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Mar 19, 2021 · The claim that Thesz told Rogers in the ring, “We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” is pure fiction. Also, it was claimed that there was a briefcase with $25,000 in cash on hand, representing Buddy’s belt deposit, and if Rogers didn’t go through with the title switch, Sam Muchnick was going to donate the money to charity.
Rogers married Ruth "Debbie" Nixon in 1969 and subsequently adopted her son, David Buddy Rogers, as his own. [14] When Rogers retired from wrestling, he took a job as a manager at a Playboy Club casino.
Mar 1, 2021 · Fortunately, Tim Hornbaker, one of the genre’s most well respected and competent chroniclers, has finally tackled the task with Master of the Ring: The Biography of “Nature Boy” Buddy Rogers, out now from Crowbar Press.
Jan 6, 2021 · He was the legendary manager of the even more legendary “Nature Boy” Buddy Rogers. With his death today, January 6, 2021, at the age of 83, I found myself looking back to those recent times when he called … and I tried to make heads or tails of our conversations.
At over 70 years old the man had the body of a man half his age. He loved to go for a walk on the beach, in fact, he was out there just about every morning--scoping out the chicks. Buddy was a huge flirt but when it came down to it, Debbie, his wife, was the only one for him. He loved the good life. Limo's and Wild Suits... that guy...
Jan 10, 2023 · On June 26, 1992, Buddy Rogers died at 71 years old, after a series of strokes. He leaves a complicated legacy, but a lasting one. He was the first man to hold both the NWA world title and the WWWF/WWF/WWE world championship, and he invented the figure-four grapevine, the hold we know today as the figure-four leglock.
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Jun 26, 1992 · He died on June 26, 1992 at the age of 71. Buddy Rogers was inducted in the WWE Hall of Fame in 1994 as an individual, in the NWA Hall of Fame in 2010 and in the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame (PWHF) in 2002 as part of the Television Era wing.
