes known as Vic The Bruiser. I question that result. 2/5/64 Fort Wayne, IN NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Ciclon Negro (sub Dick The Bruiser) The Lawman (sub Wilbur Snyder) beat Masked Terror Doc Gallagher & Mike Gallagher beat George Scott & Sandy Scott Lord Littlebrook & Little Hawk beat Hans Katzenjammer & Fritz Katzenjammer Yukon Moose Cholak beat Rudy Kay 2/7/64 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Dick the Bruiser on a 3rd fall COR 1 Bruiser beat Thesz 2 Thesz beat Thesz 3 Thesz won when Bruiser was counted out on the apron 10 seconds after a battle on the apron that ended when Thesz applied a full nelson and banged Bruiser’s head into the ring post. Johnny Valentine & Cowboy Bob Ellis beat Rip Hawk & Big Bill Miller 2-0, 1st fall by dq 1 Valentine won by dq 2 Valentine beat Miller Shohei Giant Baba drew Ronnie Etchison Hercules beat Bill Dromo Joe Tangaro beat Fred Atkins Taro Myaki drew Angelo Poffo Rocky Montero beat Don Slatton att: 12,110 sellout Note from Larry Matysik: KMOX Radio with Jack Buck broadcasts from 9 p.m. again 2/8/64 St. Paul, MN @ Armory The Crusher beat Rene Goulet 2/3 Dick the Bruiser beat Black Bart Mitsu Arakawa beat Billy Goelz Kay Noble beat Dorothy Carter Eddie Sharkey beat Marquis de Paree 2/9/64 Minneapolis, MN Special Referee: Jersey Joe Walcott Moose Evans & Verne Gagne beat Dick the Bruiser & The Crusher to win the AWA Tag Team Title Mitsu Arakawa beat Doug Gilbert Rene Goulet beat Marquis de Paree Princess Little Cloud beat Bette Boucher Bob Geigel beat Maurice Lapointe Att: 6,501 2/15/64 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Ronnie Etchison drew Taro Myaki Hercules drew Rudy Kay The Bavarian Boys Harry Wenzl & Rudy Jacobs no decision Fritz Von Erich & Dick the Bruiser in 2nd fall 1 Von Erich beat Jacobs 2 Bruiser and Von Erich began brawling with each other.The tag match was stopped. Sam Muchnick ordered Bruiser and Von Erich to wrestle each other, but it got totally out of control until even Bill Miller helped the referees, Bobby Bruns and Bill Longson restore order. Rocky Montero beat Tony Laditzi 2/21/64 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium Johnny Valentine beat Hercules and unmasked him as Bobby Graham Fritz Von Erich beat Cowboy Bob Ellis John Paul Henning drew Dick the Bruiser Ronnie Etchison & Joe Tangaro & Ray Gordon beat Rip Hawk & The Alaskan & Taro Myaki 1 Gordon beat Myaki 2 Alaskan beat Gordon 3 Etchison beat Alaskan. Big Bill Miller beat Swede Hanson Fred Atkins beat Rocky Montero att: 8497 Note from Larry Matysik: KMOX Radio and Jack Buck broadcast from 9 p.m. 2/22/64 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Rip Hawk beat Rudy Kay Hercules (with mask since taped before Kiel card) drew The Alaskan Wilbur Snyder beat Taro Myaki Dick the Bruiser beat Swede Hanson Ronnie Etchison beat Rocky Montero 2/23/64 St. Paul, MN @ Auditorium Special Referee: Jersey Joe Walcott Dick the Bruiser & The Crusher beat Moose Evans & Verne Gagne to regain the AWA tag team title Wilbur Snyder beat Angelo Poffo Mitsu Arakawa beat Tiny Mills Rene Goulet beat Hans Schmidt dq Doug Gilbert beat Marquis DeParee Att: 6,971 2/26/64 Los Angeles, CA @ Olympic Auditorium Dick The Bruiser beat Don Savage Pepper Martin beat Matt KO Murphy Fabulous Kangaroos Al Costello & Roy Heffernan beat Tony Perez & Broadway Venus Art Neilson beat Prince Ava 2/27/64 Bakersfield, CA @ Strelich Stadium Fabulous Kangaroos Al Costello & Roy Heffernan beat Edouard Carpentier & Ernie Ladd 2/3 to win International TV Tag Title Dick The Bruiser beat Ramon Zavalza Shohei Baba beat Matt KO Murphy The Preacher beat Prince Ava 2/28/64 Los Angeles, CA @ Olympic Auditorium Fred Blassie drew Shohei Giant Baba 2/3 Dick The Bruiser beat Edouard Carpentier Fabulous Kangaroos Al Costello & Roy Heffernan beat Mr. Moto & Pepper Martin Ernie Ladd beat The Mummy Art Neilson beat Tony Perez Gene LeBell beat The Preacher att: 10,400 2/29/64 San Francisco, CA @ Cow Palace Ray Stevens beat Dominic DeNucci 2/3 to regain US Title Red Bastien & Dick Steinborn beat Buddy Austin & Fritz Von Goering when Steinborn beat Von Goering with a surf board hold Pepper Gomez beat Jack Dalton in 18:34 Edouard Carpentier beat Mike Paidousis in 8:44 with a Boston Crab Dick The Bruiser beat Black Hawk via pin in 8:03 after a knee drop Mark Lewin beat Jack Long in 3:50 with a sleeper hold Karl Von Brock beat Guy Mitchell via pin in 8:10 Att: 10,043, Gate: $30,044 3/5/64 Kansas City, KS @ Memorial Hall Dick the Bruiser beat Pat O’Connor 1-0 60:00 Handicap Match Sailor Art Thomas beat Great Gordo & Great Dane (both with bear hugs) Mongolian Stomper beat Joe Gump Sonny Myers drew Bob Geigel Steve Bolus beat Baron Von Strauss referee Richard Moody 3/6/64 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium Dick the Bruiser beat Fritz Von Erich Wilbur Snyder & Johnny Valentine beat Rip Hawk & Bobby Graham 1 Graham beat Snyder 2 Snyder beat Hawk 3 Valentine beat Graham. Sheik of Araby (later billed as The Sheik) drew Joe Blanchard Ronnie Etchison beat Ciclon Negro Lorenzo Parente draw Angelo Poffo Ray Gordon beat Rocky Montero by DQ att.11,527, just misses sellout and Muchnick does story in “Wrestling” news to ignore sellout rumors when tickets are still available Note from Larry Matysik: KMOX Radio broadcast from 9 p.m. 3/7/64 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Rocky Montero beat Johnny King Joe Blanchard drew Ray Gordon Dick the Bruiser beat Steve Bolus when Bolus could not continue in second fall Wilbur Snyder beat Jim Holly Ronnie Etchison draw Lorenzo Parente 3/12/64 Wood River, IL Dick The Bruiser vs Lorenzo Parente 3/14/64 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Lorenzo Parente beat Ivan Zukoff Big Bill Miller beat Ray Gordon Killer Kowalski beat Ronnie Etchison Pat O’Connor drew Dick the Bruiser when the 30 minute limit expired in the 3rd fall Steve Kovacs drew Jesse James 3/17/64 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada @ Auditorium AWA Tag Team Champions Dick the Bruiser & The Crusher beat Bill Miller & Pat O’Connor 2/3 1 Bruiser beat O’Connor 2 O’Connor beat Bruiser 3 Crusher pinned Miller Referee Frenchy Champagne AWA Champion Verne Gagne beat Mitsu Arakawa on a 3rd fall dq Referee Red Eakin Doug Gilbert beat Rene Goulet in 14:00 Gene Anderson drew George Drake 3/20/64 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium Johnny Valentine beat Killer Kowalski Fritz Von Erich beat Big Bill Miller Edouard Carpentier & Ronnie Etchison & Wilbur Snyder beat Rip Hawk & The Alaskan & Dick the Bruiser 2-0, 1st fall by dq 1 Etchison won by dq 2 Etchison beat Alaskan Lorenzo Parente beat Ciclon Negro Ray Gordon beat Ivan Zukoff Maurice LaPointe drew Rocky Montero Att: 7776 Note from Larry Matysik: KMOX Radio broadcast from 9 p.m. 3/21/64 Waverly, IL @ Grade School Gym Dick The Bruiser vs Ray Gordon 2/3 60:00 Ivan Zukoff vs Wilbur Snyder 2/3 45:00 Joe Tangaro vs Rip Hawk 30:00 Lorenzo Parente vs Rocky Montero 20:00 3/26/64 Fort Wayne, IN @ Coliseum Dick the Bruiser & Wilbur Snyder beat Bill Miller & Angelo Poffo Bobby Managoff beat Ciclon Negro Nicoli Volkoff beat Roger "Willis" Kirby Dennis Hall beat Johnny King 3/28/64 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Big Bill Miller drew Ronnie Etchison Rocky Montero beat Guy Mitchell Johnny Valentine beat Felix Godo 2-0 Dick the Bruiser beat Lorenzo Parente Ray Gordon beat Mark Starr 3/30/64 Moline, IL @ Wharton Fieldhouse AWA Tag Team Champions Dick the Bruiser & The Crusher beat Moose Evans & Wilbur Snyder Hans Schmidt beat Rene Goulet Mitsu Arakawa beat Billy Goelz Doug Gilbert beat Nicoli Volkoff 3/31/64 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada @ Civic Auditorium Karate legal AWA Champion Verne Gagne beat Mitsu Arakawa via pin in 18:00 AWA Tag Team Champions Dick the Bruiser & The Crusher beat Moose Evans & Wilbur Snyder 2/3 1 Crusher beat Evans 2 Snyder pinned Crusher 3 Crusher pinned Snyder Hans Schmidt beat Rene Goulet with a backbreaker Doug Gilbert beat Jack Pesek 20:00 Att: 3,000 4/2/64 Kansas City, KS @ Memorial Hall Dick the Bruiser dcor Pat O’Connor Rocky Hamilton beat Steve Bolus 2/3 Mongolian Stomper beat Ronnie Etchison Tokyo Tom beat Baron Von Strauss Art Thomas beat Tarzan Tyler Rudy Kay beat Joe Gump Referee Richard Moody 4/3/64 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Johnny Valentine 2/3 Karl Gotch & Wilbur Snyder beat Bobby Graham & Big Bill Miller on a 3rd fall dq 1 Graham beat Snyder 2 Snyder beat Graham 3 Gotch won when Miller was dq'ed Dick the Bruiser beat Ronnie Etchison Tarzan Tyler drew Lorenzo Parente Ray Gordon beat Don Jardine Angelo Poffo beat Rocky Montero att: 8988 Note from Larry Matysik: KMOX Radio broadcast from 9 p.m. 4/5/64 St. Paul, MN AWA Champion Verne Gagne beat Dick the Bruiser in 21:00 The Crusher beat Mitsu Arakawa in 17:00 Doug Gilbert & Rene Goulet beat Bob Geigel & Tiny Mills Moose Evans ddq Hans Schmidt Wilbur Snyder beat Nicoli Volkoff att: 7,715 4/7/64 Long Beach, CA @ Municipal Auditorium Dick The Bruiser beat Pepper Martin 2-0 Irish Jackie & Tiny Tim beat Fuzzy Cupid & Sky Low Low Ramon Torres drew Paul Diamond Nikita Mulkovich beat Broadway Venus 4/8/64 Los Angeles, CA @ Olympic Auditorium Fred Blassie beat Paul Diamond Fabulous Kangaroos Al Costello & Roy Heffernan drew Alberto Torres & Ramon Torres Irish Jackie & Tiny Tim beat Sky Low Low & Fuzzy Cupid Dick The Bruiser beat Pepper Martin Dick Hutton beat Nikita Mulkovich Art Neilson drew Dick Hutton 4/9/64 Bakersfield, CA @ Strelich Stadium Alberto Torres & Ramon Torres beat Fred Blassie & Great Togo Dick The Bruiser beat Billy Tipton Nikita Mulkovich beat Danny O’Rourke Alberto Torres & Ramon Torres beat Ted Christy & Broadway Venus 4/10/64 San Diego, CA @ Coliseum Dick The Bruiser beat Nikita Mulkovich Alberto Torres beat Great Togo Ramon Torres beat Matt KO Murphy Irish Jackie & Tiny Tim beat Fuzzy Cupid & Sky Low Low Paul Diamond drew Don Savage 4/11/64 Canton, OH @ Memorial Auditorium Dick the Bruiser vs Bill Miller Angelo Poffo vs Wilbur Snyder Tag Team Match Plus a 30 minute opening bout 4/14/64 St. Paul, MN Mitsu Arakawa beat The Crusher dq Wilbur Snyder beat Dick The Bruiser Doug Gilbert & Rene Goulet beat Gene Anderson & Great Dane Hans Schmidt beat Moose Evans Att: 3,000 4/15/64 Moline, IL @ Wharton Fieldhouse AWA Tag Team Champions Dick the Bruiser & The Crusher beat Verne Gagne & Wilbur Snyder Moose Evans beat Mitsu Arakawa Doug Gilbert beat Hans Schmidt Rene Goulet beat Nicoli Volkoff 4/16/64 Kansas City, KS @ Memorial Hall Mongolian Stomper beat Dick the Bruiser 2/3 Rocky Hamilton beat Joe Scarpello 2/3 Rudy Kay beat Tokyo Tom dq Art Thomas beat Danny Plechas Steve Bolus drew Bob Geigel 30:00 4/17/64 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium Texas Death Match Fritz Von Erich beat Dick the Bruiser Pat O’Connor & John Paul Henning beat Big Bill Miller & Bobby Graham 2-0, 1st fall by dq 1 Henning won by dq 2 Henning beat Miller Karl Gotch beat Don Jardine Wilbur Snyder beat Angelo Poffo Jim Hady drew Lorenzo Parente Ray Gordon beat Ivan Zukoff att: 12,204 sellout Note from Larry Matysik: KMOX Radio broadcast from 9 p.m. 4/22/64 Los Angeles, CA @ Olympic Auditorium Dick The Bruiser beat Fred Blassie 2/3 to win WWA title The Destroyer beat Danny O'Rourke Nikita Mulkovich beat Don Savage Alberto Torres & Ramon Torres beat Art Neilson & Stan Neilson 2/3 Fabulous Kangaroos Al Costello & Roy Heffernan drew Pepper Martin & Paul Diamond Att: 10,400 Note: Bruiser takes WWA Title back to Indianapolis and proclaims himself WWA Champion in his own promotion. 4/25/64 Indianapolis, IN @ Southside Armory Bill Miller & Dan Miller drew WWA Tag Team Champions Dick The Bruiser & Wilbur Snyder 60:00 Joe Tangaro beat Nicoli Volkoff Mongol beat Roger Kirby Lorenzo Parente beat Angelo Poffo dq Billy Goelz drew Ray Gordon Note: First WWA card 4/28/64 Minneapolis, MN @ Auditorium The Crusher & Hans Schmidt split a $14,000.00 battle royal Dick the Bruiser ddq Moose Evans Wilbur Snyder beat Larry Hennig dq in 11:40 Rene Goulet beat Nicoli Volkoff in 13:11 Doug Gilbert beat Great Dane in 16:12 att: 6,412 4/30/64 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada @ Civic Auditorium AWA Champion Verne Gagne beat Dick the Bruiser via pin in 21:00 The Crusher beat Wilbur Snyder Doug Gilbert & Rene Goulet beat Hans Schmidt & Tiny Mills 2/3 Mitsu Arakawa beat Jack Pesek 5/2/64 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Ray Gordon drew Don Jardine Mike Paidousis beat Dennis Hall Dick the Bruiser beat Ken Jones 2-0 Lortenzo Parente beat Roger Kirby Angelo Poffo drew Big Bill Miller 5/2/64 Canton, OH @ Memorial Auditorium Dick the Bruiser vs Wilbur Snyder Black Bart & The Mongol vs Billy Goelz & Bobby Managoff Dennis Hall vs Angelo Poffo Johnny King vs Prince Pullins 5/6/64 Los Angeles, CA @ Olympic Auditorium WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser dcor Fred Blassie in 3rd fall Alberto Torres & Ramon Torres beat Fabulous Kangaroos Al Costello & Roy Heffernan Edouard Carpentier beat Killer Buddy Austin 2/3 Mike Sharpe & Nikita Mulkovich drew Pepper Martin & Paul Diamond Art Michalik beat Art Neilson 5/7/64 Bakersfield, CA @ Strelich Stadium WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser beat Pepper Martin 1-0 utc 1. Bruiser pinned Martin in 18:50 2. Martin was unable to answer the bell for the second fall Edouard Carpentier beat Art Michalik 2/3 1. Carpentier beat Mahalik in 10:55 2. Mahalik beat Carpentier in 6:47 3. Carpentier pinned Mahalik in 1:55 after a French back flip. Alberto Torres & Ramon Torres beat Nikta Mulkovich & Art Neilson Paul Diamond drew Mike Sharpe 20:00 att: 930 5/8/64 San Diego, CA WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser beat Edouard Carpentier 5/9/64 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Don Jardine draw Wilbur Snyder Lorenzo Parente beat Danny Dusek Fritz Von Erich beat John Dalton Wilbur Snyder (sub Emile Dupre) & Ray Gordon ddq Mike Paidousis & Dick the Bruiser in the 3rd fall 1 Paidousis beat Gordon 2 Snyder beat Paidousis 3 Both teams were dq'ed 5/9/64 Indianapolis, IN @ Southside Armory WWA Tag Team Champions Dick The Bruiser & Wilbur Snyder beat Bill Miller & Dan Miller 2/3 Angelo Poffo drew Joe Brunetti Lorenzo Parente beat Bill Frazier Nicoli Volkoff beat Ray Gordon Bobby Managoff beat Dennis Hall 5/14/64 Kansas City, KS @ Memorial Hall Dick The Bruiser beat Sonny Myers 2/3 Mongolian Stomper & Tokyo Tom beat Pat O’Connor & Joe Scarpello 2/3 Bob Geigel beat Rudy Kay Don Jardine (sub The Lawman) beat Joe Gump Referee Richard Moody 5/15/64 Chicago, IL @ International Amphitheatre WWA Champion Dick the Bruiser ddq Pat O'Connor in 3rd fall Johnny Valentine beat Sebastian Moore Wilbur Snyder beat Jack Wilson Dennis Hall beat Tug Neilson Jolly Green Giant beat Johnny King Jungle Tiger beat Pedro Villanueva Joe Tangaro & Lorenzo Parente beat Red Kelly & Francisco Rios before 2,600; receipts, $4,026 5/16/64 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Fritz Von Erich when Fritz was unable to continue during the second fall 1 Von Erich beat Thesz 2 Thesz broke Von Erich’s claw and slammed his hand on the cable between the post and turnbuckle. Referee Joe Schoenberger stopped the bout and gave the fall to Thesz. The ringside doctor then examined Von Erich and stopped the match. Dory Funk Sr. & Dory Funk Jr. beat from Corsica Joe & Frenchy Roy 1 Dory Jr beat Roy 2 Dory Jr bea Joe Johnny Valentine drew Dick the Bruiser Wilbur Snyder beat Big Bill Miller dq Karl Gotch beat Mike Paidousis Lorenzo Parente beat Don Jardine att: 12,191 sellout 5/20/64 Anderson, IN @ National Guard Armory WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser dcor Angelo Poffo in 3rd fall Bobby Managoff beat Nicoli Volkoff dq in 28:00 Bill Frazier beat Johnny King via pin in 12:00 Dennis Hall beat Roger Kirby via pin in 18:00 Att: “fair sized crowd” 5/21/64 Kansas City, KS @ Memorial Hall Dick the Bruiser ddq Mongolian Stomper in 3rd fall Sonny Myers & Pat O’Connor beat Bob Geigel & Dr. Big Bill Miller 2/3 Tokyo Tom beat Tom Poulos Steve Bolus beat Baron Von Strauss referee Richard Moody 5/23/64 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Ray Gordon beat Roger Kirby Big Bill Miller beat Emile Dupre Dick the Bruiser beat Guy Mitchell Lorenzo Parente & Joe Tangaro beat Tony Angelo & Angelo Poffo 2/3 1 Angelo Poffo beat Tangaro 2 Tangaro beat Angelo Poffo 3 Parente beat Tony Angelo 5/26/64 Long Beach, CA @ Municipal Auditorium WWA Champion Dick the Bruiser beat Paul Diamond 35:00 Handicap Match Fred Blassie drew Ramon Torres (one fall inside 20:00) Mike Sharpe drew Alberto Torres Nikita Mulkovich beat Pepper Martin 5/27/64 Los Angeles, CA @ Olympic Auditorium Death Match WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser beat Fred Blassie Ray Stevens beat Pepper Martin Dominic Denucci beat The Preacher Alberto Torres & Ramon Torres beat Mike Sharpe & Nikita Mulkovich Paul Diamond drew Art Michalik 5/28/64 Bakersfield, CA @ Strelich Stadium WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser beat Nikita Mulkovich 2/3 1. Bruiser pinned Mulkovich after jumping on Nikita from the top rope in 8:15 2. Mulkovich pinned Bruiser after a neckbreaker in 4:51 3. Bruiser pinned Mulkovich in 7:59 Tag Team Champions Alberto Torres & Ramon Torres ddq Mike Sharpe & Art Michalik in 3rd fall 1. Sharpe & Mahalik won 1st fall in 25:29 2. Alberto & Ramon won 2nd fall in 1:30 3. The referee was unable to control the action and dq'ed all four men at the 42:00 mark Jacques McKinnon beat The Preacher in 20:24 with a Southern Cross Paul Diamond beat Ted Christy via pin in 15:54 5/29/64 Indianapolis, IN @ Victory Field WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser beat Fred Blassie on a 3rd fall COR Angelo Poffo & Nicoli Volkoff beat Wilbur Snyder & Bob Ellis dq Joe Brunetti no contest Bobby Graham Bob Whitlow beat Bill Miller dq Marcel Semand & Little Boy Blue beat Pee Wee Lopez & Chico Santana Joe Blanchard drew Bobby Managoff The Mongol beat Dennis Hall Att: 5,000 5/30/64 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Bobby Graham drew Guy Mitchell John Paul Henning beat George Grant Dick the Bruiser beat Chief Little Eagle Wilbur Snyder beat Nicoli Volkoff 2-0 Angelo Poffo beat Herb Larson 6/4/64 Anderson, IN @ National Guard Armory WWA Tag Team Champions Dick The Bruiser & Wilbur Snyder beat Angelo Poffo & Nicoli Volkoff 2/3 1 Volkoff pinned Snyder in 18:13 2 Snyder beat Volkoff by submission in 8:00 3 Bruiser pinned Volkoff in 6:48 Bill Frazier ddq Roger Kirby in 22:30 Dennis Hall beat The Mongol on a 3rd fall dq 1 Hall pinned Mongol in 35 seconds 2 The Mongol beat Hall with a bear hug in 10:45 3 Mongol was dq’ed in 2:48 for “roughness” Att: “Much better at the second program here” 6/5/64 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium John Paul Henning beat Big Bill Miller Dick the Bruiser beat Wilbur Snyder dq Joe Tangaro & Johnny Valentine & Pat O’Connor drew Rip Hawk & Bobby Graham & Fritz Von Erich when the 30 minute time limit expired in the 3rd fall 1 Hawk beat Tangaro 2 Tangaro beat Hawk 3 The 30 minute time limit expired before either team could score another fall Karl Gotch beat Lee Henning Betty Niccoli & Jean Antone beat Kathy Starr & Jessica Rogers 2/3 1 Starr beat Antone 2 Antone beat Rogers 3 Antone beat Starr Tiny Roe beat Sam Thomas Angelo Poffo beat Ivan Zukoff Att: 9464 6/10/64 Los Angeles, CA @ Olympic Auditorium WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser beat Nikita Mulkovich 2/3 The Destroyer & The Ripper beat Ernie Ladd & Paul Diamond Dominic Denucci beat Art Michalik Alberto Torres drew Mike Sharpe Ramon Torres beat Great Togo att: 8,133 6/11/64 Bakersfield, CA @ Strelich Stadium WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser beat Ramon Torres on a 3rd fall dq The Destroyer beat Alberto Torres Paul Diamond drew ? The Ripper beat Dick Cheney 6/12/64 San Diego, CA @ Coliseum The Ripper & The Destroyer beat Paul Diamond & Jacques McKinnon WWA Champion Dick the Bruiser beat Fred Blassie Ernie Ladd beat Art Michalik Alberto Torres beat Don Duffy Mike Sharpe drew Ramon Torres 6/13/64 San Bernardino, CA @ Arena WWA Champion Dick the Bruiser beat Paul Diamond 2-0 The Destroyer beat Ramon Torres on a 3rd fall dq The Ripper beat Billy Tipton Nikita Milkovich drew Alberto Torres 20:00 6/15/64 North Hollywood, CA @ Valley Garden Arena WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser beat Bill Wright 2-0 Alberto Torres beat Don Duffy Bob Ellis beat Matt KO Murphy Jacques McKinnon drew Prince Ava 6/16/64 Long Beach, CA @ Municipal Auditorium WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser beat Mike Sharpe 30:00 The Destroyer & The Ripper beat Paul Diamond & Nikita Mulkovich Ramon Torres beat Don Duffy Bob Ellis beat Art Michalik 6/17/64 Los Angeles, CA @ Olympic Auditorium Alberto Torres & Ramon Torres beat Mike Sharpe & Nikita Mulkovich WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser beat Prince Ava The Destroyer & The Ripper beat Paul Diamond & Vic Christy Bob Ellis beat Don Duffy Jacques McKinnon drew Art Michalik 6/19/64 Indianapolis, IN @ Southside Armory WWA Champion Dick the Bruiser beat the Mongol 2/3 Angelo Poffo & Nicoli Volkoff beat Joe Blanchard & Wilbur Snyder The Destroyer beat Dennis Hall Bobby Managoff beat Tiger Longorio Tiny Roe beat Billy Kidd 6/24/64 Los Angeles, CA @ Olympic Auditorium Edouard Carpentier beat Nikita Mulkovich The Destroyer & The Ripper beat Ramon Torres & Don Duffy WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser beat Gonzales Gonzales Cowboy Boy Ellis beat Art Michalik 6/25/64 Bakersfield, CA @ Strelich Stadium WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser beat Alberto Torres The Destroyer & The Ripper beat Paul Diamond & Ramon Torres Bob Ellis beat Don Duffy Nikita Mulkovich drew Art Michalik 6/26/64 San Diego, CA WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser beat Mike Sharpe 2/3 utc cigar in eye The Destroyer & The Ripper beat Alberto Torres & Paul Diamond Antonio Inoki as Tokyo Tom beat Art Michalik Mr Moto beat Don Duffy Bob Ellis beat Nikita Mulkovich 6/27/64 San Bernardino, CA @ Arena WWA Champion Dick the Bruiser beat Alberto Torres 2/3 The Destroyer & The Ripper beat Paul Diamond & Ramon Torres 2/3 Little Tokyo vs Don Duffy Mike Sharpe vs Art Michalik 6/29/64 Albuquerque, NM @ Civic Auditorium Dick the Bruiser vs Wahoo McDaniel Dory Funk Sr. vs The Sheik Ricky Romero vs Nelson Royal Tag bout to be announced at ringside 6/30/64 Long Beach, CA @ Municipal Auditorium WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser drew Mr Moto 60:00 The Destroyer & The Ripper beat Ramon Torres & Don Savage 2/3 42:00 Little Tokyo beat Art Michalik in 8:00 Hard Boiled Haggerty beat Pussycat Pickens in 13:00 7/1/64 Los Angeles, CA @ Olympic Auditorium Edouard Carpentier beat WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser on a 3rd fall dq The Destroyer beat George Drake The Ripper drew Little Tokyo Alberto Torres & Ramon Torres beat Nikita Mulkovich & Don Duffy Pussycat Pickens drew Art Michalik Att: "Some 8,963 fans were on hand." 7/3/64 Indianapolis, IN @ Southside Armory Nicoli Volkoff & Angelo Poffo beat Dick The Bruiser & Joe Brunetti Bobby Managoff beat Johnny Kace Les Thatcher beat Jim Grabmire Billy Goelz beat Dennis Hall The Mongol beat Tiger Longorio 7/4/64 Richmond, IN @ Municipal Baseball Stadium (Matinee show) WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser vs Guy Brunetti Bobby Managoff vs Angelo Poffo The Destroyer vs Roger Kirby Princess Little Cloud & Andrea Swanson vs Judy Grable & Toni Rose 7/4/64 Blooomington, MN @ Met Stadium AWA Champion Verne Gagne beat Dick the Bruiser (sub Crusher) 2/3 Mad Dog Vachon beat Doug Gilbert Wilbur Snyder & Sailor Art Thomas & Dale Lewis beat Larry Hennig & Hans Schmidt & Mitsu Arakawa Bob Geigel beat Rene Goulet 7/9/64 Kansas City, KS @ Memorial Hall Dick The Bruiser beat Moose Evans 2/3 The Rat beat Wahoo McDaniel 2/3 Rocky Hamilton drew Harley Race Bob Geigel & Danny Plechas beat Sonny Myers & The Lawman 7/10/64 Indianapolis, IN @ Southside Armory Dick The Bruiser & Joe Brunetti no contest Angelo Poffo & Nicolai Volkoff Bobby Managoff no contest the Mongol Johnny Kace beat Tiger Longorio Dennis Hall beat Jim Grabmire 7/11/64 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Johnny Kace drew Dennis Hall Angelo Poffo beat Roger Kirby Moose Evans drew Dick the Bruiser when the 30 minute time limit limit expired 1 Bruiser won 2 Evans beat Bruiser COR 3 The 30 minute time limit expired before either man could score another fall Wilbur Snyder beat Joe Tomasso Nick Volkoff beat Dennis Hall 7/15/64 Los Angeles, CA @ Olympic Auditorium The Destroyer beat Paul Diamond Bill Dromo beat Don Savage 2-0 Hard Boiled Haggerty beat Bobby Duranton Ernie Ladd beat The Alaskan WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser beat Vic Christy Cowboy Bob Ellis beat Prince Ava Bill Dromo drew The Alaskan 7/16/64 Bakersfield, CA @ Strelich Stadium WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser dcor Mr Moto in 3rd fall 1. Bruiser pinned Moto in 1:20 after a series of foot stomps 2. Moto pinned Bruiser in 8:07 after a series of judo chops 3. Both wrestlers were counted out of the ring at 3:20 The Destroyer & Hard Boiled Haggerty beat Ernie Ladd & Bill Dromo 2/3 1. The Destroyer won 1st fall in 14:00 2. Ladd won 2nd fall in 6:09 3. Haggerty pinned Dromo The Ripper beat Ramon Torres via pin in 17:21 after a series of drop kicks Alberto Torres beat Nikita Mulkovich by submission with an abdominal stretch in 12:07 att: 1,120 7/17/64 San Diego, CA WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser beat Ernie Ladd on a 3rd fall dq The Destroyer & Hard Boiled Haggerty beat Bobby Duranton & Bill Dromo Jacque Mackinnon beat The Ripper Mr Moto beat Don Savage 7/18/64 San Bernardino, CA @ Arena WWA Champion Dick the Bruiser no contest Mr. Moto in 3rd fall The Destroyer & Hard Boiled Haggerty beat Alberto Torres & Ramon Torres The Ripper beat Art Michalik Little Tokyo beat Bobby Duranton 7/18/64 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Karl Gotch beat Johnny Kace Dick the Bruiser beat Tony Nero Fritz Von Erich & Nicoli Volkoff beat Johnny Valentine & Angelo Poffo 1 Von Erich beat Poffo, who was injured and left Valentine on his own 2 Valentine beat Volkoff 3 Von Erich beat Valentine dq Johnny Walker drew Pedro Zapata Note: This was the air date. 7/21/64 Long Beach, CA @ Municipal Auditorium Mr Moto & Little Tokyo beat Dick The Bruiser & The Ripper 2/3 The Destroyer beat Ramon Torres in 30:00 Hard Boiled Haggerty beat Vic Christy in 12:00 Bill Dromo drew The Alaskan 15:00 7/22/64 Los Angeles, CA @ Olympic Auditorium Special Referee: Primo Carnera The Destroyer beat Dick The Bruiser COR to win the WWA title Cowboy Bob Ellis beat The Ripper Mr. Moto drew Art Michalik Alberto Torres & Ramon Torres beat The Alaskan & Art Michalik Bill Dromo drew Little Tokyo Note: Even though Bruiser lost the WWA title to The Destroyer in Los Angeles, he continued to reign as WWA Champion in Indianapolis. 7/24/64 Atlanta, GA @ Municipal Auditorium Sputnik Monroe beat Dick The Bruiser dq Buddy Fuller beat Dick Dunn Joe Scarpa beat Krusher Karlson Red Roberts & Rube Wright beat Scufflin Hillbillies The Destroyer beat Ron Reed Greg Peterson beat Bruce Austin 7/31/64 Indianapolis, IN @ Southside Armory Angelo Poffo & Nicoli Volkoff beat Dick The Bruiser & Wilbur Snyder COR to win the WWA Tag Team title The Mongol beat Joe Brunetti 2/3 The Destroyer beat Dave Luttrall Bobby Managoff beat Roger Kirby 8/7/64 Atlanta, GA @ Municipal Auditorium Sputnik Monroe beat Buddy Fuller Dick The Bruiser no contest Joe Scarpa Eddie Graham beat Randy Roper Wilbur Snyder beat Paul DeGalles Greg Peterson drew Wildman Phillips The Destroyer beat Lester Welch 8/8/64 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Pepe Perez drew Roger Kirby Johnny Kace beat Gene Dundee Dick the Bruiser beat Kit Fox Joe Tangaro beat Tony Nero 2-0 Dennis Hall beat Johnny Ramirez 8/8/64 Marietta, GA Dick the Bruiser vs Billy Strong Paul DeGalles vs Joe Scarpa Buddy Fuller vs Les Welch Darrell Cochran vs Swede Karlson 8/9/64 Atlanta, GA @ Lakewood Speedway Sputnik Monroe beat Dick The Bruiser to win Georgia Title Wilbur Snyder drew Eddie Graham Dick Dunn beat Joe Scarpa dq Red Roberts & The Destroyer beat Scufflin Hillbillies Frankie Cain beat Bob Hamby Judy Grable & Princess Little Cloud beat Toni Rose & Marie Darnell Billy Hines & Jimmy Bad Boy Hines beat Charlie Carr & Wildman Phillips Lester Welch beat Krusher Karlson dq Greg Peterson beat George Harris dq 8/14/64 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium Fritz Von Erich beat Johnny Valentine Handicap match Moose Evans & John Paul Henning beat Dick the Bruiser 1 Henning and Bruiser went the full 30 minute time limit, so Evans never entered the ring and Bruiser had to forfeit the decision. Killer Kowalski drew Pat O’Connor Big Bill Miller beat Angelo Poffo Joe Tangaro & Lorenzo Parente beat Bobby Graham & Nicoli Volkoff 2/3, 2nd fall by dq 1 Graham beat Parente 2 Tangaro won by dq 3 Parente beat Volkoff Johnny Kace beat Roger Kirby att: 11,769 sellout 8/15/64 Indianapolis, IN @ Southside Armory WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser beat the Destroyer 2/3 The Mongol beat Dennis Hall 2-0 Bob Stanlee beat Jim Eskew Jessica Rogers beat Betty Niccoli Tiny Tim beat Irish Jackie 8/16/64 Delphos, IA Dick the Bruiser beat Angelo Poffo 8/19/64 Los Angeles, CA @ Olympic Auditorium The Destroyer beat Little Tokyo 2/3 Ripper Collins drew Bill Dromo 2/3 Dominic Denucci beat The Alaskan Cowboy Bob Ellis beat Mike O'Leary Dick The Bruiser beat Broadway Venus Att: 2,963 8/20/64 Bakersfield, CA @ Strelich Stadium Dick The Bruiser drew Antonio Inoki as Tokyo Tom The Destroyer beat Dominic Denucci Bob Ellis beat Mike O’Leary Mr Moto beat Don Duffy Ripper Collins drew Bill Dromo 8/21/64 San Diego, CA @ Coliseum Dick the Bruiser vs The Destroyer The Alaskan vs Bob Ellis Dominic DeNucci vs Mike O’Leary Ripper Collins & Art Michalik vs Little Tokyo & Mr. Moto Bill Dromo vs Prince Ava 8/22/64 San Bernardino, CA @ Arena Special Referee: Primo Carnera Dick The Bruiser beat Bill Dromo 2/3 Mr Moto & Antonio Inoki as Tokyo Tom beat The Alaskan & Ripper Collins 2/3 Bob Ellis beat Mike O’Leary in 7:12 Don Duffy drew Billy Tipton 20:00 8/24/64 Albuquerque, NM Dick The Bruiser vs Dan Miller Art Neilson vs The Sheik Juan Garcia & Ed Sharpe vs Tokyo Tom & The Viking Black Bart vs Ricky Romero 8/25/64 Long Beach, CA @ Municipal Auditorium Dominic DeNucci beat Dick The Bruiser on a 3rd fall dq in 30:00 Hard Boiled Haggerty bear Ramon Zavalza in 18:00 Bob Ellis beat Mike O'Leary in 10:00 The Destroyer beat Bill Dromo in 25:00 att: 933 8/26/64 Los Angeles, CA @ Olympic Auditorium Cowboy Bob Ellis beat Dick The Bruiser 2/3 George Ringo The Wrestling Beatle beat Art Michalik Mr. Moto drew The Alaskan Little Tokyo beat Ripper Collins The Destroyer & Hard Boiled Haggerty beat Dominic Denucci & Bill Dromo att: 8,719 Note: George Ringo, The Wrestling Beatle aka long time prelim guy Bob Sabre 8/29/64 Indianapolis, IN WWA Tag Team Champions Angelo Poffo & Nicoli Volkoff no contest Dick the Bruiser & Wilbur Snyder Joe Tangero beat The Destroyer dq The Mongol beat Lupe Gonzales Dennis Hall beat Roger Kirby Bobby Managoff drew Bob Stanlee 9/1/64 Dallas, TX @ Sportatorium NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Killer Karl Kox 2-0 (according to the Dallas Morning News, “Kox pulled Thesz off the ring apron, over the top ropes and applied his ‘Skull Crusher’ hold which put Thesz out of action. Since the illegal move over the ropes cost Thesz two falls, the referee declared Thesz the winner although Kox was in mid-ring ready for more action.”) Duke Keomuka beat Kurt Von Stroheim Dick the Bruiser beat Alberto Torres Ramon Torres beat Danny McShain Art Thomas beat Paul Jones 9/2/64 San Antonio, TX @ Wrestlethon Dick The Bruiser beat Joe Blanchard 2-0 Alberto Torres beat Kurt Von Stroheim Duke Keomuka beat Jerry Miller Ramon Torres beat Ron Reed Paul Jones drew Arnold Steele 20:00 9/3/64 Kansas City, KS @ Memorial Hall Dick the Bruiser beat The Lawman 2/3 Tiny Mills & Mike DiBiase beat Joe Scarpello & Armand Hussian 2/3 Mongolian Stomper beat Kirk Hess Moose Evans beat Danny Plechas Harley Race beat Mark Starr Referee Richard Moody 9/4/64 Indianapolis, IN @ Southside Armory Fence Match Dick The Bruiser & Wilbur Snyder beat Angelo Poffo & Nicoli Volkoff 2/3 falls to win WWA tag team title George Ringo the Wrestling Beatle beat Tiger Longorio Bob Stanlee no contest Bobby Managoff 2/3 Bobby Graham drew Lorenzo Parente 9/5/64 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Lenny Montana beat Nicoli Volkoff Moose Evans beat Pancho Gomez John Paul Henning beat Johnny Kace Dick the Bruiser & Bobby Graham beat Joe Tangaro & Lorenzo Parente 2/3 1 Graham beat Tangaro 2 Parente beat Graham 3 Bruiser beat Parente 9/10/64 Kansas City, KS @ Memorial Hall Bob Geigel & Mike Dibiase beat Mongolian Stomper & Dick The Bruiser Rocky Hamilton beat Kirk Hess 2-0 Karl Von Stroheim beat Mark Starr Kurt Von Stroheim drew The Lawman Joe Scarpello beat Bulldog Danny Plechas 9/11/64 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium Fritz Von Erich beat John Paul Henning Dick the Bruiser beat Moose Evans Wilbur Snyder & Pat O’Connor beat Big Bill Miller & Bobby Graham 2-0 1 O’Connor beat Graham 2 Snyder beat Miller Lorenzo Parente beat Nicoli