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William Ansor is a professional wrestler better known as "Nature Boy" Buddy Landel.

Career

William Ansor started his career in 1979 as a jobber in ICW. He soon dyed his hair blonde and changed his name to "Nature Boy" Buddy Landel. He made a name for himself in the Tennessee area promotions and went to the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions in 1985 and joined Manager James J. Dillon. Landel had a big future planned but he let his cocaine use get out of hand and he was fired in December.

He went back to the Tennessee area and then to the Alabama territories in 1987 and 1988.

He came back to the NWA in 1990 but never got above a mid-card level push. He did get a chance to wrestle "Nature Boy" Ric Flair in a "Battle of the Nature Boys" on TV. He wrestled and lost to Flair in a "Gauntlet" match which aired on November 24, 1990. In early 1991, he was under consideration for membership in Alexandra York's York Foundation but he lost the matches he was supposed to win and she did not offer him a spot.

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.

He had a good run in Smoky Mountain Wrestling in 1994 and 1995. He had cleaned up his drug problem by this time and had become a born-again Christian. He appeared on television with his manager Jim Cornette.

He had a very brief run in the WWF in late 1995 and early 1996 in which he wrestled Bret Hart in a match televised on January 13, 1996. Landel suffered a serious injury shortly after his debut and did not appear on WWF TV again.

Since then, Landel has been wrestling in the independents with a brief appearance in WCW before it folded.

He filmed a "shoot interview" for RF Video in 2002 talking about his career.

Managers

Championships and accomplishments

Mid-Southern Wrestling
*4-Time NWA Mid-American Heavyweight Champion
*2-Time Mid-Southern Heavyweight Champion
National Wrestling Alliance
*1-Time NWA National Heavyweight Champion
*1-Time NWA Southeast Continental Heavyweight Champion
*1-Time NWA United States Tag Team Champion (with Doug Gilbert
)
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
*PWI ranked him # 245 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the "PWI Years" in 2003.
Smoky Mountain Wrestling
*1-Time SMW Beat the Champ Television Champion
*1-Time SMW Heavyweight Champion
Southern States Wrestling
*1-Time SSW Appalachian Champion
*1-Time SSW Heavyweight Champion
*1-Time SSW Tag Team Champion (with Beau James)
United States Wrestling Association
*1-Time USWA Southern Heavyweight Champion
Universal Wrestling Federation
*1-Time UWF Television Champion
World Wrestling Council
*1-Time WWC Caribbean Champion
*1-Time WWC Caribbean Tag Team Champion (with Terry Gibbs)
*1-Time WWC North American Champion
*1-Time WWC North American Tag Team Champion (with Terry Gibbs)
Other Titles
*1-Time AIWF Heavyweight Champion
*1-Time IPWA Heavyweight Champion
*1-Time IWA Heavyweight Champion
*1-Time NCW Heayvweight Champion
*2-Time NDW Heavyweight Champion
*2-Time Tennessee Mountain Wrestling Champion
*1-Time Tri-State Heavyweight Champion
*1-Time UAW Tag Team Champion (with Jesse Landell)
*2-Time USA Tennessee Champion

Championship succession

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