PNW Wrestling Extravaganza

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The PNW Wrestling Extravaganza were two professional wrestling supercards held by the NWA Pacific Northwest (Don Owen Sports) in the U.S. state of Oregon, at the Memorial Coliseum in Portland.

1 60th Anniversary Wrestling Extravaganza
- 1.1 Results
2 Superstar Extravaganza
- 2.1 Results
3 References

[edit] 60th Anniversary Wrestling Extravaganza

60th Anniversary Wrestling Extravaganza
Details
Promotion	NWA Pacific Northwest Wrestling (Don Owen Sports)
Date	May 21, 1985
Venue	Portland Memorial Coliseum
City	Portland, Oregon
Attendance	13,000+

The PNW 60th Anniversary Wrestling Extravaganza was the first of the two events. It took place on May 21, 1985 at the Portland's Memorial Coliseum.

Don Owen was the National Wrestling Alliance promoter for the Pacific Northwest territory, having in 1942 taken over the family business his father started in 1925.^[1] In honor of the Owen family's 60 years of promoting wrestling in the Northwest, they promoted the 60th Anniversary Wrestling Extravaganza.

This event took place just less than 2 months after the first WWF WrestleMania. While this card didn't draw the media attention that WrestleMania did, this event was notable in many ways. The card was unique in that it featured active stars from each of the three major promotions in the United States at that time, AWA, NWA and WWF. In addition to having AWA World Heavyweight Champion Rick Martel, AWA World Tag Team Champions The Road Warriors and NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair on the card, it featured two wrestlers from the WWF who had just recently competed (against other competitors) in the WWF's first WrestleMania; they were the WWF's most prominent heel, Rowdy Roddy Piper (who established himself in PNW and was one of the territory's most popular stars while he competed there) and Playboy Buddy Rose (who wrestled in WrestleMania as the masked Executioner).

[edit] Results

Cowboy Lang defeated Little Tokyo
Mega Maharishi defeated Billy Two Eagles
Jerry Grey defeated Rocky Venturo
Karl Steiner defeated Steve Simpson
Bobby Jaggers & Ricky Vaughn defeated Timothy Flowers & Chris Colt
Sgt. Slaughter defeated Kendo Nagasaki
Roddy Piper pinned Buddy Rose
Curt & Larry Hennig beat The Road Warriors via DQ
AWA World Heavyweight Champion Rick Martel pinned NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Champion Mike Miller to retain the AWA World Title
NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair wrestled Billy Jack Haynes to a time limit draw (39:00) retaining the NWA World Title

[edit] Superstar Extravaganza

Superstar Extravaganza
Details
Promotion	NWA Pacific Northwest Wrestling (Don Owen Sports)
Date	January 21, 1986
Venue	Portland Memorial Coliseum
City	Portland, Oregon
Attendance	8,000+

The PNW Superstar Extravaganza was the second of the two events. It took place on January 21, 1986, also at the Memorial Coliseum.

[edit] Results

Scott Doring drew Ole Olson
Nick Kiniski beat Timothy Flowers via DQ
Billy Two Eagles drew Gary Royal
Billy Jack Haynes & Brady Boone beat Moondog Moretti & Karl Steiner
Steve Pardee beat Rip Oliver via DQ
Jerry Sampson beat Chris Colt via DQ
Little Mr. T beat Little Tokyo
The Road Warriors & Magnum TA beat Timothy Flowers, Ivan & Nikita Koloff
Tom Zenk beat Bobby Jaggers to win the NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship
NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair beat Dusty Rhodes via DQ