@@SebastianGomez-uj8iu and as someone who knows someone who’s been to Oregon I’m proud that your proud of Robert who’s a proud Oregonian and proud of Dave for mentioning PNW
I watched for many years. If not at Portland Sports Arena I watched it on KPTV. I was lucky enough to see Roddy, Snuka, Buddy Rose, Buzz Sawyer, Mat Borne (Doink the Clown), Tony Borne, Lonnie Mane, Jessy Ventura, Rocky Johnson ( the Rock's father), king Parsons, Bull Ramos,Billy Jack Haines, Andre the Giant, and many more of the greats. The memories of simpler times.
The Piper vs. Rose feud was huge in the PNW territory and they sold out the Expo Center in Portland, OR for a Hair Match which Piper won. Rose would wear a mask until his hair would grow back out. Other greats in the territory from the late '60s and 1970s == Lonnie Mayne, Tony Bourne (Matt Bourne 's father-- Doink the Clown), Dutch Savage, Bull Ramos, Stan Stasiak, Kurt and Karl von Steiger, The Kangaroos, The Bushwackers, Rick Martel (Roddy Piper's tag partner)., Cowboy Frankie Layne, Shag Thomas. It was a great territory and a great time to be a young wrestling fan
Y'know, as a Michigan boy, it'd be cool to see a video on The Sheik's Detroit territory, the REAL Big Time Wrestling lol. As always, another great, entertaining, n informative video 👍
Thank you for covering PNW. I was the hardcore wrestling fan in the family, but my dad was a casual. I remember mentioning that one of Raven's first big breaks was in PNW as Scotty the Body, and my dad told me that he remembered watching him as Scotty the Body on Big Time Wrestling. That was when I learned that PNW had coverage in small town Washington, lol. I'm happy that DEFY is keeping things alive on the Washington side of the Columbia.
Roddy Piper was a hero in all star wrestling Vancouver B.C. and Dutch Savage was a heal at that time in the 1970s and early 80s. Don Leo Johnathan was always a favourite up here too.
Was born in Portland in 76' went to Sandy Barr flea Market then would watch wrestling live that nite. I seen Billy Jack when I was real young. Guy was giant. What a time what a place, what a shame what Portland has become.
Jack Dempsey was a running joke for my Dad growing up. My Dad and Grandma were big wrestling fans, but Grandpa thought it was stupid. Grandpa would always joke "Demspey could take him" for any wrestler my Dad and Grandma would get excited for........until one Andre Roussimoff did a tour through Detroit. "Dempsey can't take him" was Grandpa's reaction when he saw Andre. Could you imagine if we still had the "one promoter for the state rule"? Vince, er, I mean Stephanie would run shows once a year in every state just to block the indies, The Smashing Pumpkin, and Tony Elite.
I still remember the Billy Jack Haynes versus Rip the crippler Oliver rivalry back in the 80s. You should do a video on Tom Peterson who was the sponsor of the time.
Buddy Rose and Ed Wiskowski were fantastic heels in the Portland territory in the mid 1970's to early 1980's. Specifically Buddy Rose. Buddy Rose was arguably one of the best heels in pro wrestling in the 1970's. Such a great heel, he helped Roddy Piper turn face! Extremely slept on territory.
Thx for the video it was such a honor to be part of Portland Wrestling and Portland Uncut along with DOA and many other companies in the Pacific Northwest.
This is so fun. I used to watch Portland wrestling as a kid in the late 70s and 80s and even attended a few cards. Appreciate the trip down memory lane 💪
I remember back in 80's you had to buy pwi magazine to keep up with all the territories and which wrestlers were rated world wide on a scale of like top 100. It was always like mysterious who was in the other territories because you couldn't watch them on local networks and that added a mysterious element and pacific wrestling was one of those organizations.
Yes thank you! I live and Portland and my mom tells me about back in the 70's when neighbors used to come over every Friday night and watch. Sounds like a good time
@@danw2112 I watched a video of that during the summer on RU-vid. His face turn was unlike any other that I've seen and I'm a longtime wrestling fan since the '70s.
14:36 If you want to know what happened to the PNW belt after that: Seattle's big indie is Defy Wrestling, but their title belt was held up through most of the pandemic because its champion 'Ravenous' Randy Myers lives up in BC, and the borders were closed. So when Defy came back, they had an interim championship, which was fought over by Swerve Strickland and Christopher Daniels (Swerve is from Tacoma; Defy is where "Swerve's house" came from). So instead of going for the interim belt, Defy's wrestler Schaff found the old NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight belt somewhere, brought it into Defy, and defended it as a rogue champion. But then Randy Myers returned, and there was a 6-way ladder match for the official Defy title, which Swerve won. But Schaff still carries the PNW belt, so that's where it is today.
Retro gaming hippie approves! Great video! Grew up on this stuff in the 80’s . Late night PNW was a staple along with Tom Peterson commercials Pretty sure Billy Jack Haynes did a short wrestling promotion as well in the late 90’s called OVW.
My uncle took me to meet buddy rose and Ventura got to meet the all of them every Sat. night. Watched from the KPTV "crows nest". My uncle was Tom Peterson. That was 72 to 76'
@@ericmarentetteHe loved Portland, he was more than words can say. Have a good night. The younger generation has no idea how great it was to grow up in S.E Portland in the 70s. No idea what they missed. So different now.
