Dale Hey
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Dale Hey (born 1945) was a professional wrestler better known as Buddy Roberts.
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[edit] Career
Dale Hey started wrestling in 1965 as Dale Valentine, the "brother" of Johnny Valentine. By 1970, he had formed a tag team called the "Hollywood Blonds" with Jerry Brown and they won numerous regional tag team titles across the United States throughout the 1970's.
In the late 1970's, he split from Brown and changed his name to Buddy Roberts. He joined the Fabulous Freebirds with Michael Hayes and Terry Gordy and became famous as Buddy "Jack" Roberts, due to his penchance for drinking Jack Daniel's whiskey.
In the ring, they won several titles and moved on to World Class Championship Wrestling in late 1982 and began a legendary feud with the Von Erich family. They wrestled David, Kerry and Kevin Von Erich numerous times through 1986.
Also during his time in WCCW came Roberts' most famous individual angle, which in 1983 involved the invention of what they referred to as "Freebird Hair Removal Cream", the culmination of the angle being a hair match between Roberts and Iceman King Parsons. The result was Roberts seemingly winning the match via tight-pulling but the decision was reversed and the match restarted and in the fracas, Roberts' head was lathered in the hair cream. Subsequnet events showed Roberts wearing a wig kept in place by boxing headgear, an angle which would be recycled by the WWE's Kurt Angle after losing a hair vs hair match in 2002 to Edge.
At the AWA's SuperClash in 1985, Roberts helped Hayes and Gordy apparently defeat the Road Warriors for the AWA Tag Team titles, but the decision was later reversed.
In early 1986, The Freebirds went to the Universal Wrestling Federation where Roberts won the Television Title.
In 1987, The Freebirds split up until reforming in WCCW late in the year. Buddy and Gordy turned on Hayes and teamed with Iceman Parsons to feud with Hayes and the Von Erichs. Gordy eventually left Roberts to rejoin Hayes. The feud ended in late 1988 when Hayes and Gordy left for the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions.
Roberts made one appearance as the manager for Hayes and Jimmy Garvin in a match against Steve Armstrong and Tracy Smothers in the NWA and then retired in 1990.
Roberts had throat cancer after he retired but had surgery to beat it.
[edit] Profile
- Height: 6'1"
- Weight: 225 lbs.
- Finisher: DDT
- Hometown: Del City, Oklahoma
- Trainer: Ivan Koloff
- Managers: Sunshine,[Al Henderson] Oliver Humperdink
- Other Gimmicks: Dale Valentine, Buddy Roberts, Buddy "Jack" Roberts
[edit] Championships/Accomplishments
[edit] National Wrestling Alliance
- 2-Time NWA North American Tag Team Champion (with Jerry Brown)
- 1-Time NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Champion (with Jerry Brown)
- 2-Time NWA Florida Tag Team Champion (with Jerry Brown)
[edit] World Class Championship Wrestling
- 1-Time WCCW Texas Heavyweight Champion
- 1-Time WCCW Television Champion
- 6-Time WCCW Six-Man Tag Team Champion (five times with Michael Hayes and Terry Gordy; once with Iceman Parsons and Terry Gordy)
[edit] UWF & Mid-South Wrestling
- 1-Time UWF Television Champion
- 1-Time Mid-South Tag Team Champion (with Terry Gordy)
[edit] Other titles
- 3-Time Tri-State Tag Team Champion (with Jerry Brown)
- 4-Time America's Tag Team Champion (with Jerry Brown)
- 1-Time Mid-Southern Tag Team Champion (with Jerry Brown)
- 2-Time Southwest Championship Wrestling Television Champion
- 1-Time Southwest Championship Wrestling Heavyweight Champion
- 1-Time Southern Pro Wrestling Arkansas Championship
[edit] Pro Wrestling Illustrated
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated ranked him #3 of the 100 best tag teams during the "PWI Years" in 2003, along with Michael Hayes and Terry Gordy.
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated ranked him # 167 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the "PWI Years" in 2003.
[edit] Wrestling Observer Newsletter
- He is a member of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (inducted in 2005 as part of the Fabulous Freebirds)
- 1980 Tag Team of the Year (with Terry Gordy)
- 1983 Feud of the Year (with Terry Gordy and Michael Hayes vs The Von Erichs)
- 1984 Feud of the Year (with Terry Gordy and Michael Hayes vs The Von Erichs)
- 1984 Match of the Year (with Terry Gordy and Michael Hayes vs The Von Erichs)
