Buddy Rose

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Buddy Rose
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Ring name(s) "Playboy" Buddy Rose[1]
Executioner[1]
Trained by Verne Gagne[1]
Billy Robinson[1]
Debut 1973[1]

Paul Perschmann,[1] better known by his ring-name, "Playboy" Buddy Rose,[1] is a retired American professional wrestler.[1]

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[edit] Career

Trained by Verne Gagne and Billy Robinson in the mid 70s. Wrestled primarily for the AWA, WWF, and for promoter Don Owen in Pacific Northwest Wrestling throughout his career. One of his most memorable feuds during his time in the Pacific Northwest was with a young "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, fresh from a stint in California. According to Piper in his autobiography, this was the feud that "made" both men. Rose would remain in the Pacific Northwest while Piper would eventually move on to the Carolinas and later, the World Wrestling Federation.

Rose and tag team partner Doug Somers would engage in an epic feud with the Midnight Rockers over the AWA Tag Team Titles in 1986 and 1987.

A consummate heel, Rose was well respected for his great ability to both work the microphone and take a bump. He even turned his excessive weight gain during the later part of his career into a gimmick. When the ring announcer listed his weight as 271 lbs., Rose would angrily grab the microphone away from him and say, "I do not weigh 271 pounds. I weigh 217." This would of course bait the crowd into a booing frenzy. On occasion, he would also do one-handed push-ups in the ring and challenge other more muscular opponents to a "pose-down."

Rose, wrestling with a mask under the name "The Executioner," lost to Tito Santana in the opening match of WrestleMania 1985. He later returned to the World Wrestling Federation as enhancement talent. His most infamous WWF moment was a televised skit : the "Blow Away" diet plan, a parody of infomercials which sold weight loss products. In the skit, Rose, who at the time was close to 400 lbs., poured some type of powder (laundry soap) on himself, and then he stood in front of an industrial-strength fan, which "blew away" the powder and the fat with it.[2]

His last match took place at Wrestle Reunion 2005 in Tampa, Florida. He competed in a six-man tag team bout pitting himself, Col. DeBeers (Ed Wiskoski) & Bob Orton, Jr. against Jimmy Valiant, Roddy Piper and Jimmy Snuka. This was billed as Jimmy Valiant's retirement match, but Rose (who took the biggest bump of the night) basically retired after the event, as well.

In the mid-to-late 1990s, Rose co-hosted a call-in talk show on a Portland radio station then owned by local promoter Ivan Kafoury.

[edit] Championships and accomplishments

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Buddy Rose Profile. Online World Of Wrestling. Retrieved on 2008-05-02.
  2. ^ Braxton, Blade; R.D. Reynolds (2007). The Wrestlecrap Book of Lists!. ECW Press, 94. ISBN 1550227629. 

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