Portland Wrestling Complete Show 9/7/1985 You Tube Video + Program

 This is probably the second or third time I'd gotten to go to the Sports Arena. The S&S Express were my favorite team! Steve Simpson was my favorite wrestler. The first night we went to the Sports Arena, we waited in the parking lot after the matches to get autographs. Steve and Ricky Vaughn were riding together, and after we got their autographs, we went running back to my mom's car. I slipped and fell. Steve Simpson jumped out of the car, ran over to check on me, scooped me up (I was 9), and carried me to the car. After that, he was my favorite!

M- "Diamond" Timothy Flowers v Steve Pardee M- Chris Colt v Scott Doring I- "Miller Steiner Connection" Mike Miller & Karl Steiner M- Fall One "The S&S Express" Steve Simpson & "Jumpin'" Joe Savoldi v "Miller Steiner Connection" Mike Miller & Karl Steiner I- Bobby Jaggers, Ricky Vaughn, Mackenzie King MDA Poster Child M- Fall Two "The S&S Express" Steve Simpson & "Jumpin'" Joe Savoldi v "Miller Steiner Connection" Mike Miller & Karl Steiner T- Ric Flair v Doug Vines (Promoting Upcoming Extravaganza) M- Fall Three "The S&S Express" Steve Simpson & "Jumpin'" Joe Savoldi v "Miller Steiner Connection" Mike Miller & Karl Steiner I- "The S&S Express" Steve Simpson & "Jumpin'" Joe Savoldi

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   Visit Kerby's Classic Portland Wrestling merch shop. https://classicportlandwrestling.bigc... And his Instagram:   / classicportlandwrestling   Matt has the most Portland Wrestling available on YouTube at:    / @ringoffireprowrestling   And a fantastic Facebook Group:   / portlandwrestling  

Northwest Wrestle-Media Vol.1 No. 1 - June 1986

I finally got my hands on another issue of Wrestle-Media thanks to 

my friend Kerby!  Check out his ebay store ClassicPortlandWrestling for awesome vintage Portland Wrestling collectibles!

He also has a shop, where he sells reprints of some 

amazing Portland Wrestling merch.

And shares his collection on Instagram @classicportlandwrestling

Right click on any image to open in a new tab and view larger.

This was much too big to fit on my scanner, so I had to improvise and join 

the pages together later.  That's why they look a little funny and may have lost 

a few words or parts of an image.

 

Wrestling Extravaganza II T-Shirt - January 21, 1986

Wrestling Extravaganza II

This event was held January 21, 1986 at the Portland Memorial Coliseum.

I didn't attend, but they did sell the programs and T-Shirts at the Sports Arena merch 

table until they sold out sometime in 1987.  

Buy a reprint of this shirt, hat, and lots of other cool
Classic Portland Wrestling from my friend Kerby.

 

Portland Wrestling Program - Portland Sports Arena - September 21, 1985

 

Portland Wrestling Program - Saturday, September 7, 1985

 

Northwest Wrestle-Media Magazine ~ Volume 1 #7 Dec. 1986 ~ Full Scan

Click on any photo to enlarge.

This is the earliest issue that I have.

Click "Read More" to see the entire magazine scanned here...........

WWF Tries to Invade Portland Wrestling! ~ 1985 Program

I don't know the exact date of this program, but I am sure it is 1985.  That is the first year

that I started going to the Sports Arena.  This might even be my first show!  It is interesting that

in 1985, Don Owen was concerned about Vince McMahon invading his territory.  I was guilty of going to some of those WWF shows that came here to Portland.  Sorry, Don!

(To see the images larger, click on them or right-click to save them to your computer.)

Ricky Vaughn later wrestled in World Class as Lance Von Erich.

He wasn't a Von Erich, but he looked like them.

I would NOT have walked around the Sports Arena in bare feet!!!!

Wrestling Spectacular III - May 21, 1986? - Seattle Center Arena - Newspaper Clipping

I think this is 1986. Correct me if I am wrong.

Looks like a fun card.

Rocky "Soulman" Johnson in attendance. 

Brady Boone and Coco Samoa seem like an odd pair.

I wonder what the other bouts are?

Big Time Wrestling - January 9, 1985 ~ Grudge Match!

I assume they mean Billy Two "Eagles" here.  These little newspaper clippings always had mistakes in them. Again, not sure if 85 was correct on this.  I  know things changed pretty quickly, but I started going in Spring/Summer of 1985 and there was no Keno Nagasaki, Don Running Bear, or Mr. Ebony.

Big Time Wrestling January 2, 1985

This seems like it would be earlier than 1985, but I am just going by the date written on the page.  Let me know if you know the real year.  I am guessing 81?

March 22, 1985 Jaggers Victorious Over Von Steiner

Portland Wrestling at the Lane County Fairgrounds March 15, 1985

This sounds closer to what was happening in 1985, when I started going to the arena.  In my era, they wrestled at the Lane County Fairgrounds, in Eugene, every Friday night.  They also wrestled at the Salem Center Arena every Thursday.  Since these wrestlers were on the road usually 7 nights a week, these were both relatively close.  Salem being about 45 miles from Portland and Eugene being about 90 miles.  

Big Time Wrestling in Seattle - Rip Oliver vs Bobby Jaggers - Early 80's

No date on this one.  

April-May 1986 Seattle Center Arena event ~ Clipping

Not sure if these are the results of the last clipping.

It looks like 548 people attended this event, which isn't a lot of people in the Seattle Center Arena. But Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka will be a the next event, so you can be sure there were more butts in the seats!

Billy Jack Haynes Returns to Seattle Arena 1986 ~ Clipping

1986 seems about right for this event or Extravaganza!  That was always the Owens word for a big event. 

Brady Boone has a similar look to Billy Jack, with the dark hair and beard.  He was a smaller guy, but also had a similar build and so they claimed he was Billy Jack's cousin.  As I recall he wasn't here for very long, and I am not sure about his career trajectory after the Northwest.