sek69 Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 “The American Dream” Dusty Rhodes will forever be remembered as the working man’s champion. A three-time World Heavyweight Champion, he has had numerous legendary confrontations with sports-entertainment’s top stars, including Ric Flair, Harley Race and “Superstar” Billy Graham. Decades later, his contributions to sports-entertainment are still being felt. This 3-Disc DVD set will present his life’s story, as well as his most memorable matches and interviews from Florida Championship Wrestling, NWA, WCW and WWE. Matches * AWA, 3/9/73 - Dusty Rhodes & Dick Murdoch vs. Dick the Bruiser & The Crusher * AWA, 3/24/73 - Dusty Rhodes & Dick Murdoch vs. Dick the Bruiser & The Crusher * AWA, 10/6/73 - Dusty Rhodes & Dick Murdoch vs. Billy Robinson & Don Muraco * Championship Wrestling from Florida, 5/1974 - Dusty Rhodes & Pak Song vs. Mike & Eddie Graham * Championship Wrestling from Florida, Dusty Rhodes vs. Terry Funk * Championship Wrestling from Florida, Lumberjack Match, Dusty Rhodes vs. Harley Race * Madison Square Garden, 9/26/77 - WWWF Heavyweight Championship Dusty Rhodes vs. Superstar Billy Graham * Madison Square Garden, 12/19/77 - Dusty Rhodes vs. Stan “The Man” Stasiak * Madison Square Garden 12/20/77 - Dusty Rhodes vs. Johnny Rodz * Madison Square Garden, 8/28/78 - Texas Bullrope Match Dusty Rhodes vs. Superstar Billy Graham, Alternate Commentary by: Steve Romero/Dusty Rhodes/Mike Graham * Madison Square Garden, 12/17/79 - NWA World’s Heavyweight Championship, Dusty Rhodes vs. Harley Race * Atlanta, GA, 6/21/81 - NWA World’s Heavyweight Championship Dusty Rhodes vs. Harley Race * Great American Bash, Charlotte, NC, 7/6/85 - World Television Championship Dusty Rhodes vs. Tully Blanchard * Great American Bash, Greensboro, NC, 7/26/86 - NWA World Heavyweight Championship Dusty Rhodes vs. Ric Flair, Commentary by: Steve Romero/Dusty Rhodes/Mike Graham * Starrcade, Chicago, IL, 11/26/87 - NWA United States Heavyweight Championship Dusty Rhodes vs. Lex Luger * Clash of the Champions, Greensboro, NC, 3/27/88 - Dusty Rhodes & Road Warriors vs. Ivan Koloff & Powers of Pain * NWA Main Event, 4/3/88 - NWA United States Championship Dusty Rhodes vs. Ivan Koloff * Clash of the Champions II, Miami, FL, 6/8/88 - NWA Tag Team Championship Dusty Rhodes & Sting vs. Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard * Starrcade, Norfolk, VA 12/26/88 - NWA World Tag Team Championship Dusty Rhodes & Sting vs. Road Warrior * SummerSlam, E. Rutherford, NJ, 8/28/89 - Dusty Rhodes vs. The Honky Tonk Man * Survivor Series, Rosemont, IL, 11/23/89 - The Dream Team vs. The Enforcers * WrestleMania VI, Toronto, Canada, 4/1/90 - Mixed Tag Team match Dusty Rhodes & Sapphire vs. The Macho King Randy Savage & Queen Sherri * Madison Square Garden, 11/24/90 - Dusty Rhodes & Dustin vs. Ted DiBiase & Virgil * Living Dangerously, Danbury, CT, 3/12/00 - Dusty Rhodes vs. Steve Corino * Greed, Jacksonville, FL, 3/18/01 - Kiss My Ass match Dusty Rhodes & Dustin vs. Ric Flair & Jeff Jarrett Promos & Vignettes from the following shows * CWF – Dusty in dressing room * CWF – Gordon Solie interviews Dusty Rhodes * Madison Square Garden, 10/24/77 – Vince McMahon interviews Dusty Rhodes * Madison Square Garden, 11/8/77 – Vince McMahon interviews Dusty Rhodes * Championship Wrestling 4/25/78 * Mid-Atlantic Wrestling 1/26/83 * Mid-Atlantic Wrestling 1/25/84 * Mid-Atlantic Wrestling 12/25/84 * NWA World Championship Wrestling 4/6/85 * NWA World Championship Wrestling 4/20/85 * NWA World Championship Wrestling 5/4/85 * World Wide Wrestling 5/7/85 * NWA World Championship Wrestling 5/25/85 * NWA World Championship Wrestling 7/13/85 * NWA World Championship Wrestling 7/20/85 * World Wide Wrestling 7/23/85 * NWA World Championship Wrestling 8/17/85 * Mid-Atlantic Wrestling 9/10/85 * NWA World Championship Wrestling 9/28/85 * Mid-Atlantic Wrestling 10/29/85 * NWA World Championship Wrestling 11/16/85 * Mid-Atlantic Wrestling 12/3/85 * Mid-Atlantic Wrestling 12/15/85 * NWA World Championship Wrestling 1/4/86 * NWA World Championship Wrestling 1/4/86 * NWA World Championship Wrestling 6/21/86 * NWA World Championship Wrestling 8/16/86 * World Wide Wrestling 2/17/87 * NWA