Buddy is gone!

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Author: Trixter
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 8:07 pm
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The Playboy passed away yesterday at his home....

http://www.twnpnews.com/messages/22012.shtml

Author: Stevethedj
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 8:32 pm
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Sad he was a nice guy. I was across the glass from him for a while at KKEY.

Author: Semoochie
Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 3:54 am
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I never met anyone more willing to please. He sometimes talked about yet another wrestler who had passed on. I was hoping he'd beat the curse.

Author: Mrs_merkin
Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 10:19 am
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Shyguy, are you OK?

Author: Shyguy
Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 2:40 pm
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little known fact: "Playboy" Buddy Rose was the first wrestler to enter the ring the night of Wrestlemania 1 in 1985. He wrestled Tito Santana as The Executioner.

little known fact: "Playboy" Buddy Rose was "the" first person in the state to own a BETA machine and probally one of the first in the nation.

I met breifly once with Buddy Rose and I found him to be a total asshole. No he wasn't even in character. But alot of people loved the man they call the "whale on the beach" uh uhm I mean the "Playboy".

Author: Skeptical
Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 2:58 pm
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So he's nothing like Randy Ram Jam then?

Author: Shyguy
Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 2:59 pm
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"Playboy" Buddy Rose's WWF Blow Away Diet Promo circa late 80's I believe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT-OIhG8AI0

Buddy Rose and Doug Sommers w/ the late Sherri Martel vs The Midnight Rockers of Shawn Micheals and Marty Jennetty. From the AWA circa mid 80's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcdknO5yoMQ&NR=1

"Playboy" Buddy Rose debuts the Rose Garden segment on KPTV's Portland Wrestler circa early 80's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEYBzTnQGiw

These two clip in particular probally wouldn't exist today as Buddy Rose was the only one who ever bothered to tape the show off of KPTV. Back in the day those in charge of the Portland Wrestling broadcast at KPTV would record over the master tape every week. Anything that is Portland Wrestling from KPTV is really a wrestling goldmine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEYBzTnQGiw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx0T3zVIULs

He was a truly great promo guy. IE meaning he could speak very well. Getting across why he was going to do what he was going to do or agite whoever. Most wrestlers today don't even come close to understanding the meaning of "cutting a good promo".

Author: Entre_nous
Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 7:37 pm
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Along the line of great promotional skills, "Playboy" Buddy and Jesse "The Body" were priceless, especially when Buddy didn't allow Jesse to speak. "The Body" would stand back, posing and mean-mugging everybody while Frank Bonnema tried to get an interview in.

Good times at Chataqua!

Author: Richpatterson
Saturday, May 02, 2009 - 10:46 pm
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little known fact: "Playboy" Buddy Rose was "the" first person in the state to own a BETA machine and probally one of the first in the nation.

Buddy actually had a home video machine that pre-dated Beta & VHS. It was a format put out by Quasar called "The Great Time Machine." It was on this machine that he taped hours of Portland Wrestling from 1977 & 1979....and lots of 1978 San Francisco wrestling. The machine was a top loader that weighed about 50 pounds. Once he got a VHS machine, the Quasar tapes were stored in his garage, where they stayed until 2001.

I mentioned to Buddy many times that, growing up a fan of "Portland Wrestling", that I wish there was some footage of Lonnie Mayne wrestling in Portland. He always talked about these "old tapes with red labels" that he couldn't play anymore. Finally, he told me that he was going to toss them because they took up too much room. (He had about 40 of these tapes, which were about twice the size of a VHS tape.)

I finally looked at the tapes. Not many were labled, but one had "Mayne - Rose 10/77" written on it. Right then, I knew that I had to take those tapes and save them from a dumpster death. Not knowing the tape format or anything else, I set out to restore this footage.

It took two years and about $1,000, but I finally got them restored. Yes, a lot of time and money. But, for someone that grew up watching "Portland Wrestling" every Saturday as a kid as far back as 1969, it was all well worth it! In all, I got about 27 hours of footage from 1977-1979, including rare Portland footage of guys like Jesse Ventura, Jimmy Snuka and of course, Lonnie Mayne. The old Friendly Chevrolet commercials are also a kick to see.

Along with all of the 1980's "Portland Wrestling" in our collections, Comcast contacted me last year to possibly do a weekly "Portland Wrestling Classics" show. It would have been hosted by Buddy and perhaps Brian Wheeler. Unfortunately, we couldn't find anyone to clear rights, so the project faded.

Buddy passing was very sad for me. First, here was a guy that I grew up watching on TV. Then, he became a good friend who wasn't "Playboy Buddy Rose"...he was just good old Buddy.

RIP my friend.


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