Of Love & Polka Dots: A Look at Dusty Rhodes in WWE
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- Опубликовано: 26 июн 2024
- What happened when one of the most beloved wrestlers of all-time gets put through the WWF "filter"? We get the brief and bizarre run of "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes!
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"Antithesis" a word Dusty certainly could never pronounce...
Anteeethusus, baybeh!
😂😂😂
“If you will”
“Antethethith!”
An tit he sis.
"Put me in diapers out there, I'll still get over, baby" Dusty Rhodes
I remember my cousin telling me when he met Cody Rhodes at an independent show and told Cody “Your father was one of the greatest of all time” and Cody said “You’re damn right”
And then Cody sold out and became a massive hypocrite, just like his father did here!
*Your father
@@PaleHorseShabuShabu thanks for pointing that out
I guess there’s a Flair fan in the comment section
@@BigBoyToys-ce5qgYou mean he got paid what he was worth for the biggest promotion around?
"He brought a bicycle! Who be bringing a bicycle in this here arena?!"
"Heeere comes Mongo!"
ah yes, the habitual "be".
"I dunno where the kid is that was a-ridin' it, but he ain't on it when he brought it to the ring!"
JEEZUS
Hacksaw was robbed of an Oscar for his cameo at 11:00.
Lol yes!!!
Forgot to mention his brief run in ECW feuding with Steve Corino
Totally didn't know Mike "Virgil" Jones had recently pass, R.I.P. brother
i love how no matter how many clips i see of Brother Love, hes always way redder than i remembered 😂😂
Something to wrestle with for the rest of his days
You just KNOW Mox was honored to take the Dream's final Bionic Elbow
Fitting
Who wouldn't have been, 😂
Also the last guy in WWE to get Jake's snake put on him. He tried so hard not to laugh, but it was hard to miss the smile on his face that night as the snake crawled on him lol
@@danc3488Jake tried putting it down his pants and CM Punk says PG Jake 😂
And that was the last time he sold anything
"Sudden but inevitable betrayal"
Brian Zane is a brown coat, confirmed!
My father said when I was younger "Hard Times Breed Better Men".
That's my favorite line from Kingdom to be honest.
I saw a meme that rings true...hard times makes good men, good men make good society, good society breed weak men, weak men make hard times.
It’s a banger song, but that particular line is the one that’s impactful to me.
@@DasNordlicht91 I guess Dusty bred two great sons in hard times then.
Yeah, That line is fire..❤👍🏿🔥
How can you sleep on "Holy moly it's the big homie"
Dusty still had the energy of his younger self right up until the very end. His WWF run was fun, his ECW run was awesome, and even his later WWE runs were great. I’ve got a soft spot for Dusty’s later career, so it’s nice to see this video.
He was wrestling's johnny cash in the sense that his earliest work and later work were awesome.
@@dennisbowen452 Great analogy. I might have to fire up the Corino v. Dusty bull rope match tomorrow morning.
His ECW run was amazing! Shocked it wasn't mentioned here
@@charlottecorday8494I feel like it’s a chapter that gets left out because it was Dusty well after his in-ring prime, but even then Dusty knew how to have a bloody brawl. ECW didn’t ask for anything more than a good angle and some fighting, and Dusty gave 110% of himself to the task.
Getting the reminder that it's been nine years since Dusty passed is another "wow, where does the time go" moment combined with "oh jeez, are they going to make Cody wait another year for the championship to make that part of the story?"
The Polka Dots are synonymous with being a bad thing, or supposedly, when I met Tommy Dreamer for thr first time at Diamond Championship Wrestling, you know what he was wearing?
Polka Dot Pants. The Dream's Dots will live on forever, not in infamy but legend.
the polka dots were appropriate. Dusty's time in WWF was 110% 💩. the worst of the worst
Must we not forget his amazing ECW run against "The King of Oldschool"!
Ya he did try to save it towards the end. Must of been really good friends with Paul Heyman.
"You cut Magnum's brakeline!"
