Buddy Rogers
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Sep 21, 2026
Carl SternHOST
He wasn't even the first big star in America, but he was.
Carl SternHOST
the biggest star of the pioneer era and many of your mega stars, whether they be Frank Gotch or whether they be Ed Strangler Lewis or Buddy Rogers or Luthez or on and on, whoever your favorite big star of all time was.
Carl SternHOST
William Muldoon deserves to be mentioned in that same conversation, and he rarely is.
Carl SternHOST
The historians, the few newsletter writers, website people, wrestling heads that are out there, the few that do mention the pioneer era, still treat it as separate and detached from pro wrestling.
Chris LansdaleGUEST
[laughs]
Joshua WhiteHOST
And then, um, one that's still around or kind of still around, uh, Buddy Rogers was n- known for popularizing the pile driver, which is a, uh, banned move in WWE now, and overused everywhere else basically.
Chris LansdaleGUEST
Yeah.
Chris LansdaleGUEST
It's so interesting the history of the pile driver.
Bobby F. N. SalazarGUEST
They were originally a territory of the NWA.
Bobby F. N. SalazarGUEST
Fast forward on to 1963 with the whole Buddy Rogers debacle not being recognised as the NWA champion.
Bobby F. N. SalazarGUEST
They then leave the NWA.
Bobby F. N. SalazarGUEST
and then found the Worldwide Wrestling Federation, and then obviously quietly rejoined in the late 70s and then left again in the early 80s, and what have you.
Gerald BriscoHOST
did, yeah.
Gerald BriscoHOST
That was a playoff nature boy, Buddy Rogers.
Tony RichardsGUEST
Yeah, he was Buddy Rogers' little brother is how they promoted him out there.
Tony RichardsGUEST
But one of the more significant things that carried itself forward into Florida, a whole bunch of stuff did that he learned from Sarpolis.
Tony RichardsGUEST
But in Wichita Falls in 1959, or 1958, they booked the first lights-out match.
Gerald BriscoHOST
eddie's ascension to the top and to promotion was was phenomenal i mean he you know i always knew he was a brilliant man but he was He was a lot better with his money in the early days than I think he was when he got on the juice down there in Florida.
Tony RichardsGUEST
Well, I think when he got to Washington, D.C., which is where Capitol was located at the time, their television anyway, I think when he got there, I think Vince Sr. and Toots Montt were just so impressed with everything he learned in West Texas.
Tony RichardsGUEST
I mean, the ring psychology, the character, the audience manipulation, the promotion, they just didn't want to associate him with Buddy Rogers.
Scott CriscuoloHOST
Rebooking the lineage of the WWE Championship.
Scott CriscuoloHOST
We started back with Buddy Rogers in April of 1963 and changed some stuff up.
Scott CriscuoloHOST
We changed a lot of things up.
Scott CriscuoloHOST
We even changed up Bruno Reigns and shortened others.
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Scott CriscuoloHOST
We have realigned.
Scott CriscuoloHOST
So there you go, everybody.
Scott CriscuoloHOST
Start from May, our show back in May, when we started with Buddy Rogers on April 25th, 1963, and roll all the way.
Scott CriscuoloHOST
I mean, we did a mega show in 1973. three at Yankee stadium.
Steve FallHOST
But, like, we have The Nature Boy, Ric Flair.
Steve FallHOST
We have The Nature Boy, Buddy Rogers.
Steve FallHOST
Like, it's really-
Sean MooneyHOST
Yeah
Blade DailyHOST
In the 40s, there's two characters that come to life in a way that nobody had ever brought them to life before.
Blade DailyHOST
Gorgeous George, and we will delve into the gorgeous George archetype another time, and the nature boy, Buddy Rogers.
Blade DailyHOST
And Buddy Rogers was a part of a troupe run by a guy named Jack Pfeffer, who was basically the John Waters of the wrestling business.
Blade DailyHOST
He was a scoundrel who was rejected by literally everyone.
Blade DailyHOST
He was always threatening to expose the business if people didn't give him what he wanted.
Blade DailyHOST
And so Buddy was coming up with this new gimmick for himself where he was kind of this arrogant asshole who wore this kind of beautiful... robish gown almost looking thing to the ring
Professor DegreeHOST
on this golden god body kind of thing custom made from head to toe alligator shoes
Blade DailyHOST
being an obvious asshole yeah you know and so he would come to the ring and and you know a lot of people would draw an inference between him and gorgeous george was he influenced by gorgeous george no they were peers it happened around the same time But much like Strangler Lewis before him, Buddy Rogers had a big troop of people who were all like figured to be a future opponents of his.
JSKHOST
That was Michael PS Hayes.
JSKHOST
You had Terry "Bam Bam" Gordy sitting in the back, cracking skulls, and you had that little turd that was with them, Buddy Rogers, that'd just sit there and was the, the idiot of the bunch, but yet he seemed to squeak out a win.
JSKHOST
You could go-
Trey DawgHOST
That sounds more like Team Canada.
Mark MalkoffGUEST
I mean, that was his dream.
Mark MalkoffGUEST
I mean, he looked at Buddy Rogers, Fred Blassie, and all these... people and he just being a wrestling heel was what he would have given up comedy for which is unbelievable because for a comedian to get to where the level of andy is that was like the pinnacle in the dream but andy was willing to throw that away um if he could have been a wrestling star
Mathew FisherHOST
I mean, if he stuck around longer, he probably would have been on the WWE.
Mathew FisherHOST
I think so.
Tony PatricoHOST
influential matches in the history of pro wrestling but what i like about it even more is how you just connected the dots so we're calling this new segment connect the dots we'll talk about an old school match and then we'll connect the dots to modern day wrestling do you like that
Brody HermanHOST
i do i absolutely love it yeah i i love it i love when we can connect things and everything was influenced by something there's You know, there was a Nature Boy Buddy Rogers before there was a Nature Boy Ric Flair.
Brody HermanHOST
And Poppin' Circumstance was gorgeous, gorgeous theme music before it was Randy Savage's.
Brody HermanHOST
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