{"id":56771,"date":"2015-11-24T00:01:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T05:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=56771"},"modified":"2015-11-24T05:58:44","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T10:58:44","slug":"wrestling-legend-buddy-ruffin-jr-signs-two-year-exclusive-writing-deal-with-ringside-report-breaking-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=56771","title":{"rendered":"Wrestling Legend Buddy &#8220;BRJ&#8221; Ruffin, JR Signs Two Year Exclusive Writing Deal with Ringside Report &#8211; Breaking News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-33562 size-full\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/big_apple_header2.jpg\" alt=\"big_apple_header2\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/>RSR Press Release<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Buddy &#8220;BRJ&#8221; Ruffin, JR. is a legend who came out of NYC and made his bones on the indie wrestling circuit during the late 70\u2019s to the mid 80\u2019s until he suffered a career ending injury when he faced \u201cThe La Bamba Twins\u201d, Jude and Simba La Bamba in a no holds barred steel cage match in Independence, KS.\u00a0 \u201cBRJ\u2019s\u201d signature pinning move was called \u201cThe <em>Shtizu<\/em>\u201d named after his favorite Shtizu, Santino.\u00a0 For years, he has kept his wrestling mask in the drawer, but when the CEO\/Publisher of Ringside Report \u201cBad\u201d Brad Berkwitt met him at a boxing match in Miami, Oklahoma recently and they hit it off. From that meeting, Ruffin, JR., decided it was time to make his triumphant return to the ring, but this time, the writing ring.\u00a0 Look for his unfiltered column with over 45 years of wrestling knowledge under his mask!\u00a0 We welcome \u201cBRJ\u201d to the RSR team!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ynqIr3bh1Wo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RSR Press Release Buddy &#8220;BRJ&#8221; Ruffin, JR. is a legend who came out of NYC and made his bones on the indie wrestling circuit during the late 70\u2019s to the mid 80\u2019s until he suffered a career ending injury when he faced \u201cThe La Bamba Twins\u201d, Jude and Simba La Bamba in a no holds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14151,14150],"class_list":["post-56771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-jr-signs-two-year-exclusive-writing-deal-with-ringside-report-breaking-news","tag-legend-buddy-ruffin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56810,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56771\/revisions\/56810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}