Buddy Rogers

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Real Name:	Herman Rohde
Birth:	1921/02/20 in Camden, New Jersey
Debut:	1939
Death:	1992/06/26
Titles:	NWA Texas Heavyweight [6] NWA Texas Tag Team World Heavyweight (Los Angeles/Ohio - Jack Pfeffer) [4] NWA United States Heavyweight World Heavyweight Title (Montreal) [3] AWA World Heavyweight (Ohio) [3] Ohio Tag Team [4] Tri-State Television (Pennsylvania/West Virginia/Ohio) AWA Eastern Heavyweight (Boston) AWA World Heavyweight (Chicago) Television (Ohio) Midwest/Eastern States Heavyweight (Ohio) [12] NWA Mid-America Heavyweight North American Heavyweight (Amarillo) NWA World Tag Team (San Francisco) United States Tag Team (Capitol) [2] NWA World Heavyweight WWWF World Heavyweight
Hall of Fame Inductions:	World Wrestling Federation (1994) The Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum (2002)
External Links:	BuddyRogers.net - a tribute site WWE Hall of Fame: Buddy Rogers Find A Grave

Comments by Steve Black (written for RSPW Hall of Fame)

As the original "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers set the standard for which all gimmicks should be forced to follow. With his brash, cocky air in the ring, Rogers was a master at drawing heat from the fans--while at the same time winning respect from the fans with his hard work in the ring. He was the first man to win the WWWF title, as part of a split from the NWA in 1963, and is generally acknowledged as one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. Rogers died in 1992, but he will long be remembered.

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