[2] Under his own name, he made his debut as a babyface[7] on December 3, 1973, in Rice Lake, Wisconsin, in a 15-minute draw[8] with fellow campmate Bob Remus (better known as Sgt.

After being defeated by Khosrow Vaziri (The Iron Sheik) at a house show in Milwaukee, WI on January 3, 1976, Perschmann departed from the promotion.

[9] Perschmann joined NWA Western States and made his debut twelve days later, losing to Red Bastien at a house show in Amarillo, Texas, on January 15, 1976.

After losing the titles that June, he would team with Ed Wiskoski (Colonel DeBeers) to regain them from Lonnie Mayne and Sam Oliver in a "loser leaves town" match on December 6, 1977.

Rose would team on and off with Wiskoski for several decades afterwards, no matter whether the latter was using his "Polish Prince", "Mega Maharishi Imed", or "Colonel De Beers" gimmicks.

On May 17, 1978, Rose partnered with John Studd to win 50th State Big Time Wrestling's NWA Hawaii Tag Team Championship.

Later that summer Rose entered a tournament to crown the vacant NWA San Francisco United States Heavyweight Title.

Teaming with Rip Oliver they won two televised matches before losing to the Funk Brothers in the first round of a tournament to crown the NWA World Tag-Team Championship on February 28, 1982, in Atlanta.

Back in PNW and five years after his first NWA World Heavyweight Championship match, Rose earned another shot—this time against current champion Ric Flair.

While still finishing up with the PNW, Rose made his WWF debut on June 1, 1982, at a Championship Wrestling taping in Allentown, Pennsylvania, at the Agricultural Hall.

[10][12] Rose wrestled twenty two matches at television tapings between June and August, which served to keep him in the public eye until he finished his PNW commitments and began the WWF house show loop.

[2] Rose quickly moved to a house show feud with former WWF Tag-Team Champion Tony Garea and dominated the series.

[12] On October 4, 1982, he challenged Pedro Morales for the Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship at Madison Square Garden; like the match with Backlund in August this too was also unsuccessful.

Following a third tour of New Japan Pro-Wrestling, Rose returned to the PNW and defeated Rip Oliver to win the Heavyweight Championship at an event on April 28, 1984.

He defended the title against Oliver and future tag-team partner Doug Somers before losing it later that year and returning to the World Wrestling Federation.

On May 21, 1985, the PNW held a 60th Anniversary Wrestling Extravaganza at the Portland Memorial Coliseum attended by an estimated 13,000; Rose was defeated by Roddy Piper at the event.

Ten years after his first run, Buddy Rose returned to the AWA on March 9, 1986, and defeated Scott Hall via disqualification at an event in St. Paul, Minnesota.

[10] Rose and DeBeers lost to AWA World Tag-Team Champions Scott Hall and Curt Hennig on March 23, 1986, leading him to quickly form a new team with Doug Somers.

He made his televised return on the March 12 edition of Prime Time Wrestling, teaming up with Iron Mike Sharpe against The Hart Foundation.

[15] Rose finally gained his first televised victory on the December 10, 1990, edition of Prime Time Wrestling, where he defeated Mario Mancini.

During the first half of 1992 Rose gained victories over CW Bergstrom, Mike Winner, and Brickhouse Brown, while falling in defeat to Jesse Barr and Bart Sawyer.

On September 26, 1992, he teamed with Michelle Starr to face Mighty Quinn and Mike Roselli for the vacant WCCW Tag-Team Championship, but were unsuccessful.

On October 16, 1992, Rose and Starr defeated Quinn and Roselli to win the WCCW titles at a house show in Surrey, British Columbia.

In 1994 Rose jumped to the Oregon Pro Wrestling Federation, a newly formed company owned by Billy Jack Haynes and Ron Barber.