Buddy Rose v David Schultz - Cage Match

Portland Wrestling's villain of the century, "Playboy" Buddy Rose, goes toe-to-toe with the man who's been calling him out for months, "Dr. D" David Schultz, in this ruthless, anything goes Cage Match!! This extremely rare NWA-PNW footage comes from Portland Wrestling's Aug. 21st, 1982 televised event from the legendary Portland Sports Arena!!

[@1959RT]

This is real professional wrestling as it was meant to be. Thanks for showing this.

[@RingOfFireProWrestling]

Thanks for the words of encouragement!! There's plenty more Portland Wrestling to come, so stick around!!

[@1959RT]

***** Will do. Thanks.

[@thebronxbarbariannetwork6530]

awesome stuff.i wish that this aired in nyc back in the day.i've only read about the action & now i can watch it.thanks for uploading it.

[@RingOfFireProWrestling]

Glad to have you here! New episodes are coming at ya' each and every week!!

[@markbowman6655]

Tom Peterson' with his electronics, appliances, and furniture commercials were priceless, lot of fun, taking that trip back in time, great pitchman.

[@fatdaddyeddiejr]

When I was in the Army. I wanted the Tom Peterson alarm clock that would tell you to "wake up." It would have been the perfect weapon to annoy the rest of my platoon.

[@WhitneySmith-ey7dl]

Where else could you buy a VCR and get a free jar head haircut?

[@marcf905]

I love your old school videos. Takes me straight back to .y youth! Thanx!!

[@karlvanslyke946]

One of the greatest cage matches ever

[@aceldamia9114]

"Remember, looking at tape doesn't make any difference anymore than it would to a football referee, or a baseball referee." About that, Frank...

[@errolwaguespack7196]

Very great Wrestling

[@drserious1970]

thanks for posting

[@BH-zc6hu]

3:20 always loved the full moon spots. Lol. Love hearing the girls cheer

[@chuckgan]

Great stuff as always!

[@OaktownABQ]

Doctor J Schultz! LOL

[@jrekdal]

Don Owen was the man!

[@liveclassictunes]

bahahahahahahaaaaa!!!!! I like and respect the old guy but he should had retired years ago... he must have been a fan of Dr. J...lol!

[@KayFabe87]

In fairness, it was the 80’s and Dr. J was in his prime. Still a pretty major faux pax. Slightly diminishes Shultz that the promoter can’t even get the first letter of his name correct. Sends the message that he isn’t that big of a star.

[@bobdennison207]

rip buddy rose . like ernie ladd - underrated , so over on the kayfabe .

[@nickmad887]

thanks

[@bradd9326]

Coal miners glove matches were usually on Tuesday as well. But, the last one I saw was on a Saturday night. Scotty the Body beat a masked man called Top Gun.

[@sickofidiots4095]

I was waiting on "Dr. J" to DUNK.

[@KurtMiller-y2w]

Ah a classic from RON Owens LOL

[@phildirt3]

Don owen says “in this corner when schultz isnt even in a corner hahaha

[@jrekdal]

Dr.J!

[@kevindouglas5333]

Anything goes then going crazy over a pair of knuxs

[@christopherjenkins1176]

feuds are settled in side the cage.

[@samwell707]

Dr d was good. Very tight

[@ASDDrums]

I remember watching this on tv that night as a kid! Are all your uploads from the legendary collection of Buddy Rose's vhs recordings? You have a gold mine of what was my favorite show on every Saturday night as a kid growing up in Gresham!!

[@chuckgan]

owens called him Dr J? LOL

[@raymondphillips7107]

“DR J SHULTZ” ??????

[@lonehorseman09]

speaking of tv shows all star ran from 1956 to 1989 coast to coast in canada in color the whole way. stamped ran from 1957 to jan. 1990 going to color about 1972. the 4 promoters for all star were rod fenton, sandor kovacs, al tomko and fred roselli in that order. all deceased. portland may have been the best of them all, all around. fans cheering rose? never in canada. dr. d was always a face on stampede.

[@RingOfFireProWrestling]

lonehorseman09 Did Stampede broadcast throughout the whole of Canada?? What about the promotion the Rougeaus ran??

[@Slickshapiro13]

Testosterone Overload stampede was only regional (Alberta /Saskatchewan) until 83 when they started encroaching into Vancouver bc territory with tv , then shows. They went national in Canada on TSN in the late 80s Rougeaus were in Quebec. Wasn’t shown out west

[@smcchandler3430]

@@RingOfFireProWrestling stampede broadcast through much of canada..... rougeau montreal = NO. even in ottawa we didn't get it.. all-star from vancouver and george cannon's superstars of wrestling played alot of places too

[@smcchandler3430]

now that i think about it, we got rougeau montreal wrestling in ottawa for a very short period, like 2 months.. saw creatchman, the sheik (promo only?), tarzan tyler.. i thought serge dumont was an absolute monster but career petered out... btw, i'm thinking 1970s. 1990's montreal was not a rougeau promotion, although they appeared.

