Buddy Roberts


Dale Hey was a professional wrestler, better known under his ring name, Buddy Roberts. Roberts was best known for his work in tag teams during the 1970s and 1980s, particularly as onethird of The Fabulous Freebirds.

Dale Hey was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He started wrestling in 1965 as Dale Valentine, the brother of Johnny Valentine. At the tail end of the 1960s, he was working as a preliminary wrestler in the American Wrestling Association. One of the AWAs main event wrestlers at the time, Bill Watts, left the promotion to become the booker for the NWA TriState promotion based in Oklahoma. Impressed by Heys work, Watts invited Hey to join the promotion in 1970. Watts changed his name to Buddy Roberts and teamed him with career journeyman wrestler Jerry Brown as the Hollywood Blondes. The team of Brown and Roberts won numerous regional tag team titles across the United States throughout the 1970s.

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