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  

1985 Wrestling All Stars Article by Ken Hamblin - Karl Steiner - Wrestling, European Style!

Thanks to Ken Hamblin for sharing this article with me!

Ken wrote several articles on our Northwest wrestlers.

You can always right-click and open any image in a new tab to see a

larger version.

 

Portland Wrestling on Ebay! Vintage Photos!

Some really neat vintage photos have come up on ebay today!

They look to be 70s - mid 80s.

 Playboy Buddy Rose Vintage Photo Lot

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Vintage 8x10 Original Portland Wrestling Photo Lot

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

 

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?

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.