Vince McMahon Buried Him — Wrestling's Greatest Forgotten GeniusRoddy Piper called him the best he ever worked with. Wrestling historians who have studied the tape library say he might have been the best in-ring performer on the planet from 1977 to 1984. He sold out the Portland Sports Arena every Saturday night for years. He made Roddy Piper a star. He made Curt Hennig. He made Rick Martel.His name was Buddy Rose.And Vince McMahon destroyed him.When Buddy Rose arrived in the WWF, he should have been treated as one of the greatest acquisitions of the territorial era. Instead, Vince McMahon told the locker room: "I want everybody to work out — except for Buddy." What followed was years of calculated humiliation: enhancement matches, the "Blow Away Diet" segment, a once-great wrestler reduced to a fat joke on national television.This is the story of "Playboy" Buddy Rose: the genius Vince McMahon buried, the Portland Wrestling legend who deserved better, and the 400 hours of tape footage he saved — the only proof that what Vince took from him was real
0:00 - Intro
1:11 - Section 1: The King of the Northwest
4:00 - Section 2: The Seeds of Doubt
6:13 - Section 3: The First WrestleMania
8:38 - Section 4: The Blow Away Burial
11:16 - Section 5: The "What If" Legacy
13:43 - Conclusion
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