RIP Dusty Rhodes

[MphsTiger1981]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/more-sports/dusty-rhodes-wrestling-legend-passes-away-at-69/ar-BBkYZi1?ocid=ansSBNation11

[hipower]

Wow. That's terrible. I watched him and his son "wrestle/act" for years. Dusty was one of my Grandpa's favorites.

RIP Dusty.

[Hozzie]

I always liked him for the most part.  Those were to good days of wrestling.  RIP.

[Caster]

I can remember him bleeding like a stuck hog! One his best gigs was bleeding from the forehead.

RIP.

[Spiffy]

I remember when the horsemen broke his leg in the parking lot! 

[gregintenn]

I used to live down the road from his "dealer". :shrug:

[btq96r]

69 years old?  He looked that old when I watched him in the 90's as a kid.  Entertaining guy, though.  Condolences to his family and friends. 

[K191145]

I can remember him bleeding like a stuck hog! One his best gigs was bleeding from the forehead.

RIP.

 

You see alot of old timers like him and Rick Flair with a forehead that looks like cottage cheese from where they cut it so many times with that taped up piece of razor blade.

[VERO1]

A Saturday afternoon staple of television in Florida when I was growing up. Championship Wrestling from Florida with Gordon Soley announcing. Used to watch him wrestle Haystack Calhoun,Andre The Giant,Great Malenko and other old timers. Wrestling didn't used to be fake back then, it was real!

[rugerla1]

RIP American Dream!!

[1madss]

A Saturday afternoon staple of television in Florida when I was growing up. Championship Wrestling from Florida with Gordon Soley announcing. Used to watch him wrestle Haystack Calhoun,Andre The Giant,Great Malenko and other old timers. Wrestling didn't used to be fake back then, it was real!

 

Holy Cow. I have not heard that name is years. I grew up in north and central FL until ~1980. 

[FUJIMO]

A Saturday afternoon staple of television in Florida when I was growing up. Championship Wrestling from Florida with Gordon Soley announcing. Used to watch him wrestle Haystack Calhoun,Andre The Giant,Great Malenko and other old timers. Wrestling didn't used to be fake back then, it was real!

This makes me wonder where in the world they broadcast from because I watched the same show here on east tn. I still remember those like it was yesterday. Dutch Mantel, wendall cooley,the whole family of Armstrongs starting with bullet Bob, the night train express,the rockers, Jimmy golden and robert fuller,Mongolian stomper, Mr fuji...funny I can remember those guys to this day.

[K191145]

Jackie Fargo, Nick Gulas Jr. Togo Yamamoto, Phil Hickerson, Dutch Mantel, Tommy Rich etc.

Middle Tennessee and Memphis wrestling back in the day.

[E4 No More]

A Saturday afternoon staple of television in Florida when I was growing up. Championship Wrestling from Florida with Gordon Soley announcing. Used to watch him wrestle Haystack Calhoun,Andre The Giant,Great Malenko and other old timers. Wrestling didn't used to be fake back then, it was real!

Um, ya, sure.

[Dennis1209]

Don't guess you guys ever heard of the likes of... Cowboy Bob Ellis, Dick the Bruiser, Johnny Valentine?

[analog_kidd]

This makes me wonder where in the world they broadcast from because I watched the same show here on east tn. I still remember those like it was yesterday. Dutch Mantel, wendall cooley,the whole family of Armstrongs starting with bullet Bob, the night train express,the rockers, Jimmy golden and robert fuller,Mongolian stomper, Mr fuji...funny I can remember those guys to this day.

 

I think that show must have traveled around. I used to go see them in West Palm Beach when I lived there. They would come around a couple times a year, and all the big named guys would wrestle. Pretty sure I saw Dusty on a number of occasions.

[Dirtshooter]

How about Cowboy Bob Kelly, Luthez and more than I can remember. My grandmother used to start out watching wrestling sitting back on the couch and in a minute or two she was sitting on the edge shouting to the referee that the bad tag team was doing some underhanded thing behind his back. Makes me chuckle how she thought all that was real. My dad said he was at a restaraunt and some wrestlers who were supposedly arch enemies had been out eating together. It is all a big show, I haven't watched it in years in fact Hulk Hogan was wrestling when I quit.

[btq96r]

WWE put this together and showed it on their PPV tonight.  Very well done and should be like memory lane for some of you older folks.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npKZ-W5pUXE