Volkoff Don Jardine draw Joe Tangaro Ray Gordon beat Johnny Kace Dennis Hall beat Roger Kirby att: 8945 9/12/64 Chicago, IL @ Internation Amphitheatre WWA Champion Dick the Bruiser beat Pat O’Connor when O'Connor was uable to continue in the 3rd fall Wilbur Snyder beat Moose Cholak dq Joe Scarpello beat Harley Race Bobby Managoff drew Bob Stanlee The Mongol ddq Joe Tangaro Angelo Poffo & Nicoli Volkoff beat Dennis Hall & Roger Kirby before 4,243; receipts, $7,036 9/16/64 Los Angeles, CA @ Olympic Auditorium The Destroyer & Hard Boiled Haggerty beat The Alaskan & Prince Ava Dick The Bruiser beat Larry Evans WWA Champion Bob Ellis beat Don Duffy 9/17/64 Bakersfield, CA @ Strelich Stadium WWA Champion Bob Ellis beat Nikita Mulkovich 2/3 Dick The Bruiser drew The Destroyer Irish Jackie & Billy The Kid beat Sonny Boy Cassidy & Cowboy Bradley Hard Boiled Haggerty beat Larry Evans 9/18/64 San Diego, CA The Destroyer beat Dick The Bruiser on a 3rd fall COR WWA Champion Bob Ellis beat The Alaskan 2-0 Mr Moto beat Nikita Mulkovich Cowboy Bradley & Cowboy Cassidy beat Irish Jackie & Billy The Kid Ripper Collins beat Antonio Inoki as Tokyo Tom 9/19/64 San Bernardino, CA @ Arena Dick the Bruiser beat Nikita Mulkovich Billy the Kid & Irish Jackie beat Cowboy Bradley & Hopalong Cassidy Mr. Moto beat Ripper Collins dq Little Tokyo drew The Alaskan 20:00 9/22/64 Long Beach, CA @ Municipal Auditorium Dick The Bruiser beat Mr Moto 2/3 The Destroyer beat Antonio Inoki as Tokyo Tom Hard Boiled Haggerty beat Ramon Zavalza Cowboy Bradley & Sonny Boy Cassidy beat Irish Jackie & Billy The Kid 9/23/64 Los Angeles, CA @ Olympic Auditorium WWA Champion Cowboy Bob Ellis beat Dick The Bruiser 2/3 The Destroyer & Hard Boiled Haggerty beat Mr. Moto & Little Tokyo Cowboy Bradley & Sonny Boy Cassidy & Mr. Moto beat Irish Jackie & Billy The Kid & Ripper Collins The Alaskan beat Larry Evans Jerry Rose beat Ramon Zavalza att: 10,247 9/26/64 Indianapolis, IN @ Southside Armory on Live TV WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser beat the Destroyer on a 2nd fall dq Wilbur Snyder beat Bob Stanlee Elaine Ellis beat Mary Hillis Bobby Managoff drew Angelo Poffo Nicoli Volkoff beat Bobby Hire Tiny Hampton beat The Mongol dq 9/30/64 San Antonio, TX @ Wrestlethon Dick The Bruiser beat Killer Karl Kox on a 3rd fall COR Tony Borne beat Dick Steinborn Alberto Torres beat Rocco Lamban dq Pee Wee Lopez beat Frenchy Semard Ramon Torres beat Duke Keomuka via pin 10/2/64 St. Louis, MO @ Arena Special referee: Whipper Billy Watson NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Fritz Von Erich 2/3 Dick the Bruiser & Big Bill Miller & Bobby Graham drew Wilbur Snyder & Johnny Valentine & John Paul Henning when the 30 minte time limit expired in the 3rd fall 1 Graham beat Valentine 2 Valentine beat Miller 3 The 30 minute time limit then expired before eith team could score another fall Handicap match Pat O’Connor & Ray Gordon beat Mongolian Stomper 1 Stomper beat Gordon 2 O’Connor beat Stomper dq Jessica Rogers beat Joann Phillips Dory Funk Sr & Dory Funk Jr beat Bob Geigel & Angelo Poffo 2-0, 1st fall by dq 1 Dory Sr won by dq 2 Dory Jr beat Poffo Lorenzo Parente drew Sheik of Araby att: 14,675 Note: The change in venues from the Kiel Auditorium to the Arena. 10/3/64 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Ray Gordon drew Bob Geigel Don Jardine beat Kirk Hess Johnny Valentine beat Kurt Von Stroheim Dick the Bruiser beat Joe Tangaro Pat O’Connor beat Raymond Valdez 10/3/64 Indianapolis, IN @ Southside Armory (advertised as 1st live TV card) WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser beat Tiny Hampton 8:00 Angelo Poffo & Nicoli Volkoff beat Bobby Managoff & Bobby Hire Wilbur Snyder beat Mitsu Arakawa 2/3 The Destroyer beat Billy Goelz Bob Stanlee beat Lupe Gonzales 10/10/64 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Bob Geigel beat Joe Romano Mongolian Stomper drew Moose Evans Johnny Valentine beat Don Jardine Pat O’Connor & Ray Gordon beat Dick the Bruiser & Kurt Von Stroheim 2/3, 1st fall by dq 1 Gordon won by dq 2 Von Stroheim beat Gordon 3 O’Connor beat Von Stroheim 10/14/64 San Antonio, TX @ Municipal Auditorium NWA Champion Lou Thesz double knockout Wilbur Snyder in 3rd fall Dick the Bruiser beat Ramon Torres 2/3 Fabulous Moolah beat Bette Boucher Duke Keomuka beat Tony Borne dq The Clawman beat Jerry Miller with a claw hold Dick Steinborn beat Rocco Lamban Alberto Torres beat Tiger Conway Att: 3,943 10/17/64 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Joe Tangaro drew Ray Gordon Pat O’Connor beat Don Jardine Mongolian Stomper beat Angelo Poffo Dick the Bruiser beat Len Rossi Wilbur Snyder beat Johnny Kace 10/17/64 Chicago, IL @ Internation Amphitheatre Johnny Valentine beat WWA Champion Dick the Bruiser dq Wilbur Snyder & Pat O'Connor drew Angelo Poffo & Nicoli Volkoff Moose Cholak beat Red Kelly Bobby Managoff beat Jack Wilson George Ringo The Wrestling Beatle beat Jungle Tiger Bob Stanlee beat Lupe Gonzales before 4,643; receipts, $8,475 From the Wednesday, October 21. 1964 edition of the Anderson Daily Journal Indianapolis (AP) Wrestler Dick "The Bruiser" Afflis and his promoter, Johnny King, surrendered to police Tuesday on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Police said a 17 year old girl accused the two of having sexual relations with her. Each man was freed on $1,000 bond and ordered to a juvenile court hearing. From a later edition of the same paper, Indianapolis (AP) Wrestler Dick "The Bruiser" Afflis, who claims the world's heavyweight wrestling crown, and his promoter, Johnny King, surrendered to police Tuesday on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Both were freed on $1,000 bond and ordered to appear at a juvenile court hearing Wednesday morning. Police said a 17 year old girl accused the two of having sexual relations with her. Afflis' wife, Louise, owns the Harem Club. an Indianapolis nightclub where King is employed. 10/23/64 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium Pat O’Connor beat Mongolian Stomper Dick the Bruiser beat Johnny Valentine John Paul Henning & Moose Evans beat Fritz Von Erich & Bobby Graham. 1 Von Erich beat Henning 2 Henning beat Von Erich 3 Henning beat Graham. Bob Geigel drew Wilbur Snyder Big Bill Miller beat Don Jardine Kit Fox beat Johnny Kace att: 7182 10/24/64 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Joe Tangaro beat Danny Dusek Wilbur Snyder beat Nicoli Volkoff Pat O’Connor beat Kurt Von Stroheim Moose Evans & Ray Gordon beat Johnny Kace & Dick the Bruiser 2-0, 1st fall by dq 1 Gordon won by dq 2 Evans beat Kace 10/29/64 Kansas City, KS @ Memorial Hall Mike DiBiase beat Dick the Bruiser on a 3rd fall COR Bob Geigel beat Moose Evans Pat O’Connor beat El Toro Rocky Hamilton beat Bulldog Danny Plechas Tiny Mills & Mongolian Stomper beat Joe Scarpello & The Lawman 10/30/64 San Diego, CA Special Referee: Archie Moore Dick The Bruiser beat Freddie Blassie The Destroyer beat Antonio Inoki as Tokyo Tom Bob Ellis beat Boris Kamaroff Mr. Moto beat Bill Cody 10/31/64 San Bernardino, CA Special Referee: Archie Moore Dick The Bruiser beat Freddie Blassie The Destroyer beat Antonio Inoki as Tokyo Tom Bob Ellis beat Boris Kamaroff Mr Moto beat Bill Cody Note: Bruiser's last documented match in the Los Angeles promotion during 1964. 11/1/64 Knoxville, TN Dick the Bruiser vs Swede Karlson Ronnie Etchison vs Johnny Long Corsica Jean & Corsica Joe vs Lorenzo Parente & Len Rossi Red Donovan vs Rocky Smith 11/5/64 Charleston, WV @ American Legion Armory Wilbur Snyder vs Johnny Valentine Dick the Bruiser vs Tex McKenzie Bill Miller vs Tony Parisi Johnny King vs Prince Pullins 11/6/64 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium John Paul Henning beat Fritz Von Erich dq Bobby Graham beat Moose Evans Pat O’Connor & Wilbur Snyder beat Big Bill Miller & Dick the Bruiser 2/3 1 Bruiser beat Snyder 2 Snyder beat Bruiser 3-O’Connor beat Miller Mongolian Stomper drew Johnny Valentine Ray Gordon beat Kit Fox The Mask draw Lorenzo Parente att: 6716 11/7/64 Chicago, IL @ International Amphitheatre WWA Champion Dick the Bruiser beat Pat O’Connor COR Karl Von Brauner & Kurt Von Brauner beat Ray Gordon & Kit Fox The Masked Demon beat Guy Mitchell Moose Cholak drew Bobby Managoff Wilbur Snyder beat Hans Schmidt Sweet Daddy Siki beat Johnny King before 4,573; receipts, $8,205 11/11/64 San Antonio, TX @ Wrestlethon Referee Marvin Jones Dick The Bruiser beat Ramon Torres on a 3rd fall COR 1 Torres beat Bruiser with a sleeper hold 2 Bruiser pinned Torres after a top rope knee drop 3 Torres was counted out of the ring Dolly Paige beat Baby Cheryl Alberto Torres & Dory Dixon beat Duke Keomuka & Oki Kintaro Dick Steinborn beat Tony Borne dq Jim Grabmire vs Rocco Lamban did not take place as Dick The Bruiser jumped in the ring and beat up both men 11/12/64 Kansas City, KS @ Memorial Hall Texas Death Match Mike Dibiase beat Dick The Bruiser 7 falls Ron Reed beat Bulldog Danny Plechas Mongolian Stomper beat Kirk Hess Bob Orton beat Don Jardine dq The Lawman beat Joe Tomasso 11/13/64 St. Joseph, MO @ Auditorium Dick the Bruiser beat Mongolian Stomper 2/3 1 Bruiser pinned Stomper in 7:20) 2 Stomper pinned Bruiser in 5:20 3 Bruiser pinned Stomper in 5:20 Mike DiBiase beat Paddy Barrett on a 3rd fall dq 1 Barrett pinned DiBiase in 10:55 2 DiBiase pinned Barrett in 8:40 3 Barrett was dq'ed in 6:10 Sonny Myers beat Tom Clark in 10:30 Ron Reed beat Bob Geigel (1:55) The Lawman drew Don Jardine 15:00 Att: 2,600 11/14/64 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Taro Myaki beat Kit Fox Joe Tomasso beat Guy Mitchell John Paul Henning beat The Mask 2-0 and unmasked him as Frank Zala Dick the Bruiser beat Ray Gordon Wilbur Snyder beat Ralph Bartleman dq 11/17/64 Pensacola, FL Wilbur Snyder beat Dick the Bruiser dq Mighty Yankee beat Silento Rodriguez Doug Kinslow beat Mickey Sharpe Paul DeGalles beat Tiger Daniel Bobby Fields & Lee Fields beat The Foreigners 11/18/64, Mobile, AL @ Municipal Auditorium Dick the Bruiser no contest Lee Fields in 3rd fall 1 Bruiser beat Fields 2 Fields beat Bruiser 3 Fields is jumped on the way to the ring by The Mighty Yankee and Al (Spider) Galento and left unable to continue. Match is declared a no contest. The Mighty Yankee beat Wilbur Snyder when Snyder was unable to answer the bell for the 3rd fall 1 Snyder beat Yankee 2 Snyder counted out and unable to continue after being tossed out of the ring. Bobby Fields beat Mickey Sharpe 2-0 Tony Baillargeon & Doug Kinslow beat The Foreigners, Inc. 2-0 Chin Lee beat Paul DeGalles 11/20/64 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat John Paul Henning 2/3 Wilbur Snyder & Johnny Valentine beat Rip Hawk & Gene Kiniski 2/3 1 Hawk beat Snyder 2 Snyder beat Kiniski 3 Valentine beat Hawk Pat O’Connor beat Big Bill Miller Dick the Bruiser beat Joe Tangaro Bobby Graham beat Don Slatton Mongolian Stomper drew Moose Evans Angelo Poffo beat Joe Tomasso att: 7485 11/21/64 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Kit Fox drew Johnny Kace Wilbur Snyder beat Joe Tomasso Don Jardine & Pat O’Connor dcor Dick the Bruiser & Ralph Bartleman in 3rd fall 1 O’Connor beat Bartleman 2 Bruiser beat Jardine 3 Bruiser and O’Connor both counted out outside the ring. Taro Myaki drew Guy Mitchell 11/24/64 Louisville, KY WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser beat Tony Parisi Johnny Valentine beat Wilbur Snyder 11/27/64 Denver, CO @ Auditorium Arena AWA Champion Mad Dog Vachon beat Reggie Parks on a 3rd fall COR Dick the Bruiser beat Sailor Art Thomas in 14:33 Larry Hennig & Harley Race beat Pat O’Connor & Ricky Romero in a disputed finish the match was going to be appealled to the State Athletic Commission Dan Miller beat Tokyo Tom in 16:45 12/1/64 Louisville, KY WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser no contest Johnny Valentine 12/2/64 San Antonio, TX @ Wrestlethon Dick The Bruiser beat Killer Karl Kox on a 3rd fall dq when Kox knocked out special referee Ramon Torres Ciclon Negro drew Ramon Torres 20:00 Dick Steinborn drew Jerry Kozak 20:00 The Wrecker beat Rocco Lamban Tony Borne beat Mike Harmon Att: "capacity crowd" 12/4/64 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium Pat O’Connor beat Dick the Bruiser Gene Kiniski beat Wilbur Snyder Fritz Von Erich beat Moose Evans Johnny Valentine beat Ralph Bartleman Joe Tangaro & Lorenzo Parente beat Johnny Ramirez (sub Big Bill Miller) & Johnny Kace 2-0 1 Tangaro beat Kace 2 Parente beat Ramirez Bill Miller’s plane was late. Miller arrived at the end of the bout and got into a battle with Parente and Tangaro. Angelo Poffo beat Roger Kirby att: 5782 12/5/64 Nappanee, IN Moose Cholak vs Wilbur Snyder WWA Champion Dick the Bruiser vs Angelo Poffo Bobby Managoff & Guy Mitchell vs Boris Volkoff & Nicoli Volkoff 12/12/64 Chicago, IL @ International Amphitheatre WWA Champion Dick the Bruiser beat Art Thomas 2/3 WWA Tag Team Champions Karl Von Brauner & Kurt von Brauner beat Bill Miller & Wilbur Snyder 2/3 Pat O’Connor beat Moose Cholak dq The Masked Demon beat Porfirio Longoria Bobby Managoff drew Nicoli Volkoff Angelo Poffo beat Guy Mitchell before 3,800; receipts, $8,200 12/16/64 Louisville, KY WWA Champion Dick the Bruiser beat Bobby Managoff Prince Pullins beat Guy Mitchell Wilbur Snyder beat Rocky Montero Scufflin Hillbillies vs Boris Volkoff & Nicoli Volkoff 12/19/64 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Lorenzo Parente beat Doug Kinslow Ray Gordon drew Dan Plechas Wilbur Snyder beat Kirk Hess 2-0 Dick the Bruiser beat Gene Dundee Ralph Bartleman beat Guy Mitchell 12/21/64 Memphis, TN @ Ellis Auditorium NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Dick the Bruiser on a reverse decision 3rd fall dq when it was ruled Bruiser used an illegal piledriver to beat Thesz Tojo Yamamoto & Mitsu Hirai beat Bobby Fields & Lee Fields Rocky Smith beat George Grant Treach Phillips drew Pepe Rocco 12/26/64 Minneapolis, MN Verne Gagne & Reggie Parks & Wilbur Snyder beat Dick the Bruiser & Larry Hennig & Harley Race Moose Cholak beat Jack Lanza Billy Red Cloud beat Great Dane Eddie Sharkey beat Paul Caruso Bob Boyer beat Big K dq Att: 5,764 12/29/64 Denver, CO @ Auditorium Arena Verne Gagne beat AWA Champion Mad Dog Vachon on a 3rd fall dq when Vachon tossed Gagne over the top rope Larry Hennig & Harley Race drew Dick the Bruiser & Wilbur Snyder when the 45 minute time limit expired in the 3rd fall 1 Bruiser & Snyder won the first fall in 21:17 2 Hennig & Race won the second in 10:32 3 The 45 minute time limit expired before either team could score another fall Ivan Kalmikoff beat Butch Levy in 12:13 Mighty Igor Vodik beat Pat Patterson in 9:30 promoter: Gene Reed 12/30/64 Terre Haute, IN Dick The Bruiser & Rocky Montero vs Scufflin Hillbillies Wilbur Snyder vs Moose Cholak Guy Mitchell vs Prince Pullins Note: Added a Des Moines, IA from One Fan Gang. Near the end of 1964 and the beginning of 1965, Dick The Bruiser and The Crusher became babyfaces/good guys in the AWA. Here's how it all went down. Crusher lost a Loser Leaves Town match to Verne Gagne on September 5, 1964 in St. Paul, Minnesota. Bruiser and Crusher continued to be billed as AWA Tag Team Champion even with Crusher losing that match to Gagne. 9/5/64 St. Paul, MN @ Midway Stadium Loser Leaves Town match AWA Champion Verne Gagne beat The Crusher 18:50 Mad Dog Vachon beat Pat Barrett Jack Lanza & Dale Lewis & Billy Red Cloud beat Mitsu Arakawa & Stan Kowalski & Moose Cholak 2/3 Reggie Parks beat Guy Mitchell 14:25 Att: 4,548 Meanwhile Larry Hennig and Harley Race established themselves as the top heel/bad guy tag team in the AWA. Bruiser was still a heel in the AWA as well. On December 26, 1964 a six man tag team match was held in Minneapolis,, Minnesota pitting the Team of Verne Gagne, Wilbur Snyder and Reggie Parks against the team of Hennig, Race and Bruiser. The story of that match was Hennig and Race refusing to accept Bruiser's tag by pulling their arms back and walking down the ring apron. Bruiser eventually was pinned so Gagne, Snyder and Parks won the match. 12/26/64 Minneapolis, MN Verne Gagne & Reggie Parks & Wilbur Snyder beat Dick the Bruiser & Larry Hennig & Harley Race Moose Cholak beat Jack Lanza Billy Red Cloud beat Great Dane Eddie Sharkey beat Paul Caruso Bob Boyer beat Big K dq Att: 5,764 After the match, Bruiser vowed to find his wrestling "cousin" The Crusher and find him he did. The Loser Leaves Town stipulation against Gagne months before was forgotten. Bruiser and Crusher teamed against Hennig and Race on January 17, 1965 in St. Paul, Minnesota and retained their AWA Tag Team Title. The crowd cheered Bruiser and Crusher and they became babyfaces/good guys. A rematch was scheduled for January 31, 1965 in Minneapolis Minnesota.