World Championship Wrestling 3/19/88 * NWA World Championship Wrestling 5/21/88 * Superstars 6/3/89 * Superstars 6/10/89 * Superstars 6/17/89 * Superstars 6/24/89 * Superstars 7/1/89 * Superstars 7/8/89 * Superstars 7/15/89 * Superstars 7/22/89 * Superstars 10/7/89 * Superstars 10/7/89 * Saturday Night’s Main Event 1/27/90 * Superstars 5/12/90 * Wrestling Challenge 6/2/90 * Wrestling Challenge 9/15/90 * Superstars 12/22/90 * Wrestling Challenge 12/29/90 * RAW 5/5/97 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffey Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 Wow. Looks like a must own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bruiser Chong Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 I don't care what you guys say; I just marked for the inclusion of the Survivor Series '89 match. That's technically the first wrestling match I ever saw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bravesfan Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 I can't wait to see if this set will be successful or not, and whether the WWE expects it to (or not). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodhelmet Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 * AWA, 3/9/73 - Dusty Rhodes & Dick Murdoch vs. Dick the Bruiser & The Crusher * AWA, 3/24/73 - Dusty Rhodes & Dick Murdoch vs. Dick the Bruiser & The Crusher * AWA, 10/6/73 - Dusty Rhodes & Dick Murdoch vs. Billy Robinson & Don Muraco This right here is why I will buy the set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 Say what you will about Dusty, but if someone was around right now who was like him, I'd probably love the hell out of him just because he'd be so charismatic and unique. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted March 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 I'm kinda surprised they released a DVD of him to be honest, since Dusty's the antithesis of everything WWE wants their workers to be. They wany everyone to have the same look with the toned bodies and get themselves over using the same cookie cutter promos everyone else uses. Dusty wouldn't even get a tryout in Deep South if he broke into the business today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SweetMama Scaat Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 * AWA, 3/9/73 - Dusty Rhodes & Dick Murdoch vs. Dick the Bruiser & The Crusher * AWA, 3/24/73 - Dusty Rhodes & Dick Murdoch vs. Dick the Bruiser & The Crusher * AWA, 10/6/73 - Dusty Rhodes & Dick Murdoch vs. Billy Robinson & Don Muraco This right here is why I will buy the set. Could tell us why youre so impressed? Im iffy on the set. Something seems off, maybe the matches are too old school for my liking? Does anyone know how good, er entertaining the matches from the 70s are? Im more than a lil annoyed that theres no War Games matches included or anything from the SuperPowers team with Nikita Koloff. They at least need to have that full angle where Koloff turned face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodhelmet Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 * AWA, 3/9/73 - Dusty Rhodes & Dick Murdoch vs. Dick the Bruiser & The Crusher * AWA, 3/24/73 - Dusty Rhodes & Dick Murdoch vs. Dick the Bruiser & The Crusher * AWA, 10/6/73 - Dusty Rhodes & Dick Murdoch vs. Billy Robinson & Don Muraco This right here is why I will buy the set. Could tell us why youre so impressed? Ah, because I am a Dick Murdoch mark and I have zero footage of his time with Dusty. I am putting together a comp of his time in St. Louis, Mid South and the NWA but it seems incomplete. While my comp will be finished before this set is released, at least it will give people a chance to go even further back into his career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest savagerulz Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 As with all these retroy DVD's I think it looks awesome. A lot of the stuff tagging with Sting is great, and his other matches from around that time were usually really entertaining. The only match I can think of that I'd have liked to see on there that's not would be one of his matches with Windham over the US title. The more recent matches with guys like Corino, and the kiss my ass club, are