🎙️ One Match Wonders – Volume 9: “Mistaken Identities and Mad Dog Memories”

Welcome back to One Match Wonders—where the spotlight shines on wrestlers who only stepped into the Portland Sports Arena once… and then disappeared into the fog of wrestling history.

In this episode, we go deep into the shadows with three strange and fascinating stories that blur the line between myth and mistake:

🔹 Kim Novak – No, not that Kim Novak. But that’s the name the fans heard echo through the Sports Arena on April 4th, 1978. Was it a bad transcription? A promoter's inside joke? Or a calculated move to get a little media buzz? We trace the mystery back to a man likely named Sandor Novak—a short-career grappler who left just one odd mark on Portland’s wrestling record books.

🔹 Mike Vachon – The name alone stirs speculation. Was he the son of the infamous Mad Dog Vachon? A tryout talent? A tribute act? What we know for sure: he wrestled just one match in Portland in 1983—and he shares more than just a last name with one of wrestling’s wildest families. Oh, and we’ve got a Cub Scout story involving the Mad Dog himself that you won’t want to miss.

🔹 Buddy Rogers – Not Nature Boy Buddy Rogers. But someone wrestled under that legendary name on April 9th, 1977, and took a loss to Les Thornton. Was it Buddy Rogers Jr.? A tribute? A scam? Or just another case of wrestling’s revolving door of borrowed names and blurred identities?

This volume is all about the what ifs, could-bes, and wait a minute, who was that guys? It’s trivia with teeth—and a reminder that wrestling history is never as clear-cut as it seems.

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💥 Because even the names you think you know… might not be who you think they are.