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1/1/65 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium Handicap Tag Bout, Special Referee: Whipper Billy Watson Pat O’Connor & Fritz Von Erich beat Gene Kiniski when O’Connor pinned Kiniski Kiniski and Von Erich had a pull-apart brawl after the match. Betty Niccoli & Joann Phillips & Jean Antone beat Sherri Lee & Mae Goodson & Kay Noble 2-0 1 Phillips beat Lee 2 Niccoli beat Lee Wilbur Snyder beat Ralph Bartleman Dick the Bruiser & Bobby Graham drew Johnny Valentine & John Paul Henning when the 30 minute time limit expired in the 3rd fall 1 Bruiser beat Henning 2 Henning beat Graham 3 The 30 minute time limit expired before either team could score another fall Lorenzo Parente beat Danny Plechas Ronnie Etchison beat Joe Tomassso Ray Gordon drew Johnny Kace att: 12,149 sellout 1/5/65 Louisville, KY WWA Champion Dick the Bruiser beat Johnny Valentine Scufflin Hillbillies vs Boris Volkoff & Nicoli Volkoff Black Bart vs Wilbur Snyder 1/9/65 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Wilbur Snyder beat Joe Tomasso Betty Nicoli beat Kay Noble Fritz Von Erich beat Ray Gordon Dick the Bruiser beat Lorenzo Parente Johnny Kace drew Angelo Poffo 1/11/65 Des Moines, IA @ Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Dick the Bruiser 2/3 Pat O’Connor beat Tom Brown Bob Geigel drew Sonny Myers Rita Cortez drew Kay Noble 1/12/65 Louisville, KY Dick the Bruiser & Rocky Montero beat Scufflin Hillbillies 1/13/65 San Antonio, TX @ Wrestlethon Dick The Bruiser beat The Wrecker 2/3 1 Wrecker beat Bruiser with a cannon ball 2 Bruiser beat Wrecker 3 Bruiser beat Wrecker Tony Borne beat Ciclon Negro dq Argentina Apollo beat Al Lovelock Killer Karl Kox beat Mike Harmon John Paul Henning drew Jimmy James 1/15/65 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium Fritz Von Erich beat Gene Kiniski Dick the Bruiser beat Wilbur Snyder Moose Evans & Johnny Valentine beat Angelo Poffo (sub Bill Miller) & Bobby Graham 2/3 1 Valentine beat Graham 2 Graham beat Valentine 3 Evans beat Poffo Ilio DiPaolo beat Danny Plechas Joe Blanchard draw Ray Gordon Lorenzo Parente beat Johnny Ramirez att: 6320 1/17/65 St. Paul, MN AWA Tag Team Champions Dick the Bruiser & The Crusher beat Larry Hennig & Harley Race 2/3 Wilbur Snyder beat Moose Cholak Bob Boyer drew Eddie Sharkey Mighty Igor Vodik beat Pedro Santos Ivan Kalmikoff beat Jack Allen att: 10,993 1/18/65 Memphis, TN @ Ellis Auditorium NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Dick The Bruiser Wilbur Snyder beat Alex Perez via pin Bobby Fields & Don Fields beat Nikita Mulkovich & Gordo Chihuahua Rocky Smith beat George Grant 1/22/65 Indianapolis, IN @ Northside Armory Special Referee: Dick The Bruiser Wilbur Snyder & Joe Brunetti & Rocky Montero beat Nicoli Volkoff & Boris Volkoff & Johnny Valentine Moose Cholak drew Bill Miller Angelo Poffo beat Joe Blanchard Bobby Managoff drew Guy Mitchell Lord Littlebrook beat Frenchy Lamont 1/23/65 Chicago, IL @ International Amphitheatre WWA Champion Dick the Bruiser ddq Johnny Valentine in 3rd fall Wilbur Snyder beat Bill Miller Boris Volkoff & Nicoli Volkoff beat Pat O'Connor & Bobby Managoff Moose Cholak beat Guy Mitchell Joe Blanchard beat Masked Demon Joe Tangaro beat Black Bart 1/27/65 Denver, CO @ Auditorium Arena AWA Champion Mad Dog Vachon beat Dick the Bruiser on a 3rd fall COR 1 Bruiser beat Vachon in 3:28 2 Vachon beat Bruiser in 6:12 3 Bruiser was counted out of the ring Verne Gagne & Wilbur Snyder beat Larry Hennig & Harley Race 2/3 1 Hennig beat Gagne in 9:27 2 Gagne beat Hennig in 7:07 3 Gagne beat Race in 8:02 NWA Junior Heavyweight Champion Danny Hodge ddq The Crusher in 13:03 Reggie Parks beat Bob Boyer in 24:30 promoter: Gene Reed Att: 4,500 fans 1/28/65 Kansas City, KS @ Memorial Hall Ron Reed beat Dick the Bruiser on a 3rd fall dq Steve Bolus beat Bob Brown 2-0 Iron Mike BiBiase drew Moose Evans 30:00 Doug Gilbert beat Joe Tomasso The Outlaw drew Harry Madison 15:00 1/29/65 St. Joseph, MO @ Auditorium No Time Limit, No dq match Mike Dibiase vs Dick The Bruiser Dick the Bruiser beat Mike DiBiase 2/3 1 Bruiser pinned DiBiase in 4:00 2 DiBiase pinned Bruiser in 5:30 3 Bruiser pinned DiBiase No Time Limit, No dq Match, Title vs Mask Central States Champion Ron Reed beat The Outlaw 1 Reed pinned Outlaw in 13:00 2 Reed won by submission in 11:00 Sonny Myers drew Doug Gilbert 20:00 Tom Clark beat Harry Madison in 10:00 Bobby Shane beat Tom Brown dq Att: 1,760 Note: According to the St. Joseph Gazette, Reed won the Central States Title from Dibiase last Friday (1/22) in St. Joseph. 1/31/65 Minneapolis, MN Larry Hennig & Harley Race beat Dick the Bruiser & The Crusher 2/3 to win the AWA Tag Team Title Wilbur Snyder beat Iron Mike DiBiase Bob Boyer beat Eddie Sharkey Billy Red Cloud beat Black Bart Sid Freeman beat Rick Lopez Att: 9,176 2/2/65 Indiapolis, IN Boris Volkoff & Nicoli Volkoff beat Dick the Bruiser & Rocky Montero Boris Volkoff & Nicoli Volkoff beat Jim Eskew & Jack Murphy Moose Cholak beat Jack Murphy Angelo Poffo beat Lupe Gonzales Dick the Bruiser beat Jim Grabmire Frenchy Lamonte beat Lord Littlebrook From the Thursday, February 4, 1965 edition of the Anderson Bulletin Logansport, IN (UPI) Richard Afflis, 32, Indianapolis, a professional wrestler known as Dick The Bruiser, was fined $100 and costs by City Judge Frank Tolbert Wednesday night on an assault and battery charge. Afflis was accused of striking a waitress with a beer bottle at a local tavern Jan. 18. The wrestler, who pleaded innocent to the charge, said the incident was an accident. He claimed he was hit in the nose. 2/5/65 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Audutorium NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Pat O’Connor 1-0 54:58. After this bout, the NWA ruled that if O’Connor had won the only fall within the time limit, he would have taken the title. Some time later, however, the rule was changed so that the challenger had to win two falls, and the deciding fall not by disqualification or count out, to get the championship. In a one-fall title duel, of course, the challenger could not earn the crown if he won by either disqualification or count-out. Ilio DiPaolo beat Bobby Graham Gene Kiniski beat Moose Evans John Paul Henning dcor Dick the Bruiser Dory Funk Jr & Joe Tangaro beat Bob Geigel & Danny Plechas 2/3 1 Plechas beat Tangaro 2 Tangaro beat Geigel 3 Funk beat Plechas. Guy Mitchell draw Ralph Bartleman att: 12,186 sellout 2/8/65 Memphis, TN @ Ellis Auditorium NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Dick The Bruiser Alex Perez beat Rocky Smith to regain Southern Junior Title Kurt Von Brauner & Saul Weingeroff (sub Karl Von Brauner) beat Bobby & Lee Fields Wilbur Snyder beat Al Greene 2/10/65 Denver, CO @ Auditorium Arena Non Title Texas Death Match Dick the Bruiser beat AWA Champion Mad Dog Vachon in 23:30 when Vachon was unable to continue Bruiser had taken two falls, and Vachon had taken three Verne Gagne & Wilbur Snyder beat AWA Tag Team Champions Larry Hennig on a 3rd fall dq when Race punched referee Danny Loos The Crusher beat Reggie Parks Sid Freeman beat Bob Boyer promoter: Gene Reed referee: Danny Loos Att: 3,700 fans 2/12/65 Indianapolis, IN @ Northside Armory WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser beat Moose Cholak 2/3 Handicap Match Johnny Valentine beat Bobby Managoff & Rocky Montero The Mongol beat Les Thatcher The Mongol beat Jim Eskew Boris Volkoff & Nicoli Volkoff beat Billy Goelz & Prince Pullins Cora Combs beat the Nurse 2/13/65 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Harry Madison beat Danny Plechas Dick the Bruiser beat Bob Clark Pat O’Connor drew Fritz Von Erich when the time limit expired in the 3rd fall 1 O’Connor won 2 Von Erich won 3 The time limit expired in the 3rd fall before either man score another fall Bobby Graham & Bob Geigel beat Joe Tangaro & Guy Mitchell 2/3 1 Tangaro beat Graham 2 Geigel beat Tangaro 3 Graham beat Mitchell 2/13/65 Minneapolis, MN @ Auditorium Death Match Dick the Bruiser & The Crusher beat Larry Hennig & Mad Dog Vachon (sub Harley Race) Junior Heavyweight Champion Danny Hodge beat Eddie Sharkey 23:20 Reggie Parks drew Wilbur Snyder Billy Red Cloud beat Bob Boyer Sid Freeman beat Jack Pesek Jack Allen beat Ricky Lopez Note: Race was stabbed the night before and missed a few weeks of scheduled matches. 2/15/65 Memphis, TN @ Ellis Auditorium Kurt Von Brauner & Karl Von Brauner beat Bobby Fields & Lee Fields Pat O'Connor no contest Dick The Bruiser Wilbur Snyder beat Ronnie Etchison Rocky Smith drew Alex Perez 2/19/65 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Audutorium Fritz Von Erich beat Johnny Valentine Gene Kiniski beat Ilio DiPaolo Pat O’Connor & John Paul Henning beat Dick the Bruiser & Bobby Graham 2-0, 1st fall by dq 1 O’Connor beat Graham dq 2 O’Connor beat Bruiser after he was accidentally hit by Graham. Taro Myaki drew Wilbur Snyder Moose Evans beat Ralph Bartleman Angelo Poffo beat Johnny Ramirez Danny Plechas beat Guy Mitchell att: 7685 2/22/65 Memphis, TN @ Ellis Auditorium World Tag Title Match Kurt Von Brauner & Karl Von Brauner beat Jackie Fargo & Mario Milano Pat O'Connor beat Dick The Bruiser dq Rocky Smith beat Alex Perez dq Roger Kirby beat Mickey Sharpe via pin 2/23/65 Indianapolis, IN @ Southside Armory Dick the Bruiser vs Angelo Poffo was the scheduled main event, but Bruiser attacked Johnny Valentine after he had beaten Jim Grabmire & Guy Mitchell in a handicap bout. Valentine ko'd Bruiser with a chair, & the bout was cancelled. The bout was broadcast on WTTV channel 4 after the Southport sectional basketball game that Saturday night. Angelo Poffo beat Rip Collins Chief Crazy Horse beat Jack Murphy Rip Collins drew Guy Mitchell Angelo Poffo beat Chief Crazy Horse Jim Grabmire beat Jack Murphy 2/24/65 Denver, CO @ Auditorium Arena Texas Death Match with the title on the line AWA Champion Mad Dog Vachon beat Dick the Bruiser when Bruiser was unable to continue at the end of the 11th fall ten seconds between falls Vachon won seven falls and Bruiser won four Wilbur Snyder beat The Crusher dq Mighty Igor beat Tiny Mills in 4:08 Larry Hennig beat Ivan Kalmikoff in 12:19 Danny Loos Jr beat Jack Allen in 13:28 promoter: Gene Reed Att: 6,100 fans 2/27/65 Chicago, IL @ International Amphitheatre WWA Champion Dick the Bruiser beat Johnny Valentine in 45:08 when Valentine could not continue Wilbur Snyder & Pat O'Connor beat Boris Volkoff & Nicoli Volkoff Moose Cholak beat Mighty Hercules Bobby Graham (sub Bill Miller) Angelo Poffo beat Prince Pullins The Mongol beat Guy Mitchell (sub Lupe Gonzales) Bobby Managoff drew Black Bart promoter: Fred Kohler referee: Bill Finfer 2/28/65 Green Bay, Wi @ Brown County Veteran's Memorial Arena Dick The Bruiser vs Wilbur Snyder Black Bart vs Cal Pullins Moose Cholak vs Jack Wilson Boris Volkoff & Nicoli Volkoff vs Bobby Managoff & Jack Allen 3/2/65 Louisville, KY Johnny Valentine beat WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser 3/3/65 San Antonio, TX @ Municipal Auditorium NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Dick the Bruiser on a 3rd fall dq 1 Thesz pinned Bruiser 2 Bruiser pinned Thesz 3 Bruiser was dq'ed Bob Ellis beat Ike Eakins Argentina Apollo beat Jimmy Hines The Sheik beat Tonina Killer Karl Kox beat Danny McShain when Danny injured his shoulder and was unable to continue The Wrecker drew Louie Tillet Ciclon Negro beat Gory Guerrero via pin Att: 5,800 3/5/65 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Audutorium Pat O’Connor beat Fritz Von Erich dq Dick the Bruiser beat John Paul Henning Cora Combs beat Dianna Lynn Ilio DiPaolo & Wilbur Snyder & Moose Evans beat Hans Schmidt & Bobby Graham & Taro Myaki 2/3 1 Schmidt beat Evans 2 Evans beat Myaki 3 Snyder beat Schmidt Rocky Hamilton beat Steve Bolus Ronnie Etchison drew Angelo Poffo att: 7366 3/6/65 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Steve Bolus beat Frank Altman Pat O’Connor beat Bobby Graham NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Dick the Bruiser dq in a match that ended with Bruiser knocking Thesz out with a chair after he delivered an atomic drop from the apron onto Thesz who was on the floor. Bobby Bruns, Bill Longson, Joe Tangaro, Pat O’Connor and two referees restrained Bruiser, who punched Bruns and got into another brawl with O’Connor. Joe Tangaro & Moose Evans beat Sheik of Araby & Rocky Hamilton. 1 Sheik beat Tangaro 2 Tangaro beat Sheik 3 Hamilton, on his own after Sheik started talking to the ceiling and left the ring, lost to Evans. 3/9/65 Louisville, KY WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser beat Johnny Valentine The Mongol beat Dennis Hall Boris Volkoff & Nicoli Volkoff beat Bobby Managoff & Prince Pullins 3/10/65 Denver, CO @ Auditorium Arena AWA Tag Team Champions Larry Hennig & Harley Race beat Dick the Bruiser & Mighty Igor Vodik on a 3rd fall COR 1 Hennig beat Bruiser for the first fall 2 Igor pinned Hennig in 3:09 3 Igor was counted out of the ring in 7:14 during the third fall, Igor fell from the ring and knocked into a girl in the crowd. According to the Rocky Mountain News, it was Igor’s extended apologies to her that caused his countout Verne Gagne beat Mitsu Arakawa 2/3 Danny Loos Jr. beat Jack Pesek in 16:10 The Crusher beat Sid Freeman in 14:42 promoter: Gene Reed Att: 3,500 fans 3/12/65 Indianapolis, IN @ State Fairgrounds Coliseum Johnny Valentine beat WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser dq when Dick laid out Valentine, refs Johnny Shorn & Wayne Tate before 7 wrestlers & 6 police officers entered the ring to stop the carnage. Valentine was taken to General hospital for Xrays, stitches & treatment for a knot on his head. The WWA title was held up because of Dick's actions. Wilbur Snyder beat Angelo Poffo 2/3 Boris Volkoff & Nicoli Volkoff beat Joe Blanchard & Joe Brunetti 2/3 The Mongol beat Guy Mitchell Bobby Managoff drew Moose Cholak 20:00 Cora Combs beat Barbara Galento att: 5,000 3/16/65 Louisville, KY @ Convention Center Dick The Bruiser & Nicoli Volkoff & Boris Volkoff vs Wilbur Snyder & Bobby Managoff & Chief Crazy Horse Rip Collins vs Angelo Poffo The Mongol vs Guy Mitchell 3/19/65 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Audutorium Handicap Tag Bout Dick the Bruiser beat Pat O’Connor & John Paul Henning by pinning O’Connor Johnny Valentine & Ilio DiPaolo beat Bobby “Hercules” Graham and Taro Myaki 2/3 1 DiPaolo beat Graham 2 Myaki beat DiPaolo 3 Valentine beat Myaki Wilbur Snyder drew Fritz Von Erich Gene Kiniski beat Joe Blanchard Tim Woods beat Johnny Kace Bob Clark beat Chuck Bowman att: 7285 3/20/65 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Bob Clark beat Steve Bolus Wilbur Snyder beat Bill Brown Dick the Bruiser beat Joe Blanchard Johnny Valentine beat Don Madison Bobby “Hercules” Graham beat Dennis Hall 3/22/65 Memphis, TN @ Ellis Auditorium NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Pat O’Connor US Champion Wilbur Snyder beat Dick the Bruiser dq World Tag Title Match Jackie Fargo & Mario Milano beat Karl Von Brauner & Kurt Von Brauner Rocky Smith beat Alex Perez to regain Southern Junior Title 3/23/65 Louisville, KY Dick the Bruiser & Angelo Poffo beat Wilbur Snyder & Johnny Valentine Bobby Managoff beat The Mongol Prince Pullins beat Dennis Hall Bob Kelly beat Roy Fryman 3/24/65 Denver, CO @ Coliseum AWA Tag Team Champions Larry Hennig & Harley Race beat Dick the Bruiser & The Crusher Verne Gagne beat Moose Cholak Pat O’Connor beat Art Neilson dq Betty Niccoli vs Kay Noble Danny Loos Jr. vs Danny Plechas promoter: Gene Reed 3/26/65 Detroit, MI WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser beat Pat O'Connor Gene Kiniski beat Wilbur Snyder utc 0-1 Snyder won the 1st fall, but suffered an injury when an altercation started before the 2nd fall started. AWA Tag Team Champions Larry Hennig & Harley Race beat Joe Blanchard & Verne Gagne Guy Mitchell beat Black Bart Tom Pervolis beat The Mongol dq Nicoli Volkoff beat Bobby Managoff Angelo Poffo beat Prince Pullins 3/27/65 Chicago, IL @ International Amphitheatre Dick the Bruiser & Moose Cholak beat Wilbur Snyder & Johnny Valentine Pat O'Connor beat Angelo Poffo dq Bobby Managoff beat Matt Schmeling Nicoli Volkoff beat Tom Prevolous The Mongol beat Dennis Hall promoter: Fred Kohler 4/1/65 Kansas City, KS @ Memorial Hall NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Bob Geigel on a 3rd fall dq Dick The Bruiser & Art Neilson beat Doug Gilbert & Ron Reed 1-0 45:00 Rocky Hamilton beat Dutch Savage Steve Bolus beat Bobby Hercules Graham Bob Brown beat Bobby Shane 4/3/65 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Lorenzo Parente beat Bill Brown Bobby “Hercules” Graham drew Wilbur Snyder Dick the Bruiser beat Ron Reed The official signing of Lou Thesz versus Dick the Bruiser happened without incident. Afterward, Thesz did a workout session with Bobby Graham, Bob Geigel and Lorenzo Parente. 