all fun too in different ways. I'm looking forward to this a lot and all the mic work wlil be awesome. A real reminder of how to cut great interviews by one of the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty Posted June 12, 2006 Report Share Posted June 12, 2006 Got this over the weekend, and it's pretty much everything it was expected to be. The documentary was very well done, with a LOT of people being interviewed, including TREVOR MURDOCH~! Lots and lots of extras, but a warning: The Florida stuff is clipped, including the '81 title win over Race. Many people may already know and expect that, but it needed to be brought up. Also, to Will: The Bruiser/Crusher matches are clipped (second one is 2/3 falls), but the Robinson/Muraco one (also 2/3 falls) is in full and runs about 21 minutes. If you've never seen early 70s Don Muraco before, you're in for a bit of shock, considering what he looked like in the 80s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 Love the Dusty DVD, but I wish you would have said Dusty DVD Match Lith! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 I should add that the "American Dream" theme is in the documentary and extras, which is a little strange considering it was edited out of WM6 in the WM Anthology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted June 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 I should add that the "American Dream" theme is in the documentary and extras, which is a little strange considering it was edited out of WM6 in the WM Anthology. I noticed that too, I guess it's just another sign that they totally cheaped out on the WM set. I love how everyone kayfabed around the "was the polka dot thing a rib?" question with the final answer being "yeah, pretty much, but Dusty made it work". I love how Dusty pointed out that it was the most money he made in a year with a "stick that up your ass" look in his eyes. Also, Bruce Pritchard's Dusty impression is as shockingly accurate as his Roddy Piper impression. He's like wrestling's Rich Little. The stuff with Dustin was wrenching, and a textbook example of Bitches Be Trippin' as you'll ever see. Nice to see them get a mention of Cody Runnels and his athetic background in as well, since he's in (I think) OVW right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Dog Posted June 17, 2006 Report Share Posted June 17, 2006 Got it and watched the whole thing today. My only complaint is that of course HHH had to put his 2 cents in like he does on every fucking DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty Posted June 17, 2006 Report Share Posted June 17, 2006 Got it and watched the whole thing today. My only complaint is that of course HHH had to put his 2 cents in like he does on every fucking DVD. I'm no HHH fan, but in fairness to the guy, there hasn't been that many DVDs he's commented on. On top of that, they had tons of people interviewed for this one. The most I've seen in fact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bruiser Chong Posted June 24, 2006 Report Share Posted June 24, 2006 Got mine from the DDD sale. I checked it out at Wal-Mart last week, filled with curiosity over this talking case talk I'd heard about. After pressing the case, I expected a brief soundbite from the American Dream. Instead, I was horrified to realize I'd unleashed an intense and LENGTHY promo from a shouting Dusty Rhodes admist the entire home entertainment section. I slowly backed away and moved on to another area of the store where the endless promo was less audible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 I just picked this up. This set is tremendous, and really shows the potential of the WWE tape library. -The Rhodes/Flair match, along with a few others, contains alternate commentary by Dusty and co. Sometimes it's fine. In this case though, it detracts from a huge match. It just seems like a better moment with the original commentary, heard on the Bloodbath dvd. Dusty's not the kind of worker that you can watch 2-3 hours at a time. This set has so much good stuff on it for the price however that it's an easy recommendation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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