Portland Wrestling Obscurities: Episode 5 – "Masks, Magazine Covers & Middleweight Gold"
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🎙️ Episode 5 –"Masks, Magazine Covers & Middleweight Gold"
They didn’t main event. They didn’t hold Portland belts. But their stories?
Absolutely worth remembering.
This week, host Frank Culbertson uncovers the stories of three wrestlers who passed through Don Owen’s House of Action with barely a whisper—but left fascinating footprints in the wrestling world.
📍 Joe Palardy — A 10-day Portland stint… followed by a World Middleweight Title win in Mexico just months later. Blink and you missed him here—but he made waves elsewhere.
📍Tony Orford — A British grappler with rugby roots and Lucha Libre magazine fame, who wrestled from Europe to Mexico to the Pacific Northwest—before fading into mystery.
📍Monte Zuma (El Olympico) — A masked WWWF star renamed with a rib-worthy gimmick in Portland. Why the change? And why the quick exit? The answers lie inthe shadows.
Whether they were on the cover of a lucha magazine or getting squashed at the Sports Arena, these guys were here—and now, they're remembered.
📚 Based on The Encyclopedia of Portland Wrestlers by Mike Rodgers – available now on Amazon.
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