All-Star Wrestling

Quad City Times – December 9, 1967

Harley Race and Dr. X (Masked Man) will meet Igor and Cowboy Bill Watts in the All-Star Wrestling main event Monday at 8:30 p.m. in Wharton Field House, Moline.  Bob Boyer is the opponent of Texas Bob Geigel in the special event.  Other events are Moose Cholak versus Rene Goulet and Mark Starr wrestling Eddie Sharkey.

DiBiase Defeats Silento Rodriguez

Arizona Daily Star – August 16, 1962

Iron Mike DiBiase took the final two falls from Silento Rodriguez in last night’s wrestling main event at the Tucson Garden.

The semifinal was won by Rocky Colombo who took the last two falls from Ken Lucas while Big Jim Wright defeated Frankie Cain and Jack Bence beat Eddie Sharkey in the one fall preliminaries.

Championship Wrestling

Beatrice Daily Sun – October 18, 1967

Here Tonight At 8:30

If it is wrestling at its best you are eager to witness, don’t pass up the Sertoma Club program this evening (Wednesday) in City Auditorium.  The curtain raiser gets underway at 8:30 p.m.

The mean feature will see Big Bob Orton as he meets Doug Gilbert with the Mid-West championship on the line.  Twice Orton has met the Indiana firebrand in main events of recent, and both times the Hoosier hotshot has come off with draws.

All-Star Wrestling

Quad City Times – July 1, 1967

A dispute between two wrestlers, Canadian champion John Powers and The Crusher, will be settled in the main event of All-Star Wrestling Thursday with two referees officiating.  In the semi-final match John Valentine will meet Chris Markoff.  Eddie Sharkey will wrestle the Big K and Bob Boyer will be matched against Professor Druk.  Wrestling begins at 8:30 p.m. Thursday in Municipal Stadium, Davenport.

Gagne Wins Match With Valentine

Chicago Tribune – April 17, 1966
By Frank Mastro

Verne Gagne, former University of Minnesota wrestling champion, won by disqualification from Johnny Valentine after each had won a fall in the International Ampitheater last night before a crowd of 3,773.

Valentine won the first fall with a throat chop in 15:50 then Gagne scored the second fall with a sleeper hold in 4:06, afterward Valentine was disqualified in 12:04 when he violated a rule by using a strangle hold outside the ring.

Challengers Cop Tag Team Crown

Arizona Daily Star – July 26, 1962

Challengers Frankie Cain and Rocky Columbo teamed to take the Western States Tag Team Championship away from Ken Lucas and Iron Mike DiBiase last night in professional wrestling before 1,100 spectators at Tucson Garden.

Cain and Columbo captured the first and third falls to dethrone Lucas and DiBiase.

Rocket Monroe took the second and third falls to whip Tito Montez in the semi-final.  In an elimination match for the City of Tucson Wrestling Championship, Dr Jerry Graham pinned Eddie Sharkey in 6:51 of the no time limit match.

Rocky Scores Victory Over Doug Gilbert

Sioux Falls Argus-Leader – November 29, 1962

Rocky Hamilton scored an unpopular victory over Doug Gilbert in the main event of the Legion wrestling show at the Coliseum Wednesday night and now is in line for a title shot here against Verne Gagne.

Gilbert, the Indiana strongboy, won the first fall in 6:35 but Hamilton, the “Missouri Mauler,” came back to take the second fall at 15:20 and the third at 21:15, ramming Gilbert’s head into the ring support.

Even after the bout was officially over the brawling raged on.

The Crusher took two out of three falls in the semi-windup from Jack Lanza, winning the first in 15:10 and the third at 29:15.

Eddie Sharkey took the opener, beating Cry Baby Cannon in 17:25.

Mat Referee Loses In Bout With Sharkey

Winona Daily News – May 20, 1963

Due to an injury to one of the members of a midget tag team match, Winona wrestling fans got an extra treat as unpopular referee Joe Schneider climbed into the ring in wrestling togs.

Schneider and Eddie Sharkey fought a one fall match with Sharkey getting the pin.

Kent Whips Arnold In Mat Feature

The Arizona Republic – April 18, 1964

Don (Bulldog) Kent last night defeated Don Arnold in the wrestling exhibition feature at Phoenix’ Madison Square Garden.

In other exhibitions: The Mongol defeated Eddie Sharkey, Tito Montez downed Carl Gray, Omar Atlas won over The Green Dragon and Fidel Grimo derailed Gus Guzman.

Hillbillies In Mat Feature At Garden

The Arizona Republic – March 23, 1964

A tag-team wrestling match is the featured wrestling exhibition slated on tonight’s card at Madison Square Garden.  Willie and Slim, the Scufflin’ Hillbillies will tangle with Fidel Grimo and Koko Toko.

Other matches, Don Arnold vs. Jose Quintero, Tito Montez vs. Wild Man Shane, Omar Atlas vs. Eddie Sharkey, and Al Velasco vs. Tony Bernardi.