Art Barr

You know, he's calling Sandy Barr Moe Barr because of his haircut.

When Art Barr wrestles and Sandy Barr is the ref, he screams nepotism, pointing out, is it really fair for the father to be repping the son's match? Which makes sense.

It's just like

stating the obvious.

And that's a sign of a good heel.

In the Encyclopedia of Portland Wrestlers, available on Amazon, you describe him as both annoying and entertaining with a sharp sense of humor.

You mentioned Sandy Barr and Art Barr and Moe Barr, and that is just really classic, really smart humor to be used that really... got scotty the body heat with the fans that's not something raven would do but that ability to find something grab onto it and make it part of his character is because that absolutely matters on who scotty would later become as raven and then he comes on and well portland wrestling gave him something that i don't think any writer could have planned if it was planned i'm shocked but a camera caught scotty doing something well not particularly flattering didn't they

They saw him picking his nose.

Well, maybe we should explain who Sandy Barr is, and I should tell you, I was looking for something with Johnny Barend, but somehow that led me to Jesse Barr's file, and this was in the Jesse Barr file.

Jesse Barr, one of the first folks that I managed when I got into wrestling, who was the, the brother of Art Barr, who's Beetlejuice, and the son of Sandy Barr, who was the wrestler, referee, promoter, and jack of all trades for Don Owen and in the Pacific Northwest, who had, for whatever reason, a Beatle haircut in 1990-fucking-3.

For whatever reason, obviously a love of the Fab Four.

But let's go to this letter to Jim Melby, Pro Wrestling Enterprises, December 28th, 1981 from Sandy Barr.

And so now I've watched a lot of PNW, uh, on via YouTube, and I guess one of the things that I like about it is I didn't realize how many people got their start there.

I mean, Roddy Piper, Buddy Rose, B- Billy Jack Haynes, Rick Martel, Curt Hennig, uh, Buzz Sawyer, um, Matt Borne, Jesse Ventura, Art Barr.

Uh, so many of these individuals came through.

Scotty, uh, the Body, AKA Raven.

seen.So I'll ask you one more question with changing the definition of limitations, 'cause we talk about limitations as their skill necessarily in the ring, but limitations can also be size.

Because I'm gonna ask you, can great booking take a guy with a limited size, like an Art Barr, and make him an attraction?

Yes.

And that's another interesting thing.

[footsteps thudding] Let's take another look, first at the death-defying moonsault to the floor from Prosper, [body thuds] then with the frog splash that was effective, but not enough to end it.

Something this building saw back in '94 when Los Gringos were here with Art Barr and Eddie Guerrero.

[crowd cheering] [footsteps thudding]

Evans has Prosper trapped.

Just talk about him.

Art Barr is on the booking sheets and should debut within the next 10 days.

The plans continue to machine Blue Panther feud, which showed up in Mexico for the mass match and never was resolved because Blue Panther jumped here.

Yep.

I chose not to do it.

My life at home was too easy, you know? Um, I wasn't gonna go to Portland where I had no- I knew Art Barr, 'cause Art Barr and I worked together in WCW.

Great guy.

Um, and his brother, Jesse.

Abutted Dean.

You push Art Barr, give him the new TV title.

You mentioned Joey Jackson, and we all just saw Joey at the Portland Wrestling Expo.

He's a great guy.

Exactly.

[laughs] One result that I wanted to ask you about, January 1st, 1987 in Salem.

It's a young Art Barr in his first pro match, and it's against you.

You're not too experienced yourself at this point.

So I think it worked.

Yeah, honestly, it kind of reminds me of Mike Tenay's days in, I want to say it was AAA, because it reminded me of the match with Art Barr and Eddie Guerrero versus...

so i'm saying el hijo del santo and i think it was octagon in that two out of three falls matchup which honestly guys i enjoy that match it's a really good match it's classic match it feels really good it's mask versus hair if you haven't got a chance go check it out anyway Off of the Nostalgia Horse, let's get into it.

Well, now we have a nostalgic match going on here because we're kicking things off with Kaz versus Samoa Joe.