Dusty Rhodes Dead

[NCOGator]

No one can or will ever be able to fall flat on their face like the nature boy.

Wrong! Your forgot about Lebron.
This is funny as hell!

 

[MJMGator]

Soap opera for rednecks.

^This

 

[GatorInGeorgia]

69 for a wrestler is like a regular person living to be 100.

I agree with you on that point for the guys that came up in the 80s and 90s...those guys seem to drop like flies. The older guys like Dusty seem to have fared better as far as their life span. I don't think steroids were as prevelant in the late 60s when guys like Dusty were breaking in. And I'd feel pretty safe in saying that by the look of him during his prime, Dusty wasn't into 'roids. Nevertheless, sorry that he's passed away. I spent many a Saturday afternoon being entertained by his performances.

 

[Gator Fever]

Mid sixties. At my grandmother's house in Gville would get channel 12 from Jax. Gordon Solie. Eddie Graham. Sailor Art Thomas (huge guy like 6 8) Haystacks Calhoun, Hiro Matsuda. Jack Briscoe.(he may have actually wrestled at OU and had real wrestling skills) The Great Malenko (wicked russian) It looked real to me as a 10 year old. Then I went to Miami. My BF's brother back from Viet Nam (cobra pilot) took us the Miami Beach Convention Hall. Steel cage match. Seeing it live at 12 proved how fake it was. Spitting out fake teeth. Punches that never came close. It was over for me. But oddly one of my smartest friends (went to Vanderbilt) still watched it into his 30s. So long from the sunshine state (anyone remember that line?)

lol I still thought it was kind of real at 12 - they did use those hidden razor blades to get the blood flowing etc. A few of those names I don't remember like Sailor Art Thomas but I wasn't there watching in the 60's.

 

[gardnerwebbgator]

Sullivan with his satantic gimmick in the 1980's in FL was classic, used the future (and murdered) Mrs. Chris Benoit as one of his escorts, that he happened to be dating at the time, talking about biting into beetle nuts and other way out there stuff.....

 

[Gator Fever]

Sullivan with his satantic gimmick in the 1980's in FL was classic, used the future (and murdered) Mrs. Chris Benoit as one of his escorts, that he happened to be dating at the time, talking about biting into beetle nuts and other way out there stuff.....

That was classic - Sullivan went from being the good guy with Tony Atlas to summoning Purple Haze from the depths of Hell. I forgot who Purple Haze was originally.

The best manager was JJ Dillon.

 

[VulcanAlex]

Soap opera for rednecks.

Half true (Soap Opera) half false (rednecks). There are no rednecks in my family and many of them actually enjoy wrestling. You do have to remember the script.

I went to Nashville to see WWF, and someone charged the ring. You could tell it was not in the script as everything stopped until the person was restrained.

 

[LagoonGator68]

I don't know if you all remember but Ron Simmons got caught up in some sort of burglary/stolen goods ring while playing at FSU, along with some other Nole players (shocking I know). I remember it being huge news in Central Florida when I was a kid. The Noles and Bowden have literally been running a crime ridden program for almost 40 years, which means that Bowden pretty much started looking the other way on behalf of his convict players almost from the day he took over.

On a side note about Simmons, I saw him in the Atlanta airport about 5 years ago. He would have been in his early 50s at that time. The guy was so FREAKING HUGE, even at that age. He wasn't overly tall, maybe 6'1, but he was jacked up and looked like a mean SOB.

Several players were "selling" color TV sets off the loading dock at Maas Brothers, but I don't believe Simmons was one of them. He was a one man wrecking crew at the nose in college, but it didn't transfer to the NFL.

 

[t-gator]

That is two of three of my favs of all time gone. Man that sucks.
Here are my top 3; who ya got?
1. Rick Flair
2. Macho Man
3. Dusty Rhodes

Possibly the heaviest cocaine hitters the sport has ever seen.

 

[GatorInGeorgia]

Sullivan with his satantic gimmick in the 1980's in FL was classic, used the future (and murdered) Mrs. Chris Benoit as one of his escorts, that he happened to be dating at the time, talking about biting into beetle nuts and other way out there stuff.....

Man, that was a crazy gimmick, especially since he was a good guy earlier in his career. He started talking about "Abudadeen(sp?)" and going out to the desert for 40 days and other weird stuff. He also had that X shaved into his chest (you can almost see it in the picture you posted). I wasn't really sure how much of his act was real vs fake. I give him credit for playing it to the hilt; he had me wondering if he was a true devil worshipper.

 

[GatorInGeorgia]

I forgot who Purple Haze was originally.

The best manager was JJ Dillon.

"Maniac" Mark Lewin.

 

[GatorInGeorgia]

Several players were "selling" color TV sets off the loading dock at Maas Brothers, but I don't believe Simmons was one of them. He was a one man wrecking crew at the nose in college, but it didn't transfer to the NFL.

He was definitely involved. I think he got a year probation for his role in the scheme.

 

[MJMGator]

Half true (Soap Opera) half false (rednecks). There are no rednecks in my family and many of them actually enjoy wrestling. You do have to remember the script.

I went to Nashville to see WWF, and someone charged the ring. You could tell it was not in the script as everything stopped until the person was restrained.

I'm sorry but rasslin caters to the lowest common demoninator.

 

[VulcanAlex]

I'm sorry but rasslin caters to the lowest common demoninator.

Yes I agree but many of us who are not rednecks have such. No need to be sorry, but I am not a redneck and will correct anybody (politely I hope) who indicates that I am.

After all I was born up north to basically an immigrant family half British and half oppressed Russian. So no southern rednecks in this family.

Whatever!!!

 

[LagoonGator68]

lol I still thought it was kind of real at 12 - they did use those hidden razor blades to get the blood flowing etc. A few of those names I don't remember like Sailor Art Thomas but I wasn't there watching in the 60's.

So, I guess you never saw Gorgeous George live in Jacksonville?

 

[NavetG8r]

Yes I agree but many of us who are not rednecks have such. No need to be sorry, but I am not a redneck and will correct anybody (politely I hope) who indicates that I am.

After all I was born up north to basically an immigrant family half British and half oppressed Russian. So no southern rednecks in this family.

Whatever!!!

Redneck has much more to do with how you act, dress, travel and live than where you come from. That being said, you being a Vulcan greatly reduces the chances of anyone mistaking you for a redneck.

 

[VulcanAlex]

Redneck has much more to do with how you act, dress, travel and live than where you come from. That being said, you being a Vulcan greatly reduces the chances of anyone mistaking you for a redneck.

Well yes but it is unlikely that a person from the urban north to be one, not to mention having Vulcan attributes. Thanks.

 

[MissouriGator]

A drunk, Vulcan redneck would be funny as hell.

 

[Gator Fever]

So, I guess you never saw Gorgeous George live in Jacksonville?

lol Nope

 

[VulcanAlex]

A drunk, Vulcan redneck would be funny as hell.

Or very dangerous, as we know when the logic is suspended for whatever reason a Vulcan's great strength, training, and emotionalism can injure or kill humans easily.

Now of course there are no genetic Vulcans, but there are some of us who try to behave as they are reported to do. We always fall short because we don't have a script nor good control of our emotions.