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Virgil Riley Runnels Jr. (October 11, 1945 – June 11, 2015), better known as "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, was an American professional wrestler, booker, and trainer who worked for the National Wrestling Alliance and the World Wrestling Federation, later known as WWE.
Dusty Rhodes (c) defeated Ric Flair by disqualification in a singles match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship [6] June 12 NJPW: G1 Climax: Tokyo, Japan: Chigusa Nagayo defeated Dump Matsumoto in the finals June 28 AJW: Japan Grand Prix: Tokyo, Japan: Antonio Inoki defeated Masa Saito in the finals July 4: JCP: The Great American Bash ...
Kabuki (left) and Dusty Rhodes during a professional wrestling match, c. 1982 Mera adopted the Great Kabuki persona in World Class in 1981. The character was created by Gary Hart , [ 3 ] based on an old gimmick used by Filipino wrestler Rey Urbano, a former partner of Hasegawa's in the U.S. [ 4 ] Kabuki kept his hair in a mop cut which kept his ...
Dusty Rhodes: February 15, 1977: CWF Show Tampa, Florida 5 N/A [8] — March 1, 1977 (NLT) — — Title vacant when Dusty Rhodes was headed to Japan. [8] 110 Buddy Wolfe: March 8, 1977: CWF Show Tampa, Florida 1 93 Defeated Steve Keirn in tournament final. 111 Dusty Rhodes: June 9, 1977: CWF Show Florida 6 37 [8] 112 Ernie Ladd: July 16, 1977 ...
The main event was between Dusty Rhodes and Ric Flair for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. Rhodes had the early advantage by performing bionic elbows. Rhodes targeted Flair's right foot and sent it into the ringpost. After throwing Flair down from the top turnbuckle, Rhodes attempted to apply the figure four leglock. Flair kicked him off ...
Once Dusty departed from WCW they reached out to him, and ultimately partnered to launch the new Professional Wrestling Federation in February 1989. [8] Rhodes had larger visions for the fledgling regional territory, which included a name change from FCW to the non-regional PWF.
In 1995, Dustin Runnels, the son of WWE Hall of Famer Virgil Runnels (better known as Dusty Rhodes), was re-signed by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), as it was then known. [B] He was then given the character of Goldust, a somewhat spooky and mysterious persona with sexually suggestive mannerisms, later nicknamed "The Bizarre One".
On January 5, 2024, the alliance was renamed the Asia-Pacific Federation of Wrestling (APFW). [89] The inaugural event sanctioned by APFW, NJPW's Wrestling World in Taiwan, took place on April 14 in Taipei. [89] In early December 2023, NJPW was announced as a founding member of the United Japan Pro-Wrestling (UJPW) alliance. [90]