well, I guess I've gotta watch that 1982 match & try to find that Chief Big Heart match

Yeah, 1982 Philly tag is surprisingly awesome. Rogers holds up his end for sure

https://vk.com/video498684816_456239018

Bought the Big Heart match on DVD and uploaded it. Before watching it I thought I hated Flair formula, but here's Rogers working an awesome match that basically follows the Flair formula. So I guess Flair is just shit.

I think I've seen enough to say Buddy will make my ballot.

I'm willing to dock the limited footage guys to a certain extent because I'm partial to the argument that with limited tape and a higher chance of the footage getting lost to time, the stuff we have isn't representative of the whole, but Rogers is in two of the three best matches we have from 1950s and 1960s (Thesz in 50  and O'Connor in 61) and is pretty much always good.