Dusty was the brains behind a lot of my favorite wresting era and territory....Jim Crockett promotions (NWA) in the 1980's.
Dusty, Ric Flair, The Horsemen, the R & R Express, Midnight Express, Road Warriors, Ronnie and Jimmy Garvin, Barry Windam, Magnum TA, Nikita Koloff, a young Lex Luger, ect.
Dusty did a lot of the booking and named a lot of the early PPV events.
To this day, the 1980's Jim Crockett stuff is some of the most entertaining wrestling of all time.
That stuff would get over HUGE today. Its wasn't as childish or cartoonish like most of the stuff from that era, it seemed more REAL and was dead serious.
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(06-11-2015 02:33 PM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote: Dusty was the brains behind a lot of my favorite wresting era and territory....Jim Crockett promotions (NWA) in the 1980's.
Dusty, Ric Flair, The Horsemen, the R & R Express, Midnight Express, Road Warriors, Ronnie and Jimmy Garvin, Barry Windam, Magnum TA, Nikita Koloff, a young Lex Luger, ect.
Dusty did a lot of the booking and named a lot of the early PPV events.
To this day, the 1980's Jim Crockett stuff is some of the most entertaining wrestling of all time.
That stuff would get over HUGE today. Its wasn't as childish or cartoonish like most of the stuff from that era, it seemed more REAL and was dead serious.
Imagine an entire promotion of Stone Cold Steve Austin type promo's and storylines, FULL of HOF talent.
That was the NWA in the mid 80's. They had most of the talent and a more shoot style of booking and promos.
Its was an interesting contrast between the WWF and NWA at the time. WWF had Hogan, by far the biggest star in the business, and had an aging Andre the Giant and a young Macho Man to work with him. But the NWA was LOADED with big time talent up and down the card.
Its was a lot like the Monday night wars in that respect......One side had most of the talent, the other made due with a small handful of stars and THE GUY (Shawn Michaels, then Stone Cold).
Crockett tried to expand to the west coast and bankrupted the company with poor financial decisions. They were actually selling out everywhere when he was forced to sell the company. They had simply ran too far ahead of themselves....millions guaranteed in the coming year, but not enough money to get there.
The booking and talent level slowly eroded from there. Even once Bichoff took over, the booking was always 2nd rate.
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(06-11-2015 02:33 PM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote: Dusty was the brains behind a lot of my favorite wresting era and territory....Jim Crockett promotions (NWA) in the 1980's.
Dusty, Ric Flair, The Horsemen, the R & R Express, Midnight Express, Road Warriors, Ronnie and Jimmy Garvin, Barry Windam, Magnum TA, Nikita Koloff, a young Lex Luger, ect.
Dusty did a lot of the booking and named a lot of the early PPV events.
To this day, the 1980's Jim Crockett stuff is some of the most entertaining wrestling of all time.
That stuff would get over HUGE today. Its wasn't as childish or cartoonish like most of the stuff from that era, it seemed more REAL and was dead serious.
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Dusty was instrumental in building the roster in JCP/NWA/WCW. A loot of the guys on the roster started out in Florida in the Eddie Graham promotion. Dusty was a booker there. When he went to JCP he brought those guys with him.
Back in the 70s Dusty mentored a young Ric Flair. It was Dusty who gave him the early push and Flair has stated he picked up a lot of mic skills from the Dream.
(06-11-2015 02:49 PM)MemphisTiger15 Wrote: 8 man tag
Super Powers (Rhodes & Nikita) & the Road Warriors vs the 4 Horsemen in a cage --- "War Games"
Loved it!
RIP Dream
Though war games is historic, I remember the never ending feud of the Horsemen vs Dusty and friends more fondly now than any single match.
No matter who Flair or the Horsemen were booked against, they still all mentioned Dusty Rhodes in every promo...often Dusty and the Road Warriors. Even going into a PPV when they were booked against other stars, they kept the heat on Dusty/Magnum/Nikita/Road Warriors. It took up half their promos every week for years.
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(06-11-2015 03:00 PM)CliftonAve Wrote: Dusty was instrumental in building the roster in JCP/NWA/WCW. A loot of the guys on the roster started out in Florida in the Eddie Graham promotion. Dusty was a booker there. When he went to JCP he brought those guys with him.
Back in the 70s Dusty mentored a young Ric Flair. It was Dusty who gave him the early push and Flair has stated he picked up a lot of mic skills from the Dream.
yup
Flair was so enamored with Dusty that he wanted to be booked as "Ramblin" Ricky Rhodes. lol
Flair won his first World title from Dusty as well.
The Dream also had a big run with Superstar Billy Graham during Graham's big WWF title run in 77-78. It was one of the hottest and most historic feuds of that time.
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