Oregon Wrestling Federation - 7/2/88 & 7/9/88 Brian Adams v The Terminator & Tiger Chung Lee

I don't know the exact dates on this.

My best guess is July 2 & 9.

I- JT Southern M- Brian Adams v The Terminator (Marcus Laurinaitis) I- Brian Adams & Mean Mike Miller M- Brian Adams v Tiger Chung Lee

 

Oregon Wrestling Federation 6/25/88 - Brian Adams v The Terminator & JT Southern v Corporal Kirschner - YouTube Video

Another fun night from OWF wrestling!

 

OWF 5/28/88 Ricky Santana v Corporal Kirschner, Brian Adams, Mean Mike Miller, Billy Jack Haynes

OWF 5/28/88 Just a few minutes from the show, I- Brian Adams, Mean Mike Miller I- Billy Jack Haynes M- Ricky Santana v Corporal Kirschner (sorta) Body Bag Incident I- In Ring Billy Jack Haynes

 

OWF 5/22/88 Rip "The Crippler" Oliver v Hercules Haggerty & "Gorgeous" Joey Jackson v Brian Adams - You Tube Video

The third TV taping of OWF at the Oregon City Civic Center. M- Rip "The Crippler" Oliver v Hercules Haggerty(Fred Ottman) Run In by Billy Jack Haynes, Brian Adams, Mike Miller, Steve Gatorwolf, M- "Gorgeous" Joey Jackson v Brian Adams(Crush)

 

OWF Oregon Wrestling Federation First Night Poster May 7, 1988

Check out my other blog posts about the OWF.

This was a fun and exciting night!

Check out the videos on YouTube!

Oregon Wrestling Federation 1988 - Billy Jack Haynes Promotion

     Just watching a great YouTube playlist of OWF.
     It was quite the controversy when Billy Jack Haynes decided to open his own wrestling promotion in Don Owens territory.  At one time, the US was split into wrestling territories and promoters, for the most part, respected someone else's territory.  Billy Jack decided, not just to run shows in the Portland area, but to run them on Saturday nights in Oregon City.  The two arenas were about 20 miles apart and would surely attract the same crowds.  I  always thought that it might have worked out a little better for Billy if he would have run his big show on Friday night instead.  Don Owens ran shows in Eugene on Fridays, which was about 90 miles away and mostly entertained a different crowd of people.  Billy Jack decided he wanted to go head to head with Don Owens and he really only lasted a couple of months before things started to go seriously downhill.
     I heard many stories of Billy not being able to pay the guys what he promised them.  We went to a few dark matches mid-week and there were very small crowds.  One night there were only 15 people.  They guys still put on a show, to their credit.
     He really did bring in some exciting wrestlers, and I remember the shows being a lot of fun.  We went most every Saturday Night that summer.  That first night, May 7, 1988, I had tonsil surgery the day before, but I had to be there.  My mom knew she couldn't argue with me about it.  I was a pretty good kid, but don't mess with my wrestling!

They made and passed these out during autograph sessions!

Some video games left over from when the arena was a skating rink.

JT Southern with my mom.

Matches at Oregon City Civic Center in 1988 ~ Clipping

Billy Jack Haynes started having wrestling matches in Oregon City in 1988.  His promotion didn't last too long, but another promoter picked it up after a few months and I feel like this is probably from his promotion because Billy Jack is not mentioned.  Pacific Coast Championship Wrestling or PCCW.  I have a program scanned on another post.