Tommy Rogers leaves behind Fantastic tag-team legacy - Charleston Post Courier
Tommy Rogers, who passed away last week at the age of 54, was one of the profession's finest practitioners of tag-team wrestling. It was an art Rogers perfected with longtime partner Bobby Fulton, and it was more than just a little apropos that they were known collectively as The Fantastics. With their youthful good looks, charismatic promos and tremendous in-ring ability, the two heartthrobs blazed a trail from Jim Crockett Promotions in the Carolinas and Jerry Jarrett's Memphis territory to Bill Watts' Mid-South Wrestling and... Paired against such formidable heel combos as The Midnight Express, The Rock 'N Roll RPMs, Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard, and The Sheepherders, The Fantastics drew sellout crowds and rave reviews in every territory they worked, leaving a... “The perfect babyface team” was how Jim Cornette, who managed against them on many occasions, aptly described his famous rivals. His Midnight Express' bouts with The Fantastics were tag-team clinics and considered match of the year candidates. Rogers had been living in Hawaii for the past several years, and one of his last wrestling-related appearances was on a Steve Austin podcast last year where he talked about his career and the toll it had taken on his body. Source: www.postandcourier.com
