Betelgeuse Comes Alive Wrestling Magazine Feature Article Championship Wrestling October 1989

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Portland Wrestling Clipping - July 17, 1990 - Chehalis, WA Texas Tornado Match

This is a fun clipping from 1990!

Steve Doll & Betelgeuse compete against the Bruise Brothers, Ron & Don, in a Texas Tornado match.

All 4 wrestlers in the ring at one time!!

 

One Match Wonders Video Series by Frank Culbertson on YouTube

Frank Culbertson has a great new series on his YouTube Channel, Portland Wrestling: Wrestling the Way It Should Be.  

He gives the history of several wrestlers One Match Wonders, who only wrestled in Portland for one night only.  The videos are short and packed with great Portland Wrestling History!  He'll be posting two videos a week.  Thanks for the history Frank!

Crash Holly Sign Circa 2000

This isn't quite Portland Wrestling, but hear me out...

My sister and I were big WWE fans in the late 90s and early 00s.

One of our favorites was Crash Holly.  He always reminded me of Bart Sawyer.

Chris Jericho referred to him as Elroy.

My sister Brea got the idea to make this sign for a WWE event we attended in Seattle.

 

Championship Wrestling USA Program - April 6, 1997 - A Ring, A Cage, A Belt, and 15 Men

Another great program from the collection of Matt Merz.

Some fantastic signatures on this one as well: Bruiser Brian, 

Tony Borne, Chad Manning, and Tony Kozina

Matt has a fantastic Facebook group called Portland Wrestling

and has 3,600 videos of local wrestling on his YouTube channel Ring of Fire Wrestling, including some great documentaries about Portland Wrestling.

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Championship Wrestling USA Program - March 16, 1997 - Bart Sawyer, Friend or Foe??

Another great program from the collection of Matt Merz.  

Matt has a fantastic Facebook group called Portland Wrestling

and has 3,600 videos of local wrestling on his YouTube channel Ring of Fire Wrestling, including some great documentaries about Portland Wrestling.

You can always right-click these images and open in a new tab to view 

them larger.

 

A New Camera For Christmas - 1987

For Christmas in 1987, I got a Camera and film, plus tickets to the Christmas Extravaganza at the Sports Arena. A 110 camera and maybe 6 rolls of film. For quite some time, I had been wanting to take pictures at wrestling, and was super excited to finally get the chance. Over the years, I took thousands of photos of every Portland wrestler. Mostly Steve Doll, to be honest, but sometimes the other guys too! 😂 A cheap camera, bad batteries, and low-quality film often meant that the pictures didn't come out great, or at all. But sometimes I got lucky and captured something great. The first photo is my first photo with Steve Doll, December 26, 1987.

One of my favorite Southern Rockers photos.

Steve Doll, Roddy Piper and Betelgeuse

Top Gun & Scott Peterson at a Christmas Toy Drive in Lloyd Center.

Scott Peterson and I.

Bart Sawyer, Taylor Made (Terri Power), and Bruiser Brian Cox

Jesse Barr

John Rambo

Mike Winner

 

The Southern Rockers & Bill Prescott In The Crow's Nest 1989

The Southern Rockers and Bill Prescott in the crow's nest. 1989. Most likely discussing their upcoming promo. I like shots like this that show a bit more of the Sports Arena. I wish I would have used an entire roll of film to just walk around the Sports Arena and take photos at every angle. We just never think of stuff like that at the time. It feels like it will last forever, and why would we ever need or want that? Plus, film was limited, and each click had to count. I can't even imagine having the unlimited use of a cell phone back then. I'd probably have 10 million photos!