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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. Rogers is one of the seminal figures of the era that drew in so many parts of the United States not to mention his work in Montreal, Quebec.
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.
Feb 20, 2021 · Nature Boy Buddy Rogers would've been 100 today if he were still alive, so I thought I'd have a look at some clips of him at different stages of his career.
Jan 23, 2020 · Buddy Rogers, wrestling's original "Nature Boy," was one of the most influential wrestlers ever & 1st to win World Heavyweight titles in both the NWA & WWE.
- 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...
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Sep 22, 2020 · Their big match never really happened, but in 1992, Landel was set to wrestle another Nature Boy, a 71-year-old Buddy Rogers, for Tri-State Wrestling Alliance. The promotion would fold before this could happen, and Rogers died months later. NEXT: 10 Worst Things Ric Flair Ever Did In Wrestling. Wrestling.