4/6/65 Louisville, KY Dick the Bruiser & Angelo Poffo beat Wilbur Snyder & Johnny Valentine Pee Wee James vs Lord Littlebrook Rocky Montero vs Prince Pullins 4/7/65 San Antonio, TX @ Wrestlethon Dick The Bruiser beat Ernie Ladd 2/3 1 Ladd beat Bruiser 2 Bruiser beat Ladd 3 Bruiser beat Ladd Killer Karl Kox & Ciclon Negro beat Bob Ellis & Chief Kit Fox when Negro pinned Kit Fox Rito Romero beat Jimmy Bad Boy Hines Chris Tolos beat Gory Guerrero via pin Killer Karl Kox beat Bob Ellis 4/9/65 St. Louis, MO @ Arena NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Dick the Bruiser 2/3, 2nd fall by COR 1 Bruiser won the first fall 2 Thesz beat Bruiser COR after Thesz hit Bruiser with a series of drop kicks that knocked Bruiser over the ropes and head first into the ring bell, leaving Bruiser bloody and stunned 3 Thesz pinned Bruiser John Paul Henning & Pat O’Connor & Bob Ellis beat Fritz Von Erich & Hans Schmidt & Gene Kiniski 2/3, 2nd fall by dq 1 Kiniski beat O’Connor 2 O’Connor won by dq 3 O’Connor beat Schmidt while Kiniski and Von Erich got into an argument and began brawling. Johnny Valentine beat Bobby “Hercules” Graham Wilbur Snyder beat Taro Myaki Betty Nicoli beat Barbara Galento Lorenzo Parente drew Joe Blanchard Dory Funk Sr beat Dutch Savage att: 13,046 Note: The venue change from the Kiel Audutorium to the Arena. 4/10/65 Indianapolis, IN @ State Fairgrounds Coliseum Dick the Bruiser beat Johnny Valentine on a 3rd fall COR to regain the held up WWA title WWA Tag Team Champions Kurt Von Brauner & Karl Von Brauner beat Wilbur Snyder & Pat O'Connor 2/3 Bob Ellis beat Black Bart Joe Blanchard beat Angelo Poffo Tiny Tornado beat Lord Littlebrook Rocky Montero drew Prince Pullins 15:00 Att: 9,000 4/17/65 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Lorenzo Parente beat Gene Dundee Joe Tangaro beat Danny Dusek Johnny Valentine beat Mike York 2-0 Dick the Bruiser beat Doug Lindsay Lorenzo Parente beat Andres Corea 4/23/65 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Audutorium "All In” tag team match (later billed as a Texas tornado match elsewhere) Johnny Valentine & Fritz Von Erich beat Dick the Bruiser & Gene Kiniski 2/3, 1st fall by dq 1 Von Erich won by dq when Bruiser jumped off the top rope 2 Bruiser beat Valentine 3 Valentine beat Bruiser Wilbur Snyder drew Pat O’Connor when the 30 minute limit expired in the 3rd fall John Paul Henning beat Bob Geigel dq Bobby “Hercules” Graham beat Joe Blanchard Joe Tangaro beat Danny Plechas Lorenzo Parente beat Roger Kirby att: 7019 4/24/65 Detroit, MI WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser beat Moose Cholak Gene Kiniski no contest Wilbur Snyder Joe Blanchard & Pat O’Connor beat Larry Hennig & Nicoli Volkoff The Crusher drew Rocky Montero Tom Pervolis drew Prince Pullins Fee Fee LaRue beat JoAnn Brewer 4/30/65 Indianapolis, IN @ Fairgrounds Coliseum Dick The Bruiser & Wilbur Snyder & Bob Ellis beat Karl Von Brauner & Kurt Von Brauner & Johnny Valentine Gene Kiniski beat Lester Welch Angelo Poffo beat Rocky Montero Moose Cholak beat Guy Mitchell Prince Pullins beat Nicoli Volkoff Cora Combs beat Jean Antone Att: 5,000 5/1/65 Chicago, IL @ International Amphitheatre Johnny Valentine beat Wilbur Snyder when Snyder could not answer the bell for the 3rd fall 1 Snyder beat Valentine 2 Valentine beat Snyder 3 Snyder was unable to return for the 3rd fall Dick the Bruiser & Moose Cholak ddq Pat O'Connor & Bobby Managoff in 3rd fall Angelo Poffo beat Prince Pullins Gene Kiniski beat Rocky Montero Nicoli Volkoff beat Guy Mitchell Black Bart beat Tom Prevolous promoter: Fred Kohler Att: 4,200 fans, gate: $8,165 5/6/65 Kansas City, KS @ Memorial Hall Dick the Bruiser beat Pat O'Connor 2/3 Johnny Valentine beat Mike York Steve Bolus drew Doug Gilbert Bob Brown & Rocky Hamilton beat Claude Patterson & Ron Reed 5/8/65 Detroit, MI @ Olympia Stadium Pat O’Connor & Wilbur Snyder beat Dick the Bruiser & Gene Kiniski Angelo Poffo beat Joe Tangero Moose Cholak beat Black Bart Nicoli Volkoff beat Guy Mitchell Dennis Hall drew Tom Pervolis Prince Pullins beat Roger Kirby 5/12/65 San Antonio, TX @ Wrestlethon Referee Joe Blanchard Dick the Bruiser beat Rito Romero 2/3 1 Romero pinned Bruiser after a series of drop kicks 2 Bruiser beat Romero 3 Bruiser injured Romero's shoulder and Romero was unable to continue. Wilbur Snyder drew Chris Tolos 20:00 Killer Karl Kox ddq Ciclon Negro Johnny Valentine beat Silento Rodriguez Ernie Ladd beat Swede Karlson dq Billy White Wolf beat Tony Borne Alvaro Velasco beat Jack Dalton referee: Joe Blanchard Att: 4,154, gate: $7,331.71 5/14/65 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Audutorium Texas Death Match Gene Kiniski beat Fritz Von Erich Cowboy Bob Ellis & Wilbur Snyder beat Bob Geigel & Bobby “Hercules” Graham 2/3 1 Ellis beat Graham 2 Geigel beat Ellis 3 Snyder beat Geigel Johnny Valentine beat Hans Schmidt Dick the Bruiser beat Ronnie Etchison Pat O’Connor beat Lorenzo Parente Rita Cortez beat Barbara Galento Kit Fox beat Roger Kirby att: 12,644 sellout 5/15/65 Kansas City, KS @ Memorial Hall Dick the Bruiser dcor NWA Champion Lou Thesz in 3rd fall Mongolian Stomper beat Bob Geigel Tag Team Champions Doug Gilbert & Ron Reed beat Bob Brown & Dutch Savage 2/3 Steve Bolus beat Red Raider Claude Patterson beat Ray Duran Att: 4,350 5/18/65 Louisville, KY Dick the Bruiser & Johnny Valentine vs Bobby Managoff & Wilbur Snyder Prince Pullins vs Nicoli Volkoff Moose Cholak vs Guy Mitchell 5/19/65 Fort Wayne, IN WWA Champion Dick the Bruiser beat Johnny Valentine Angelo Poffo no contest Wilbur Snyder Moose Cholak beat Guy Mitchell WWA Tag Team Champions Boris Volkoff & Nicoli Volkoff beat Dennis Hall & Roger Kirby 5/22/65 Detroit, MI @ Olympia Stadium Dick the Bruiser & Angelo Poffo beat Pat O’Connor & Wilbur Snyder WWA Tag Team Champions Boris Volkoff & Nicoli Volkoff beat Dennis Hall & Roger Kirby Moose Cholak no contest Bobby Managoff Prince Pullins beat Bill Frazier Tom Pervolis beat Guy Mitchell dq 5/24/65 Des Moines, IA @ Sec Taylor Stadium Johnny Valentine beat Dick The Bruiser dq Pat O’Connor drew Sonny Myers Mongolian Stomper beat Ken Hollis Ron Reed beat Bob Geigel via pin Att: 750 in “heavy rains” 5/25/65 Chicago, IL @ International Amphitheatre Congo Death Match Wilbur Snyder beat Johnny Valentine in 42:00 when Valentine was unable to contnue Boris Volkoff & Nicoli Volkoff beat Dick the Bruiser & Moose Cholak 2/3 Pat O'Connor beat Rocky Montero Angelo Poffo beat Joe Blanchard Bobby Managoff beat Guy Mitchell Prince Pullins beat Roger Kirby promoter: Fred Kohler referee: Percy Franklin Att: 5,019 fans, gate: $8,635 Note: There was no professional wrestling in Chicago until October 23, 1965. 6/3/65 Kansas City, KS @ Memorial Hall Mongolian Stomper beat Dick the Bruiser 2/3 Bob Geigel & Dutch Savage beat Steve Bolus & Sonny Myers 2/3 Pat O'Connor drew Ron Reed Rocky Hamilton beat Don Soto 6/4/65 St. Joseph, MO @ Auditorium Mongolian Stomper beat Ron Reed 2/3 to win the Central States Title 1 Stomper pinned Reed in 10:00 2 Reed beat Stomper submission 3 Stomper beat Reed by submission Sonny Myers beat Dick the Bruiser on a 3rd fall dq 1 Myers beat Bruiser with a sleeper hold 2 Bruiser pinned Myers 3 Bruiser was dq'ed for hitting referee Richard Moody Bob Geigel drew Larry Hamilton 30:00 Jerry Miller beat Steve Bolus in 14:00 Claude Patterson beat Buddy Johnson dq in 9:00 6/6/65 Knoxville, TN NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Dick the Bruiser The Medics beat Wilbur Snyder & Les Welch Jackie Fargo beat Apache Pete Danny Hodge beat Herb Larson Mike Clancy beat Gordo Chihuahua 6/11/65 Indianapolis, IN Boris Volkoff & Nicoli Volkoff beat Dick the Bruiser & Wilbur Snyder Angelo Poffo beat Prince Pullins Moose Cholak beat Dennis Hall Guy Mitchell beat Francisco Rios Dick the Bruiser beat Man Mountain Bruce 6/12/65 San Antonio, TX @ Joe Freeman Coliseum Dick the Bruiser no contest Fritz von Erich Gene Kiniski beat Reggie Parks Argentina Apollo & Rito Romero drew Frank Shields & Johnny Valentine Gene Kiniski (sub Killer Karl Kox) drew Wilbur Snyder Indio Peon beat Abdul Krim Chris Tolos beat Tonina Benny Matta beat Tommy O’Brien Joe Blanchard beat Tim Tyler Alvero Velasco beat Otto Schotts 6/18/65 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Audutorium NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Gene Kiniski on a 3rd fall dq 1 Kiniski won the first fall 2 Thesz won the second 3 When Kiniski lost his temper and attacked Thesz between falls to deliver three back breakers, referee Joe Schoenberger dq'ed Kiniski for the third fall before the bell actually started the fall. Jean Antone & Rita Cortez beat Kay Noble & Jessica Rogers 2-0 1 Antone beat Noble 2 Cortez beat Rogers Wilbur Snyder beat Hans Schmidt Dory Funk Sr & Dory Funk Jr beat Bobby “Hercules” Graham & Dick the Bruiser 2-0, 1st fall by dq 1 Dory Sr beat Bruiser dq 2 Graham was mad at Bruiser for the dq, the two traded punches, Bruiser floored Graham and Dory Sr pinned Graham. Joe Tangaro drew Taro Myaki Ronnie Etchison beat Danny Plechas att: 9,510 6/23/65 Topeka, KS @ Municipal Auditorium Dick the Bruiser vs Ronnie Etchison Dutch Savage & Bob Geigel vs Pat O'Connor & Ken Hollis Mongolian Stomper vs Jerry Miller Dutch Savage vs Ken Hollis 6/24/65 Kansas City, KS @ Memorial Hall Bob Geigel & Dutch Savage beat Dick the Bruiser & Mongolian Stomper 2/3 Pat O'Connor beat Missouri Mauler Rocky Hamilton dq Ronnie Etchison beat Ken Hollis Jerry Miller beat Frank Hickey 6/25/65 Indianapolis, IN @ Southside Armory WWA Tag Team Champions Boris Volkoff & Nicoli Volkoff no contest Dick the Bruiser & Wilbur Snyder Gene Kiniski beat Guy Mitchell Dennis Dolly beat Jim Eskew Gene Kiniski beat Tom Jones Angelo Poffo beat Rocky Montero 2/3 Bobby Managoff beat Roger Dolly 7/15/65 Kansas City, KS @ Memorial Hall Bob Geigel & Killer Kox (sub Dutch Savage) beat Bobo Brazil & Dick the Bruiser on a 3rd fall COR Mongolian Stomper beat Rocky Hamilton Sonny Myers drew Pat O'Connor Ronnie Etchison beat Jerry Miller Jean Antone & Betty Niccoli beat Cora Combs & Kay Noble 2/3 Att: 4,000 7/17/65 Indianapolis, IN @ Victory Field NWA vs WWA title WWA Champion Dick the Bruiser dcor NWA Champion Lou Thesz in 3rd fall Gene Kiniski beat Wilbur Snyder 2/3 Masked Assassins (Guy Mitchell & Joe Tomasso) beat Boris Volkoff & Nicoli Volkoff 2/3 to win the WWA Tag Team Title Moose Cholak beat Prince Pullins Angelo Poffo drew Bobby Managoff 20:00 Darling Dagmar beat Diamond Lil Att: 9,000 7/21/65 Muncie, IN Dick the Bruiser vs Johnny Valentine Boris Volkoff & Nicoli Volkoff vs Guy Mitchell & Prince Pullins Cora Combs vs Kathy O’Brien 7/23/65 Indianapolis, IN @ Southside Armory WWA Tag Team Champions The Assassins beat Boris Volkoff & Nicoli Volkoff 2/3 WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser beat Gene Kiniski in 7 minutes. Bruiser was scheduled to face Johnny Kace, but Kiniski challenged Bruiser who won the first fall with a backdrop, & during the rest period Kiniski grabbed the belt from the lap of Indiana athletic commisioner Merle Alte & left the arena. Johnny Valentine beat Bill Nixon Johnny Valentine beat Bill Frazier Wilbur Snyder beat Johnny Kace The Assassins beat Tom Jones & Bill Nixon The Assassins beat Jim Eskew & Tom Jones 7/24/65 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Cora Combs beat Jessica Rogers Fritz Von Erich beat Angelo Poffo Wilbur Snyder beat Taro Myaki Johnny Valentine & Dory Funk Jr beat Dutch Savage & Dick the Bruiser 2/3, 2nd fall by dq Originally, Guy Mitchell began as Valentine’s partner. 1 Bruiser beat Mitchell 2 Mitchell won by dq 3 Valentine missed a brainbuster aimed at Bruiser and knocked out Mitchell, who was helped to the dressing room while Bruiser and Savage ganged up on Valentine. Dory Funk Jr was sent out to replace Mitchell and Funk knocked Bruiser out of the ring. Valentine then pinned Savage. Jerry Miller drew Johnny Kace 7/29/65 Kansas City, KS @ Memorial Hall Dick the Bruiser beat Bobo Brazil on a 3rd fall COR Dr. X & Bob Geigel drew Ronnie Etchison & Sonny Myers when the time limit expired in the 3rd fall Mongolian Stomper beat John Ramirez Bob Brown drew Jerry Miller 7/31/65 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Danny Dusek beat Jerry Miller Mongolian Stomper drew Ronnie Etchison Pat O’Connor beat Jim Wehba 2-0 Dick the Bruiser beat Joain Corea Joe Tangaro drew Danny Plechas 8/6/65 Indianapolis, IN @ Southside Armory WWA Tag Team Champions The Assassins beat Bobby Managoff & Wilbur Snyder on a 3rd fall COR The Assassins beat Bill Nixon & Prince Pullins 2-0 Gene Kiniski beat Bill Nixon Gene Kiniski beat Bill Frazier Dick The Bruiser beat Roger Dolly Wilbur Snyder beat Dennis Dolly Angelo Poffo drew Dennis Dolly 15:00 8/7/65 Muncie, IN @ Delaware County Fairgrounds Dick The Bruiser & Wilbur Snyder beat WWA Tag Team Champions The Assassins on a 3rd fall dq Gene Kiniski beat Bobby Managoff 2/3 Angelo Poffo beat Roger Kirby 8/10/65 Louisville, KY Wilbur Snyder & Johnny Valentine beat Dick the Bruiser & Gene Kiniski 8/14/65 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Roger Kirby beat Jerry Miller Guy Mitchell drew Mongolian Stomper Dory Funk Jr beat Joe Tomasso Bob Geigel & Dick the Bruiser beat Angelo Poffo & Ronnie Etchison 1 Geigel beat Etchison 2 Poffo beat Geigel 3 Bruiser beat Poffo 8/19/65 Kansas City, KS @ Memorial Hall Bob Geigel & Bob Brown beat Sonny Myers & Mongolian Stomper 2/3 Dick the Bruiser beat Jerry Miller The Ox beat Jim Grabmire Ronnie Etchison drew Bulldog Danny Plechas 8/20/65 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium handicap match, Bruiser must beat Funk Jr. two straight falls Dory Funk Jr beat Dick the Bruiser 1 Bruiser won the first fall 2 But Dory Jr won the second fall, pinning Bruiser after he was distracted arguing with Dory Sr Fritz Von Erich beat Wilbur Snyder dq John Paul Henning drew Gene Kiniski Ronnie Etchison & Pat O’Connor beat Mongolian Stomper & Hans Schmidt 2/3 1 Etchison beat Schmidt 2 Stomper beat Etchison 3 O’Connor beat Stomper Bob Geigel draw Angelo Poffo Guy Mitchell beat Joe Tomasso att: 9108 8/21/65 Indianapolis, IN @ Victory Field Gene Kiniski beat Dick the Bruiser to win the WWA Title on a 3rd fall COR US Champion Johnny Valentine dcor Bobo Brazil Wilbur Snyder beat Hans Schmidt WWA Tag Team Champions The Assassins beat Roger Dolly & Dennis Dolly Pee Wee Lopez beat Little Boy Blue Moose Cholak beat Angelo Poffo Cora Combs beat Kathy O'Brien att: 4,000 8/26/65 Kansas City, KS @ Memorial Hall Bobo Brazil beat Dick the Bruiser on a 3rd fall dq Bob Geigel & Bob Brown drew Sonny Myers & Jerry Miller when the time limit expired in the 3rd fall Mongolian Stomper beat Bob Rader The Ox beat Johnny Ramirez Thor Hagen beat Frank Hickey referees: Wild Bill Longson and Richard Moody 8/28/65 Lima, OH @ Allentown Stadium Dick The Bruiser vs Angelo Poffo Cora Combs vs Kathy O'Brien Moose Cholak vs Bobby Managoff Pee Wee Lopez vs Little Boy Blue 9/3/65 Indianapolis, IN @ Southside Armory TV Night WWA Champion Gene Kiniski beat Tom Jones Dick The Bruiser beat Dennis Dolly WWA Tag Team Champions The Assassins beat Prince Pullins & Rocky Montero 9/4/65 Muncie, IN @ Fairgrounds WWA Tag Team Champions The Assassins vs Dick The Bruiser & Bobby Managoff 2/3 60:00 WWA Champion Gene Kiniski vs Moose Cholak 2/3 60:00 Roger Dolly vs Prince Pullins 20:00 Referee Johnny Schorn 9/7/65 Nashville, TN @ Hippodrome The three Mysterious Medics beat Len Rossi & Mario Milano & Jackie Fargo on a 3rd fall dq 1 One of the Medics pinned Milano in 7:00 after a series of forearm smashes 2 Rossi beat one of the Medics in 11:00 with a Boston Crab 3 Rossi & Milano & Fargo were dq'ed for using chairs on the three Medics & referee Jimmy Dykes Dick The Bruiser beat Gene Dubois 2-0 1 Bruiser beat Dubois in 10:00 2 Bruiser beat Dubois in 3:00 Referee Carlos Mendoza Terrible Ted The Wrestling Bear beat Tojo Yamamoto Sailor Art Thomas beat Prince Pullins in 10:00 with a bear hug Att: "packed house" 9/10/65 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium Wilbur Snyder beat Fritz Von Erich Dory Funk Jr & John Paul Henning & Pat O’Connor beat Bob Geigel & Mongolian Stomper & Dick the Bruiser 2/3 1 Stomper beat O’Connor 2 O’Connor beat Stomper 3 Henning beat Geigel Bette Boucher beat Dorothy Carter Corsica Joe drew Angelo Poffo Jim Wehba beat Danny Dusek Lorenzo Parente beat Hans “Jim” Grabmire att: 6765 9/11/65 Indianapolis, IN @ Northside Armory WWA Tag Team Champions The Assassins beat Wilbur Snyder & Dick The Bruiser 2/3 Bobby Managoff ddq Moose Cholak in 3rd fall Angelo Poffo beat Roger Dolly Lorenzo Parente drew Bill Frazier 9/14/65 Kansas City, KS @ Municipal Auditorium Death match Bobo Brazil beat Dick the Bruiser utc after sixth fall, tied 3-3 North American Tag Team Champions Bob Geigel & Bob Brown beat Mongolian Stomper & Jerry Miller Pat O’Connor drew Sonny Myers The Ox beat Bulldog Danny Plechas Betty Niccoli beat Jessica Rogers Corsica Joe drew Thor Hagen 9/16/65 Kansas City, KS @ Memorial Hall North American Tag Team Champions Bob Geigel & Bob Brown beat Mongolian Stomper & The Ox on a 3rd fall dq Jerry Miller beat Jim Grabmire 2/3 Bulldog Danny Plechas drew Thor Hagen Corsica Joe beat Paul Caruso 9/18/65 Indianapolis, IN @ Northside Armory WWA Champion Gene Kiniski beat Bobby Managoff 2/3 WWA Tag Team Champions The Assassins beat Dick The Bruiser & Angelo Poffo dq Moose Cholak beat Roger Dolly Dennis Dolly drew Prince Pullins 9/24/65 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium Gene Kiniski beat John Paul Henning (Kiniski also got into brawl with Wilbur Snyder when Snyder entered the ring for his match) Wilbur Snyder beat Mongolian Stomper Fritz Von Erich beat Johnny Powers Handicap Tag Bout Dick the Bruiser beat Angelo Poffo & Pat O’Connor when Bruiser beat Poffo Dory Funk Jr & Joe Tangaro beat Sheik of Araby & Moose Cholak 2/3, 2nd fall by 1 Cholak beat Tangaro 2 Funk beat Sheik dq 3 Funk beat Cholak. Danny Plechas beat Guy Mitchell Att: 6,485 9/25/65 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Johnny Powers beat Corsica Joe Dory Funk Jr. beat Bob Raider Wilbur Snyder beat Danny Plechas Dick the Bruiser beat Thor Hagen Cowboy Bob Ellis drew Moose Cholak Note from Larry Matysik: The Sunday repeat was moved to 2 p.m. 10/2/65 Indianapolis, IN @ Fairgrounds Coliseum WWA Champion Gene Kiniski beat Dick the Bruiser on a 3rd fall dq WWA Tag Team Champions The Assassins beat Bobo Brazil & Joe Brunetti 2/3 Wilbur Snyder beat Moose Cholak Igor Volkoff beat Prince Pullins Bobby Managoff drew Angelo Poffo Jean Lane beat Rita Crawford 10/5/65 Nashville, TN @ Fairgrounds Coliseum Referee Bobby Whitlock NWA Champion Lou Thesz no decision Dick The Bruiser in 3rd fall 1 Bruiser beat Thesz in 8:00 2 Thesz beat Bruiser in 3:00 with a "rolling split" 3 While holding onto the ropes, Bruiser pinned Thesz. Promoter Nick Gulas and other officials at ringside ruled the NWA Title would be upheld in Nashville pending a rematch next week. Tony Baillargeon & Wilbur Snyder beat Kurt Von Brauner & Eric Von Brauner dq when manager Saul Weingeroff hit Baillargeon with a cane Rita Cortez beat Sherrie Lee via pin in 8:00 Tojo Yamamoto & Tor Kamata beat Chief Little Bear & Gus Kulas in 8:00 when Yamamoto pinned Kulas Att: "crowd of 6,400" Note: First card at the Fairgrounds Coliseum in Nashville. 