@@duanepetersonakaroadkill7161 that's where I grew up, too haha. I drove by your uncle's store all the time... Right there on that weird foster road intersection as I recall
@@ericmarentette be fun to talk, went to mill park grade school. Uncle Tom was the reason. my dad was working with him when my dad died. Uncle Tom paid for the hospital bills. My mom died too. Then Tom sent me to live with his sister in Minnesota. Tom is 100% swedish. I still live by where our swedish family settled in 1875. By Northfield Minnesota. We are related to the swedish kid that was shot dead while getting supplies in the Jessie James raid. Gusta son was his name. Sad. He couldn't understand the command to get off the street as he spoke no English. Interesting story. Tom was so in love with Portland and the public. He would help a stranger without a second thought. I wonder if anyone in Portland would like to discuss Tom. I will be visiting next summer of 25.
Great video. Growing up in Seattle I used to watch it on tv every week in the mid 70s to mid 80s when I moved to Virginia. I saw many great matches on TV and live at the Seattle Center Arena and at some local high schools and a National Gaurd armory.
Everyone has their own piece of this puzzle don't WE! it's all of us together it's not about one person it's all of us together in this magnificent history of PORTLAND WRESTLING I was there.
Well you glossed over alot of information but all in all great video. I loved Portland Wrestling as a child in the 80's. My grandparents would always let me stay up till midnight to watch. Beatlejuice was my favorite wrestler of theirs at the time.
As someone who lived many years in the Minneapolis area, I’m proud that our mid-sized city has such an outsized importance in the history of pro wrestling…but, I think Portland may have us beat in that category
Congratulations and a good job better than what most people treat portland wrestling. Well researched and i'm amazed you got everything almost everything correct.
Cant remember if it used to show on British Columbia tv, as All Star seems to be the only one I can definitely remember from the west coast. I did see Piper getting attacked by Buddy Rose while playing the bagpipes and it was a huge deal. Piper was my favorite wrestler at the time.
We got the Tacoma ‘big time wrestling’ feed in Vancouver bc from 1980-84 on Kcpq13 when it moved to KTZZ and that channel was not available in British Columbia
I use to LOVE watching BIG TIME WRESTLING from Seattle. All the great wrestlers that came out of the area as well as the funkiest, porno music intro. ❤
How about doing a similar type video but on what independent wrestling promotions were spawned out of any of the old territory promotions after the territorys went defunct and the promotions that came and went to fill in the void left remaining. I always hear wrestling promotors and bookers talking about things like the St Louis scene and, Hollywood or Memphis. I heard something about the USWA got closed out by the WWE and in it's place Memphis Power Pro and Kick Ass Wrestling came out along with Music City Wrestling which ended up turning into TNA. I don't know the whole story but I heard Randy Hales, Bert Prentice and other Memphis people talking about the lineage of Memphis to modern day Impact Wrestling which I'm sure most Impact Wrestling fans are probably unaware of. And on the East Coast New England area Killer Kowalski, Tony Rumble and Johnny Rodz seem to be the link between the North East Territory and promotions of today such as Chaotic Wrestling, Beyond Wrestling and The New England Wrestling Academy.
Ultimo Dragon held 10 concurrent titles with the J-Crown plus two additional championships. Watch my J-Crown video for more information. And for your benefit, it would be best to not say something as fact, when you're not sure.
People don't realize what a prerequisite wrestling is for the military. What a way to get over PTSD one night you're in a foreign country fighting a battle the next night you're wrestling yukazuna for the world title. There's absolutely no telling what kind of stuff the grappler is done in his life.
I make pronunciation hiccups all the time. Even when I know better. So I went out of my way to get this one right. Thanks for noticing! And the hardest one I think, was saying the Oregonian. That's not a natural thing to say
As we all know, people will bring up Texas and Minnesota in terms of pro wrestling and its stars, but we can't ignore Oregon and the upper Northwest territories as they brought up many pro wrestling talents and legends.
I watched a little of Portland Wrestling before it was cancelled. I remember Colonel DeBeers, Billy Jack Haynes, Superstar Billy Graham, Tom Zenk, Scotty The Body, The Southern Rockers, referee Sandy Barr, a few appearances by Roddy Piper, and- especially- Beetlejuice. (The tragic tale of Art Barr would make a good video... just sayin'.) By the way; you failed to mention that Portland Wrestling's main television sponsor, Tom Peterson's Furniture, went bankrupt in 1991- which contributed to the show's cancellation. (Edit: you didn't mention the name of the sponsor...)
I've been talking about the retirement on the livestreams, but as for what will happen to WWE, I don't know, I can't predict the future. And anyone who claims that they know is lying. So there is no point in that
He was over enough to get some WWF title matches with Bob Backlund at arenas like MSG and the Philadelphia Spectrum in 82 or so. He got some pretty good "heel - heat", even though he was not a long-term main event star in the WWF.
@@DaveKnowsWrestling I was legit shocked to see that name, so I had to say something smart ass. Thank you for making these videos, I've honestly learned a lot and the fact I share a name with an early days wrestler, made my day, so thank you for that bit on info.
Hells yeah yeah baby, good ol Portland Wrestling!! Too bad PDX has become the insufferable cesspool it is today but nonetheless this is awesome!! They came down here to the coast a few times, good times!!