OK. So. In that pizza delivery segment, he sings this "I'm the pizza man! I'm the pizza man!" song at one point. Every one of these segments that came out after that, my brother and I would apply it to the job he was doing that time. Our favorite was "I'm the dirty potty man! I'm the dirty potty man!"
10:46 somebody needs to lift Sherri's look from that night for today. Such a killer look with the dress, face paint & mask.
Jeff Hardy's Willow The Wisp 😂
“Sardine, Oyster, and Pigs Feet (Pizza) Pies.”
That sounds like something Michelangelo from TMNT would come up with. 😂
Otis
Mikey was so high back in the 87 Show he would have totally ate that pizza if that lady did not want it anymore 😂🍕🐢
Looked like a punishment, but Dusty was clearly having a good time in the WWF.
Jeff Hardy watching at 10:46 “I’ve an idea”
🤣🤣🤣
Gotta love how Dusty took a gimmick that Vince gave him hoping to ruin him but made it his own the disrespect he showed this family over the years is just sick but it never stopped any of them from be coming huge stars Dusty would be so proud of his boys
If he was hoping to ruin him he'd have jobbed him out every week.
Vince tried everything to keep the Rhodes down and it never worked long term lol
@@sonic5993 So if Vince was still in charge would Cody still won the championship belt?
11:40 Brian Zane hit the nail on the head on the irony between Ted Dibiase showering Sweet Sapphire with gifts and Vince McMahon showering his female employee with money and um......a different type of showering. 😢
Yeahh he was showering her in shit, that sadist
Was it golden?
@@hecksters423 Uh....... :(
@@hecksters423 Oh, you sweet summer child
@@hecksters423 Sometimes, but VKM 'allegedly' enjoyed the R. Kelly approach more frequently. To put it in 'indy' speak VKM would 'allegedly' GMSI before he would sometimes tag out, to let his partner finish.
I will forever be heartbroken that when I was younger I thought of Dusty as nothing other than the goofy fat guy in polka dots.
The same, playing the early SvR games, seeing this fat guy in polka dots listed as a legend was very strange to me. Had the same thoughts about Ric Flair funnily enough, just some old guy that's treated as a big deal.
@@SlightlyIrreleventAustralian SvR2006 I remember had bios for the legends, and Dusty had basically nothing on his. Ric Flair obviously had the '16 time world champion' tagline.
Let's face it, if he entertainted you with his antics, promos and vignettes, all is well!
As I found wrestling on the TV right around the time he started in WWE, I found the outfit strange, but the man convincing and very entertaining!
Later learning, who and what he had been, didn't make me regret my former choices!
He was a goofy fat guy in polka dots.
Unlucky for you. I understood how great this man truelly was back since the 80s. HE'S JUST A COMMON MAN! THE DREAM!!👊
The polkadots were my first exposure to Dusty, maybe it’s just because I was only 7 or 8 years old but I thought he was great. But my favorite Dusty memories are from when he started doing commentary for WCW, he brought all his usual energy and charisma but leaned into the silliness of his WWF character. Calls like “HE GOT A TRITHYCLE!!!” are iconic of course, but what always got me was him spouting nonsense words for moves or parts of the body like “blevit” and “belliwhock.” I also love the times when something happening in a match is so goofy that Dusty just starts cackling like Haku watching the Shockmaster’s debut.
Well if you ate three bales of hay a day then you’d talk like that too. RIP Brain and Dream
Dusty’s call from Bash at the Beach lives in my head. I think it was a Nasty Boys match, and one of them grabbed a piece of set dressing to use as a weapon. Dusty immediately yells out “IT’S A RUBBA SHARK!” He really was a good color commentator when given the opportunity.
you really have to have been a child of 6 or 7 to have enjoyed that embarrassing crap
R.i.P. virgil,sherri,dusty,
And safire.😢
12:35 will always make me crack up, Dusty cradling a bloody Dustin screaming "My Thun, My Thun, My Thun" is just hilarious
Dusty's infamous snubbing of Stephanie McMa'am was inadvertently better than anything she's done post-2003 GM.
