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PWO Retro: Portland Wrestling in the late-70s
Category: Sports & Recreation
Duration: 02:48:02
Publish Date: 2019-07-17 02:00:14
Description: (To coincide with Greetings from Allentown #124, looking at Portland TV from 1980, PWO Retro goes waaaaay back to 2013 for Titans of Wrestling #7. Longtime listeners may remember this for the first appearance of the legendary Marty "Hey yo, brother" Sleeze. Enjoy!) Join us as we take a slight detour from the usual WWF journey to look at Portland Wrestling from the late-70s! Parv graciously steps aside as Kelly takes the hosting seat for the first of a proposed series of periodic specials documenting wrestling even more obscure than Backlund-era WWF. For this episode Kelly is joined by Titans co-founder James and rising star Martin (Superstar Sleeze) to look at wild and crazy action from the Pacific Northwest. On the docket tonight: 4/7/79 PLAYBOY BUDDY ROSE, ED WISKOWSKI, ROWDY RODDY PIPER, KILLER TIM BROOKS vs ADRIAN ADONIS, RON STARR, GEORGE WELLS, HECTOR GUERRERO 8/31/79 PLAYBOY BUDDY ROSE vs ADRIAN ADONIS 9/8/79 PLAYBOY BUDDY ROSE vs ADRIAN ADONIS 5/12/79 ROWDY RODDY PIPER vs PLAYBOY BUDDY ROSE 5/19/79 ROWDY RODDY PIPER vs PLAYBOY BUDDY ROSE LUMBERJACK MATCH 1/12/80 HARLEY RACE vs RICK MARTEL NWA TITLE MATCH 12/1/79 ROWDY RODDY PIPER, STAN "THE MAN" STASIAK vs THE SHEEPHERDERS / KILT BURNING ANGLE Also on tonight's show: -Martin's history as a wrestling fan, featuring his Stan Stasiak-hating father -A brief look at the history of Portland Wrestling -Don Owen: Great promoter; terrible announcer -Numerous jokes at the expense of elderly wrestling fans -Come visit Sandy Barr's Flea Market! -Opinions on Buddy Rose, Roddy Piper, Harley Race, Rick Martel, Dutch Savage, Ed (Col DeBeers) Wiskowski, Stan Stasiak, and others
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