Portland Wrestling

Pyramid · 08-14-2003, 08:07 AM

At one time I was a fan of pro wrestling. Now it is too cartoonish. I have searched on the net for any old video of a guy named Lonnie Mayne, and could find next to nothing. This guy was great. Anybody remember him? He used to be a team with a guy named Beauregard. I'd love to see some of those old matches to see if they were really as exciting as I remember. Maybe it was because I was a kid at the time (back when they allowed a little blood (fake or not) on tv. Got any old faves?

bassin · 08-14-2003, 08:32 AM

Oh those were the days. Lonnie , Dutch savage.
Lonnie was teamed with a Guy named Tony Born(SP)
Old Shag Thomas was the ref.

Mr. BrownTrout · 08-14-2003, 08:42 AM

don't forget Jimmy superfly snooka.
But Dutch Savage was one of my favorites.
The good old days.

outfishem · 08-14-2003, 08:43 AM

Yeah they were great I use to watch Portland Wrestling every Sat. on T.V. and sometimes at the Sandy Bars flea market areana. My Favorite was Rowdy Piper.

Boatdog · 08-14-2003, 09:08 AM

I used to go and watch them every Saturday night. I still have my autographs and photos. Sometimes after Lonnie or Dutch would take a chair over their head :shocked: , I would get them to sign a piece of paper that had a drop of their blood on it blotted off of the mat. Boy, does this bring back some old memories.
What's weird, is I really dislike the modern day Wrastlin' shows. Too much soap opera B.S.

Gus Orviston · 08-14-2003, 09:28 AM

Jimmy Snooka could take them all in a 9 on 1 :grin: but I never watched any of that stuff.

gus

hookem · 08-14-2003, 09:33 AM

Chinookster,
I'll check with my son when he wakes up

Maybe noon or 1:00pm [img]graemlins/dork.gif[/img] Amy way he has 100's of tapes, he's a wraslen nut

if only he liked fishin and not wraslen

Pyramid · 08-14-2003, 10:16 AM

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Originally posted by hookem:
Chinookster,
I'll check with my son when he wakes up
Maybe noon or 1:00pm [img]graemlins/dork.gif[/img] Amy way he has 100's of tapes, he's a wraslen nut if only he liked fishin and not wraslen

All of you guys are awesome! I actually thought I might have went down in flames on this thread.

Hookem, that'd be great.

Anybody remember Mad Dog Vachon, this creep built a coffin for Lonnie (who used to chew bar glasses in the crows nest. I always wondered if they were props.

Anyway, back in the 70's I was a flagger at Mac Motocross, and heard that when Lonnie raced, afterwards he'd lift his Open Class 400 cc motorcycle into the pickup, not ride, lift it up. He was something. The blond bomber is what they called him. Would love to see that stuff again.

Pyramid · 08-14-2003, 10:18 AM

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Originally posted by outfishem:
Yeah they were great I use to watch Portland Wrestling every Sat. on T.V. and sometimes at the Sandy Bars flea market areana. My Favorite was Rowdy Piper.

Roddy Piper has to be my second fave. That guy would just start blabbing more and more, and then the fisticuffs would start. I mean, you could watch his temper rise like a thermometer. LOL

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Pyramid · 08-14-2003, 12:29 PM

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Originally posted by Gus Orviston:
Mac Motocross...You mean Mulkie!

Yes Gus, back in my day (73) we called it Mac Motorcross, sometime after that it changed to Mulkey and became an RV park. The old owners (Dee and Gene Caine) used to let us kids ride our honda 100 SL's down there all week just playing around. Thems was the day's. Nobody was sue happy back then, and would let you have a pretty long leash. :smile:

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lost_sailor · 08-14-2003, 01:52 PM

Oh yeah, I was a regular! Frank Bonnema in the crow's nest.

Lonny was bad, then good ... same with Tony Bourne, right.

I liked ... The Claw!

let's see what we can google up -

Pyramid · 08-14-2003, 01:54 PM

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Originally posted by Fshklr:
Yep them were the days..
Chief bull ramos
playboy buddy rose
iron shiek
classy freddy vlassy
dutch savage

way to many more but can't remember
Here's a link to a site for old wresting tapes etc.
http://www.a1wrestlingvideos.com/mat_classics.htm

Fish Killer, thanks for the link, although I didn't find any video on Lonnie, I did find a link to a guy that say's he wrestled him. Here is his email back to me:

"Lonnie was all you thought he was.
He was a drinker, a fighter, and a wild and crazy guy.
I did wrestle Lonnie in Portland for the NWA World title in the early seventies.

Thanks for writing,

Dory Funk"

That was pretty cool, thanks for the link

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lost_sailor · 08-14-2003, 02:03 PM

Here's a good one

Lonnie died in a car crash on a California freeway.

I forgot about Haru Sasaki.

DutchSavage.com

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Pyramid · 08-14-2003, 03:12 PM

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Originally posted by lost_sailor:
Here's a good one

Lonnie died in a car crash on a California freeway.

I forgot about Haru Sasaki.

DutchSavage.com

Thanks LostSailor,
I finally found something with Lonnies pix in it thanks to you. It has to be almost 30 years. To bad they used an unflattering photo. A lot of those pix brought back memories. Thanks again. Tim

PS, I always thought Haru Susaki was a little weasel. Probably exactly what he and PW wanted me to think. Do you remember a guy named Fuji? I am not a wrestling fanatic, it's just I haven't thought of this stuff for decades :smile:

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JCJ · 08-14-2003, 07:24 PM

Yep.those were the good days of rasling.Tough Tony Borne comes in Costco in Clackamas all the time ,see him there,he is a regular.