[@michaelb9529]

@@smcchandler3430 Don't forget Kiniski he was Kovacs' partner until Sandor sold his part to Tomko. Kiniski sold his part to Tomko and brought in Stampede and basically wiped Tomko off map. Strange thing is it was Tomko who invaded Calgary first with no success. Kiniski had the NWA license so all was cool with Stampede raiding BC

[@christinastanton4928]

I remember being there with daddy

[@dpurplefox]

David Schultz is the wrestler that slapped John Stossel in the ears and ruptured his ear drums

[@EmpowerUOnline]

A better time with no anti American rhetoric. Pure Americana

[@vlogger4567]

Weren't they both heels?

[@ASDDrums]

In those days when Dr. D would come to town he was the fan favorite because of the feud with Buddy Rose

[@WhitneySmith-ey7dl]

Anybody who went against Rose at that time would have been cheered.

[@Desstrik]

Who is the hacksaw here?? looks like Brett sawyer?

[@Mariners_Rich]

It is Sawyer. When his brother Buzz was here he started as Buzz Saw Kane and later went by Buzz Saw Sawyer. When Brett came he kept the "saw" thing going and so went by Hack Saw Sawyer. Never as Brett Sawyer. Soon Buzz would leave for Georgia and Brett remained for several months before he too went to Georgia and still carried the Hack Saw name for the rest of his Portland days

[@jrekdal]

@@Mariners_Rich Buzzsaw & Hacksaw

[@WhitneySmith-ey7dl]

Buzz and Hacksaw are two more of a long line of wrestlers who came into Portland as no names, but became big names on east coast afterwards.

[@paladin1726]

@@WhitneySmith-ey7dl Hacksaw Brett was my favorite when I was a kid. What was I thinking? 🤪

[@robertb3209]

Wow do you have more footage of David Schultz and Jesse Ventura as babyfaces in Portland?

[@donaldpainter956]

I would love to see doctor d against mad dog vachhann

[@HawklordLI]

Less than two months later announcer Frank Bonnema died.

[@WhitneySmith-ey7dl]

Frank would smoke about a pack of cigarettes during the broadcast and you can see clouds of his second hand smoke in front of the camera in lots of these old matches.

[@donovanshannon7878]

so Dr.D was a face before?

[@fatdaddyeddiejr]

In Portland Wrestling. Some of the most famous heels in wrestling were fan favorites in Portland. When Buzz Sawyer was hated in Atlanta and battling Tommy Rich. He would come to Portland to wrestle with his brother Brett who was a babyface. And the fans loved both Buzz and Brett Sawyer. Jesse Ventura was another wrestler that was a baby face in Portland but a heel elsewhere.

[@joelperry8187]

Doesn't appear Rose spent a lot of time in the gym.

[@dpurplefox]

he would beat your sorry ass

[@shawnflanagan4995]

he didn't have to. rose could really go, but wouldn't get a sniff today, and that's too bad.

[@joelperry8187]

@@dpurplefox You couldn't

[@paladin1726]

Dude was 185 and ripped. Passed on Mr Olympia to wrestle.

[@donaldellis8952]

Is it me or shouldn’t cage matches be decided inside the cage and not that stupid escape the cage. How does that end a feud.

[@KayFabe87]

It allows someone to win without the other guy being pinned. Gives the booker some options coming up with a finish to keep the guy who loses strong. It also helps to smooth out the ego of the guy doing the job. He doesn’t have to take the pinfall. He “loses” by virtue of the winner escaping and “running away”. Much easier to sell that finish to guy doing the job.

[@paladin1726]

They have to have a reason to climb the cage. Otherwise there's no reason to climb it, and then you don't have the crowd getting anxious when the action starts climbing. You might as well scrap the cage and have a lumberjack match. I've never been a fan of cage matches, except Halloween Havoc when Muta used his mist to put out the fire when the cobweb decorations caught on fire.

[@Davepool-hs7vr]

249 lbs. for Buddy Rose 😂

[@jamestyree8884]

anything goes. except brass knuckles lol.

[@MrNYCman530]

Cheese grater@4:57

[@KurtMiller-y2w]

The bst damn wrestling show ever

[@RingOfFireProWrestling]

YES!

[@vlogger4567]

Jobber vs. jobber match...

[@chrisgrover161]

I wouldnt go that far. They weren't top level for very long, but both were far from jobbers. I think Rose was more of a jobber toward the end of his WWF career...but both guys wouldnt lose to chico rodriguez or Frankie Williams

[@clarvebiker3175]

Dr D held 14 different titles in his career. Buddy Rose held as many or more belts. What do you define as a "Jobber"?

[@vlogger4567]

@@clarvebiker3175 Anyone who failed in a REAL rassling federation. Bush league titles mean nothing.

[@clarvebiker3175]

@@vlogger4567 They were all bush leagues in 1982

[@vlogger4567]

@@clarvebiker3175 Nope of the "Big 3" at that time only AWA was a bush league. WWF and NWA/Crockett had superior talent, better booking and superior production values.

[@adamvmiller]

This match is awesome. My favorite part about Portland wrestling is watching for the exact moment they blade and where do they hide the razor before and after. Buddy was pretty stealth.

[@adamvmiller]

Don Owens was a great promoter, terrible announcer. God love him.

[@RingOfFireProWrestling]

That's the truth.

[@HeavyJ713]

Same with Paul Boesch

[@classicsurvivor]

Heavy Metal Farmer he was still a millionaire with his turkey farm.

[@paladin1726]

Wouldn't have wanted him any other way. A true Oregonian.