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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.
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.
Jan 10, 2023 · Buddy Rogers was examined and re-examined, and they couldn’t find a thing wrong with him, and then after that, his license was reinstated. Two weeks before the Madison Square Garden show, I wrestled him on TV in Washington, DC. That was live TV that went to New York.
- 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...
Jan 23, 2020 · On January 24, 1963, following a good deal of backstage maneuvering just to ensure the match actually took place, Buddy Rogers lost the NWA World championship to Lou Thesz in Toronto.
Everything that is wrestling today is owed to the Nature Boy. Inventor of the Figure Four and Atomic Drop. To say that Buddy was one of the greatest would not do justice to him. Only to say THE GREATEST would ever come close. While Buddy did not physically train me in the ring, what he did teach me was irreplaceable.
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Professional wrestler. The first-ever World Wide Wrestling Federation (now WWE) Champion. WWE Hall of Famer. In 1979, Buddy Rogers showed up in Mid Atlantic, where Ric Flair was the top heel, and challenged him to a "Battle Of The Nature Boys".
