I remember watching this angle here in Philly one Sat. afternoon on ch. 17. World Wide Wrestling, the very best in the world as David Crockett used to say.
Some of those cars trying to turn onto South Blvd were sticking out pretty far, Particularly the Gremlin and what appeared to be an LTD. I hope this video waas forwarded to the proper authoritys so that the owners of these vehicles could be cited for failure to afford clearance.
I love when, right before they "break" his arm, Dusty yells "Make it good!" Hilarious. I miss these angles when the "hate" felt real and fans took it personal.
I thought they really broke his arm. . .Now I saw a spot where Rick Flair ambushed Hot Stuff Eddie Gilbert and busted his nose wide open on the concrete floor. That was a spot that had gone wrong. Rick was supposed to make it look like he came down on the back of his head but he really did by mistake. I know that was real because you saw Rick get frantic. He was cowering over Hot Stuff and asking if he was all right and screaming for the video to stop and he was calling for a medic.
This is when wrestling was wrassling, the good ole days. Jim Crockette Promotions out of North Carolina were the best in the buisness. Where slick rick ruled, the koloffs and the Road warriors had some of the most unforgetable fueds and the Horsemen jumped anyone they didnt like. It was fun to watch. I Miss the 80's. Now all we got is vince mcmahon and pornographic comic bookish wwe.
Back in the day, you could run a weekly parlay for what face was going to get his ass kicked by the Horsemen. If an announcer said anything in regards to video footage, you knew that Dusty, Magnum, Morton, or Gibson didn't have a good week...
@bigtaxdizzle: That's pro wrestling for you. Besides, I think any legit complaint Dusty would have had immediately disappeared once he yelled "Make it good!"
This is just off of South Boulevard in Charlotte. Most of these buildings are gone now, but the bowling alley the pass is still there. If you go to Google Maps and search for 401 Briarbend Drive, Charlotte, N.C., you can see where the beating happened.
@kdubhimself I remember watching this when I lived in New York and then I moved to Charlotte and it looked familiar i wasn't sure if it was South Blvd, or North Tryon thanks.
I miss the 4 Horsemen. Ricflair should have brought back that group when benoit was still alive in the wwe. Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit, Triple H and Batista
I used to love Dusty Rhodes when he wrestled in Florida for so many years - so did just about everyone in Florida. It was strange that in other areas of the country, at the SAME TIME.. they hated him! Looking back now, I don't understand why anybody liked him so much. He's a fat, loud, obnoxious, mellodramatic slob.
@jdohe He was a representation of the common man. He was blue collar. He was a figure that most of the fans could rally around and relate to. The Horesmen were like Corporate America at the time. At that time, Corporate America was beginning to take hold on everything leaving Main St. to be abandoned. People didn't like that. That's why people rallied around Dusty. He had charisma, and he could move pretty well for a guy of his physical stature. But I agree. I prefer the Horsemen over Dusty.
@jw870206 You are talking about Dusty in WCW in Georgia. I was referring to Dusy in the NWA in Florida where he spent the majority of his career. In fact, for much of his career, he worked in both the NWA and WCW simultaneously, but the storylines for one promotion did not overlap the others! The horsemen never came to Florida with that angle.
@marshalljimduncan You do realize that all of the martyrdom routines done to Rhodes were scripted by Rhodes himself, and he became the highest paid wrestler in the southeast because of it...
when dusty says "make it good" he says it as a taunt, if they wanted rid of it they would have "bleeped" it out like the swearing, this was edited, they would or got rid of that if they thought it would ruin the credability of it
LOL!! Horseman rule forever. JJ Dillon the greatest manager of all time. All you top rope flying, pretty faces, no dues paying wrestlers of today, take notice. This is how you do it. Old school baby. These punks today don't have a clue. respect the history.
It's known that Dusty goes all out to make angles seem legitimate even if it means losing serious amounts of blood. I wonder how his hand and wrist really looked after that "shot",but they had the blurred circle over it. I think Dusty really got caught up in the moment on that one.
