Professional Wrestling Career
Dale Hey grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. He started wrestling in 1965 as Dale Valentine, the "brother" of Johnny Valentine. By 1970, he had changed his name to Buddy Roberts and formed a tag team called the "Hollywood Blondes" with Jerry Brown. They won numerous regional tag team titles across the United States throughout the 1970s.
In the late 1970s, he split from Brown and formed The Fabulous Freebirds with Michael Hayes and Terry Gordy. He became known as Buddy "Jack" Roberts, due to his penchant for drinking Jack Daniel's whiskey.
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