Portland Wrestling Match - 10/28/89 - Steve Doll v Brian Adams - One of my favorite matches!

This is one of my all-time favorite matches. It's probably not anyone else's favorite, but it is mine. From Brian pretending to vomit when Steve was coming to the ring, Steve's matador routine, the butt shaking that the crowd loved, and the secret drop kick. All fun! I remember seeing this match at the Sports Arena and thinking that Steve and Brian were probably having so much fun out there. They were good friends and neighbors. They lived in the same apartment complex. They often rode together and went to the gym together. Years later, they even became brothers-in-law when Steve married Brian's wife's sister. I've heard stories about Brian not wanting to stay at Steve's house in Hendersonville, TN because he thought it was haunted!

 

Portland Wrestling Program - November 30, 1991 - Cage Match & Lumberjack Match!

 Thanks to Curtis, @RetroGamingHippie3720 on YouTube,

for sharing this awesome program! 

 

Portland Wrestling 5/6/89 - Betelgeuse has moves. Buddy Rose does not! Funny match segment. - YouTube Video

 

Just a snippet of a match between Buddy Rose and Betelgeuse. Betelgeuse shows off his skills, but Buddy needs a little work!

My Portland Wrestling VHS collection was digitized by Rich Patterson. Thanks Rich! He has an external hard drive of over 500 hours of Portland Wrestling available for sale. For more info, email: portlandwrestlingvideo@yahoo.com Fans of Portland Wrestling group on Facebook:   / 90520880828  

Uncle Milt's Pizza Menu & Event Schedule April 1992

In 1991, Portland Wrestling formed a partnership with Uncle Milt's Pizza in Vancouver, WA.

Over the next couple of years, many great events happened there, even title changes

and spectacular matches.  Not sure why exactly.  My thoughts would be that they were trying to 

establish a home location outside of Oregon in case the wrestling commission shut down the ability to have wrestling entirely.  Or, they were considering selling the Sports Arena?  

 

Championship Wrestling USA Clipping - August 8, 1992 at the Portland Sports Arena - 1st Round TV Championship!

 Thanks to Curtis, @RetroGamingHippie3720 on YouTube,

for sharing this awesome clipping! 

If you have Portland Wrestling history to share, please

email me: sunyday76@aol.com

 

RIP Dory Funk Jr.

I know that Dory Funk Jr was a wrestling legend.  He was mostly before my time.

I had seen him in wrestling magazines and maybe heard his name a handful of times.

In 1991, I helped Steve Doll get an article in Wrestling Fury magazine.

They asked him to send photos for the article, and he asked me to help him choose.  

As we were going through lots of his photos, this one was at the top of his choices.

He told me that Dory Funk Jr was one of his childhood heroes and that he was honored to 

work with him in Japan.  A few months later, he excitedly told me about a match he had while

on another trip to Japan with Dory, Dynamite Kid, Terry Gordy, Steve Williams, and Andre the Giant. I was impressed by Andre, but for him it was clearly Dory who was the top legend in the ring. 

See the article:

Wrestling Fury Nov 1991

 

Portland Wrestling 4/8/89 Welcome to the Breakfast Club Brian Adams v Nord the Barbarian Strap Match ~ Video

 

One of the most iconic moments in the later days of Portland Wrestling. The Oregon Boxing and Wrestling Commission had banned all blood, and lots of other things, in wrestling, and the Booker (The Grappler) was open to ideas about new ways to wow the crowd. John Nord (The Barbarian) suggested the cereal and milk, and it seemed like as good an idea as any, so they went for it! They didn't tell Don Owen beforehand, so his anger in the interview after was probably genuine. He was very concerned with how much it would cost to clean the mat. Nord was known for hitting hard, and Brian was COVERED in black and blue bruises after the matches that night. Being the weird wrestling girl at school meant that on Monday everyone wanted to talk to me about it because it was such a big deal.

Diamond Timothy Flowers 92-93 Portland Sports Arena Photo- CWUSA

"Diamond" Timothy Flowers appearing at the Portland Sports Arena.  No year 

on the photo, but since Sandy Barr is announcing and I appear to be sitting ringside, I 

assume it is 1992 or 1993. He did some appearances in those years for Sandy Barr's 

Championship Wrestling USA.