From: danm@ether.UUCP (Dan McDonald)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: CWUSA.(Portland)..Ron Harris Suspended?
Keywords: Local Newspaper Column says he is
Date: 6 Jan 93 20:42:55 GMT
Organization: Handmade Designs, Salem, OR.


The following is a column from _This Week_ magazine, a free weekly
newspaper-type advertising thing that arrives weekly in the mail.
It has a few comic strips, some local columnists, some national
columnists, and not much else.  Usually the big feature for our
family is the discovery within of the Safeway double coupons...

Imagine my delight to find something actually a little about local
wrestling.

As background, Measure 5 is an initiative passed a couple of years ago
that reduced the property tax rate throughout the state.  This has
since caused great sputterings of consternation amongst the state
bureaucracy about how're they supposed to pay for all of their great
services.  So far as I can tell, no great changes have taken place yet
among the bloated state hierarchy.  Anyway, back to wrestling...

Newspaper column follows.

dan
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"Wrestler suspended: bad conduct  [from the Burgess Sez column, by
                                  Michael Burgess,
                                  Entertainment page, _This Week_
                                  magazine, Jan 6,1993 (Portland, Oregon)]


    A little food for thought for those who, in a post Measure 5 world,
wonder if we really need an Oregon Boxing and Wrestling Commission.  A
few days before Christmas, the commission suspended the license of a
Mr. Ronald Dean Harris, a professional wrestler, to wit: one half of
a tag team ensemble known as the Bruise Brothers.
    "Pursuant to the provisions of ORS 463,113(3)," a statute that's there
only if the commission is, Mr. Harris's license was suspended, "upon the
basis that your continued licensure as a wrestler, in Oregon, is contrary
to the public interest."  The suspension runs for 90 days.
    Great Scott!  Inquiring minds wonder what could Mr. Harris (hereafter,
Bruise) possibly have done to be suspended from a sport that routinely
involves bashing one's opponents with folding chairs and odd bits of
lumber on Kids' Night?
    "The commission inposes this immediate, temporary suspension upon you
because, on or about Nov. 13, 1992, you intentionally attempted, in a
telephone call you placed to him, to put the commission's executive
director in fear of imminent serious, physical injury."
    On or about Nov. 13, Bruise was obviously not thinking clearly.  You
wouldn't believe the things he said.  This would have been foolish enough
even if he hadn't left the message on the director's voice mail.
    Bruise, Bruise, Bruise.
    "In addition the Oregon Boxing and Wrestling Commission intends to
revoke your wrestling license because your continued licensure, in light
of your conduct described above, is inconsistent with the public interest
and the best interests of wrestling."
    If, as is a real possibility, the commission is rendered fiscally
toothless in the next legislative session, Bruise's nearly charming
indiscretion will be part of the good old days.  On the bright side,
if blood sport in Oregon is deregulated, Bruise might have work enforcing
whatever guidelines the promoters (Meat 'R Us) figure they need."



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