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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.
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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 ...
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.
He was best known for his time in the NWA, World Wrestling Federation and New Japan Pro-Wrestling. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Murdoch started his wrestling career in 1965, and three years later, he began teaming with longtime partner Dusty Rhodes as the Texas Outlaws.
All Japan Pro Wrestling held a ten-bell salute for The Dynamite Kid in 2018. On June 21, 2020, World Wonder Ring Stardom held a ten-bell salute for Hana Kimura at Stardom is Again, the first event for the promotion since the COVID-19 pandemic related shut down of the wrestling industry in Japan and Kamura's suicide death on May 23, 2020.
Following a one-time appearance for New Japan Pro Wrestling on February 10, 1990, at their Super Fight In Tokyo Dome card where he defeated Salman Hashimikov, [7] he then went to All Japan Pro Wrestling in 1990 where he found success with Terry Gordy in a tag-team called The Miracle Violence Connection, which they formed prior in 1987 in Jim ...
According to a 2014 study by Eastern Michigan University examining professional wrestlers who were active between 1985 and 2011, mortality rates for professional wrestlers are up to 2.9 times greater than the rate for men in the wider United States population. [1]