Greatest betrayls in human history:
4. Benedict Arnold
3. Judas
2. Benny from Total Recall
1. Sweet Sapphire
Trivia: I heard that the guy that played Benny got fired from SNL and replaced by Eddie Murphy. The rest = history
Thank you for making this. One of the greatest minds in wrestling.
As he would always say, “Somebody tell Vince he’s lucky I didn’t save my money!”
My buddy Tom does a lot of work for the Lord, and he used to help special children back in the day. He’s recounted the story to me a few times where, at a live event, Tom and the kid saw Dusty Rhodes. Tom asked a nearby staff member if they could meet Dusty or get an autograph and obviously Dusty obliged. Tom isn’t a wrestling fan, but I love watching his face light up when he talks about his brief interaction with Dusty. Tom must see 200 people a week, but Dusty will always stand out in his mind as one of the greatest examples of love and kindness that you could observe. R.I.P Dusty Rhodes, you’ve entertained us all for decades! ❤
Did ur buddy preach Gospel to Dusty???!!
@@OikPoinFive knowing him, I would bet! I would love to hear a sermon from Dusty himself, that would be wild!!
Polka Dots this, Polka Dots that... Let's talk about how awesome a theme song "Common Man Boogie" was! Regardless of how silly Dusty looked coming out to polka dots, there was absolutely no way he wouldn't get over with a song like that. One of Jimmy Hart & JJ Maguire's greatest WWE theme songs, without a doubt.
Sherri is an underrated wrestling beauty.
Beeewwwbs!
I was six years old when I saw Summerslam 1992. I was a little too young to really understand what a crush was but I knew she was something special ❤
Boobas
yes, very underrated and Dusty is extremely overrated
The polka dots gimmick was silly, but he made it work and it definitely was a hit for kids like me of that era. One of my favorite Dusty moments is him shilling for the proto-WWE shop talking about the "Ultimate Warrior sippy-cuppp"😅
I don't care what Bruce Pritchard says, the polka dots WERE a rib on Dusty, and he was so amazing, he got them over.
His argument is why would Vince pay someone hundreds of thousands of dollars just to bury them...my answer is look at Vince's behavior for the past 40 years...he f's with people all the time and it costs him millions. He threw away the storyline of the decade in 2001 just so he could stroke his own ego about how WWE was better than WCW
Vince McMahon is all about humiliation. Look what he did to that poor girl. Spending a little bit of money to completely kill Dusty's career was like foreplay to that sick f.
The invasion angle was more about Vince not wanting to pay all those top wcw guys that were sitting at home making guaranteed money, upsetting his company’s pay structure more than anything else. Cornette has talked about that multiple times
Dusty's polka dot attire is iconic.
Reason I love Black and Yellow
sure, if you have irony poisoning
Ok … I just realised that Akeem the African dream was a rib. I had no idea. I grew up having no exposure to Dusty Rhodes
I mean it was more of a burial than a rib.
It was slick that came up with the gimmick.
I always thought Hakeem and dusty were black 😂
The Polka Dots didn't bug me at all. Made him a bit more colorful which was important in the WWF back then. Great run IMO.
Doo doo is good for me and doo doo is good for you
Dusty’s problem was asking a cross eyed Duggan if he had seen anything
CRIMINALLY underrated comment.
I'm glad Virgil had that one nuclear pop to be proud of. RIP
For what it’s worth, my introduction to Dusty was during his Polka Dots day’s. As a kid I liked him and Sapphire. It was interesting to see Hogan and Macho and guy’s like that on one end of things and Dusty and Sapphire on the other. Side note, on one of the Ric Flair DVD sets they put out awhile back they had a match between Flair and Dusty (in the NWA days). I’m not sure on the date, but it was at The Greensboro Coliseum. So I was watching with my Dad and we both, at pretty much the same time, pointed out a fan you can hear, throughout the entire match, yelling “DUSTY RHODES! WOO WOO WOOOO”. Both my Dad and I laughed about this fan all through the match and to this day when we hear his name we both yell “DUSTY RHODES WOO WOO WOOOO!” A fun memory that I’ve been able to share with my Dad. Thanks Dusty, and random, possibly drunk Dusty Rhodes fan! 😂👍🏼🤘🏼🖤
Just imagine, Cody wins the championship at mania and what do we hear....."HES JUST A COMMON MAN.." the amount of tears that would come out would be astronomical, all because dusty was that special.
