Dusty Rhodes Dead

[stephenPE]

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-1VgzVpC7A

My favorite around 9 years old was this guy Don Curtis and his Flying Drop Kick

Loved that wrestling as a kid.
Around the time I saw it was fake I read these guys would practice together even the ones that hated each other. And then would cook out. Another childhood myth shattered..

 

[VulcanAlex]

Any of you remember when they made coming off the top rope a disqualifying move. Eddie Graham invented the figure four death lock which was the signature move for Jack Brisco in his long time success. As a counter to the spinning death lock used by the Funks.

Epic Texas Death match between Funk Sr. and Jack.

There were a series of bounty matches to keep Brisco from the title. He destroyed many people trying to get the bounty. Some even handicap matches that he still won.

Great times.

 

[gardnerwebbgator]

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.

That is actually Abudadein in the picture to Sullivan's left, and the late Sir Oliver Humperdink to the right. Why I know this stuff is beyond comprehension. I can't remember jack **** about what I learned in school during the 1980's, but bring up Championship Wrestling From Florida and the mental encyclopedia kicks in.

 

[Thick&ThinG8r]

Any memories of Buddy Colt? I was scared to death of that man as a kid.

 

[gardnerwebbgator]

Any memories of Buddy Colt? I was scared to death of that man as a kid.

Underrated wrestler, but a terrible announcer. Did nothing to help Gordon Solie.

 

[GatorInGeorgia]

Any of you remember when they made coming off the top rope a disqualifying move. Eddie Graham invented the figure four death lock which was the signature move for Jack Brisco in his long time success. As a counter to the spinning death lock used by the Funks.

Epic Texas Death match between Funk Sr. and Jack.

There were a series of bounty matches to keep Brisco from the title. He destroyed many people trying to get the bounty. Some even handicap matches that he still won.

Great times.

Yes I remember the top rope becoming a DQ move. I recall when Dusty won the NWA World Title on one occasion then on the next TV taping they took it away from him b/c he came off the top rope with the bionic elbow. Later that episode I believe they went to replay and saw that he only had one foot on the top rope, the other foot was in the air so they gave him the title back. Ring a bell with you?

 

[GatorInGeorgia]

That is actually Abudadein in the picture to Sullivan's left, and the late Sir Oliver Humperdink to the right. Why I know this stuff is beyond comprehension. I can't remember jack **** about what I learned in school during the 1980's, but bring up Championship Wrestling From Florida and the mental encyclopedia kicks in.

Me too. Remember when Dusty "won" Humperdink for 30 days and started calling him Rooster? They showed vignettes of Dusty working Rooster to death on hiis ranch. At the end of the 30 days Humperdink had turned good and became Dusty's manager, only to turn on Dusty a few months later during a match?

 

[Thick&ThinG8r]

Underrated wrestler, but a terrible announcer. Did nothing to help Gordon Solie.

So your saying he had no intestinal fortitude when it came to announcing.

 

[GatorInGeorgia]

Any memories of Buddy Colt? I was scared to death of that man as a kid.

The Masked Assassain terrified me. It was great how he used to load his mask with a foreign object and deliver a head but that knocked his opponent out.

 

[gardnerwebbgator]

Me too. Remember when Dusty "won" Humperdink for 30 days and started calling him Rooster? They showed vignettes of Dusty working Rooster to death on hiis ranch. At the end of the 30 days Humperdink had turned good and became Dusty's manager, only to turn on Dusty a few months later during a match?

Vaguely I remember that....I do remember the Midnight Rider gimmick Rhodes used in FL first in the early 80's, then used it later on when Crockett 'suspended' him for going ape **** with a baseball bat.

 

[GatorInGeorgia]

Vaguely I remember that....I do remember the Midnight Rider gimmick Rhodes used in FL first in the early 80's, then used it later on when Crockett 'suspended' him for going ape **** with a baseball bat.

Apparentl Dusty was friends with the Allman Brothers band in real life and would party with them/act as a de facto bodyguard for them when they were hanging out.

 

[MJMGator]

My best friend used to wait tables at Fiddler's Green in St. Augustine while he was going to college. He said Dusty and Bugsy McGraw came in one night and were seated at one of his tables. If I recall correctly, they only had drinks (to the tune of about $300) and left him about a $100 tip.

 

[crosscreekcooter]

My kids played baseball at an East Cobb ballpark for a number of years. Dusty was living in Marietta and I remember him showing up one summer for tryouts with his kid. He was really a very personable guy in real life, lisp and all. He was always wearing cowboy boots.

 

[stephenPE]

Someone mentioned the figure four leg lock a submission hold. What about Joe Scarpa and the sleeper hold?

 

[LagoonGator68]

I bet y'all have never seen the back breaking "Boston Crab"....

 

[GatorInGeorgia]

I bet y'all have never seen the back breaking "Boston Crab"....

Heard of it? Hell, I used to put my friends in that, along with the figure 4. I believe Lord Alfred Hayes used the Boston Crab as his finishing move back in the day. Speaking of the figure 4, I can personally attest to the fact that that move hurts like hell!

 

[LagoonGator68]

Dick Dunn broke Sputnik Monroe's back with it in Dothan at the Houston County Farm Center back in the early sixties. Sputniks brothers Flash and Apollo Monroe put Dunn in the hospital in an alley fight a few months later.

 

[VulcanAlex]

Russian Cycle, Spinning Toe hold, Ankle lock, lots of concession moves that are no longer used too much. I remember when that Boston Crab became obsolete when someone broke it. The script is a wonderful thing and memories from long ago are great, as well as the fact that I can still bring them up.

Lots of suplex moves as well back in the day. I guess youth today need different scripts.

 

[GatorInGeorgia]

Russian SICKLE

fify

 

[bradgator2]

I was born and raised in Jax. After reading all these comments... I guess I never realized how "Florida" those early wrestling days were.