10/7/65 Denver, CO @ Auditorium Arena Dick the Bruiser beat Larry Hennig Wilbur Snyder beat Harley Race dq Chris Markoff beat Eddie Sharkey Mighty Igor Vodik beat Lorenzo Parente Tim Woods beat Ivan Kalmikoff 10/8/65 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium Dick the Bruiser beat Dory Funk Jr Johnny Powers ddq Fritz Von Erich John Paul Henning & Pat O’Connor beat Moose Cholak & Mongolian Stomper 2-0, 1st fall by dq 1 Henning won by dq 2 O’Connor beat Stomper Gene Kiniski beat Nikita Mulkovich Joe Tangaro beat Joe Tomasso Angelo Poffo beat Jim Grabmire Danny Plechas drew Thor Hagen att: 6245 10/9/65 Detroit, MI NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Dick The Bruiser 10/12/65 Nashville, TN @ Fairgrounds Coliseum Special Referee: Les Welch, No Time Limit, No dq Match NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Dick The Bruiser on a 3rd fall COR 1 Thesz pinned Bruiser in 8:00 after a series of dropkicks 2 Bruiser beat Thesz in 6:00 3 Bruiser was counted out of the ring US Champion Wilbur Snyder beat Alex Perez dq in 8:00 after Perez hit referee Eddie Marlin Southern Tag Team Champions Tojo Yamamoto & Tor Kamata beat Len Rossi & Jackie Fargo 2/3 1 Rossi won 2 Kamata won 3 Yamamoto won Eddie Graham & Sam Steamboat beat the Medics in 13:00 when Graham defeated one of the Medics with a grapevine Tony Baillargeon beat Danny Dusek in 9:00 Att: "before a large crowd of 6,725" 10/13/65 Columbus, GA @ Municipal Auditorium Dale Lewis & Dutch Savage vs Dick Steinborn & Chief Little Eagle Mario Galento vs Dick the Bruiser Bob Boyer vs Johnny Heidman 10/15/65 Atlanta, GA @ Municipal Auditorium Nick Kozak beat Dick The Bruiser dq Mario Galento beat Fred Blassie COR Dutch Savage & Dale Lewis & Johnny Heidman beat Dick Steinborn & Chief Little Eagle & Benny Matta Bob Boyer beat Roy Mulkey Benny Matta beat The Crusader Johnny Heidman drew Derrell Cochran 10/21/65 Terre Haute, IN @ Armory WWA Tag Team Champions The Assassins beat Dick The Bruiser & Wilbur Snyder 2/3 Moose Cholak ddq Bobby Managoff in 3rd fall Roger Dolly beat Bozo Brown in 13:00 10/22/65 Denver, CO @ Auditorium Arena Dick the Bruiser & The Crusher no contest AWA Tag Team Champions Larry Hennig & Harley Race Bob Ellis beat Haru Sasaki Mighty Igor Vodik beat Gene Anderson Chris Markoff beat Ivan Kalmikoff 10/23/65 Chicago, IL @ International Amphitheatre WWA Champion Gene Kiniski double knockout Wilbur Snyder in 3rd fall 1 Kiniski beat Snyder 2 Snyder beat Kiniski 3 Both men knocked out during the third fall Dick the Bruiser beat Pat O'Connor 2/3 WWA Tag Team Champions The Assassins beat Dennis Dolly & Igor Volkoff Angelo Poffo beat Roger Dolly Moose Cholak beat Bobby Managoff Jean Layne beat Rita Crawford promoter: Fred Kohler Att: 5,040 fans 10/30/65 Indianapolis, IN @ Fairgrounds Coliseum (from the Indianapolis Star) Several hundred boiling mad wrestling fans milled around the hallway in front of the dressing room at the Coliseum for better than an hour last night after Dick the Bruiser was declared unfit to continue in a Texas "death match." Dr. L.J.Holliday of Lafayette,state athlectic commissioner who also is team physician for Jeff's Broncho's, stopped Bruiser's match with Gene Kiniski because of blood flowing from a cut in Bruiser's forehead. The cut was inflicted, according to ringside reports, before the match began when Kiniski clouted Bruiser with the championship belt. Six stitches were required, & official said the crowd became enraged because Kiniski purportedly was out on the mat, while Bruiser, with blood streaming down his face, still was ready to fight. Bruiser had thrown Kiniski 5 times prior to the stopping of the bout. Police were unable to move the crowd out. Shouts of "fake" & demands for money returns were made, but eventually the fans dispersed. They were calling & visiting The Star with bitter complaints. More than 6,000 attended the match. WWA Tag Title Champions The Assassins beat Bob Ellis & Joe Brunetti Johnny Valentine drew Wilbur Snyder 45:00 Angelo Poffo beat Moose Cholak Masked Hercules beat Dennis Dolly 11/2/65 Kansas City, KS @ Municipal Auditorium North American Tag Team Champions Bob Geigel & Bob Brown drew Bobo Brazil & Sonny Myers 60:00 The Ox beat Dick the Bruiser dq Cowboy Bob Ellis no contest Mongolian Stomper due to cuts on both men Pat O’Connor beat The Viking dq Betty Niccoli beat Jean Antone Thor Hagen drew Bobby Shane 11/4/65 Terre Haute, IN @ Armory WWA Tag Team Champions The Assassins beat Dick The Bruiser & Bobby Managoff 2/3 WWA Champion Gene Kiniski beat Moose Cholak 2/3 Assassin II (sub Dennis Dolly) beat Frank Bozo Brown 11/5/65 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium Pat O’Connor beat Moose Cholak handicap match Dick the Bruiser beat Dory Funk Sr & Dory Funk Jr on a 2nd fall dq 1 Bruiser beat Dory Sr, whipping Dory Sr into Dory Jr when Dory Jr got on the apron to urge his father on. 2 Bruiser beat Dory Jr dq when Dory Jr hit Bruiser over the head with a chair. Wilbur Snyder beat Mongolian Stomper Gene Kiniski & Bobby “Hercules” Graham beat Joe Tangaro & Bobby Managoff 1 Graham beat Managoff 2 Managoff beat Graham 3 Kiniski beat Tangaro As Wilbur Snyder entered ring for his bout with Stomper, Kiniski also attacked Snyder. Sonny Myers beat Corsica Joe Angelo Poffo beat Francisco Rios att: 6989 11/6/65 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Moose Cholak beat Kenny Mack Bobby Managoff beat Johnny Long Dick the Bruiser beat Francisco Rios 2-0 Gene Kiniski beat Gus Kalas Hercules Graham beat Paul Rica 11/6/65 Chicago, IL @ International Amphitheatre WWA Champion Gene Kiniski beat Wilbur Snyder 2/3 Dick the Bruiser beat Moose Cholak WWA Tag Team Champions The Assassins beat Bobby Managoff & Pat O’Connor Angelo Poffo beat Bob Geigel Huey Long beat Igor Volkoff Fred Kohler sold his remaining interests in Chicago to Verne Gagne and Wilbur Snyder. Bruiser, Snyder and Gagne established Bob Luce as the “general manager” and “matchmaker” for the Chicago Wrestling Club, Inc. Fred Kohler’s “Fred Kohler Enterprises” was dissolved on November 12, 1965. On November 29, 1965, Dick Afflis and Wilbur Snyder incorporated the “Chicago Wrestling Club, Inc. 11/9/65 Louisville, KY WWA Champion Gene Kiniski beat Wilbur Snyder WWA Tag Team Champions The Assassins beat Dick the Bruiser & Angelo Poffo Johnny Long beat Bobby Managoff 11/16/65 Louisville, KY WWA Champion Gene Kiniski beat Dick the Bruiser Johnny Long beat Angelo Poffo Bobby Managoff beat Igor Volkoff Frank Hickey beat Jim Eskew 11/18/65 Fort Wayne, IN WWA Tag Team Champions The Assassins beat Dick the Bruiser & Angelo Poffo WWA Champion Gene Kiniski beat Bobby Managoff Moose Cholak beat Bozo Brown Johnny Long beat Tom Jones 11/19/65 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium Pat O’Connor beat Dick the Bruiser Texas Death Match Fritz Von Erich beat Johnny Powers Gene Kiniski & Hercules Graham beat Sonny Myers & Bobby Managoff 2/3, 2nd fall by dq 1 Myers beat Graham 2 Kiniski beat Managoff dq 3 Kiniski beat Myers Cowboy Bill Watts beat Johnny Long Angelo Poffo drew Moose Cholak Thor Hagen beat Joe Tomasso att: 10,106 11/24/65 Osaka, Japan Shohei Giant Baba beat Dick The Bruiser dq to win the International title (this title had been vacant since Rikidozan died on 12/15/63) Toyonobori & Michiaki Yoshimura beat The Assassins Johnny Kostas beat Umanusuke Ueda Alberto Torres beat Yoshino Sato Otsubo beat Hirano Tanaka beat Matti Suzuki Kantaro Hoshino beat Taka Sakiyama 11/27/65 Tokyo, Japan Shohei Giant Baba dcor Dick The Bruiser Toyonobori & Michiaki Yoshimura & Yoshino Sato beat The Assassins & Johnny Kostas Alberto Torres beat Umanosuke Ueda Tanaka beat Takachiho Matti Suzuki beat Saito 11/30/65 Louisville, KY WWA Tag Team Champions The Assassins no contest Dick the Bruiser & Wilbur Snyder Johnny Long beat Dennis Hall Tom Jones beat Bozo Brown 12/1/65 White Plains, NY Dick The Bruiser vs Hans Schmidt Irish Jackie & Fuzzy Cupid vs Lord Littlebrook & Little Beaver 12/3/65 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium A “Super Spectacular” to celebate Sam Muchnick’s 20th anniversary as promoter Gene Kiniski beat Pat O’Connor Fritz Von Erich beat Cowboy Bill Watts Judy Grable & Cora Combs & Betty White beat Mae Goodson & Jessica Rogers & Kathy O’Brien 2/3 1 O’Brien beat Combs 2 Combs beat Rogers 3 Grable beat Goodson Dick the Bruiser dcor Bobby Managoff Dory Funk Sr & Dory Funk Jr beat Hercules Graham and Lee “Bulldog” Henning 2-0, 1st fall by dq 1 Dory Sr won by dq 2 Dory Jr beat Henning. Moose Cholak beat Gus Kalas Corsica Joe beat Chief Little Bear att: 8698 12/7/65 Louisville, KY WWA Tag Team Champions The Assassins no contest Dick the Bruiser & Wilbur Snyder 12/10/65 Atlanta, GA @ Municipal Auditorium Dale Lewis beat Dick The Bruiser dq Mario Galento & Chief Little Eagle beat Eric Von Brauner & Karl Von Brauner Matt Jewell beat Leon Clark Dutch Savage beat Bob Boyer Don Carson drew Ken Hollis 12/11/65 Chicago, IL @ International Amphitheatre Dick the Bruiser no contest WWA Champion Gene Kiniski WWA Tag Team Champions The Assassins drew Pat O’Connor & Wilbur Snyder Moose Cholak drew Angelo Poffo Prince Pullins beat Igor Volkoff Dennis Hall beat Huey Long Rita Crawford & Kathy O’Brien beat Cora Combs & Jean Lane promoter: Bob Luce 12/16/65 Fort Wayne, IN @ Allen County War Memorial Coliseum WWA Champion Gene Kiniski beat Wilbur Snyder WWA Tag Team Champions The Assassins beat Dick The Bruiser & Bobby Managoff Cora Combs beat Kathy O’Brien Moose Cholak beat Angelo Poffo Huey Long beat Prince Pullins Att: 2,756 12/17/65 Terre Haute, IN @ Armory WWA Champion Gene Kiniski vs Wilbur Snyder 2/3 WWA Tag Team Champions The Assassins vs Dick The Bruiser & Bobby Managoff Cora Combs vs Kathy O’Brien 12/18/65 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Joe Tangaro beat Baby Blimp George Harris Cowboy Bob Ellis beat Tamayo Sato NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat The Marauder 2/3 and unmasked him as Hercules Graham 1 Marauder pinned Thesz 2 Thesz beat Marauder 3 Thesz beat Marauder Official signing of Thesz vs. Kiniski for Jan. 7, 1966 match Dick the Bruiser beat Don Desoto Ray Gordon beat Jim Wehba 12/20/65 Memphis, TN @ Ellis Auditorium Kanji Inoki & Hiro Matsuda beat Len Rossi & Billy Wicks Dick The Bruiser drew Tojo Yamamoto US Champion Wilbur Snyder beat Alex Perez Karl Von Brauner & Eric Von Brauner beat Treach Phillips & Gus Kalas 12/21/65 Nashville, TN Dick the Bruiser & Danny Dusek beat Eric Von Brauner & Karl Von Brauner dq Kanji Inoki & Hiro Matsuda & Alex Perez & Tojo Yamamoto beat Johnny Apollo & Corsica Joe & Len Rossi & Wilbur Snyder 12/25/65 Indianapolis, IN @ Fairgrounds Coliseum Dick the Bruiser beat Gene Kiniski to regain the WWA title Wilbur Snyder & Moose Cholak beat The Assassins 2/3 to win the WWA Tag Team Title Johnny Valentine beat Bobo Brazil on a 3rd fall dq Angelo Poffo drew Sweet Daddy Long 20:00 Ray Gordon beat Masked Hercules Jamaica Kid beat Fuzzy Cupid Att: 5,200 12/29/65 Fort Wayne, IN @ Allen County War Memorial Coliseum The Assassins beat Nicoli Volkoff & Boris Volkoff 2/3 WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser beat Gene Kiniski Wilbur Snyder beat Huey Long (sub Moose Cholak) Huey Long beat Bozo Brown (sub Dennis Dolly) Prince Pullins beat Tom Jones Att: 4,500
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clawmaster wrote: 11/17/64 Pensacola, FL Next night in Mobile: Wednesday 11-18-64, Mobile AL, Municipal Auditorium Dick the Bruiser vs Lee Fields - N/C 1. Bruiser w Fields 2. Fields w Bruiser 3. Fields is jumped on the way to the ring by The Mighty Yankee and Al (Spider) Galento and left unable to continue. Match is declared a no contest. The Mighty Yankee d. Wilbur Snyder 1. Snyder w Yankee 2. Snyder counted out and unable to continue after being tossed out of the ring. Bobby Fields d. Mickey Sharpe in two straight falls. Tony Baillargeon & Doug Kinslow d. The Foreigners, Inc. in two straight falls. Chin Lee d. Paul DeGalle This is the very first card held in the Mobile Municipal Auditorium which had opened earlier in the year. Last edited on Thu Nov 4th, 2010 05:41 am by diamondmd ____________________ From the Golden Gulf Coast |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 4th, 2010 06:14 am |
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A few Genealogy Bank results: He also had a 1957 match in New Orleans, but I'd like to find the result of that one before I post it. November 6, 1958 Cleveland, OH (Arena) 4,970 Hans Schmidt d. (DQ) Dick the Bruiser Verne Gagne drew Roy McClarity Little Beaver/Tiny Tim d. Fuzzy Cupid/Irish Jackie November 19, 1958 Cleveland, OH (Arena) 3,163 Verne Gagne d. (DQ) Hans Schmidt Dick the Bruiser d. Roy McClarity (2-1) Corinne Cordova d. Ramona Lasalle Tony Marino d. Wally Greb Doc Gallagher/Mike Gallagher d. Don Arnold/Ray McMurray December 4, 1958 Cleveland, OH (Arena) 3,491 Doc Gallagher/Mike Gallagher d. (DQ) Ilio DiPaolo/Wilbur Snyder Bill Miller/Ed Miller d. Tony Marino/Roy McClarity Dick Beyer d. Firpo Zbyszko Dick the Bruiser d. Don Arnold December 18, 1958 Cleveland, OH (Arena) 3,019 Guy Brunetti drew Doc Gallagher Mike Gallagher d. Joe Brunetti Wilbur Snyder drew Dick the Bruiser (1-1) Roy McClarity d. Al Warshawski Don Arnold d. Al Albertino Billy the Kid/Farmer McGregor d. Tiny Roe/Tom Thumb January 15, 1959 Cleveland, OH (Arena) 7,694 Ilio DePaolo/Lord Athol Layton d. (DQ) Doc Gallagher/Mike Gallagher Dick the Bruiser d. Gorgeous George (time - 1:15) Ed Carpentier d. Baron Gattoni Guy Brunetti/Joe Brunetti d. Bob Langevin/Jim Wright Man Mountain Montana d. Wally Greb Bobby Brown drew Frank Fozo January 22, 1959 Cleveland, OH (Arena) 7,481 Guy Brunetti/Joe Brunetti d. Doc Gallagher/Mike Gallagher (1-1, decision) Bobby Brown d. (DQ) Gorgeous George Dick the Bruiser DDQ Ilio DePaolo Little Beaver/Mario Sanchez d. Mighty Schultz/Tom Thumb Man Mountain Montana d. Al Albertino Jim Wright drew Dick Beyer No card next week because of Golden Gloves tournament February 19, 1959 Cleveland, OH (Arena) 3,892 Dick the Bruiser d. (COR) Ed Carpentier (2-1) Yukon Eric d. Man Mountain Montana Guy Brunetti/Joe Brunetti d. Baron Gattoni/Jim Wright Dick Beyer d. Tony Verdi Frank Fozo d. George Pencheff February 26, 1959 Cleveland, OH (Arena) 6,476 Doc Gallagher/Mike Gallagher d. Dick the Bruiser/Hans Schmidt Wilbur Snyder d. Jim Wright Yukon Eric d. Baron Gattoni Roy McClarity d. Man Mountain Montana Paul Baillargeon d. Frank Fozo Fred Adkins d. Tony Marino
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As soon as I get done with 1966, I'll add all these other listings. I also have some other stuff I found to add. Also need to go to DuPree's site and get the correct names of the Indianapolis venues.
