🎙️ Ringside in Rose City #22 – Voices, Ribs, and the Missing Tape

🎙️ Ringside in Rose City #22 – Voices, Ribs, and the Missing TapeOne ring.One city.A thousand stories.And this week… we keep digging.After last week’s deep dive into Excitement in the Air:Voices of Northwest Wrestling – Volume Three, Frank Culbertson and Mike Rogers return to finish what they started — spotlighting even more overlooked names, locker room legends, and unforgettable stories from Portland andVancouver wrestling history.For this episode, Lisa Hughes doesn’t even need to spin the wheel. The topic was too good to leave unfinished, but Lisa was sure to crack her whip…🔎 Featured Voices This Week:• Eric “Red” Donovan – From masked teams to Albanycourtroom chaos… including a hairpin incident that led to lawsuits and a wild Vic Christie rib involving ladies’ undergarments.• C.W. Bergstrom – The final Northwest Champion of the Don Owen era and the unlikely man holding the title when Portland Wrestling closed its doors.• Butts Gerard – CFL lineman, Wide World of Sportsbelly-flop champion, and survivor of one of the most brutal locker room altercations ever described on this show.• Bobby Kincaid (Bobby Bass) – From Ma Bass’ southernterritory to Portland’s undercard… and a brass knuckles mishap involving Chris Colt that sent teeth flying.• Johnny Eagle – The “Houdini of Wrestling,” trained in England to make opponents quit, not just pin them — and later a key figure in Pacific Coast Championship Wrestling.• Joey Jackson – “Gorgeous” Joey, trained by The Grappler, who told Don Owen his debut match was his very first match ever… and somehow survived the conversation.• Mike Miller – From greasy-heel beginnings to Northwest Champion and Christmas Night main eventer. Achilles tears, Harley Race “medical treatment,” Stu Hart dinner table stories, and one of the territory’s most complete career arcs.• Frank Dusek – Mid-card arrival during Portland’s hottest era who fought his way into main events… and later became part of the wrestling office in Dallas and Mid-South.• Mike Shaw (Klondike Mike / Norman the Lunatic / BastionBooger) – From Calgary success to infamous WWF gimmicks, plus a limo story you won’t believe.• Mike Webster – A main-eventer who chose grad schoolover wrestling glory after seeing what the business did to aging bodies.• Jeff Costa (The Lobster Man) – Yes, lobster claws. Yes, political campaigns. Yes, Eric Frolich praise that stuns even Frank.• Art Crews – From bland babyface to intense heel…and later a controversial voice on the Oregon Boxing & Wrestling Commission fighting for balance between wrestlers and promoters.🎲 KayFabe CurveballsThis week’s trivia segment delivers:• 1830 “medicine” that turns out to be ketchup• The Spanish meaning of “Alamo”• And a real-life Oregon Wrestling Commission meeting involving a mysteriously altered tape — Portland’s own “18½ minute gap” moment.Yes… that story actually happened.This episode isn’t just nostalgia.It’s locker room truth.Commission politics.Career turning points.And the strange, hilarious, and sometimes dangerous world behind the curtain.Lisa closes it out in style, as always — because in Rose City, the stories never stop.Step into the arena.This is Ringside in Rose City —wrestlingwrestling the way it should be.