hammerva Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 The greatest Dusty commentating line ever when someone asked him like "what would you be thinking if you were Rey Mysterio Jr" and he responded something like "Man I lost a lot of weight". I am probably butchering it but I do remember Tony and Heenan both cracking up on it 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Dusty and Steve Corino's first confrontation I love Corino's selling of the bionic elbow. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I haven't been around here in forever, but I thought I'd stop by today. Today is my 30th birthday (damn, I was in my teens when I joined here...*cue "Landslide"*) and when I heard about the news, I figured I'd leave work early, crack open a 12 pack of High Life, and watch some Dusty. It's what I've been doing for about four hours now, and I think I can say that while of course Dusty Rhodes was never the best wrestler in the vein of a Ric Flair or a Ricky Steamboat, he wasn't supposed to be. He was the most entertaining. He was the guy who sucked you in and made you a fan. He's one of the few that people who aren't fans, like my girlfriend, will stop by the TV for and check out. The man was a magnet for attention. I don't obsess over celebrities much, but I wish I could've met him. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRGoldman Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 There are a lot of people saying how much they would've loved to have met Dusty, and I think that speaks to who he was as a performer and a character. You want to have a beer with Flair because that night would give you a glimpse of a life you could never lead. You want to have a beer with Dusty because it would be like having a beer with a good friend you haven't seen in a while. Wrestling is full of larger than life characters that represent aspects of life we yearn for but can't fathom. Dusty was a larger than life character that was all of our best and most human aspects personified. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I will drop a PAY WINDAH now and again. Clubberin' is also as far as I'm concerned an acceptable word. I dropped "Pay Window" in reference to a Salvador Perez go-ahead HR on Sunday. Not sure if that's the most Pay Window kinda baseball play. As someone that only really started watching in 1997, I can really only look at this stuff purely in rear-view. To add to previous comments. I think Dusty randomly appeared on the May 1998 Nitro I attended, during his forgettable NWO run. But 3 hour Nitros had like 18 segments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingus Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I wish I had more than this, but, Story Time: I used to hang out at TNA before the shows started, back in the Nashville days (I worked enough local indies that I knew half the employees there anyway). I never spoke to Dusty; but at the time, I was a young fellow with a baby-smooth face and a large coif of unruly Ron Burgundy-ish hair. In fact, I resembled a certain wrestling personality more than a little. So it wasn't entirely surprising when one day, outta nowhere, someone grabs me gently-but-firmly by the arm and I look up and it's the American Fucking Dream himself. "Hey kid, what'th yo name? Jinguth? Okay Jinguth, you come right ovah heah... HEY RUSSO, LOOK, IT'TH TONY THCIAVONE!" (Because, yes, I used to get called Tony Jr. back in the day for how much I looked like Mr. Sidewalk Slam.) And then I started to babble something about how that was ironic because I was a play-by-play announcer, but by then Dusty had already lost interest and was walking off. Another time, I overheard him bragging about how good he was at baseball. "I could knock that ball right into the lightth, baby, right through 'em like they wathn't even theyah. ...Randy Poffo can kith my ath!" 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Dusty loses his shit during the Harlem Heat vs Public Enemy hardcore match at Uncensored, including his fucking great "He laid his ol' tired ass out!" line. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MADCAP Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Wow...I just had one of the happiest days of my life, seeing my brother for the first time in 10 years, and I came home to this. Fuck.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND4zLt5YctI Beautiful and overlooked promo of his, RIP Dream. Came in here to post that and pay my respects to the best to ever do it. Dust was so far ahead of his time and fuck that.. still ahead. This is extremely difficult. Dust was one of a kind. R.I.P. Dust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Me and Dusty at a ROH show back in 2004. While I was waiting in line to get my picture taken with him, the guy ahead of me showed us that he was gonna ask Dusty to sign the Ric Flair DVD set. We were all like, What the fuck?" So when he gets to Dust and asks him Dusty says, "Why not? I'm on half o' this. Ric's lost my phone numbah since it came out, I want some residuals." So after my picture was taken with him I said "Thanks, Dream." Another dude said "That's not the Dream, that's the Midnight Rider." I said, "Nah, it's one of The James Boys. Dusty turns to me and said "Damn! You remembah that shit?" RIP Dusty, you were the best. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie M. Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Damn, was just listening to Steamboat talk about Dusty on the Flair podcast last night. Fascinating life and man. Lots of great, lots of not so great but his mic work was at a level only few can touch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noah Mark Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Truly we've lost one of the greats. I grew up watching Dusty on Georgia Championship Wrestling. He had a good feud with Terry Funk. Funk would always call him an egg suckin dog. Also followed him in Mid Atlantic and Crockett promotions. Always in the thick of things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevie Ray Von Erich Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 One of the longest running inside jokes I have with my dad is yelling "I CAN SMELL YOU, OLE ANDERSON!" at each other in Dream's voice. He was one of like maybe three wrestlers my mom ever said she liked. My thoughts are with his family and friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerva Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Kevin Owens has changed his name on Twitter and I think tonight's show to Kip Stern because for some reason on promo course that was what Dusty used to call him before he was Kevin Owens. He also put dots on his KO shirt If you haven't read the Sami Zayn Twitlonger (think it is called that) on Dusty definitely go out of your way. Really moving stuff. Actually all of the guys from NXT are really pouring their hearts out for him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nature Boy Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Fuck man RIP Dusty One of my favs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarChief EagleDemon Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Found an interesting hidden gem, a short film called "Every Saturday Night" from the old WTTW show, Image Union, in Chicago. It features some passionate business defending from a young Dusty Rhodes, among others. It's the first one in the show. The whole film is interesting window to a much different time. (Looks like I can't post it, go to mediaburn.org and put in "Every Saturday Night" in the search bar...) RIP Dusty 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 I remember him coming in to ECW in 2000 I was so hype for ECW at the time they were on TNN . Really started to enjoy Corino at that time. I like the time Dusty turned heel on Rey that was my favorite time for Cody, the feud with Rey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victator Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 I want to add (Matt can verify that I bug the shit out of him about Dusty as a booker constantly), that Dusty was one of the best creative minds in wrestling ever. He created War Games, the modern super card in Starrcade, wrestlers like Magnum TA, Nikita, Sting and Lex Luger were pushed by him. Even the Steiners were a spin off of Rick in the Varsity Club. He did feature himself heavily, but he never hurt the other faces and the heels stayed strong. Dusty was not afraid to get beat to pulp to make a heel look good.He was working a show in Florence Alabama in 2003 and I wish now I had found a way there. He was at the top of the list of wrestlers I wanted to talk to. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie M. Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Steamboat would disagree with that assessment based on the Flair podcast but yes, peak Dusty had some great ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fresh Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 I want to add (Matt can verify that I bug the shit out of him about Dusty as a booker constantly, that Dusty was one of the best creative minds in wrestling ever. I've been repeating Paul Heyman's Dusty impression all day of "Well then you've come to right place because I am a supergenius, daddy!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fresh Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 I'm tryiung to find that Bobby Heenan/Dusty Rhodes exchange that ends with Dusty saying, "I'm a possum! I'm a possum!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victator Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Well I would add that Dusty was the one booking during Steamboat's 91/92 run, which is my personal favorite period for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincey Greene Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND4zLt5YctI Beautiful and overlooked promo of his, RIP Dream. Came in here to post that and pay my respects to the best to ever do it. Dust was so far ahead of his time and fuck that.. still ahead. This is extremely difficult. Dust was one of a kind. R.I.P. Dust. yo, the pollen in here is crazy... allergies going nuts. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fresh Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Love to see how far outside the wrestling community Dusty reached, like CNN personality Marc Lamont Hill. @marclamonthill: Sad to hear about the passing of Dusty Rhodes. A wrestling legend and a good dude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NintendoLogic Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 My mom grew up watching Florida wrestling in the 70s, so she was pretty bummed about the news. She told me about how when she was 16, her German cousin was visiting the States and she took him to whatever the main civic center was in Orlando at the time to see Dusty vs. Ivan Koloff. That must have been quite the shock for someone who, if he watched wrestling at all, was probably used to the likes of Horst Hoffman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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