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Post by Next Manufactured’s Sweater on Aug 29, 2013 19:56:05 GMT -5
Not saying it did any damage to him or anything like that, and I even like the poka dots. It's just here is a wrestler who held almost every title the NWA has ever had to offer. Yet (I know it was a short run), nothing in the WWF. I know when they brought in Flair it was a huge win on the WWF's part. But to bring Dusty in and never give him a push towards any sort of title?? I just think that was a misuse on Vince's part. You're confusing wrestling in those days with wrestling now, where everyone near the top gets a million title shots. In those days, they didn't. You'd only see two or three title defences a year on televised events. Feuds lasted a long time. It wasn't like now where you'd get the champion in twelve or thirteen PPV title matches a year as well as TV every week. Plus, the WWF had a babyface champion for pretty much all of Dusty's run there, except the very end of it when Slaughter beat Warrior at Rumble '91, which was Dusty's last PPV. Hogan vs Warrior was the big face vs face match in Dusty's run, they weren't going to water that down by having a different face vs face title feud right before or after it. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2013 19:56:24 GMT -5
yeah Dusty in the nWo....what on Earth was that about? Same could be asked for about 27 of NWO's members. |
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Post by the franchise on Aug 29, 2013 20:51:14 GMT -5
Poka dots and the common man go hand in hand.
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Post by Bartman on Aug 30, 2013 1:14:24 GMT -5
Sure, they gave him goofy yellow polka dots. But dammit, they gave him one of the greatest themes in wrestling history.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2013 5:48:34 GMT -5
Sure, they gave him goofy yellow polka dots. But dammit, they gave him one of the greatest themes in wrestling history. they sure did!! I am watching all of Dustys PPV matches in WWF at the moment.just watched Dusty vs Honky at Summerslam 89.hot crowd but Dusty was over as hell too. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2013 5:49:31 GMT -5
yeah Dusty in the nWo....what on Earth was that about? Same could be asked for about 27 of NWO's members. very true of course BUT since Dusty wasnt an in ring performer it was even weirder. |
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Post by Mike Giggs' Munchies on Aug 30, 2013 6:19:52 GMT -5
On the McMahon DVD Dusty talks about how he stormed into Vince's office and said he'd had enough of the polka dots and that they were terrible. He then said that Vince spent 20 mins convincing him that only The American Dream could pull it off because he was that good, and Dusty walked out ready to keep going with the polka dots, and he ended up getting over in them.
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Post by Flair Forever on Aug 31, 2013 19:36:15 GMT -5
It wasn't the polka dots that were the problem - it was the humiliating "Americana" sketches, like this one, that were intended to bury Big Dust where he was selling meat, cleaning toilets, etc.... I, for one, loved Dusty Rhodes when he was in WWF.... it was great when he took the Big Bossman's billy club and hat.... just a fun time in wrestling..... I saw the polka dots on display a few weeks ago at Pro Wrestling World! Here they are....  |
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Post by hulkhogancollector on Sept 6, 2013 12:55:04 GMT -5
Dusty pitching Ultimate Warrior suck cups for WWF Merchandise catalog this promo is funny lol
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