🎙️ Episode 11: “The One-Win Wonder, the Vanishing Act, and Seabiscuit’s Namesake”

Not every wrestler in Don Owen’s House of Action wasdestined for the spotlight. Some debuted with a spark, others left with a whisper, and a few… barely left a record at all.

In this episode of Portland Wrestling Obscurities:Forgotten, Brief, and Barely Remembered, host Frank Culbertson digs into four names who passed through the Portland Sports Arena and left only faint traces behind:

Bruce Brown — Debuting in Vancouver in 1977 with awin over Jack Bence, only to lose to Jimmy Snuka in Portland. A career that faded almost as quickly as it began.

Tom Ryan — A one-and-done, losing to Haru Sasaki inJune 1975. Was “Tom Ryan” even a real wrestler—or just a name in the results sheet?

Paddy O’Neil — His career highlight was his very first match, and his only recorded win. He wrestled just two years, leaving behind one of the strangest résumés in Northwest history.

Red Pollard — A Canadian prelim wrestler who brieflystopped in Portland in 1972, then vanished from the business. Forever confused with the jockey who rode Seabiscuit.

📚 Inspired by The Encyclopedia of Portland Wrestlers by Mike Rodgers—available now on Amazon!
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