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Bruiser did wrestle several matches on Minneapolis television aka All Star Wrestling for you AWA die hards during 1966 but I'm not including them because the AWA ran the squash TV format and rarely ran angles on TV to set up programs. St. Louis on the other hand had more competitive matches and did run angles to set up programs. If you really want to see what TV matches Bruiser wrestled in Minneapolis, go to the All My AWA results thread. You can see them there. 1/7/66 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium Referee Joe Schoenberger Gene Kiniski beat Lou Thesz 2/3, 2nd fall by dq to win NWA Title 1 Thesz pinned Kiniski after a series of drop kicks in 18:08. 2 Kiniski beat Thesz dq when Thesz tossed Kiniski over the top rope in 4:28 3 Kiniski beat Thesz after three back breakers in 1:17 Johnny Powers & Bobby Managoff beat Hercules Graham & Dick the Bruiser 2/3 1 Bruiser beat Managoff 2 Managoff beat Bruiser 3 Powers beat Graham. Wilbur Snyder beat Moose Cholak Handicap tag bout Fritz Von Erich beat Ray Gordon & Cowboy Bob Ellis by beating Gordon Bulldog Lee Henning drew Joe Tangaro Angelo Poffo beat Johnny Long att: 11,612 1/8/66 Chicago, IL @ International Amphitheatre Congo Death Match for NWA Title, WWA Title not on the line NWA Champion Gene Kiniski beat WWA Champion Dick the Bruiser with help from Johnny Valentine Johnny Valentine no contest Wilbur Snyder Verne Gagne beat Chris Markoff The Assassins beat Dennis Hall & Huey Long The Crusher beat Prince Pullins Jose Bentancourt beat Boris Volkoff 1/13/66: Fort Wayne, IN @ Coliseum Texas Death Match NWA Champion Gene Kiniski beat WWA champion Dick the Bruiser COR in 5th fall 1st fall Bruiser beat Kiniski 2nd-4th falls Kiniski, opening up Bruiser's eye in the process. 5th fall Bruiser opened Kiniski's forehead before the Assassins attacked the Bruiser with Wilbur Snyder saving the Bruiser,entering the ring in his street clothes. Bruiser counted out of the ring before Snyder's intervention. WWA Tag Team Champions Wilbur Snyder & Moose Cholak ddq the Assassins in 3rd fall Pancho Lopez beat Sky Low Low Bobby Managoff beat Huey Long Att: 4,768 1/15/66 Indianapolis, IN @ Fairgrounds Coliseum WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser dcor Johnny Valentine WWA Tag Team Champions Moose Cholak & Wilbur Snyder beat Fritz Von Erich & NWA Champion Gene Kiniski on a 3rd fall dq AWA Champion Mad Dog Vachon beat Angelo Poffo Assassin I beat Johnny Kace Assassin II beat Prince Pullins Jose Betancourt beat Sweet Daddy Long 1/18/66 Louisville, KY The Assassins beat Dick the Bruiser & Wilbur Snyder Doug Kinslow beat Frank Hickey Dennis Hall beat Igor Volkoff Sweet Daddy Long beat Prince Pullins 1/21/66 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium Cowboy Bob Ellis beat Fritz Von Erich Dick the Bruiser beat Johnny Powers Pat O’Connor beat Bulldog Lee Henning Bobby Managoff draw Moose Cholak Dory Funk Jr & Joe Tangaro beat Joe Tomasso & Johnny Kace 1 Kace beat Tangaro 2 Tangaro beat Tomasso 3 Dory Jr beat Kace Ken Hollis beat Jim Wehba att: 6185 1/22/66 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Johnny Kace beat Jerry Miller Alex Perez drew Don DeSoto Bobby Managoff beat Tamayo Sato Dick the Bruiser beat Ken Hollis Bulldog Lee Henning ddq Moose Cholak 1/22/66 Chicago, IL @ International Amphitheatre Johnny Valentine no contest WWA Champion Dick the Bruiser AWA Champion Mad Dog Vachon beat Wilbur Snyder COR Verne Gagne beat Moose Cholak Larry Hennig & Harley Race beat Angelo Poffo & Bobby Managoff Dale Lewis drew Guy Mitchell Jose Betancourt beat Huey Long 1/25/66 Louisville, KY The Assassins beat Moose Cholak & Wilbur Snyder Dick the Bruiser beat Huey Long Rita Cortez beat Chi Chi Paris Doug Kinslow beat Jim Eskew 1/29/66 Indianapolis, IN @ Northside Armory Tag Team Tournament First Round The Assassins beat Scufflin Hillbillies Jose Betancourt & Francisco Rios beat Sweet Daddy Long & Bozo Brown Boris Volkoff & Nicoli Volkoff beat Prince Pullins & Bill Nixon Dick the Bruiser & Angelo Poffo bye Semi Finals The Assassins beat Rios & Betancourt Boris Volkoff & Nicoli Volkoff beat Dick the Bruiser & Angelo Poffo Finals The Assassins beat Boris Volkoff & Nicoli Volkoff 2/3 2/4/66 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium NWA Champion Gene Kiniski beat Cowboy Bob Ellis 2-0 1 Kiniski won the first fall with several back breakers 2 Ellis could not continue in the second fall Before the bout, Fritz Von Erich and Wilbur Snyder both came to the ring to challenge the winner and ended up fighting each other Fritz Von Erich & Moose Cholak & Bobby Managoff & Johnny Powers when Cholak beat Managoff Wilbur Snyder beat Alex Perez Dory Funk Jr & Terry Funk beat Dick the Bruiser & Bulldog Lee Henning 1-0 30:00 1 Terry beat Henning 2 The 30 minute limit expired before either team could score another fall Betty Niccoli beat Jean Antone Ken Hollis beat Gus Kalas att: 9,454 Note from Larry Matysik: Terry Funk's St. Louis debut 2/5/66 Chicago, IL @ International Amphitheatre WWA Champion Dick the Bruiser beat Johnny Valentine AWA Tag Team Champions Larry Hennig & Harley Race no contest Verne Gagne & Wilbur Snyder AWA Champion Mad Dog Vachon beat Pat O'Connor Moose Cholak beat Guy Mitchell Bobby Managoff beat Prince Pullins Jose Betancourt beat Steve Stanlee 2/11/66 Atlanta, GA @ Municipal Auditorium Indian Thong Match Chief Little Eagle no contest Dick the Bruiser Eric Von Brauner & Karl Von Brauner beat Al Costello & Louie Tillet to win World Tag Team Title Women's Champion Fabulous Moolah beat Judy Grable The Medics beat Billy Hines & Jimmy Bad Boy Hines Chin Lee beat Al Greene 2/12/66 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Wilbur Snyder beat Tor Kamata Fritz Von Erich beat Duane Peale Dick the Bruiser beat Gus Kalas Dory Funk Jr & Terry Funk beat Danny Dusek & Joe Tomasso 2-0 1 Terry beat Dusek 2 Dory Jr beat Tomasso 2/16/66 Honolulu, HI @ International Center Arena Lou Thesz beat Dick The Bruiser on a 3rd fall dq US Champion Johnny Barend beat Nick Kozak 2/3 1. Barend pinned Kozak after an atomic drop 2. Kozak pinned Barend after an airplane spin 3. Barend pinned Kozak after an elbow smash World Tag Team Champions Ray Stevens & Pat Patterson beat Rene Goulet & Bill Watts 2/3 1. Watts pinned Patterson after a body slam 2. Patterson pinned Watts 3. Stevens pinned Goulet after a Bombs Away Golden Terror beat Nick Bockwinkel on a 3rd fall dq Neff Maiava & Dean Higuchi drew Ripper Collins & Tosh Togo when the time limit expired in the 3rd fall 2/17/66 Fort Wayne, IN @ Allen County War Memorial Coliseum The Assassins beat Dick The Bruiser & Moose Cholak Fritz Von Erich beat Wilbur Snyder Nicoli Volkoff beat Prince Pullins Steve Stanlee drew Dennis Dolly 2/18/66 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium Cowboy Bob Ellis beat Moose Cholak Fritz Von Erich jumped Ellis before the match and there was brief skirmish Fritz Von Erich beat Wilbur Snyder Dick the Bruiser & Danny Plechas & Bulldog Lee Henning beat Dory Funk Sr & Dory Funk Jr & Terry Funk on a 3rd fall dq 1 Dory Funk Sr beat Plechas 2-Bruiser beat Dory Jr 3-Bruiser beat Sr dq Bobby Managoff beat Tor Kamata Sonny Myers beat Johnny Kace Cowboy Bradley & Irish Jackie beat Tiny Tim & Sky Low Low 2-0 1 Bradley beat Tim 2 Jackie beat Low Low Ken Hollis beat Joe Tomasso att: 8,340 2/19/66 Indianapolis, IN @ Fairgrounds Coliseum No Fan's Land bout (1st 2 rows of seats removed) WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser beat Johnny Valentine on a 3rd fall COR Wilbur Snyder no contest Fritz Von Erich in 3rd fall AWA Champion Mad Dog Vachon beat Dennis Dolly The Assassins beat Moose Cholak & Steve Stanlee 2-0 Angelo Poffo beat Prince Pullins Jose Betancourt beat Igor Volkoff 2/21/66 Kansas City, KS @ Memorial Hall Bob Brown & Bob Geigel beat Bob Ellis & Mongolian Stomper Butcher Vachon beat Dick the Bruiser Tor Kamata & Oki Shikina beat Pat O’Connor & Bobby Shane Ron Reed vs Sonny Myers Sweet Georgia Brown drew Betty Niccoli Cowboy Bradley beat Sky Low Low 2/22/66 St. Paul, MN @ Auditorium Dick the Bruiser & The Crusher beat AWA Tag Team Champions Larry Hennig & Harley Race dq Chris Tolos beat Reggie Parks in 23:10 Mighty Igor Vodik beat Steve Druk in 10:15 Chris Markoff beat Ivan Kalmikoff in 16:10 Larry Heiniemi drew George Drake 20:00 att: 4,860 2/25/66 Terre Haute, IN @ Armory Dick The Bruiser & Prince Pullins beat The Assassins 2/3 Dennis Hall beat Igor Volkoff (sub Huey Long) Jim Eskew (sub Bozo Brown) beat Tom Jones 2/26/66 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Bulldog Henning beat Charlie Laye Sonny Myers beat Jack Brisco Cowboy Bob Ellis beat Tamayo Sato Johnny Powers ddq Dick the Bruiser in the 3rd fall Bulldog Lee Henning drew Ken Hollis 2/26/66 Chicago, IL @ International Amphitheatre AWA Title vs WWA Title AWA Champion Mad Dog Vachon beat WWA Champion Dick the Bruiser COR Verne Gagne & Wilbur Snyder beat AWA Tag Team Champions Larry Hennig & Harley Race dq Chris Markoff beat Guy Mitchell Moose Cholak beat Huey Long The Assassin beat Jose Betancourt Santiago Acosta drew Angelo Poffo Note: Bruiser was billed as WWA Champion in the rematch. Many people think the WWA Title was held up. 3/3/66 Fort Wayne, IN @ Coliseum WWA Champion Dick the Bruiser ddq Fritz Von Erich in 3rd fall The Assassins beat Moose Cholak & Wilbur Snyder to win the WWA Tag Team Title Steve Stanlee beat Prince Pullins Bobby Managoff beat Bozo Brown att: 2,307 3/4/66 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium Fritz Von Erich beat Cowboy Bob Ellis Texas Death Match, Special Referee: Bobby Bruns Dory Funk Sr beat Dick the Bruiser via reverse decision after Special referee Bobby Bruns had given Bruiser the victory when Dory Sr could not go on, but Bruiser continued to beat Dory Sr after the bell. Thus, Bruns changed the decision. In later publicity, Muchnick explained that Bruns had been wrong since it was a Death Match and that Bruiser should have gotten the victory but been suspended by the Athletic Commission. Ernie Ladd & Johnny Powers beat Moose Cholak & Bulldog Lee Henning 2-0, 1st fall by dq 1 Powers won by dq 2 Powers pinned Cholak after a Ladd drop kick on Moose Dory Funk Jr beat The Viking Dan Plechas drew Terry Funk Joe Tangaro beat Alex Perez Angelo Poffo beat Corsica Joe att: 11,895 sellout Note: Bruiser only missed one Kiel Auditorium card. Not a very long "suspension." 3/5/66 St. Paul, MN @ Auditorium Non Title Death Match Dick The Bruiser & The Crusher beat AWA Tag Team Champions Larry Hennig & Harley Race in 33:00 Mighty Igor Vodik beat Chris Markoff dq Chris Tolos beat Larry Heiniemi Ivan Kalmikoff beat Steve Druk Eddie Sharkey beat Juan Zendajas Att: 8,450 3/18/66 Indianapolis, IN @ Fairgrounds Coliseum Fritz Von Erich beat WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser on a 3rd fall dq AWA Champion Mad Dog Vachon beat Bobby Managoff WWA Tag Team Champions The Assassins beat Wilbur Snyder & Ken Hollis 2/3 Cora Combs beat Rita Cortez Angelo Poffo beat Tyaka Soto Dennis Dolly beat Corsica Jean 3/19/66 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Tamayo Sato drew Guy Mitchell Mario Milano beat Jim Wehba Fritz Von Erich beat Gene Anderson Dick the Bruiser beat Joe Tangaro Joe Tomasso beat Charlie Laye 3/19/66 St. Paul, MN @ Armory Dick The Bruiser & The Crusher beat AWA Tag Team Champions Larry Hennig & Harley Race dq AWA Champion Mad Dog Vachon beat Wilbur Snyder COR Chris Markoff beat Mark Starr Chris Tolos beat Eddie Sharkey George Drake beat Guy Taylor Att: 8,647 3/24/66 Fort Wayne, IN @ Coliseum WWA Tag Team Champions The Assassins beat Dick the Bruiser & Wilbur Snyder NWA Champion Gene Kiniski beat Moose Cholak Ernie Ladd beat Steve Stanlee (sub Red Kelly) Angelo Poffo beat Dennis Dolly (sub Steve Stanlee) Att: 2,384 3/25/66 Terre Haute, IN @ Armory Referee Paul Mischler WWA Tag Team Champions The Assassins no contest Dick The Bruiser & Wilbur Snyder in 3rd fall Steve Stanlee beat Tom Jones 2/3 Dennis Dolly beat Bozo Brown in 19:40 3/26/66 Chicago, IL @ International Amphitheatre AWA Champion Mad Dog Vachon beat Dick the Bruiser dq to win WWA Title Verne Gagne & Wilbur Snyder beat the Assassins Johnny Valentine beat Bobby Managoff Pat O'Connor beat Angelo Poffo Cora Combs beat Kathy O'Brien Ernie Ladd beat Lee Henning Santiago Acosta beat Steve Stanlee Note: This was a Chicago only title change. Bruiser continued to hold the title in Indiana. Vachon was billed as AWA and WWA Champion in Chicago. Slowly but surely the WWA Title was phased out in Chicago. 4/1/66 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium NWA Champion Gene Kiniski beat Fritz Von Erich 2/3, 1st fall by dq 1 Kiniski beat Von Erich dq 2 Von Erich beat Kiniski 3 Kiniski pinned Von Erich to win the third. Ernie Ladd & Cowboy Bob Ellis beat Great Goliath & Moose Cholak 2/3 1 Goliath beat Ladd 2 Ladd beat Goliath 3 Ellis beat Cholak Johnny Powers drew Pat O’Connor Dick the Bruiser beat Sonny Myers Dory Funk Jr beat Taro Myaki Joe Tangaro beat Hercules Graham dq Guy Mitchell drew The Viking att: 12,844 sellout 4/2/66 Indianapolis, IN @ Northside Armory WWA Tag Team Champions The Assassins beat Dick the Bruiser & Bobby Managoff 2/3 falls when Managoff was pinned in the 3rd fall after 12 minutes by Assassin II who was unmasked as Guy Mitchell Moose Cholak beat Bozo Brown Ivan Volkoff beat Tom Jones Prince Pullins drew Les Thatcher 15:00 Prince Pullins beat Steve Stanlee 4/15/66 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium Ernie Ladd beat Great Goliath and unmasked him as Moose Evans Dick the Bruiser beat Dory Funk Sr Pat O’Connor & Bobby Managoff beat Johnny Powers & Fritz Von Erich 2-0, 1st fall by dq 1 Managoff won by dq 2 O’Connor beat Powers, leading to a scuffle between Von Erich and Powers. Moose Cholak draw Cowboy Bob Ellis Special Referee: Cora Combs Kathy O’Brien beat Jean Lane Bulldog Henning beat Joe Blanchard Mario Milano beat Danny Plechas att: 9859 4/16/66 Chicago, IL @ International Amphitheatre Verne Gagne beat Johnny Valentine dq AWA Tag Team Champions Larry Hennig & Harley Race beat Dick the Bruiser & Pat O'Connor dq Chris Markoff beat Eddie Sharkey Angelo Poffo beat Joe Blanchard Bobby Managoff beat Ivan Volkoff Jose Betancourt beat Mark Starr 4/22/66 Terre Haute, IN @ National Guard Armory Dick The Bruiser & Moose Cholak beat The Assassins 2/3 Ernie Ladd beat Steve Mr. America Stanlee 2-0 Angelo Poffo beat Tom Jones Referee Paul Mischler of Vincennes 4/23/66 Indianapolis, IN @ Fairgrounds Coliseum Cage Match WWA Champion Dick The Bruiser beat Fritz Von Erich COR Ernie Ladd beat Moose Cholak AWA Champion Mad Dog Vachon beat Ivan Volkoff WWA Tag Team Champions The Assassins beat Bob Ellis & Angelo Poffo 2/3 Joe Brunetti beat Steve Stanlee Bobby Managoff beat Ivan Volkoff Kathy O'Brien beat Rita Crawford attendance 3,695 4/28/66 Kansas City, KS @ Memorial Hall Dick the Bruiser & Mongolian Stomper beat Bob Geigel & Bulldog Bob Brown on a 3rd fall dq Pat O’Connor beat Butcher Vachon COR Ron Reed beat Oki Shikina Bobby Hart beat Tor Kamata dq Jerry Kozak beat Jim Wehba 4/29/66 Denver, CO @ Auditorium Arena Special referee: Everett Marshall Ernie Ladd & Wahoo McDaniel beat AWA Tag Team Champions Larry Hennig & Harley Race on a 3rd fall dq The Crusher vs Chris Tolos 2/3 Dick The Bruiser vs Dory Funk Verne Gagne beat Bill Melby 5/6/66 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium Lou Thesz & Pat O’Connor beat NWA Champion Gene Kiniski & Dick the Bruiser 2/3. 2nd fall by dq 1 Kiniski beat O’Connor 2 O’Connor beat Bruiser dq 3 Thesz beat Kiniski Ernie Ladd drew Fritz Von Erich Cowboy Bob Ellis beat Bulldog Lee Henning Mario Milano beat Moose Cholak dq Terry Funk beat The Viking Angelo Poffo beat Johnny Kace Att: 11,850 sellout 5/7/66 Indianapolis, IN @ Northside Armory Dick The Bruiser & Ernie Ladd beat WWA Tag Team Champions The Assassins on a 3rd fall dq Angelo Poffo beat Prince Pullins Luis Martinez drew Moose Cholak 30:00 Lord Littlebrook beat Pirate Morgan 2/3 5/17/66 Kansas City, MO @ Municipal Auditorium NWA Champion Gene Kiniski beat Mongolian Stomper 2/3 Dick the Bruiser & Bob Ellis beat Bulldog Bob Brown & Bob Geigel Sonny Myers beat The Viking Jamaica Kid & Little Beaver beat Little Brutus & Sky Low Low Ron Reed beat Tor Kamata Butcher Vachon beat Jerry Kozak Little Brutus beat Jamaica Kid 5/21/66 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Thor Hagen beat Charlie Laye Guy Mitchell beat Duane Peale Lou Thesz beat Angelo Poffo NWA Champion Gene Kiniski beat Luis Martinez Dick the Bruiser beat Harry Morgan 2-0 Kiniski and Thesz officially signed for their June 3 match 5/21/66 Chicago, IL @ International Amphitheatre Non Title Dick the Bruiser beat AWA Champion Mad Dog Vachon Chris Tolos beat the Crusher dq The Assassins beat Moose Cholak & Wilbur Snyder The Destroyer drew Pat O'Connor Sharon Lass beat Kathy O'Brien Luis Martinez beat Dirty Dick Morgan 5/27/66 Indianapolis, IN @ Northside Armory From the Indianapolis Star 5/26/66; Dick the Bruiser & Bob Ellis teamed for the first time face the Masked Assassins in Friday night's headliner at the Northside Armory. They asked the State Athletic Commission to bar their opponent's manager from Ringside. Merle Alte, SAC executive secretary, took the request under advisement but indicated there was no regulation barring "seconds" from ring activities in Indiana. Two Weeks ago Ray Heenan, the manager, interfered in a bout involving the Bruiser & Ernie Ladd against the Assassins & the resulting disqualification kept the Bruiser-Ladd duo from taking the world's tag team title from the champs. Alte indicated however that a state commissioner would be at ringside to prevent another such occurance. Results: WWA Tag Team Champions The Assassins drew Dick The Bruiser & Bob Ellis when the 60 minute time limit ran out in the 3rd fall Luis Martinez beat Angelo Poffo Prince Pullins beat Les Thatcher Sharon Lass beat June Lane 5/28/66 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Luis Martinez beat Johnny Kace Joe Tomasso drew Ron Reed Dick the Bruiser beat Thor Hagen Sonny Myers & Cowboy Bob Ellis beat Moose Cholak & The Viking 1 Viking beat Myers 2 Myers beat Cholak 3 Ellis beat Viking 5/28/66 Minneapolis, MN @ Convention Center Dick The Bruiser & The Crusher beat Larry Hennig & Harley Race 2/3 to win the AWA Tag Team Title 1 Bruiser pinned Hennig 2 Hennig pinned Crusher 3 Crusher pinned Hennig The Alaskan beat Moose Cholak 14:56 Chris Markoff beat Mike Sanchez (sub Chris Tolos) 10:20 Reggie Parks beat Dick Morgan Note: Another listing had an additional result Billy Red Cloud beat Johnny Kace 6/3/66 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium NWA Champion Gene Kiniski drew Lou Thesz when the 60 minute time limit