@soln4suhreborn yes i did i always thought that was dumd on dustys part because it has to look real and when you hear dusty say make it good it takes away from the realism
i remember watching this on tv when it happened...my step dad was walking past the tv while i was watching it, not realizing it was wrestling says"holy shit where is this at that guy got his ass beat" thinking it was on the news...i laughed my butt off at him...this is when wrestling was good
The key to Dusty's success is in how he was marketed. New heels would come into an area, usually Tampa, and beat up on some of the lesser faces.. then Dusty would come to their rescue. I got tired of Dusty after he wrestled Kevin Sullivan for the 2000th time.
Big Dust was one of my faves back in the day but this is an example of how some of his angles were just not convincing enough. But he did really understand the lost art of creating heat especially during the Crockett years.
There are a lot of fans out there seeing this for the first time thinking, That looks like something that the NWO would do. Guess what? The Horsemen did it first. Instead of Dusty, I wish that they would re-enact that with Eric Bischoff. And break his arm for real. I'm talking triple compound fracture. They should have done another Dusty beatdown when he joined the NWO at Souled Out '98. No, hit Bischoff upside the head and put him in a coma, then pull the plug. Bastard.
Well, if it weren't for Dusty, Jim Crockett Promotions would still be in business. If it weren't for Eric Bischoff, WCW would still be in business. Dusty was let go on Jan. 31, 1989 because of the angle with Road Warrior Animal and the spike in the eye drawing blood. Ted Turner had a no-blood rule on his show. That was probably because of the angle between Jim Cornette and Paul E. Dangerously right before the sale. Remember that?
i was born in 1989. so i wouldnt know. but eric bischoff had wcw on top for a while when the nwo first came out. i was so into that . but i was only like 8 and then he ran out of ideas and it turned to crap
The promoters at WCW wanted to keep the old guys at the top like Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan, Sting, Lex Luger, and The Steiner Brothers. It was like they didn't want to give the younger guys a chance. Dusty wanted to keep himself at the top long after fans stopped caring. Example: Winning the Bunkhouse Stampede Battle Royals.
This when I started to know wrestling was fake. I was a little kid and shocked at first, but than I thought. Why in the fuck is the cameraman just watching...and how come nobody got arrested..They just had a match to settle it...lol...ah childhood memories. :)
What a laugh, how some people take this vid so serious. Yeah it's a little violent in some ways, but I'm sure after they all went out and got a beer! lol. I mean some are talking about prosecuting on here? what, yeah Im sure they would tape themselves carrying out "assault and battery" on tape!
I was at a pizza parlor watching this and yelling get him horesmen when a guy yelled fight back Dusty. I said shut up not relizing 15 of his biker buddys were with him. If the cop didnt come out of the can that moment they would have beaten me worse then Dusty got beat
If Dusty felt like prosecuting, to be fair he has a fairly good piece of evidence. Walk to the cops, "watch this clip on youtube, you can see who it is, I'd like to press charges". Seriously, I know it's fake, but you still would'nt tape yourselves doing it.
Are you for real?? I mean this may be violent, but Im sure as wrestling goes, this was staged right on down to the tying to the truck. Im sure these guys would tape themselves carrying out a real "assault and battery" What kind of genious would do that?? Dusty didn't even look like he broke a sweat. So stop worrying!
@raffen79 The OGs of professional wrestling. Forget the nWo and DX, The Horsemen laid the foundation, and teams like the nWo, DX and Evolution came along that path.
I liked Dusty Rhodes up until the time that I realized that he came up with the ideas to make himself appear to be a martyr time after time. All of this stuff is fake. To be consise, Rhodes was eventually fired for having the Road Warriors gouge his eye with a steel spike and make a bloody mess. That incident was Dusty's idea, and he was told not to do it, he did it anyway, and got fired. Dusty played the pity card hundreds of times. Dusty and others get rich by cutting themseves with razors.
