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Buddy Landel Biography
Buddy Landel is one of the most popular and richest Wrestler who was born on August 17, 1961 in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States.
Landel’s roots were English, Cherokee Indian and German. His 5th great-grandfather was Peter Shipe, President George Washington’s baggage master. Upon the end of his service, Peter Shipe was given a land-grant in Knoxville by Washington for his service, and the family owned the land for 200 years until it was sold in 1980 by his grandmother, Agnes Luttrell Shipe, surviving wife of Thomas Samuel Shipe.
Landel acknowledged that in 1985 he began abusing drugs, using them for 10 to 15 years. He hoped by talking about the rampant drug abuse in pro wrestling, that he could help newcomers to avoid the trials he went through. He also had some trouble with the IRS, but wrestling promoter Jim Crockett helped him pay the tax bill.
Name | Buddy Landel |
First Name | Stela |
Last Name | Posavec |
Occupation | Wrestler |
Birthday | August 17 |
Birth Year | 1961 |
Place of Birth | Knoxville |
Home Town | Tennessee |
Birth Country | United States |
Birth Sign | Leo |
Full/Birth Name | |
Father | Not Available |
Mother | Not Available |
Siblings | Not Available |
Spouse | Donna Landel |
Children(s) | Not Available |
Ethnicity, religion & political views
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He started his career in 1979 in Bill Watts’s Mid-South Wrestling. He also worked in International Championship Wrestling. He went to the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)’s Jim Crockett Promotions in 1985 and joined manager James J. Dillon’s stable. A wrestling card with a Landel-Ric Flair main event on July 31, 1985, drew an overflow crowd at J.S. Dorton Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Landel often claimed this crowd broke Elvis Presley’s attendance record at the arena, but this has not been independently confirmed.) He won the NWA National Heavyweight Championship from Terry Taylor at Starrcade ’85 in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Buddy Landel Net Worth
Buddy Landel is one of the richest Wrestler from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Buddy Landel's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Buddy Landel (born William Fritz Ensor; August 14, 1961 – June 22, 2015), better known as “Nature Boy” Buddy Landel, was an American professional wrestler born in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Net Worth | $5 Million |
Salary | Under Review |
Source of Income | Wrestler |
Cars | Not Available |
House | Living in own house. |
Landel went back to the Tennessee area in 1986. With Bill Dundee, Dutch Mantell, and Jerry Lawler, he headlined the last sold-out show in the Mid-South Coliseum. He worked in the Alabama territories in 1987 and 1988. Landel at one time was managed by Andy Kaufman, Jim Cornette, and Jimmy Hart.
He came back to the NWA in 1990 and wrestled Ric Flair in a “Battle of the Nature Boys”. He wrestled Flair in a “Gauntlet match” which aired on November 24, 1990. The storyline was dropped after three months because of Landel’s drug problems. In early 1991, he was under consideration for membership in Alexandra York’s The York Foundation.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
Buddy Landel height 1.85 m Stela weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.
Height | 1.85 m |
Weight | Not Known |
Body Measurements | Under Review |
Eye Color | Not Available |
Hair Color | Not Available |
Feet/Shoe Size | Not Available |
Landel was set to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship from Flair in 1985. However, Landel had a falling out with the management of Jim Crockett Promotions and left the company.
He worked in Smoky Mountain Wrestling (SMW) in 1992 and in 1994-1995. There he became one of the main eventers managed by Jim Cornette. Buddy held the SMW Heavyweight Championship and the SMW Television Championship in 1995. He remained a heroic character until the promotion folded in late 1995. Landel and Shawn Michaels set a record house at the Knoxville Coliseum.
Who is Buddy Landel Dating?
According to our records, Buddy Landel married to Donna Landel . As of December 1, 2023, Buddy Landel’s is not dating anyone.
Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for Buddy Landel. You may help us to build the dating records for Buddy Landel!He went back to the independents in 1991 and was going to wrestle “Nature Boy” Buddy Rogers for his Tri-State Title in early 1992 but the promotion folded before the match could happen.
Facts & Trivia
Stela Ranked on the list of most popular Wrestler. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Buddy Landel celebrates birthday on August 17 of every year.
After Cornette closed SMW, both Cornette and Landel went to the World Wrestling Federation. Working without a contract, Landel started working on December 5, 1995, the same day as Stone Cold Steve Austin, then known as The Ringmaster. He continued to use a very similar image to Ric Flair, even using Flair’s early 90s WWF entrance music. He made his Raw debut defeating Bob Holly. He also defeated Matt Hardy and Chris Michaels. Landel wrestled Bret Hart in a WWF World Heavyweight Championship match televised on January 13, 1996. Landel suffered a serious injury out of the ring shortly after his debut tearing his right quadriceps, and was out of action for six months as a result. After his injury healed, he worked a few more WWF matches before leaving the company.
Did Buddy Landel copy Ric Flair?
As a result, Landel became known as a cheap knock-off. Meanwhile, real duplicate Ric Flair went on to make the ‘Nature Boy’ handle his own. When pro wrestling fans hear that name today, they think of Flair, not Buddy Rogers or Buddy Landel.
What happened to Nature Boy Buddy Landel?
Death. On June 21, 2015, Landel was involved in a car crash. He was hospitalized and reportedly checked himself out against his doctor’s wishes, eventually returning to his home in Chilhowie, Virginia. He told his wife Donna that he was “feeling bad”, and she found him dead the next morning.
How many wrestling Nature Boys were there?
In professional wrestling’s history, there have been three “Nature Boys.” The original, Buddy Rogers, helped to redefine what a professional wrestler was by introducing what we now know as the “sports-entertainment” element to the in ring product.
Who was the first Nature Boy in wrestling?
Debut | 1939 |
Retired | 1969 |
When did Ric Flair became the Nature Boy?
Becoming the Nature Boy (1974–1981) Flair conducted a rigorous physical therapy schedule, however, and he returned to the ring just three months later, where he resumed his feud with Wahoo McDaniel in January 1976.
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