JCM Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Dusty is irreplaceable RIP Dream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyMax46 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I always default to the Chrono Trigger Soundtrack to highlight how I feel. This is no different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greggulator Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I think the most overlooked angle/story in recent years was the awesome Authority vs. Rhodes Family saga. The way it ended -- the no long indentured Big Show knocking out Roman Reigns so Cody/Dustin get the belts while surrounded by YES! chants -- was absolutely awesome multi-layered storytelling. The segment where Dusty had to choose between his sons OR get torn apart by The Shield OR take a punch from Show (and Show was forced to do so) was amazing. So was: "I'll be your huckleberry allllll night long!" 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRGoldman Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I think most of us have gone through a point in our lives where we thought that wrestling is uncool, and to be a cool person, you needed to distance yourself from wrestling. I was having that period in my early twenties. I was working at a record store and was entirely too hip about the whole thing. We would always put a DVD on mute on the TV and a couple of albums to listen to throughout the day. One day, my boss came in and brought from home a bunch of VHS tapes of Dusty matches and promos to put on the TV. A couple people turned up their noses but me and him got talking, doing terrible Dusty impressions, then turning off the record so that everyone could hear the real thing. I don't think anyone was as in to it as we were, but it didn't matter. That day more than any other showed me that your interests are yours, and you aren't defined by what others think about them. I guess I have Dusty to thank for that, in a weird way. It's a nice memory I'll hopefully always have. RIP Dusty. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Dat shirt tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeeball Wizard Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I met him a few years back, got to shake his hand, and was stunned by the presence and aura he had, like no other. RIP Dream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zakk_Sabbath Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Doesn't seem real for some reason. Glad he got to be at ringside for the Dustin/Cody stuff last year. This one is going to take some time to process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Goddamn-it, I get home from a stressful day and I have to read about Dusty Rhodes dying. Motherfucker. Rest in Peace American Dream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Only in the wrestling world could a fat guy with a speech impediment become one of the biggest stars in their chosen profession. RIP Dream. Thanks for all the great memories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipGofern Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Man, I was already bummed about Christopher Lee then I heard about Dusty and this has quickly turned into one of those days you just can't wait to be over. I guess the best memory I can share is I grew up a WWE fanboy but when my parents finally got cable and I found wrestling on TBS all I needed was to hear one Dusty (and Flair) promo and I was an NWA fan as well. Some people hate his WWE run but for me personally I'll never forget seeing him in the old Igloo. Also his "American Dream" theme music was the ringtone on my first cell phone - and will always be a top 5 entrance theme IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikoBaltimore Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Kevin Owens put up an article that is all kinds of heartbreaking but is so good to read. http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1smkk8r 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brandonr4s Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Proof that you don't need a great body or top rope athleticism to be great in this business. He was overweight and had a lisp, but he got what wrestling was all about. He could have the crowd in the palm of his hand with just a few words and he used that ring to paint a beautiful picture. He made you believe, goddammit. Fucking legend. RIP. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND4zLt5YctI Beautiful and overlooked promo of his, RIP Dream. Trigger Warning: You will cry. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumanChessgame Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I think the most overlooked angle/story in recent years was the awesome Authority vs. Rhodes Family saga. The way it ended -- the no long indentured Big Show knocking out Roman Reigns so Cody/Dustin get the belts while surrounded by YES! chants -- was absolutely awesome multi-layered storytelling. The segment where Dusty had to choose between his sons OR get torn apart by The Shield OR take a punch from Show (and Show was forced to do so) was amazing. So was: "I'll be your huckleberry allllll night long!" That angle was so good and gave us what was easily the best promo Cody ever did (when he was "fired"). I guess that makes Dean Ambrose the last person to eat the Bionic Elbow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caley Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I really want Raw to be main-evented by Dustin Rhodes/Cody Rhodes against Ric Flair/Someone (Sting? Arn? Windham? Owens?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Lord Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I remember a long while back someone posted the Dusty/Dustin video where he asks to be his partnet and they said that whole Rhodes/Studd Stable angle from start to finish would have made an amazing western. Dusty was so great at just emoting and making people believe. I honestly can't believe we're in a world where The Dream is gone. I hope if there's a heaven, Dick Murdoch is meeting him at the gate with a couple cases of Coors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 For next week they should have everyone on the roster learn and deliver a Dusty promo assigned to them, partly as tribute, partly as homework. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I think the most overlooked angle/story in recent years was the awesome Authority vs. Rhodes Family saga. The way it ended -- the no long indentured Big Show knocking out Roman Reigns so Cody/Dustin get the belts while surrounded by YES! chants -- was absolutely awesome multi-layered storytelling. The segment where Dusty had to choose between his sons OR get torn apart by The Shield OR take a punch from Show (and Show was forced to do so) was amazing. So was: "I'll be your huckleberry allllll night long!" 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I'm not much for morning zoo-type radio pranks, but this Dusty bit always made me laugh.http://www.webn.com/media/play/dusty-rhodes-looking-for-the-4-22926742/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APO Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Found out right after I'd just finished watching Starrcade '85 when I opened up Twitter. What a fucking gut-punch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I saw an ESPN writer tweeting about how to impersonate Dusty and I read Naylor talking about Dusty. Then I went to the trending topics list. John Wayne also died on June 11th but you can take that however you want. So out of the 80s megastars, this isn't the first. But it seems like the biggest out of guys still involved. Anyways.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fresh Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Well fuckkkkkkkk this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charro! Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Really sad news about Dust. I was surprised to read that he had passed away. IMO he was one of the best talkers ever in the biz, he had a delivery & believably in his promo's that captivated you as a viewer and as it's been mentioned, made you believe. Dusty was a real talent and had great charisma which can't be taught. I think he deserved to come into the WWF as a star, the American Dream and had a run with the top guys, imagine a tag team of the American Dream and the Real American Hulk Hogan against the top heel tag teams of the time, would have been a license to print money. Dust is one of my all-time favorites too and it's sad to say R.I.P. Dusty Rhodes, the American Dream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 The Wargames '94 promo just makes me sob every single time. I miss him already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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