Sylvia Torres. Santos also discovered Ann and Ruth Lake, the first sister tag team in pro wrestling. June Byers and the team of Penny Banner and Lorraine Johnson were recognized by the promotion as the NWA World Women's Champion and NWA World Women's Tag Team Champions respectively. The Fabulous Moolah briefly held the promotion's women's championship in the early-1960s. Though it was not until the retirement of BTW's longtime champion Alma Mills that Moolah, then NWA World Women's Champion, was recognized as the undisputed world's women champion in the New England area. The promotion also featured midget wrestlers Fuzzy Cupid, Irish Jack, Sonny Boy Cassidy and Tom Thumb. Style and controversy Big Time Wrestling was in many ways a throwback to the old-time promoters of earlier decades that traveled the "carnival circuit". The promotion often ran in New England's summer resort towns and also featured midget and women's wrestling, and a variety of Tuffy Truesdale's wrestling animals including The Wrestling Alligator, Cindy the Elephant and several bears (Black Ozzie, Smokey, Victor and Yogi). One of its first major attractions was a series of matches between Black Ozzie and BTW Women's Champion Alma Mills. Mills, who was the head instructor for female students at the Santos wrestling school, spent 18 months training Black Ozzie before their debut match at Martha's Vineyard in July 1959. A big hit with summer tourists, the two frequently appeared together during the promotion's early years. Then Senator John F. Kennedy and his wife Jackie reportedly attended several BTW events in West Yarmouth during this period. At local carnivals and fairs, the promotion often put out an open challenge to the audience offering as much as $50 if they could pin one of their wrestlers – usually the company's "veteran shooters" Killer Curt Douglas and Ronnie Hill. This was also extended to younger fans who would try to take on the midget wrestlers. One of the adult carnival bouts nearly caused a riot when a group of men attempted to storm the ring to save their friend being pummelled by Ronnie Hill. Hill and Les Thatcher, who was refereeing the bout, were saved from the mob thanks to local police officers, nearby "carnies" and drivers from the Joie Chitwood Thrill Show. Tony Santos was also influenced by Jack Pfefer who sometimes served as a matchmaker for BTW in the 1960s. During Pfefer's tenure as booker, the promotion