expired in the 3rd fall Ernie Ladd & Cowboy Bob Ellis & Pat O’Connor beat Fritz Von Erich & Dick the Bruiser & Moose Evans when Ellis beat Evans Mario Milano beat Ivan Volkoff Dory Funk Jr & Terry Funk beat Moose Cholak & Danny Plechas 2/3, 2nd fall by dq 1 Plechas beat Terry 2 Terry beat Cholak dq 3 Dory Jr beat Plechas Sonny Myers no contest Joe Blanchard when Blanchard was injured and Myers refused the victory Joe Tomasso beat Thor Hagen att: 11,804 sellout 6/4/66 Minneapolis, MN @ Convention Center No Time Limit, Special Referee: Joe Blanchard AWA Tag Team Champions Dick The Bruiser & The Crusher beat Larry Hennig & Harley Race 2/3 The Alaskan beat Billy Red Cloud Wilbur Snyder beat Moose Cholak Chris Markoff beat Johnny Zenda Eddie Sharkey won an 8 man battle royal Att: 4,593 6/7/66 West Frankfort, IL @ High School Gym Dick The Bruiser & Bulldog Danny Plechas vs Bob Ellis & Guy Mitchell 2/3 60:00 Sonny Myers vs Joe Tomasso Angelo Poffo vs Johnny Kace Sharon Lass vs Kathy O’Brien 30:00 6/11/66 Indianapolis, IN @ Northside Armory No dq Match, No Time Limit Dick the Bruiser & Wilbur Snyder beat The Assassins 2/3 falls to win the WWA Tag Team Title The Destroyer beat Luis Martinez 2/3 Bobby Managoff beat Bobby Hyer Prince Pullins drew Dennis Dolly 20:00 att: 3,000 6/17/66 Milwaukee, WI @ Auditorium AWA Tag Team Champions Dick the Bruiser & The Crusher beat The Alaskan & Mad Dog Vachon Verne Gagne beat Angelo Poffo Ernie Ladd beat Chris Markoff Wilbur Snyder beat Guy Mitchell Moose Cholak beat Luis Martinez Att: 3,309 6/18/66 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Guy Mitchell beat Boris Nicoli Ron Reed beat Raymond Zavalza Sonny Myers & Pat O’Connor & Angelo Poffo beat Joe Tomasso & Moose Cholak & Danny Plechas 2/3 1 Plechas beat Poffo 2 Myers beat Plechas 3 O’Connor beat Tomasso Dick the Bruiser beat Luis Martinez 6/24/66 Chicago, IL @ International Amphitheatre Wilbur Snyder drew AWA Champion Mad Dog Vachon 60:00 AWA Tag Team Champions Dick the Bruiser & the Crusher no contest The Assassins Chris Markoff beat Doug Gilbert Ernie Ladd beat the Alaskan The Destroyer beat Prince Pullins Luis Martinez beat Ivan Volkoff 6/25/66 Indianapolis, IN @ Northside Armory The Assassins beat Dick The Bruiser & Wilbur Snyder to regain the WWA tag team title when The Destroyer hit Bruiser with brass knuckles & Assassin I pinned Bruiser 17 seconds into the 3rd fall. The Destroyer beat Bobby Managoff 2/3 Luis Martinez beat Angelo Poffo Prince Pullins beat Bobby Hyer 6/28/66 Davenport, IA @ Municipal Stadium AWA Tag Team Champions Dick the Bruiser & the Crusher beat Mad Dog Vachon & the Alaskan Billy Red Cloud beat Chris Markoff Wilbur Snyder beat Big K dq Eddie Sharkey drew Doug Gilbert 7/7/66 Davenport, IA @ Municipal Stadium AWA Champion Mad Dog Vachon beat Billy Red Cloud AWA Tag Team Champions Dick The Bruiser & Crusher beat The Alaskan & Big K Wilbur Snyder beat Angelo Poffo Doug Gilbert beat Steve Druk 7/9/66 Indianapolis, IN @ Victory Field WWA Champion Dick the Bruiser beat the Destroyer on a 3rd fall COR NWA Champion Gene Kiniski beat Ernie Ladd WWA Tag Team Champions The Assassins ddq Luis Martinez & Wilbur Snyder Moose Cholak beat Prince Pullins Johnny Kace beat Dennis Hall Lord Littlebrook beat Frenchy Lamont attendance 4,000 7/13/66 LeMay, MO Dick the Bruiser beat Sonny Myers Moose Cholak no contest Bob Ellis Lorenzo Parente & Joe Tangero beat Johnny Kace & Joe Tomasso Cora Combs beat Mae Goodner 7/16/66 Milwaukee, WI @ Auditorium AWA Champion Mad Dog Vachon beat Dick The Bruiser dq The Crusher beat The Alaskan Wilbur Snyder & Doug Gilbert beat Moose Cholak & Chris Markoff Ernie Ladd beat Johnny Kace Luis Martinez beat Jose Quintero att: 3,448 7/25/66 Chicago, IL @ International Amphitheatre AWA Champion Mad Dog Vachon beat Ernie Ladd AWA Tag Team Champions Dick the Bruiser & the Crusher beat the Assassins Verne Gagne beat Chris Markoff Wilbur Snyder beat Angelo Poffo The Alaskan beat Johnny Kace Luis Martinez drew Moose Cholak 7/30/66 St Paul, MN @ Midway Stadium AWA Tag Team Champions Dick The Bruiser & The Crusher no contest The Alaskan & Big K AWA Champion Mad Dog Vachon beat Billy Red Cloud dq Verne Gagne beat Stan Pulaski Wladek "Killer" Kowalski beat Chris Markoff Jack Pesek beat Kenny Jay Jose Quintero beat Santiago Acosta Att: 5,474 8/13/66 Minneapolis, MN @ Convention Center AWA Tag Team Champions Dick The Bruiser & Crusher beat The Alaskan & Big K Killer Kowalski beat Doug Gilbert Billy Red Cloud beat Stan Pulaski Wilbur Snyder beat Chris Markoff Eddie Sharkey drew Jack Pesek Att: 5,113 8/20/66 Indianapolis, IN @ Victory Field WWA title vs NWA title WWA champion Dick the Bruiser drew NWA champion Gene Kiniski when the 60 minute time limit expired in the 3rd fall WWA Tag Team Champions Wilbur Snyder & Luis Martinez beat the Assassins Bob Ellis ddq the Destroyer Chris Markoff beat Roger Dolly Mitsu Arakawa beat Johnny Kace Toni Rose beat Princess Little Cloud Att: 7,000 8/27/66 Minneapolis, MN @ Convention Center AWA Tag Team Champions Dick The Bruiser & The Crusher beat Larry Hennig & Mad Dog Vachon Verne Gagne & Wilbur Snyder beat Alaskan & Big K Killer Kowalski beat Moose Cholak Billy Red Cloud beat Joe Tomasso Doug Gilbert drew Chris Markoff 8/28/66 Muncie, IN The Assassins beat Dick The Bruiser & Bobby Managoff dq NWA Champion Gene Kiniski drew Moose Cholak Prince Pullins beat Roger Kirby 9/16/66 Chicago, IL @ International Amphitheatre AWA Tag Team Champions Dick the Bruiser & the Crusher beat the Alaskan & Big K Killer Kowalski beat Pat O'Connor Mitsu Arakawa beat Bobby Managoff The Destroyer beat Jose Betancourt Angelo Poffo beat Prince Pullins Luis Martinez beat Larry Heiniemi 9/17/66 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Jack Donovan beat Dick Murdoch Johnny Powers beat Jerry Timmons Wilbur Snyder beat Jim Wehba Dick the Bruiser & Hercules Graham no contest Johnny Valentine & Lorenzo Parente in 3rd fall 1 Graham beat Parente 2 Valentine, after Bruiser accidentally punched Graham, pinned Graham 3 Bruiser and Graham ended up in a pull-apart donnybrook, thus the referee threw out the match 9/20/66 Moline, IL @ Wharton Fieldhouse AWA Tag Team Champions Dick The Bruiser & The Crusher beat Larry Hennig & Harley Race Big K beat Chris Markoff The Alaskan beat Doug Gilbert Billy Red Cloud beat Steve Druk 9/24/66 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Jack Donovan draw Luis Martinez Wilbur Snyder beat Mitsu Arakawa dq Dick the Bruiser beat Timothy Geohagen Hercules Graham beat Angelo Poffo The Viking draw Bobby Managoff 9/24/66 Omaha, NE @ Civic Auditorium Midwest Tag Title Match, AWA Tag Titles not on the line Midwest Tag Team Champions Luke Brown & Jake Smith beat AWA Tag Team Champions Dick the Bruiser & The Crusher dq Dale Lewis beat Doug Gilbert Nebraska Champion Tim Woods drew Mad Russian Stan Pulaski Ron Reed beat Harley Race 9/28/66 Denver, CO @ Auditorium Arena Killer Kowalski won battle royal Killer Kowalski beat Doug Gilbert Dick The Bruiser beat Len Miller Reggie Parks beat Tim Woods Billy Red Cloud beat Larry Hennig dq The Alaskan beat Eddie Sharkey 9/29/66 Elkhart, IN WWA Champion Dick the Bruiser vs Chris Markoff The Assassins vs Luis Martinez & Wilbur Snyder Prince Pullins vs Mighty Igor Vodik Mitsu Arakawa vs Dennis Hall 10/5/66 San Antonio, TX @ Wrestlethon TV Taping Ricky Romero beat Danny Plechas Dick The Bruiser beat Jerry Timmons Waldo Von Erich beat George Sandoval Bob Ellis beat Swede Karlson Duke Keomuka beat Danny Plechas Ricky Romero beat Waldo Von Erich dq Dick The Bruiser beat Tommy O'Brien Blackjack Daniels beat The Ox dq Dick The Bruiser beat Speedy Gonzalez Duke Keomuka beat Jerry Timmons Waldo Von Erich drew Bob Ellis Waldo Von Erich & Blackjack Daniels beat Speedy Gonzalez & Mighty Ursus The Ox & Mighty Ursus drew Waldo Von Erich & Blackjack Daniels 10/6/66 Kansas City, KS NWA Champion Gene Kiniski beat Dick The Bruiser Bobo Brazil & The Viking beat Bob Geigel & Bulldog Bob Brown dq Jean Antone won battle royal Pat O'Connor beat Sonny Myers dq Luke Graham beat Bobby Hart 10/7/66 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium Dory Funk Jr & Terry Funk beat Fritz Von Erich & The Crusher on a 3rd fall reverse decision dq 1 Crusher beat Terry 2 Terry beat Crusher 3 Dory Jr beat Fritz by reverse decision The referee had stopped the bout and given the decision to Fritz, who had Dory in the Iron Claw, but when Von Erich refused to release the hold, he was dq'ed. Texas Death Match Dick the Bruiser beat Hercules Graham Pat O’Connor beat Johnny Powers Wilbur Snyder beat Mitsu Arakawa Sweet Daddy Siki beat Danny Plechas Chris Markoff beat Luis Martinez Angelo Poffo drew Jack Donovan att: 9,410 10/8/66 Indianapolis, IN @ Fairgrounds Coliseum Mitsu Arakawa beat Dick the Bruiser to win the WWA Title WWA Tag Team Champions Chris Markoff & Angelo Poffo beat Luis Martinez & Wilbur Snyder 2/3 The Destroyer beat Assassin I & unmasked him as Joe Tomasso Moose Cholak beat Jose Betancourt Igor Volkoff beat Tom Jones Sharon Lass beat Rita Crawford 10/15/66 Omaha, NE Dale Lewis beat Dick the Bruiser dq Tim Woods beat Harley Race Luke Brown & Jake Smith beat The Alaskan & Haru Sasaki Mad Russian Stan Pulaski drew Ron Reed 10/21/66 Chicago, IL @ International Amphitheatre Dick the Bruiser beat the Alaskan Wilbur Snyder beat Killer Kowalski dq Verne Gagne beat Big K Larry Hennig & Harley Race beat Doug Gilbert & Billy Red Cloud Mitsu Arakawa beat Luis Martinez Chris Markoff beat Prince Pullins 10/25/66 Denver, CO @ Auditorium Arena Dick The Bruiser beat The Alaskan dq Killer Kowalski beat Jack Lanza Reggie Parks & Billy Red Cloud beat Larry Hennig & Harley Race Billy Red Cloud beat Big K 0/27/66 Sioux City, IA AWA Champion Mad Dog Vachon beat Tim Woods Luke Brown & Jake Smith beat AWA Tag Team Champions Dick the Bruiser & The Crusher dq Ron Reed beat Mad Russian Stan Pulaski Dale Lewis beat Dick Murdoch 10/28/66 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium Dick the Bruiser beat Pat O’Connor Wilbur Snyder beat The Crusher dq Waldo Von Erich beat Ronnie Etchison Dory Funk Jr. beat Chris Markoff Sweet Daddy Siki beat Luke Graham Moose Cholak beat Gus Kalas Lorenzo Parente & Joe Tangaro beat Dan Plechas & Mitsu Arakawa 2-0, 1st fall by dq 1 Tangaro won by dq 2 Parente beat Plechas Timothy Geohagen beat Johnny Kace att: 7408 11/5/66 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Jack Donovan beat Luis Martinez Sweet Daddy Siki beat Steve Stanlee Waldo Von Erich beat Angelo Poffo Dick the Bruiser beat Lorenzo Parente NWA Champion Gene Kiniski was doing color commentary with George Abel during the match. At one point, Bruiser was knocked from the ring and, on the floor, began arguing with Kiniski. Bruiser decked Kiniski, picked up the announcer’s table and slammed it on the champion. Luke Graham draw Ronnie Etchison 11/5/66 Indianapolis, IN @ Fairgrounds Coliseum WWA Champion Mitsu Arakawa no contest Dick the Bruiser WWA Tag Team Champions Chris Markoff & Angelo Poffo beat Luis Martinez & Joe Tomasso 2-0 Wilbur Snyder beat The Destroyer on 3rd fall dq Prince Pullins beat Santiago Acosta Len Rossi drew Igor Volkoff 20:00 Moose Cholak beat Carlo Milano Att: 4150 11/8/66 Dallas, TX @ Memorial Auditorium NWA Champion Gene Kiniski dcor Fritz Von Erich in 3rd fall (Von Erich “brazenly wore the championship belt out of the ring as a draw decision was announced,” according to the Dallas Morning News) Joe Blanchard & Bob Ellis & Duke Keomuka beat Bob Geigel & Gary Hart & Waldo Von Erich Wilbur Snyder beat Blackjack Daniels Danny Plechas beat Golden Terror Kinji Shibuya beat The Ox Dick the Bruiser beat Darrell Cochran Bearcat Wright beat Ken Yates 11/9/66 San Antonio, TX @ Memorial Auditorium NWA Champion Gene Kiniski beat Dick the Bruiser dq Fritz Von Erich beat Ox Baker Bob Ellis & Duke Keomuka & Wilbur Snyder beat Blackjack Daniels & Danny Plechas & Waldo Von Erich Bearcat Wright vs Bob Geigel Luis Martinez vs Golden Terror Kinji Shibuya beat Darrell Cochran Stu Gibson beat Ken Yates Gary Hart beat Great Tonina 11/10/66 Milwaukee, WI @ Auditorium Verne Gagne beat The Alaskan Killer Kowalski beat Dick the Bruiser dq Reggie Parks & Doug Gilbert beat Larry Hennig & Harley Race Wilbur Snyder beat Mitsu Arakawa Jack Lanza drew Chris Markoff att: 2,300 11/11/66 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium Handicap match Waldo Von Erich & Moose Cholak beat Lou Thesz. 1 Thesz pinned Cholak 2 Thesz was unable to beat Waldo Von Erich during 30 minute time limit so Lou had to forfeit the decision. Fritz Von Erich beat Dory Funk Jr. Terry Funk & Joe Tangaro beat Dick the Bruiser & Bulldog Lee Henning 2/3, 2nd fall by dq 1 Bruiser beat Tangaro 2 Funk won by dq 3 Tangaro beat Henning. Sweet Daddy Siki ddq Hercules Graham Dianna Lynn & Cora Combs beat Mae Goodson & Jessica Rogers 2-0 1 Combs beat Goodson 2 Lynn beat Rogers Toru Tanaka (later billed as Professor Tanaka) drew Ronnie Etchison att: 7352 11/12/66 St Louis TV from Wrestling at the Chase Joe Tomasso drew Timothy Geohagen Hercules Graham beat Tarzan Baxter NWA Champion Gene Kiniski beat Ronnie Etchison Dick the Bruiser beat Rickey Hunter Bulldog Henning drew Thor Hagen 11/12/66 Omaha, NE @ Civic Auditorium Dick the Bruiser beat Mad Dog Vachon to win AWA title Title Change only recognized in Omaha Verne Gagne beat Mad Russian Stan Pulaski Midwest Tag Team Title Match Mitsu Arakawa & Haru Sasaki vs The Kentuckians Dale Lewis vs Wilbur Snyder Ron Reed drew Tim Woods 11/16/66 Denver, CO @ Auditorium Arena Killer Kowalski beat Verne Gagne dq Dick the Bruiser beat The Alaskan Larry Hennig & Harley Race beat Wilbur Snyder & Jack Lanza Bill Melby beat Eric the Great 11/17/66 Elkhart, IN Dick The Bruiser & Wilbur Snyder beat The Assassins WWA Champion Mitsu Arakawa beat Moose Cholak Chris Markoff beat Jose Betancourt Prince Pullins drew American Stanlee 11/19/66 Omaha, NE @ Civic Auditorium Mad Dog Vachon beat Dick the Bruiser to regain AWA title Ron Reed & Tim Woods beat Dale Lewis & Haru Sasaki Jake Smith beat Mad Russian Stan Pulaski dq Luke Brown beat Luke Graham 11/24/66 Indianapolis, IN @ Fairgrounds Coliseum non title Texas Death Match Dick the Bruiser beat WWA champion Mitsu Arakawa after KO'ing Mitsu with a chair WWA Tag Team Champions Chris Markoff & Angelo Poffo beat Wilbur Snyder & Jack Lanza 2/3 Moose Cholak beat Bobby Graham Cora Combs beat Sharon Lass Haru Sasaki beat Joe Tomasso Prince Pullins beat Igor Volkoff Att: 7,000 11/25/66 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium NWA Champion Gene Kiniski beat Dick the Bruiser Lou Thesz beat Hercules Graham Waldo Von Erich & The Crusher beat Terry Funk & Dory Funk Jr 2/3 1 Crusher beat Dory Jr 2 Dory Jr beat Crusher 3 Waldo beat Terry Wilbur Snyder beat Chris Markoff Dory Funk Sr. beat Joe Tomasso Bulldog Lee Henning beat Ronnie Etchison Lorenzo Parente beat Jose Betancourt att: 11,892 sellout 11/28/66 Memphis, TN @ Ellis Auditorium Tojo Yamamoto & Professor Ito beat Buddy Fuller & Herb Welch on a 2nd fall dq referee Pat Malone Dick the Bruiser beat Jackie Fargo on a 3rd fall COR Don Greene drew Bronko Kelly Sonny Boy Cassidy beat Billy the Kid 11/30/66 Denver, CO @ Auditorium Arena Killer Kowalski vs AWA Champion Mad Dog Vachon 2/3 Larry Hennig & Harley Race beat Dick the Bruiser & Wilbur Snyder 2/3 The Alaskan vs Verne Gagne Bill Melby vs Joe Millich 12/2/66 Milwaukee, WI @ Auditorium Killer Kowalski beat Dick the Bruiser dq Reggie Parks & Doug Gilbert beat Mad Dog Vachon & Big K Verne Gagne beat Larry Hennig dq Wilbur Snyder beat Harley Race Jim Raschke drew Billy Red Cloud att: 2,431 12/3/66 St. Paul, MN @ Auditorium AWA Tag Team Champions Dick The Bruiser & The Crusher beat Alaskan & Big K 2/3 Handicap match Killer Kowalski beat Billy Red Cloud & George Drake in 17:10 Little Beaver & Jamaica Kid beat Sky Low Low & Little Brutus 2/3 Larry Hennig beat Jack Lanza Harley Race drew Doug Gilbert Att: 4,893 12/5/66 Memphis, TN @ Ellis Auditorium Tojo Yamamoto & Professor Ito beat Buddy Fuller & Herb Welch 2/3 Jackie Fargo beat Tamaya Soto (sub Dick the Bruiser) 2/3 Ray Lopez drew Don Fields Bronko Kelly beat Red Roberts 12/9/66 St. Louis, MO @ Kiel Auditorium Lou Thesz beat Waldo Von Erich Fritz Von Erich beat Sweet Daddy Siki Pat O’Connor & Johnny Valentine beat The Crusher & Dick the Bruiser on a 3rd fall dq 1 Crusher beat Valentine 2 Valentine beat Crusher 3 O’Connor won by dq Cowboy Bob Ellis beat Bulldog Lee Henning Moose Cholak beat Steve Stanlee Johnny Kace draw Angelo Poffo att: 7939 12/12/66 Memphis, TN @ Ellis Auditorium Handicap Match Buddy Fuller & Herb Welch beat Tojo Yamamoto & Professor Ito & Saul Weingeroff No dq Match, One fall to a Finish, Winner to Meet NWA Champion Gene Kiniski in January Jackie Fargo beat Dick The Bruiser Referee Eddie Malone Mario Milano beat Chin Lee on a 3rd fall dq Tamayo Soto drew Billy Wicks Treach Phillips beat Pancho Rosario 12/14/66 Denver, CO @ Auditorium Arena Dick the Bruiser & Wilbur Snyder beat Larry Hennig & Harley Race Verne Gagne beat The Alaskan Verne Gagne (sub Dory Funk Jr.) beat Haru Sasaki Killer Kowalski vs Chris Markoff 12/16/66 Chicago, IL @ International Amphitheatre Larry Hennig & Harley Race beat AWA Tag Team Champions Dick the Bruiser & the Crusher dq Killer Kowalski beat Verne Gagne dq Wilbur Snyder beat Mitsu Arakawa Chris Markoff beat Jack Lanza Reggie Parks beat Joe Tomasso Doug Gilbert beat Igor Volkoff 12/22/66 Kansas City, KS Dick the Bruiser beat Bob Geigel Jean Antone won 5 woman Battle Royal Jack Donovan drew Bob Orton Sonny Myers beat Tor Kamata Kay Noble beat Jean Antone Mike DiBiase vs The Viking 12/28/66 Indianapolis, IN @ Fairgrounds Coliseum WWA Champion Mitsu Arakawa no contest Wilbur Snyder WWA Tag Team Champions Chris Markoff & Angelo Poffo no contest Dick the Bruiser & the Crusher Jack Lanza beat Moose Cholak dq Igor Volkoff beat Mario Milano Joe Tomasso beat Len Rossi Darling Dagmar & Betty Boucher beat Diamond Lil & Toni Rose 12/29/66 Elkhart, IN Dick The Bruiser vs WWA Champion Mitsu Arakawa WWA Tag Team Champions Angelo Poffo & Chris Markoff vs Wilbur Snyder & The Crusher Moose Cholak vs Jack Lanza Prince Pullins vs The Assassin 12/30/66 Milwaukee, WI @ Auditorium Larry Hennig & Harley Race beat Wilbur Snyder & Dick the Bruiser Verne Gagne beat Mitsu Arakawa Killer Kowalski beat Reggie Parks Doug Gilbert drew Chris Markoff Jack Lanza beat Joe Tomasso att: 2,115
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clawmaster wrote: As soon as I get done with 1966, I'll add all these other listings. Done and credited.
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Added the story of Bruiser and Crusher becoming babyfaces in the AWA and the start of their extremely long feud with Larry Hennig and Harley Race.
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