And the whole crowd sings along it would be something special. For sure
Vince McMahon is a petty individual. completely diminished the star quality of wrestlers like Dusty Rhodes or Harley Race had just because “they weren’t New York guys”.
Or maybe they just couldn't draw Luke they used to after they had their long runs in the south ?
Woo! A Dusty Rhodes in WWE retrospective!
dusty rhodes was awesome in WWE dusty's promo with triple h and Stephanie McMahon on raw in 2013 is easily my personal favorite dusty rhodes moment awesome video brian.
Loved Rhodes vs McMahons
@@claymathewselevator8121that was such a great storyline easily the best thing to come out of the authority angle in my opinion.
Great job on this retrospective video of Dusty Rhodes’ WWF Run.
It was like a perfect personification of “turning lemons into lemonade” and Dusty Rhodes made the Best Lemonade this town is about to taste.
6:43 Yay! Nice to see Big Hoss McGraw back in another video. Dusty is one of the finest examples of being given a fairly crap gimmick in WWE but was able to make it to work thanks to his charisma.
6:29 I got a good laugh out of those unexpected 'jackin' sh** from the cops' lyrics. 😂😂😂
His short lived ECW run with Steve Corino was great.
Thanks for the video. I didn't know that Michael Charles Jones (Virgil) had passed away this year. I had dinner with him and Ted Diabiase some 15 years ago when I won a radio contest. He was a class act. Cheers!
Jimmy Hart never saw a camera he didn't want to jump in front of...
We use to mess around playing his theme music bc it's so funny to us that it became legendary. The first time me and my friend heard the theme song was just pure joy and happiness, good memories..
This was one of my first wrestling memories and made me a fan...I loved Dusty Rhodes back then...
The SNME moment with Dustin a d DiBiasse was one of the very vivid memories I have when I first started watching
Just wanted to come here and say I love this channel and how timely and relevant your uploads are. Keep up the good work sir!
To think that WWE wouldn't build someone up (at least a little) just to smash them is to either not know your history or to be willfully stupid
Man we will always miss him... His American dream song is on my playlist and it always makes me smile
He’s just a common man working hard with his hands
@@claymathewselevator8121 fax!
@@claymathewselevator8121 the cowbell always gets me
R.I.P. Mr. Rhodes
Dusty's polka dots are so iconic that Dustin embraced them (not as Dustydust in 1998, mind) as part of his Goldust facepaint and getup on his later WWE career; as well as Tommy Dreamer.
The Bionic Elbow too, both Dreamer and Bubba Ray Dudley have used it (theatrics and all) as a signature move.
Vince tried his best to embarrass and humiliate Dusty with the Common Man gimmick, but Dusty's natural charisma, charm, and ability to connect with fans made him get over immensely. RIP, AMERICAN DREAM!
How crazy is Big Dust’s charisma that he got the polka dots over? And it was no wonder one of his first house show feuds was jobbing out Akeem across the country.
Please do a video on the recently departed 'Virgil'.
Did one many years ago!
ruclips.net/video/wjcvSeL-6IE/видео.html
@@WrestlingWithWregret thanks, I will watch this now 😊
Dusty had a great feud in ECW against Corino too. People enjoyed that where I lived.
Cody said it best in an interview, "My dad had a great run in the company, he just had it in polkadots."
Made his family a lot of money doing it too
The best parts of Dusty's run was his theme music which I still love to this very day
Just wanna say been a Subscriber for a Long Time And Your Videos Never Ever Disappoint! Brian Zane The Legend!!
Long time follower, love the channel. Keep up the awesome work. Both on the channel, and wherever your wrestling career may take you.
It didn't feel like Dusty was being buried until SummerSlam 90.
