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Mar 19, 2021 · Photo Courtesy: Crowbar Press. At the end of 2020, Tim Hornbaker released his latest book detailing the life and career of former NWA and WWWF Champion Buddy Rogers entitled Master of the Ring – The Biography of Nature Boy Buddy Rogers.
Buddy Rogers (born Herman Gustav Rohde Jr.; February 20, 1921 – June 26, 1992), better known by the ring name " Nature Boy " Buddy Rogers, was an American professional wrestler who was one of the biggest professional wrestling stars in the beginning of the television era.
Mar 1, 2021 · The absence of a full length biography on Buddy Rogers has, for years, been a glaring void in the field of wrestling history. Although fully acknowledging the perils of drawing sporting parallels, Rogers’ lack of biographical treatment is no less significant than if baseball’s Joe Dimaggio, or hockey’s Maurice Richard, had been denied the ...
Nov 10, 2020 · “Buddy Rogers was an icon on so many levels, and not only influenced a generation of wrestling fans, but a number of future wrestlers as well. And he did it as a heel. His arrogance, snarl, and, of course, his strut, infuriated fans from coast-to-coast, and his legacy will live forever.”
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.
If the saying "Imitation is the greatest form of flattery" is true, then the "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers must have been very flattered while he was alive. Rogers was not highly decorated like Lou Thesz, but Buddy has had an impact on the sport of professional wresting in many ways other than winning a great deal of titles.
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Jan 22, 2020 · NWA Champion Lou Thesz and challenger Buddy Rogers receive instructions from former Boxing champion Jack Dempsey before a big title bout at Wrigley Field, Chicago in 1950. Throughout the fifties, Rogers wage in a war with Lou Thesz .