Fshklr · 08-14-2003, 11:19 PM

Yep them were the days..
Chief bull ramos
playboy buddy rose
iron shiek
classy freddy vlassy
dutch savage
tony atlas
junk yard dog
kid dymamite
ivan putske
bobby shane
larry the axe hennig
way to many more but can't remember
Here's a link to a site for old wresting tapes etc.
http://www.a1wrestlingvideos.com/mat_classics.htm

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ZACKYDAD · 08-14-2003, 11:34 PM

Boy o'Boy,do I remember watching wrestling with Grandpa,do you remember Johnny Redshoes Duggan?How about Dick Lane,"Whoa Nelly"?How about those John Tolos matches with Freddie Blassie,Loser leaves town,Loser shaves his head,etc.I even remember Rocky Johnson which is the Rock's dad.I even remember the little birds tattoo on his chest.Those were the days.Does anyone remember when the Continental Lover,Eddie Mansfield getting blackballed out of wrestling for telling closely guarded secrets?

Gus Orviston · 08-14-2003, 11:56 PM

Mac Motocross...You mean Mulkie!

drhall99 · 08-18-2003, 02:00 PM

How about Coal Miners glove matches!!

08-18-2003, 05:12 PM

I remeber all those guys and also watching with grandpa yelling at the T.V. What memories. But what about ringside Rosie. She was just as much fun watching. How she would get worked up and the Wrestlers would play along with her.

Kruechief · 08-18-2003, 05:23 PM

Yup,

My full-blooded Italian grandma would flail her arms and blow a gasket everytime "Tough Tony" got in a pickle. :shocked:

Ol' Bull Ramos, the Kangaroo brothers, Kurt Von Popin.

Remember the TV line up???

Wasn't it like Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, Lawerence Welk and then wrestling.

Return with me to those long gone yester-years... :depressed:

Krue

Norski · 08-18-2003, 05:32 PM

No one has brought up this name, Can you gess Who was Dutch Savage's DAD!!!!!!

No More Gessing----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- OREGON ROSE.
Befor all of the names you talking about.

Mr. Carp · 08-18-2003, 08:39 PM

Tanner,

You talking about the Bushwackers???

Fast Water · 08-18-2003, 10:11 PM

Lost Sailor,

Thanks for the Dutch Savage link. I went to school with his son Mark and got to meet Dutch a few times when I was a kid.

I'll never forget the first time I met him. My brother and I were throwing homemade parachutes (cloth, string, old nylons and a rock) from our property to the road below (Lake Shore Avenue). Can you guess what happened? Can ya?? [img]graemlins/stupid.gif[/img] Yep, one time my chute failed to open and struck a vehicle passing by. I stood stunned for a second then came to my senses and ran like hell. I figured a half hour would be enough, but as I came out of the gully between two houses I heard, "Hey kid. You threw a rock at my car. Didn't you?" There ten feet in front of me was Dutch Savage. Bigger than life. :shocked: If it was anyone else, I probably would have lied or legged it but as a 12 year old I was too intimidated by his stare, anger and the scars on his forehead to do anything but give a feeble nod of my head. We went to see my Dad. And that's another story....

Fast Water · 08-18-2003, 10:13 PM

Tanner,

I think her name was Rose.

IIRC

:smile:

Tanner · 08-18-2003, 11:50 PM

How about Mean Mike Miller or how about Rip Oliver
or those two brothers from Australia, I think they were called the Kangaroos or something.

Does anyone remember that old Grandma that had a front row seat every Saturday night? She was always there.

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Hare's Ear · 08-19-2003, 09:38 AM

This is a great topic. Brings back memories of Saturday nights in front of the black & white. Haru Susaki was the stepfather of two guys I went to high school with. In person he was quiet and unassuming, nothing like his ring character. He worked at the meat counter at our local Safeway and passed away a few years ago.

I saw a sign a few weeks ago with Sandy Barr's name on it. I kept saying, "Sandy Barr's Flea Market, Sandy Barr's Flea Market." My wife thought I was losing it.

Tanner · 08-19-2003, 09:56 AM

OK, You all forgot one of the greatest. Stan "The Man" Staziak (sp?). Remember his finishing move, The Heart Punch?

Woody · 08-19-2003, 10:13 AM

I went to high school in Milwaukie with Tony Born's son Matt. He used real family name "Osborn". We were wrestling practice partners when he was a Senior and I was a Junior. He was a terror in the ring, first round pinner like 80% of the time. Could you imagine the what was going through the other kids head when he saw "Tough Tony Born" standing on the edge of the ring. I was a pretty big kid, I wrestled @ 191 lbs, but he used to throw me around like a rag doll. I was the toughest JV 191 pounder around because of him. My senior year, he came up and practiced with us. I went on to get 3rd in state at my weight. I had some of the toughest compitition in the state right in our own practice room.

I heard Matt went to wrestle pro. Does anybody know what ever happened to him.

WaterDog · 08-19-2003, 10:22 AM

Anyone mention Billy Jack Haines???

Pyramid · 08-20-2003, 06:28 PM

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I heard Matt went to wrestle pro. Does anybody know what ever happened to him. [/QB]

I saw him wrestle Rip Oliver in the early 80's, I guess that would be considered pro.

Anyone wanting to relive the past should listen to this Theme to Portland Wrestling

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