I'm not sure if this next story is true-my source wasn't that good. Anyway I heard that on Georgia Championship Wrestling in the 70's, Dusty had some fans escorted out of the tv studio during a station break because they had a sign that said "Dusty's A Fat Bum". He did have a big ego-that's for sure. When they aired this video back then, I couldn't stop laughing-it was so phony and Dusty looked like he'd been drugged.
I don't doubt that is true. Did you know that almost ALL the signs you see at wrestling events are made up by the wrestling organization and handed out to fans as they come in? I remember a story that made the newspapers in which Rhodes attacked a man in a bar because Rhodes was drunk and the man asked "Aren't you the guy that wrestles on TV?" What is amazing about him is how well he could move around 300 pounds of lard.
jdohe, did Rhodes get fired because they didn't want the Road Warriors to turn heel? I remember that incident as being pretty cool, it shocked the fans and the announcers the way a heel turn should.
Rhodes got fired because he was told not to do the angle with his eye getting gouged by the Road Warriors. Dusty made a career out of playing the role of the martyr - and it was Dusty's idea to have the RW's gouge his eye with the spike to elicit sympathy for himself. When you find out that Dusty was working with his opponents in pre-planned attacks, it makes you lose respect for him. He now disgusts me.
Dusty played the pity card so many times but it worked! Seeing him get betrayed never got old because his image as a big dumb lovable hick with that million dollar smile should make other wrestlers hate him.
I remember the Road Warriors attacked Sting in a TV match before they attacked Dusty with the spike. I preferred the Warriors as heels because it suited their image.
Aside from a few dumb things he did, I thought Dusty was one of the best good guys ever.
Ted Turner didn't want any blood on the TV shows. And Dusty went out and did it anyway. After his firing, he attempted to revive the old Florida territory, but it fizzled after a few months. Terry Funk, Bam Bam Bigelow, Fred Ottman, and Dustin Rhodes were on the roster. Dusty then went to WWE on The Son of a Plumber angle. He was paired with Sapphire. In February 1991, he returned to Atlanta and was responsible for Flair leaving.
Ottman was Tugboat for those who don't know. Good for Ted about the blood thing. The wrestlers should have been very grateful to him for that and the much higher salaries. Hogan, Hall, Nash, Savage, Okerlund, Heenan and several other of the top-line WWF staff were all eager to cash in with Ted. Main reason for WCW crumbling is because Ted was too generous with the $ and too generous with giving control to imbeciles. One big reason to stop the blood was the fear of HIV / AIDS.
Ottman was also Big Bubba, the Belt Collector in Memphis. U.S. Steel/Big Steelman in Florida. Tugboat/Typhoon in WWE. And The Shockmeister in WCW, which was a ridiculous gimmick, IMO. A hazard from blood would also be hepatitis. That is what is wrong with Superstar Billy Graham today.
You know your stuff mkl62! I didn't know that Ottman had so many aliases. One problem with multiple aliases is that is exposes how fake the characters are. One ironic thing about AIDS is that it may have actually prevented more disease than it caused because people are more careful now - which has the side effect of fewer cases of hepatitis and many other diseases. In fact, I'll bet Superstar Billy Graham got his hepatitis from dirty steroid needles.
That could be, but back in the day, wrestlers fought on dirty mats. So there was no telling what kinds of bacteria were on those mats. When Owen Hart suffered his fatal fall, Jeff Jarrett went on next against Val Venis. Jarrett has said that he couldn't quit staring at the blood stain on the mat. A real tragedy.
I remember seeing that pay per view. I am surprised how little it was discussed afterwards. Jarrett was real shaken up. According to Mick Foley who was in the ring at the time, Owen attempted to get up after the fall and was concious. Where is all the video of this? What was the cause of the accident? Obviously he fell because it happened when cameras were not on the ring, in between matches, during an intermission. I think if he landed in ring w/o hitting cable he would have survivied.
Foley wasn't out there, but was on the card. Jerry Lawler went in there and gave him CPR. It wasn't shown on the broadcast. They just showed the pre-taped video's. Vince wanted Owen to flirt with Debra and feud with Jeff, but he didn't want to because he knew that it would affect his kids. After Arn Anderson retired, Kevin Nash parodied him as a womanizing drunk and Arn's son was teased at school about it. I'm sure that went through Owen's mind.
