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Post by bobbyryates on Oct 17, 2005 19:05:45 GMT -5
yeah, with or without a mask on, too.
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Post by duke63us on Oct 17, 2005 19:52:50 GMT -5
Whether it was Blanchard, Anderson, Flair, etc., Dusty would pin his opponent by either using outside interference, having a second referee (not the one assigned to the match) make the 1-2-3, etc. He was a master, in the 1980s, of making it look like he had won a title, when it was returned back to its' rightful owner once they both got back to the locker room. Sounds like some diabolical #%@&! to me. |
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Post by bobbyryates on Oct 17, 2005 21:14:36 GMT -5
actually, that was the first lesson in the class "how to destroy a successful million $ a year company with my big fat head getting all the attention".
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Post by sittingstill on Oct 18, 2005 19:53:41 GMT -5
And you know the greatest feat of the Dusty finish from Starrcade '85? Dusty would actually change history via videotape!! If you look, on the Starrcade '85 commercial tape, the fact that the title change was reversed wasn't acknowledged on the tape, so any unsuspecting fan that watches that today will just presume that in '85 Dusty had a big deal million dollar run with the NWA title. If I recall correctly it gets worse: on the Best Of Starrcade commercial tape from '88, the Starrcade '85 main event is shown at the end of the tape, positioned outside of chronological order like the rest of the matches on the tape, so it appears to be the most important match in Starrcade history - and we see our hero Dusty win the title WITH NO MENTION OF WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED!
Amazingly, as you all know, this happens again on the Bash '86 commercial tape. Dusty has his week-long title switch, Flair wins the title back in Kansas, so the story of the Bash tour was that Flair came out of the 14 or-however-many Bash title defenses still the champ. On the tape, however, our pal StarDust is seen winning the title at the end with NO MENTION THAT FLAIR WON IT BACK. Thus we leave the tape with Dusty being the big star of the Bash (which of course he wasn't - that was TA & / or the Horsemen)....
Dusty is really good at what he does....
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Post by bobbyryates on Oct 18, 2005 21:46:53 GMT -5
exactly my point. he wins it, the decision is reversed, and only a few know any different until way later.
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Post by thunderfoot on Oct 19, 2005 14:19:19 GMT -5
mattfarmer: I was 6 years old and went to a house show at the Dorton Arena the night before Starcade '85. The guy who did all the shouting at the match between Flair & Dusty (dusty rhodes whoooooooo whooooooooo) sat on the same row as my family and me. He was telling everyone there where he was going the next night. Probably about 5 years ago my brother and I were watching the old Beta tape of Starcade '85 and when we could hear that guy on the tape we both burst out laughing remembering him from so long ago. That guy was a hardcore Dusty fan.
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Post by bobbyryates on Oct 19, 2005 15:06:00 GMT -5
bet he hates him now. i can't tell you how many in the past year, i have heard say that they do not care for him now. especially after meeting him.
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Post by RowdyRoddy on Oct 19, 2005 16:20:37 GMT -5
In Lenoir, this past April, Dusty was covering up his face (he was wearing sunglasses and a hat mind you) because some lady took a picture of him without paying. Like she is going to put it up on eBay and make $1,000. Dusty's best years were in the 1970s and 1980s. By the late 1980s, Dusty was a fraction of his former self. He charges $10 for an autograph and then more money for a picture taken with him.
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Post by phinney on Oct 19, 2005 19:02:53 GMT -5
Granted in its infancy, the Rhodes Finish of Starrcade 85 drew huge gates as re-matches. He just used it too much in '87-'88
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Post by superworker on Nov 25, 2005 0:44:11 GMT -5
When Dusty was the booker ...he never lost...he sold Crockett on himself...He was a talker BUT not a worker... Flip Flop and Fly This!
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