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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.”
The following is a list of notable people and natives of Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Rick Folbaum (born 1969), co-anchor for WNYW-TV New York's weekday 6 pm newscasts. Attended Cherry Hill High School West [57] Vince Papale (born 1946), former professional football player, Philadelphia Eagles.
Apr 12, 2024 · A football coach found with cocaine after a search of his home had planned to share the drug with his friends, a court heard. Stephen Rogers (22) came from a good family, and his mother had been shocked when she learned of her son’s behaviour.
- 10 He Was An NWA Champion First
- 9 WWE Wouldn’T Exist Without Him
- 8 Lou Thesz Was Going to Win No Matter What
- 7 He Didn’T Actually Win The WWWF Championship
- 6 He Lost His Title Because of A Heart Attack
- 5 He Was An Innovator
- 4 He Was A Lot Like Ric Flair
- 3 He Wrestled Into His 60s
- 2 He Was A Manager in 1980s WWF
- 1 He Was Supposed to Wrestle Buddy Landel
Buddy Rogers is most famously associated with Vince McMahon Sr.’s promotion, the Capitol Wrestling Corporation, but he first made his name in the National Wrestling Alliance territories in Texas in the 1940s, becoming a seven-time NWA Texas Heavyweight Champion. In 1961, Rogers would defeat Pat O’Connor for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, i...
By 1963, the National Wrestling Alliance felt that Vince McMahon Sr. was being stingy with Buddy Rogers’ as far as loaning the champ out to other NWA territories, so the NWA decided to book Lou Thesz to beat Rogers for the World Title. McMahon did not want Thesz to be the champ, so he quit the NWA and formed a new venture, the World Wide Wrestling ...
The NWA feared that Buddy Rogers was going to refuse to lay down in his match with Lou Thesz, so they set up several fail-safes, just in case. One such fail-safe was making the match a one-fall bout instead of the NWA’s traditional 2/3 falls, but even more notable was Lou Thesz himself. RELATED: 10 Backstage Stories About Ric Flair We Can't Believe...
Being that the WWWF happened because McMahon refused to recognize Lou Thesz as NWA Champion over Buddy Rogers, they simply made Rogers the inaugural WWWF World Heavyweight Champion in 1963. However, for some reason the WWWF went an extra step by claiming that Rogers won the championship in a tournament in Rio De Janeiro that never actually happened...
Despite being crowned the top guy in Vince McMahon Sr.’s outlaw promotion, Buddy Rogers’ title reign lasted only 22 days, as the Nature Boy suffered a heart attack. The WWWF had to quickly take the title off of him, so they booked Bruno Sammartino to beat Rogers in under a minute -- just in case he had another heart attack -- beginning Sammartino’s...
In the first half of the 20th century, pro wrestling was a lot more slow-paced and based in maintaining holds for a very long time. Buddy Rogers did a lot of work to innovate an in-ring style that relies on moves like drivers, slams, and top rope maneuvers over mat-based work. On top of that, Rogers also developed the act of planning out a match fr...
The “Nature Boy” moniker wasn’t just a nickname that Ric Flairadopted. In the 1950s, upon leaving Texas for the Ohio territories, Buddy Rogers was given the “Nature Boy” gimmick, complete with bleached hair and a flashy heel personality. Sound familiar? RELATED: Ric Flair: His 10 Best World Title Reigns When he became the Nature Boy in the late 197...
A heart attack wasn’t enough to keep Buddy Rogers down. Throughout the 1960s, Rogers would wrestle tag matches and extremely short bouts so as to not overexert himself. He’d retire for about a decade, returning in the late ‘70s, working in Florida as well as in Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling. There, Rogers would feud with Ric Flair, who at the...
Older fans may remember Buddy Rogers from his brief time in the World Wrestling Federation in the early 1980s. There, Rogers most notably managed Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka, helping facilitate Snuka’s turn from a heel into a babyface. He even wrestled a couple matches alongside Snuka: once in 1982 against Captain Lou Albano and Ray Stevens, and once in...
In the mid-1980s, Jim Crockett Promotions had two Nature Boys running around. First there was Ric Flair, a top guy in the company, but there was also “Nature Boy” Buddy Landel, a young upstart who was proclaiming himself to be the true Nature Boy in pro wrestling. Their big match never really happened, but in 1992, Landel was set to wrestle another...
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Jan 10, 2023 · Killer Kowalski broke Rogers’ leg in a shoot in Quebec. The NWA Board of Directors, tired of his attitude, ordered him to drop the title upon his recovery. But they weren’t at all sure that Rogers would do it.
Jan 22, 2020 · This outraged many wrestlers so much that Bill Miller and Karl Gotch confronted Rogers in Columbus, Ohio and purposely broke Buddy’s left arm. The punishment did not end there for “The Nature Boy” as Killer Kowalski legitimately broke Rogers’ leg during a match in Quebec.
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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.