I looked up Superstar Billy Graham on Wikipedia and found something unexpected. It quotes him as saying "I'm the man of the hour, the man with the power, too sweet to be sour!" Which is odd because I distinctly remember Dusty Rhodes saying that several times. Incidentally, Superstar was in no way related to his fake brother Eddie nor fake nephew Mike, nor any of the other "Graham" family of wrestlers. He is 66 years old and in remarkably good shape.
There have been several fake brothers in wrestling. The Anderson Brothers were the most famous, IMO. Gene was the only legitimate Anderson. Lars was Larry Heimeini and Ole was Al Rowjowski. Marty Lunde would become nephew Arn, and Ric Flair would become a "cousin' to the Andersons, sometimes teaming with them and sometimes feuding with them.
that was no porn soundtrack per se... it was the theme to the mid atlantic wrestling weekly show. I always thought that and the world wide wrestling theme were so sick
Classic wrestling. Does anyone remember in 1996 when Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, and Sean Waltman payed homage to this in a skit with the Steiners. They chased after them in a car and caused them to flip it. Not an exact reenactment, but you could tell it was going back to this. The Horseman were the shit in the '80's. Wrestling was so much cooler back then.
I cried for several hours after seeing this occur. This was truly catastrophic, and to me, it ranks right up (or down) there with the Rodney King incident, the whole Korresh thing in Waco, and the Columbine school shootings. This simply wasn't fair. A couple of you indicated that this might not have been "real", but I will remind you, that this occured in the south in the 80's and, you should know that in the south, ANYthing goes. Poor Dusty. Thank Heavens he bounced back strongly.
I remember watching this angle here in Philly one Sat. afternoon on ch. 17. World Wide Wrestling, the very best in the world as David Crockett used to say.
philaman1972 3 days ago
Some of those cars trying to turn onto South Blvd were sticking out pretty far, Particularly the Gremlin and what appeared to be an LTD. I hope this video waas forwarded to the proper authoritys so that the owners of these vehicles could be cited for failure to afford clearance.
pbrick6301 1 week ago
Classic shit right here. TNA should b using Flair way more especially now because he will b at the WWE HOF when the four horsemen are inducted
NYjoshK1 2 weeks ago
baaaa-hahahah...too funny....Dusty sure isn't an actor.
Wayneman117 1 month ago
I love when, right before they "break" his arm, Dusty yells "Make it good!" Hilarious. I miss these angles when the "hate" felt real and fans took it personal.
MrIce2290 1 month ago
Great beat down until Dusty opens his fat mouth.
bertmustin 1 month ago
It was great back then but the bookers were writing the shows with the mindset that they were real So they did their best to make it look real.
skinwalkerxxx 1 month ago
I thought they really broke his arm. . .Now I saw a spot where Rick Flair ambushed Hot Stuff Eddie Gilbert and busted his nose wide open on the concrete floor. That was a spot that had gone wrong. Rick was supposed to make it look like he came down on the back of his head but he really did by mistake. I know that was real because you saw Rick get frantic. He was cowering over Hot Stuff and asking if he was all right and screaming for the video to stop and he was calling for a medic.
01artist 1 month ago
@01artist I'd like to see that, I only saw it when it happened. That's what lead to Hotstuff, bringing in Steamboat
ed2kou1 1 month ago
never mess with the horsemen. you mess with one, you mess with all.
thevoid99 1 month ago
When rasslin was rasslin real action not like the b.s in the wwe.
TjmMinistries 2 months ago
This is when wrestling was wrassling, the good ole days. Jim Crockette Promotions out of North Carolina were the best in the buisness. Where slick rick ruled, the koloffs and the Road warriors had some of the most unforgetable fueds and the Horsemen jumped anyone they didnt like. It was fun to watch. I Miss the 80's. Now all we got is vince mcmahon and pornographic comic bookish wwe.
veeseee128 2 months ago
How bout it now Rhodes?
