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Portland Men's Roller Derby
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Portland Men's Roller Derby is an open gender flat track roller derby league in Portland, Oregon, United States. The league was established in 2009.[1][2] In May 2011, The Oregonian reported, "Eventually the Rose City Rollers --the women's league --agreed to lease space to the men at their home base, the Hangar at Oaks Amusement Park in Southeast Portland."[3]

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In August 2011, Portland Men's Roller Derby held tryouts for "exceptionally violent skaters of all skill levels" at the Oaks Park hangar, "sometimes in co-ed scrimmages with roller girls".[4]

In December 2011, the league was accepted as a member of the Men's Roller Derby Association.[5] Their first home game after that membership was in Beaverton, on May 26, 2012, with "Holy Roll'n Empire bumping skates against the Bone Daddies".[6]

Benjamin Doyle, a founding member of Portland Men's Roller Derby, was hired in 2020 as director of live broadcast operations.[7]

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