Portland Wrestling Program - June 19, 1982 - Partial + YouTube Complete Show

This is only part of the program, but what a card!

Thanks to Curtis, @RetroGamingHippie3720 on YouTube, for sharing 

this awesome program! 

Rich Patterson posted the entire show today!

@Classic Portland Wrestling & Other Stuff

 

11-Man Over The Top Battle Royal $3,000 Purse ~ 1982 Clipping

Big 11 man over the top battle royal in Tacoma in 1982.
Not sure why they are fighting over a purse?

That purse is selling for $3,000, so maybe they will re-sell it on ebay?

Ha!  Looks like a great match with some future legends on the card!

It'a All about the Lane County Fairgrounds in 1981 & 1982

It's all about the Lane County Fairgrounds in 1981 and 1982.  Elton Owen is promoting in Eugene at this time and the cards seem pretty great!  I don't have a date on the two results mini articles, but they fit in there somehow.

1981

I wonder who the new faces where?

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1982

1982 Match Results Articles ~ Newspaper Clippings

None of these are dated, but 1982 seems to be the right year for all of these guys to be here, together, at the same time.

Big Time Wrestling 1982 - Clippings

I'm pretty sure these are both from 1982, but they aren't dated.

No D.Q. Falls Count Anywhere - October 28, 1982 - Newspaper Clipping

No DQ, Falls Count Anywhere?  If you heard hardcore wrestlers of the 90's and early 00's talk, they invented these types of matches.

Sawyer Keeps NW Crown, January 23, 1982.- Newspaper Clipping

April 15, 1982, Salem Grand Theater ~ Clipping

Whoa!  This seems like quite the event!  

Ric Flair versus Rocky Johnson!

Dizzy Hogan, who later became Brutus Beefcake in the WWF and Tommy Rogers of the Fantastics fame. 

Some of the best wrestling talent passed through the Northwest at one point or antoher.

August 4, 1982 - Big Time Wrestling in Seattle

8-Man Tag - February 18, 1982 - Clipping

Pro Wrestling Live at the Salem Grand Theater 1982 - Clipping

I only ever went to wrestling one time in Salem, at the Armory.  I don't know why we didn't go there
more often.  It's not so far, but as a kid it seemed forever away.  Even though we would go to some other towns in the summer, we only went to Salem that one time. 

Big Time Wrestling in Seattle - August 18, 1982 - 10 Foot Steel Cage Match!

There was always such excitement when the main event had a steel cage!

But someone always figured out a way to escape the cage.

August 18, 1982 ~ 10 Foot Steel Cage Match - Clipping

Since I've been watching all of the older then my time matches on You Tube, I have noticed that 

they really liked to have other wrestlers referee some of the matches.  And the good guys

usually called it right down the middle, of course.  I don't remember them ever using that in the late 80's and 90's.  It seems like Rocky Johnson is the special ref at this event.  I wonder if his son was in 

attendance?