2274brian 3 months ago
I was so happy when I saw this. I never liked the faces always the heel's. Dusty was and is a fat load of shit.
gamehound83 4 months ago
Back in the day, you could run a weekly parlay for what face was going to get his ass kicked by the Horsemen. If an announcer said anything in regards to video footage, you knew that Dusty, Magnum, Morton, or Gibson didn't have a good week...
ratesforless 5 months ago
What's the American Dream doing driving a Mercedes? At least the Horsemen were driving Cadillacs.
DMan6500 6 months ago
@DMan6500 ...I guess he'd gotten ovah da hahd times Ric Flair done put on Dusty Rhodes
2274brian 3 months ago
isn't this illegal??? If i was going to tie someone up and beat them up i for sure wouldn't put it on tv
bigtaxdizzle 7 months ago
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TheLizardKing1967 7 months ago
@TheLizardKing1967 Staged. Fake is something different.
DaveyJonesLocka 6 months ago
@DaveyJonesLocka Staged and fake. How about that. Woooooooooooooooo
TheLizardKing1967 6 months ago
@bigtaxdizzle: That's pro wrestling for you. Besides, I think any legit complaint Dusty would have had immediately disappeared once he yelled "Make it good!"
JKTube 2 months ago
This is just off of South Boulevard in Charlotte. Most of these buildings are gone now, but the bowling alley the pass is still there. If you go to Google Maps and search for 401 Briarbend Drive, Charlotte, N.C., you can see where the beating happened.
kdubhimself 8 months ago 5
@kdubhimself I remember watching this when I lived in New York and then I moved to Charlotte and it looked familiar i wasn't sure if it was South Blvd, or North Tryon thanks.
taylordav1 4 months ago
Dusty shoulda hit em all with his grody nasty mufflah! Loved da porn music at the very end
87shadowfox 8 months ago
lf they only knew an armbar imagine the time saved.
joe1969812 9 months ago
@joe1969812: Well, Chris Jericho wasn't wrestling yet. ;) :D
@efan2011: We don't really HAVE managers anymore.
JKTube 2 months ago
@JKTube l dont know who that is, l was trying to say this is fake bullshit, l watched it as a kid, but l grew up. This is some stupid shit.
joe1969812 2 months ago
Miss the NWA days. Always watched NWA never watched no other. Sad day when the crockett boys got out the wrestling buisness.
veeseee128 9 months ago
This is some good shit. I like how Dillon the manager even beats up Dusty, wrestling manager's don't do that anymore.
efan2011 9 months ago
This is how the Four Horsemen deal with this situation
JWade29 10 months ago
@JWade29 The Godfather meets the NWA lol
whycantihavemyownuse 10 months ago
BADASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'd take this 'Rasslin crap' as Vince McMahon calls it anytime!
GrandFunker 10 months ago 4
14 people didn't make it good.
gvlaker9 11 months ago
@gvlaker9 hahaha
AllMightyDiesel 10 months ago
The original crucifixion angle
smoothpants 11 months ago
So this is what you get when you take 4 horseman vitamins! :D
cubeus19 1 year ago
14 John Cena fans dislike this
Murphdogg4 1 year ago
slaughter the HOG! hahahaha.....
veeseee128 1 year ago
please come back on the comment below at the time i forgot to do it so can you?
dadsvana17 1 year ago
why did they block out dusty hand for what happend was there blood?
dadsvana17 1 year ago
I REMEMEBER THIS FROM WHEN IT ACTUALLY AIRED. DAMN I'M OLD, BUT THIS WAS ALSO WHEN WRESTLING WAS "REAL"!
danachonda 1 year ago
2:59 triple h's troll laughs
CommunieNetwork 1 year ago
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CommunieNetwork 1 year ago
Ole Anderson was a dillweed he never should have been a Horseman
styx4ever1963 1 year ago
Did these guys ever get charged with assult...seeing as though it was on TV and everything...
wmlvsambr 1 year ago
@wmlvsambr LOL, Its Pro Wrestling, Im sure they went and all had beers together afterwards.
chil621 1 year ago
the 4 HOMOS
HIVisaLIE 1 year ago
I miss the 4 Horsemen. Ricflair should have brought back that group when benoit was still alive in the wwe. Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit, Triple H and Batista
BIGKATT04 1 year ago
2:25 to 2:44, sounds like a typical epidose of COPS!
