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Step inside the Portland Sports Arena and relive the golden age of Pacific Northwest wrestling. From legendary feuds to hidden gems, our podcasts bring you the stories, matches, and larger-than-life personalities that defined one of wrestling’s most unique territories.Each…
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The Cream of the Crop #7 — Stan Stasiak & The Iron Sheik: Two Roads to the World Championship (opens the original)
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The Cream of the Crop #7 — Stan Stasiak & The Iron Sheik: Two Roads to the World Championship Two wrestlers. Two generations. Two very different journeys through Portland. And both eventually reached the same summit. In Episode 7 of The Cream of the Crop , host Frank Culbertson tells the stories of Stan “The Crusher” Stasiak and The Iron Sheik —two men whose paths through the Pacific Northwest could hardly have been more different, yet both would eventually become World Heavyweight Champion. For
Ringside in Rose City #53 — The Best, the Cringiest…and the Ugliest? (opens the original)
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Ringside in Rose City #53 — The Best, the Cringiest…and the Ugliest? Year Two of Ringside in Rose City is officially underway—and apparently one year of credibility was enough. Frank Culbertson and Portland wrestling historian Mike Rodgers begin Episode 53 seriously enough, as Lisa Hughes spins the Ringside Wheel and sends them into the greatest moments in Portland Wrestling history . There’s Buddy Rose’s unforgettable babyface turn , with fans flooding the ring and lifting him onto their should
The Cream of the Crop #6 — The Grappler: The Man Behind the Mask (opens the original)
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The Cream of the Crop #6 — The Grappler: The Man Behind the Mask Seven-time Northwest Heavyweight Champion. Eleven-time Northwest Tag Team Champion. Main-event wrestler. Masked villain. Booker. Teacher. Troublemaker. The Grappler. For the first time on The Cream of the Crop , one man gets the entire spotlight as host Frank Culbertson tells the story of Len Denton—the wrestler who was repeatedly told he was too small to make it, only to become one of the most important figures in the final era of
Ringside in Rose City #52 — ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY SHOW! | October 1969 (opens the original)
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Ringside in Rose City #52 — ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY SHOW! | October 1969 52 episodes. 52 trips through Portland wrestling history. One full year of Ringside in Rose City. This week, Frank Culbertson and Portland wrestling historian Mike Rodgers celebrate the ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY of Ringside in Rose City —and there may be no better month to mark the occasion than October 1969 . The mystery envelopes are back. Lisa is back in control of the Ringside Wheel. And Portland Wrestling is about to enter a m
The Cream of the Crop #5 — Two Ways to Draw a Crowd: Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka & Ripper Collins (opens the original)
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The Cream of the Crop #5 — Two Ways to Draw a Crowd: Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka & Ripper Collins Before Madison Square Garden. Before the steel cage. Before millions of wrestling fans knew the name Superfly , there was Portland. And standing across the ring from the young Jimmy Snuka was one of professional wrestling’s great old-school heels: Ripper Collins . In Episode 5 of The Cream of the Crop , Frank Culbertson looks back at two wrestlers who represented completely different ways to become a wre
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