Right. He didn’t start getting buried until I think it became clear he wasn’t re-upping with Vince. Other than that, he was booked strong even with the odd gimmick and was even given the opportunity to main event house shows in 1989. He and Boss Man headlined a few B-shows at the time. He was in that upper mid-card realm for his entire run
Dusty was my mom's favorite wrestler. My cousin named his daughter "Dusty" after him. He's one of my favorites. I still find myself quoting Dusty on a dailey basis.
10:57 is what it’s all about!! Hey Hacksaw, have you seen Sapphire, baby? No Dust 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Great story is the funkasaurus talking to dusty about how bad the funk gimmick was and dusty saying he wore the polka dots for his family and asking funk if he thought he was better than him?
I always got goosebumps when the cowbell hit and the "he's just a common man" sounded off
Thank you Brian 👏
Great, fun video... As always B Zane
Another great upload Mr Zane!! You make Wednesdays a special occasion for this lifetime wrestling fanatic. Keep up the great work my friend!!
Yes, they put Dusty in polka dots. But, they also gave him that banging American Dream theme song! So, the polka dots were worth it.
This one is special to me. November 1989 is when I got into WWF. The first wrestler I saw on TV was Dusty Rhodes wearing the Boss Man’s hat and leading his team at the Survivor Series. Crazy that 35 years later I’m watching his son.
HARD TIMETH BABEH
"I see......POKLA DOTS" Bruce Pritchard imitating Vince McMahon
I missed these videos. X's run in such and such promotion.
Please keep them coming, as much as you are able to.
I was hoping among all those other vignettes of Dusty doing blue collar things was one of him installing “mufflers.”
Big Johnny
Thankfully no fallen parts here.
I got one of those 8 bit polka dot Dusty t-shirts from the WWE shop shortly before his passing. I've received several compliments on it during the years and I live on an island 4000 miles away from Dusty's stomping grounds
My mom and her best friend loved Dusty.
Women loved Dusty
Dusty embraced his gimmick in WWF. It was apparent that he was having fun
My first exposure to Dusty Rhodes was on the 06 Survivor Series when he was included in Piper & Flair’s team. He was treated like such a legend during 06 & 07 that I didn’t even knew about his polka dot run
Nailed that ending. Like, WOAH!
Can't deny his theme song was a classic too.
Favorite all time
Crazy to think Jon Moxley was the last person ever to take the Bionic Elbow, a man himself considered rather ordinary and "just a guy" compared to Reigns and Rollins yet carved his own path through his own unique style.
Dusty was a better garbageman and a plumber for a couple of vignettes than when Vince recycled those ideas with Duke Droese and T.L. Hopper years later.
Thanks for the amazing video ❤️
8:09 Judo Man, Judo Man, Judo Man hates the Hitman. They have a fight, Judo wins.
Loved his character in 80s Wrestling Mania Returns. "Judo Jones" is an absolute unit.
Still waiting for the shop on that game to show me the early version of Mercenary (Bret Hart's expy) to recreate that feud... and the tag team with Splatt (Jim Neidhart's expy)
Shit, now I remembered the Anvil's death 😢
RIP all of you, legends.
I love dusty and I miss him
💛 🖤
I can't listen to Dusty without remembering Jim Cornette's Challenger Promo 😂
For me it’s survivor series when they’re asking all the stars what they’re thankful for and Dusty says “I’m thankful for my polka dots” and then his HOF acceptance when he pulls out the handkerchief with polka dots
One of my earliest wrestling memories is Dusty and Dustin hugging in the middle of the ring to set up a tag match at Clash of Champions. I was but a child but I felt all the emotion of Dusty's promo about family.
That TALK TO THE HAND to Stephanie was that the most satisfying thing I’ve seen post THE PIPEBOMB promo
Loving the purple rain playing during the early portion of this vid 💜 👌🏾 😊
He's just a common man
Working hard with his hands
Very nice tribute Brian.
💛🖤
Only Dusty had the charisma to manage to get this over and I’m sure that pissed Vince off to no man
"Common Man Boogey" is one of the great themes of its era.
Damn. I teared up at the end. American Dream, indeed. We miss you, Dusty. Fortunately, you've got other greats up there to keep you company, both in and outside the wrestling business. So give Toriyama some "Hard Times" for us.