Freebleeper 1 year ago
I just want to have as many scars on my forehead as dusty...
TheLiberalsSuck 1 year ago
After watching the video few times I did hear Dusty say make it good b4 the horsemen beat down.
BIGKATT04 1 year ago
@BIGKATT04 In Kayfabe terms, I took it to mean a "make it good, or I will be back to kill you" type of deal.
DavidFullam 1 year ago 2
@DavidFullam Dusty never could never really get ahead of the Horsemen. He worst of the beatings. Its only that one time when he injured one of them.
BIGKATT04 1 year ago
This is one of the best beatings done in wrestling! The 4 Horsemen were the original gangsters in wrestling.
leroy592 1 year ago
I love it!!!!
lincolnmarkv 1 year ago
KAYFABE was AWESOME!
FattestJack 1 year ago
It was Ole that said make it good. Dusty's Mouth was still open at the time.
BIGKATT04 1 year ago
@BIGKATT04 Watch again it was Dusty that said it.
starkweather444 1 year ago
I used to love Dusty Rhodes when he wrestled in Florida for so many years - so did just about everyone in Florida. It was strange that in other areas of the country, at the SAME TIME.. they hated him! Looking back now, I don't understand why anybody liked him so much. He's a fat, loud, obnoxious, mellodramatic slob.
jdohe 1 year ago
@jdohe He was a representation of the common man. He was blue collar. He was a figure that most of the fans could rally around and relate to. The Horesmen were like Corporate America at the time. At that time, Corporate America was beginning to take hold on everything leaving Main St. to be abandoned. People didn't like that. That's why people rallied around Dusty. He had charisma, and he could move pretty well for a guy of his physical stature. But I agree. I prefer the Horsemen over Dusty.
jw870206 1 year ago
@jw870206 You are talking about Dusty in WCW in Georgia. I was referring to Dusy in the NWA in Florida where he spent the majority of his career. In fact, for much of his career, he worked in both the NWA and WCW simultaneously, but the storylines for one promotion did not overlap the others! The horsemen never came to Florida with that angle.
jdohe 1 year ago
Poor Dusty.
marshalljimduncan 1 year ago 2
@marshalljimduncan You do realize that all of the martyrdom routines done to Rhodes were scripted by Rhodes himself, and he became the highest paid wrestler in the southeast because of it...
jdohe 1 year ago
I luv I luv it ,four horseman justice. Just to hear dusty squeel like a pig. hahahaha!
veeseee128 1 year ago
This some Mafia s**t.
Four Horsemen were ahead of their time.
pip82 2 years ago
make it look good dusty says
jobber25v 2 years ago
he says "make it good" as it "you better finish me off". He never said "make it look good".
ianhitman 1 year ago
when dusty says "make it good" he says it as a taunt, if they wanted rid of it they would have "bleeped" it out like the swearing, this was edited, they would or got rid of that if they thought it would ruin the credability of it
HorsemanRG 2 years ago
this was great, so was when they broke ricky mortins nose
oldlonesomesong 2 years ago
FAKE! Everything is fake except jj sounding like a exciting little bitch. knew he was a fruit.
veeseee128 2 years ago
What??? FAKE??? In pro wrastlin'? Oh my.
t3rr3nc388 2 years ago
I got it on dvd
antdaman1983 2 years ago
Dusty look like a squeeling Hog about to be slaughtered.
veeseee128 2 years ago
so true
TheMrpalid 2 years ago
LOL!! Horseman rule forever. JJ Dillon the greatest manager of all time. All you top rope flying, pretty faces, no dues paying wrestlers of today, take notice. This is how you do it. Old school baby. These punks today don't have a clue. respect the history.
