Here is the Oregonian's coverage of the 3/5/68 Owen Promotions event at the Memorial Coliseum. The main event of Tony Borne vs. Lonnie Mayne drew the largest crowd in Portland history up until that point. Owen ran several shows at the Coliseum through the 60's, but I can't find any records of a larger crowd than this. The 60th Anniversary show in '85 (Piper vs. Rose and Flair vs. Billy Jack) drew 12,000, and a subsequent Extravaganza with Sgt. Slaughter and the Road Warriors also drew around 8,000. Hogan drew 8,600 against King Kong Bundy in 1986. The modern WWE shows, of course, have outdrawn it several times.
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