This post is by Matt from Portland Wrestling on Facebook. A really nice tribute...
Happy Birthday to the late, great Scott Peterson, founding member of Portland Wrestling's iconic Southern Rockers tag team, who would have turned 62-years-old today.
Born June 10th, 1963, in Provo, Utah, Scott Peterson rose to fame alongside Steve Doll after defeating "Super Ninja" Shunji Takano & "Gorgeous" Joey Jackson for the Pacific Northwest Tag Team Titles on November 7th, 1987, at the historic Portland Sports Arena.
The duo of Peterson and Doll would go on to collect the PNW Tag Titles a remarkable six times between 1987 and 1989, defeating hard-hitting foes like the Grappler & Abudadein and much more experienced teams like "Playboy" Buddy Rose & Colonel DeBeers. Scott would also collect Portland Wrestling's coveted Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship with a victory over the notorious masked Grappler on August 5th, 1988, in Eugene, Oregon.
Despite his tremendous success, Scott Peterson would abruptly retire from professional wrestling after less than three years of competition. His final regular match would come on August 12th, 1989, partnering with Steve Doll in a losing effort against the Grappler and Scotty the Body (ECW's Raven). Though he would tag with Steve for one night in Jerry Jarrett's USWA promotion in April of 1990, and then have three more surprise matches in Portland Wrestling later that August, Scott had gotten married and started a family in Northern California in 1988.
This original Southern Rocker would settle into working at a lumber company and raising his sons with his wife in Carlotta, California, leaving the wrestling business behind forevermore. On July 25th, 1994, Scott Peterson tragically lost his life in a motorcycle accident at the age of thirty-one, and was buried in nearby Fortuna, California.
Though he has been gone thirty years now, his memory is still just as vibrant in the minds of those Portland Wrestling fans lucky enough to witness his meteoric rise to the top of the Pacific Northwest tag team division in the late 1980s, ushering in a new era of excellence alongside Steve Doll, which refreshed our previously stagnant promotion and provided fans with what became another five years of Portland Wrestling at its finest. May he rest in eternal peace, gone but not soon forgotten.
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