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That's hard times! And Ric Flair you put hard times on this country by takin' Dusty Rhodes out, that's hard times. And we all had hard times together, and I admit, I don't look like the athlete of the day supposed to look. My belly's just a lil' big, my heiny's a lil' big, but brother, I am bad. And they know I'm bad. There were two bad people...
James Lamar "Dusty" Rhodes (May 13, 1927 – June 17, 2009) [1] was an American professional baseball player, an outfielder and pinch hitter whose otherwise unremarkable seven-year Major League Baseball career was dramatically highlighted by his starring role for the champion New York Giants during the 1954 season and that year's World Series.
Dusty Rhodes is a 3-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion. Due to a falling out with WCW Executive Vice-President Jim Herd, WCW World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair was fired from WCW on July 1, 1991, while still being recognized as the NWA World Heavyweight Champion. Flair took the NWA belt with him because WCW and Herd had not returned the ...
Dusty Rhodes and The Road Warriors (Animal and Hawk) July 9, 1988 JCP Live event: Chicago, Illinois 2 108 Defeated Ric Flair, Tully Blanchard and Arn Anderson to fill vacancy. — Vacated October 25, 1988 — — — — The championship was vacated after The Road Warriors turned on Dusty Rhodes, breaking up the team. 31 Genichiro Tenryu and ...
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 ...
Especially, its booking was not appreciated due to Dusty Rhodes winning every Bunkhouse Stampede Battle Royal. Along with Rhodes' booking, the event was marred by the tickets having the wrong start time on them (a 6:30 start time was incorrectly advertised as 7:30, causing a majority of the fans to miss the first half of the event).
In 2003, they had a reformation in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling when Nikita was unmasked as "Mr. Wrestling IV" after attacking Rhodes several times. He then rejoined Dusty in fighting Vince Russo's Sports Entertainment Xtreme (S.E.X.) stable during a ladder match between Rhodes and S.E.X. member Brian Lawler. Koloff interfered by climbing the ...
Dusty Rhodes became a top star in the territory. Dusty Rhodes stands out among the noted performers because of the number of rivalries he had on air through most of CWF's broadcasting history. Well known heels, newcomers and babyfaces who turned heel during their tenure with CWF often sought out Rhodes to make their names in the territory.