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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 19, 2021 · 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.
Apr 23, 1999 · Charles (Buddy) Rogers, handsome leading man and band leader who starred in Wings (1927), first film to win an Academy Award, and who later married Mary Pickford, dies at 94; photos (M)
- How Buddy Rogers Got His Start in Wrestling
- Bucking The System and Paying For It
- The Death of Buddy Rogers
Buddy Rogers, born Herman Gustav Rhode Jr., was generally a restless young man. He’d conquered the Camden, New Jersey, sporting world, winning the local YMCA’s amateur wrestling title. He excelled in several sports, including boxing, football, track, and swimming. At 17, he joined a traveling circus as a wrestler, wrestling on the mat for real agai...
Except that Rogers was enough of a maverick that he wouldn’t always do what the NWA wanted him to do. He preferred to wrestle in the northeast, much to the dismay of the midwestern and southern promoters. But for Rogers, it was an easy decision: the money was better. Why work for smaller promoters (and smaller payoffs) when the money was there for ...
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. Without the ‘Nature Boy’ and h...
Jun 26, 1992 · Full wrestling profile of Buddy Rogers, with Career History, Real Name, Height, Weight, Age, Face/Heel Turns, Titles Won, Finishers, Theme Songs, Tag Teams, appearance changes, and more.
When I heard of Buddy's death, I would have to say my reaction was shock. While it is not unusual for a man of his age to get sick, it was very surprising for it to be Buddy. Buddy was never sick and like I said ALWAYS in the BEST of shape.
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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 ...
