DUSTY RHODES

Colette Arrand Jun 5, 2022. 1 minute read

Seth Rollins’ Dusty Rhodes Gear

So, get this: Cody Rhodes and Seth Rollins are in a blood feud that hinges upon the later man’s inability to move on from getting beat with a roll-up, right? It turns out that they’re the same guy, in a way, except that eons ago ago, one of those men…

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Colette Arrand Sep 24, 2021. 6 minute read

The Greatest Wrestler of All Time (The Second Ten)

(Previously in the Greatest Wrestler of All Time: The First Ten) Only hundreds of people can be the Greatest Wrestler of All Time. Well, possibly thousands. See, throughout the history of the great sport of professional wrestling, there’ve been an uncountable number of professional wrestlers. A real “grains of sand…

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Robert Newsome Jul 28, 2021. 8 minute read

When Kevin Sullivan Separated Dusty Rhodes From Virgil Runnels

The influence of Satan and his minions on popular culture was an accepted fact in the 1980s. Geraldo, Sally Jessy Raphael, Phil Donohue, and a who’s who of lesser-known daytime talk show hosts invited representatives of the Church of Satan or any other “left-hand path” religion to exhibit their immaculately…

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Colette Arrand May 19, 2021. 10 minute read

Cody Rhodes’ American Dream

I traveled to Jacksonville for AEW Dynamite last week for the sake of seeing Yuji Nagata wrestle in America for the first time since I was a child, when Nagata was a wrestler I liked because he did karate kicks in WCW/nWo Revenge and wrestled on B-shows like Saturday Night and…

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Colette Arrand Jul 26, 2020. 9 minute read

The Eternal Heartbreak of Hard Times

There’s probably nothing new that can be said about “Hard Times,” the 1985 Dusty Rhodes promo that defines its feud, its performer, and its time. It’s huge, y’all, so big that it has a name, which isn’t true of many promos. You say “Hard Times” to a wrestling fan and…

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