Al Tomko & Chris Colt vs Moondog Moretti & Dean Ho at the PNE Gardens

[DanaNuttley]

Chris Colt...1st openly gay professional wrestler...Probably held him back ,especially in the homophobic 70's-80's



[RutherfordClubb139]

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[LAWDOGG61]

WOW!!!! CHRIS COLT LOOKS LIKE ONE TWISTED SON OF A BITCH!!! LOL

[Lurvy1963]

Sandor Kovacs and Gene Kiniski. Thank you viewers for passing around a couple of names. All Star Wrestling was much better when these guys ran it. It had connections to Portland Wrestling and the National Wrestling Alliance until Al Tomko came along, tore apart the promotion's life from those companies, and ran it as his own. The wrestling talent wasn't as good, especially in the mid/late 1980s. Chris Colt made better history with Bobby Jaggers than Tomko as his tag team partner.

[actionsub]

@Lurvy1963 With all due respect, Tomko could only work with what he had. By the mid to late 80s, the National Wrestling Alliance had been taken over by the Crocketts out of Carolina, and what NWA territories they couldn't control, they ignored. Jim Crockett didn't give a rat's behind for Portland or Canada, and both areas deteriorated quickly once that happened. Tomko was only an effect, not the cause, of Vancouver's fall.

[Lurvy1963]

@actionsub Thank you for your response. Yes I may be highly negative on Al Tomko as much as lockenjr is. But it's not just him I blame. Maybe you're right that Jim Crockett wasn't as supportive as a promoter as he should have been to everybody associated with the NWA at the time. I also blamed the WWF as well. Vince McMahon using his promotion like a black hole. Sucking up television time and wrestling talent. He really angered me when he did that.

[actionsub]

@Lurvy1963 Well, Vince was equally to blame for sure, snatching up everyone's top stars and using most of them as prelim bums and jobbers. Nick Kiniski was one such victim of this treatment.

[actionsub]

@Lurvy1963 I'd blame Jim Crockett in the Carolinas more than Tomko. Crockett took over the NWA, ate up the Florida and Kansas City territories, and left the others out to dry, Vancouver and Portland among them. By the time Crockett got done screwing over what territories Vince McMahon didn't ruin, there wasn't a lot left. Portland had gone downhill, Tomko was about all that was left in Vancouver so he ended up with the book up there by default.

[happycnd]

I was at this match what a great night for young kid at the time. Promotions share thier Wrestlers back then.

[britishcalifornia]

Tomko didn't belong in the ring with those great wrestlers!

Colt was a crazy mofo....great memories.....Colt and Jaggers were a awesome tag team and their feud was classic.....I was there!!,,,Tomko ruined All-Star......sad

[lockenjr]

tomko was a tool don owens from here in portland tried to help his promotion for years loning him stars like roddy piper, rick martel, buddy rose the list is endless. Tomko killed bc wrestling. Vancouver was probably at its best when it was like the triple aaa club to portland wrestling.

[trois22]

Vancouver had good wrestling when Kiniski and Sandor Kovacs were the promoters. As good or better than Portland.

[lockenjr]

dutch savage agreees with you and so do i. I hear kiniski and kovacs were awesome But tomko was a self promoting

chump.

[trois22]

So true- Vancouver Wrestling went downhill very fast when Tomko took over the promotion, he was a poor wrestler -who focused the matches on himself, Monday nights at the PNE Gardens were well attended under Kiniski and Kovacs. I saw Dutch Savage their on several occasions. I stopped being a regular viewer of Wrestling under the Tomko regime.

[jrekdal]

Awesome to see Colt on the stick. Very rare!

[mushyman64]

colt was fun to watch did not know he passaway we miss u you your were a crazy son of a bitch

[maddogwrestlingfan]

Colt was one of a kind. Hell of a promo man. RIP Chris.....