On This Day: November 18, 1950 – Nature Boy Buddy Rogers vs Lone Eagle – Kiel Auditorium – St Louis, MO
On This Date: November 18, 1950 – 72 years ago tonight, Nature Boy Buddy Rogers wrestled Lone Eagle in the main event of this Sam Muchnick wrestling event at the Kiel Auditorium in St Louis, Missouri. General admission tickets could be had for 60 CENTS!
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Inside Wrestling Magazine May 1969 Issue – Nature Boy Buddy Rogers vs Antonino Rocca
Inside Wrestling Magazine – May 1963
Antonino Rocca vs. Buddy Rogers
February 17, 1963 – New York City
‘My Toughest Bout”
Written and approved by Antonino Rocca
The one thing Buddy Rogers could not stand was to have an opponent twist and bend his legs. I learned that the first time I was in the ring with Rogers, and everytime I was in with him after that I centered my attack on his legs. The reason i call this particular match in NEW York with Buddy “the toughest I haver had” is because he was ready for me then as he had never been ready before. He had figured out a defens for his legs and he bugged me with it all night. Every time I even looked at his legs he took a step towards me and brought his knee up into my body. During that whole bout I was never able to touch his legs. Of course he was fooling me all the time, and I kept asking the referee to disqualify him. But the referee let him get away with it. When I got back to the dressing room my body was covered in lumps and every time I look a breath it felt like somebody was sticking a knife into me. This a bouth a want to forget.
Rogers was a master at choking opponents in such a way that the referee seldom caught him in the act. I spit blood for a whole month after this bout. I worked a lot on Buddy’s arms with the idea of neutralizing his attacks. The stragegy slowed him down only a little. I knew I had him when I raised him to my shoulders bounced him up and down a few times, spun around as fast as I could to make him dizzy, then slammed him to the mat just as hard as I could. The first fall was mine. You can see the condition Rogers was in after he hit the floor. I should have walked away with his title that night and I would have had it if it had not been for a referee whom I still say was blind.
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On This Day: November 16, 1960 – Nature Boy Buddy Rogers Defends NWA US Title Against Eddie Graham – Miami, FL
On This Date: November 16, 1960 – Nature Boy Buddy Rogers defended his National Wrestling Alliance United States Title against his former protege Bad Boy Eddie Graham at Miami Baseball Stadium in Miami, FL. The two out of three falls match was billed as “AL RICHIE PRESENTS THE GREATEST WRESTING MATCH EVER TO BE BOOKED IN SOUTH FLORIDA!”
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On This Day: Nature Boy Buddy Rogers and Jimmy Snuka (subbing for Big John Studd) faced Blackjack Mulligan and Mr Wrestling Tim Woods at the Dorton Arena, Tuesday November 13, 1979. NWA Mid-Atlantic Wrestling. Mulligan and Woods would win when Rogers and Snuka were disqualified.
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On This Date: November 13, 1946 – Evansville, Indiana – 76 years ago. A young Buddy Rogers defeated former World Champion Danno O’Mahony in a two out of three falls match. O’Mahony is the man who made the Irish Whip famous and for whom it is named owing to his Irish heritage.
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Master of the Ring: The Biography of “Nature Boy” Buddy Rogers is scheduled to be released at the end of November 2020, from Crowbar Press. Tim Hornbaker did a tremendous amount of research into Buddy’s life and this will be the most comprehensive work on the original Nature Boy ever published.
Glory Days of Wrestling DVD Cover – Nature Boy Buddy Rogers
The cover of Glory Days of Wrestling DVD featuring Nature Boy Buddy Rogers. This DVD contained the NWA World Heavyweight title match between Nature Boy Buddy Rogers and champion Pat O’Connor from Chicago IL where Buddy would become the world champion.
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