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
So cool to finally get a photo with the legendary @ricky.santana.5205. We never got a photo back in the Sports Arena days. Well, we did once, but it didn't come out. So many fun photos got lost to bad film, or bad developing, or user error, back in the day! I also got to sit with Ricky at the Hall of Fame dinner. He had some really fun stories to tell. Thanks for the great memories Ricky! I could never properly express how much those Saturday nights meant to me.
Tonight's show is an exciting one! An epic battle between Billy Jack Haynes
and Rip Oliver, Steve Doll is coming back to town on June 9, the Wrecking
Crew face the Juicers, The US Male feel bad and give their belts back to
the Juicers!
I= Scotty the Body & Ginger (Steve Doll returns June 9th)
M= Wrecking Crew (The Grappler & The Equalizer) v The Juicers (Betelgeuse & Big Juice)
FG= Al Madril, The Equalizer, The Grappler, Taylor Made
T= Grappler v Scotty w/ Ginger v Taylor Made Grappler slaps Ginger
T= Flash Norton v Brian Adams (Norton wins title.)
M= Scott Norton w/Betelgeuse on his shoulders v Al Madril
I= Brian Adams, Billy Jack Haynes
M= Billy Jack Haynes v Rip Oliver (Run In Brian Adams, Scott Norton)
I= Scott Norton, Rip Oliver, Barry Owen
M= US Male (Curtis Thompson & Ricky Santana) v Larry Oliver and Bill Francis
I= US Male (Curtis Thompson & Ricky Santana), The Juicers
FAKE BELTS
T= US Male winning the Tag Team Titles from the Juicers
M= Scotty the Body v Brian Adams (The Grappler subs) + Ginger, Taylor Made
One of Scotty's girls tries to enter the ring.
I= Scott Norton, Rip Oliver
The channel @ArmstrongAlley has been uploading several WWC (Puerto Rico) videos from 1992. This is some rare footage and includes some of our Portland favorites, like: Ricky Santana, Fidel Sierra (Assassin/TopGun), PN News (Avalanche), and The Southern Rockers (Steve Doll & Rex King). I'm adding these videos to playlists as new ones get uploaded, but you might want to go check out the amazing archive of videos on this fun channel!
This isn't a full show, but most of it!
I= Johnathon Holiday on commentary with Don Coss, Scott Norton
M= Juicers vs Ricky Santana & Curtis Thompson (US Male) 2/3 Falls
I= Ricky Santana, Curtis Thompson (US Male)
M= Fall 2 - Fall 3
I= Ricky Sanatana, Curtis Thompson (US Male), Taylor Made
M= Brian Adams v Scott Norton (Missed most of the match.)
M= Rip "The Crippler" Oliver v The Equalizer (Run In by Billy Jack Haynes, Brian Adams, Scott Norton)
I= Brian Adams, Billy Jack Haynes, Scott Norton, Rip Oliver
M= Al Madril v Larry Oliver
FG= Al Madril, The Grappler, The Equalizer, Scotty the Body, Ginger
The Grappler sings, and forgets his tights!
M= Scotty the Body v The Grappler
I= Brian Adams, Billy Jack Haynes
In 1989, a masked wrestler named Matman joined Portland Wrestling. At first, we just had an interview. Everyone agrees that Scotty the Body was donning the mask and cape that night.
In July of 1989, Moondog Moretti had a match with the Matman, who was, in Moondog's words, "The Shits!" It has been said that Bert Prentice was in Portland at the time, and he had a "friend" or protege with him that took the Matman gimmick to the ring for the first time. No one knows who that might have been. Matman came to the rescue of Rex King on the 8-5-89 episode, and it was clearly a different wrestler. The general consensus is that Pat Tanaka was under the mask this time.
Many members of the Fans of Portland Wrestling group on Facebook thought it might have been Ricky Santana, instead of Pat Tanaka, but Ricky confirmed, in the comments, that it was never him.
Thanks to Mike Rogers for covering this interesting topic in
I was scanning some photos and came across this one. This is marked 6-17-89 on the back, but that date could be wrong. That's not a Scotty the Body chin. Is it a Pat Tanaka chin? Or is this the Bert Prentice protege?
Tonight's packed card:
I- Scotty the Body
M- Steve Doll v CW Bergstrom
I- The Grappler
M- The Spoiler v Billy Jack Haynes
I- Scott Norton
I- Billy Jack Haynes
T- US Male (Curtis Thompson & Ricky Santana) v Juicers (Art Barr/Betelgeuse & Jeff Warner/Big Juice) (Curtis Thompson leaves town.) w/Taylor Made Medina & Ginger
M- Jeff Warner/Big Juice w/Ginger v Ricky Santana w/Taylor Made Medina (Teri Power) Loser Leaves Town Match
I- Steve Doll & Ginger Barry Owen
M- Betelgeuse(Art Barr) v Dirty White Boy (Bobby Blair), subbing for Al Madril - Bobby Blair's debut.
(Al Madril points out the famous Lee sisters in the crowd. Ug Lee, Sick Lee, and Home Lee) 🤣
I- Al Madril's Fiesta Garden - Ricky Santana & Taylor Made Medina (Teri Power), Steve Doll & Ginger (Run In by Betelgeuse, Larry Oliver, Scotty the Body)
M- Scotty the Body v The Grappler (Title Match)
I- Steve Doll & Ginger
I- Scott Norton
I- Billy Jack Haynes
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
Unfortunately, I didn't record this entire episode, or even the whole matches. All I have is 8 minutes of Scott Peterson in 1990. I don't have the next week either. He stayed for the week and appeared in all the towns. We went to three of them! And he appeared again the next Saturday! It was so great to see the Southern Rockers back together again! I hope more of this footage appears someday soon! Do you have old Portland Wrestling tapes lying around? Email me if you do. sunyday76@aol.com
Me with Scott and Steve at the Tillamook Armory in August of 1990.
Earlier this year Captain's Corner held a Portland Wrestling Fan Expo. It was a great time with lots of Portland Wrestlers from the 70s, 80s and 90s. Previous to the show, the Live and In Color with Wolfie D podcast interviewed most of the guys that appeared at the show. All of the podcasts are great listens with fun old Portland Wrestling stories.
