Pacific Northwest Wrestling
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Pacific Northwest Wresting (PNW) was a Portland, Oregon based professional wrestling company. It was the Northwest territory of the National Wrestling Alliance, and as such saw many of the top names in the business come though on a regular basis. Founded by Don Owens, it was considered one of the main territories from the 1960s to the 1980s.
For years, PNW broadcast its TV program Portland Wrestling on KPTV in Portland on Saturday nights; the program was also syndicated to the rest of Oregon and Washington as Big Time Wrestling. Following a slowdown in the wrestling business during the early 1990s and a declaration of bankruptcy by Portland Wrestling's main sponsor (which led to the show ending production in December 1991 and being replaced by syndicated WWF programming), PNW was forced to close its doors in July 1992.
