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Texas Junior Heavyweight Title [El Paso Wrestling Association]
Billy Raborn
1945-03-27
El Paso, TX
Defeats Miguel Guzman; vacates 45-11-06 when Raborn is unable to defend due to his Army duty.
Milt Olsen
1945-11-27
El Paso, TX
Defeats The Hood in tournament final.
Charley Trejo #
1946-01-15
El Paso, TX
Title change approved by "Commissioner" Sam Cohen (El Paso Times, 46-01-16) who is actually deputy commissioner for the Bureau of Labor Statistics which supervises wresting in the state.
Leonard Carlton, Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, rules that the Olsen-Trejo match on 46-01-15 as a non-title bout because it has "not been previously sanctioned and advertised by the commission" and Olsen is still the champion (El Paso Times, 46-02-17); vacant when Olsen cannot maintain the weight limit and a tournament is announced on 47-09-30.
Pierre LaBelle
1947-12-16
El Paso, TX
Defeats Leon Kirilenko in a 20-man tournament final.
Billy Goelz
1948-04-06
El Paso, TX
Milt Olsen [2]
1948-05-11
El Paso, TX
Monte LaDue
1949-01-14
Pampa, TX
Held up after the match against Balk Estes on 49-02-17 in Amarillo, TX.
Monte LaDue [2]
1949-02-24
Amarillo, TX
Defeats Estes in rematch.
Milt Olsen [3]
1949-03-01
El Paso, TX
Stripped in 49-09 for not defending in the required time; a tournament starts in 49-09 and ends in 50-01 but the winner is unknown.
