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- A superstar of wrestling’s “Golden Age” during the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s, he drew large and consistent crowds, won numerous championships (including six World titles in four major promotions) and influenced generations of wrestlers to come.
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Jan 23, 2020 · The World Wide Wrestling Federation was soon created, and recognized “Nature Boy” Buddy Rogers as the inaugural WWE champion. Rogers would hold the new World title for nearly six tumultuous months before being defeated, in just 47 seconds, at Madison Square Garden by a young and powerful Bruno Sammartino.
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Charles Edward "Buddy" Rogers (August 13, 1904 – April 21, 1999) was an American film actor and musician. During the peak of his popularity in the late 1920s and early 1930s, he was publicized as "America's Boyfriend".
Rogers was the first to use flying moves in quantity, staying off the mat, and the style was so popular with the fans that other wrestlers, including me, followed his lead. [ 18 ] Another Rogers contribution to modern professional wrestling was his bombastic interviewing style.
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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 22, 2020 · In conjunction with the introduction of television, his popularity grew and he became the huge box office hit (and he knew it) and this helped convince the NWA board of directors to place the World title on him.
Sep 22, 2020 · 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.
CHARLES "BUDDY" ROGERS will be remembered primarily because he succeeded Douglas Fairbanks as husband to Mary Pickford. But he had an impressive career in his own right.