RogPnn 2 years ago
Did the rope die?
doesyourgodcomeinaca 2 years ago
Dusty ruined the credibility of that.
silverrhawk 2 years ago
It's known that Dusty goes all out to make angles seem legitimate even if it means losing serious amounts of blood. I wonder how his hand and wrist really looked after that "shot",but they had the blurred circle over it. I think Dusty really got caught up in the moment on that one.
soln4suhreborn 2 years ago
Yeah but should not have said "Make it look good!"
silverrhawk 2 years ago
Haha, when this happened I remember we reenacted this @ school! *lol*
SidJustice1 2 years ago
That's true,he screwed that one up pretty good.
soln4suhreborn 2 years ago
@silverrhawk
he says make it good not make it look good.
oldlonesomesong 2 years ago
whatever, same thing.
silverrhawk 2 years ago
Did anyone hear Dusty order Arn and Ole to "Make It Good"?!
soln4suhreborn 2 years ago 19
Yeah!
silverrhawk 2 years ago
@soln4suhreborn yup. classic botch.
tcapri 1 year ago
@soln4suhreborn Yes i heard it! Sometimes Dusty was a bonehead!
styx4ever1963 1 year ago
@styx4ever1963 It wasn't a mistake. He's telling them they better make it good because he's gonna bring it back on them.
Like "You can knock me down, but you better make sure I stay down, because if I get up, I'm coming for you".
mamacornettesmoney 1 year ago
@soln4suhreborn yes i did i always thought that was dumd on dustys part because it has to look real and when you hear dusty say make it good it takes away from the realism
slipknot789able 8 months ago
@soln4suhreborn Yep, I heard it several times. I can't believe they didn't bleep that out.
SheriffTankStoner 7 months ago
i remember watching this on tv when it happened...my step dad was walking past the tv while i was watching it, not realizing it was wrestling says"holy shit where is this at that guy got his ass beat" thinking it was on the news...i laughed my butt off at him...this is when wrestling was good
lukepghpa 2 years ago 7
Dusty Rhodes.....down & out????? LOL
fishaman1980 2 years ago
What's "WPCQ-TV 36", which is located on the bottom of the screen??
CraigFoye80 2 years ago
WPCQ, now WCNC, is Charlotte's NBC affiliate.
DavidFullam 2 years ago
leave Dusty alone!!!!!!!!!!!
immortalizer08 2 years ago
Why? Because he bleaches his hair like Britney Spears? : )
jdohe 2 years ago
No because he's the man.
wrestling is fake
immortalizer08 2 years ago
The key to Dusty's success is in how he was marketed. New heels would come into an area, usually Tampa, and beat up on some of the lesser faces.. then Dusty would come to their rescue. I got tired of Dusty after he wrestled Kevin Sullivan for the 2000th time.
jdohe 2 years ago 3
Big Dust was one of my faves back in the day but this is an example of how some of his angles were just not convincing enough. But he did really understand the lost art of creating heat especially during the Crockett years.
MrDeray5 2 years ago
There are a lot of fans out there seeing this for the first time thinking, That looks like something that the NWO would do. Guess what? The Horsemen did it first. Instead of Dusty, I wish that they would re-enact that with Eric Bischoff. And break his arm for real. I'm talking triple compound fracture. They should have done another Dusty beatdown when he joined the NWO at Souled Out '98. No, hit Bischoff upside the head and put him in a coma, then pull the plug. Bastard.
mkl62 2 years ago 6
dude, chill out. its all just fake story lines
muscletruckdude 2 years ago
Well, if it weren't for Dusty, Jim Crockett Promotions would still be in business. If it weren't for Eric Bischoff, WCW would still be in business. Dusty was let go on Jan. 31, 1989 because of the angle with Road Warrior Animal and the spike in the eye drawing blood. Ted Turner had a no-blood rule on his show. That was probably because of the angle between Jim Cornette and Paul E. Dangerously right before the sale. Remember that?
mkl62 2 years ago
i was born in 1989. so i wouldnt know. but eric bischoff had wcw on top for a while when the nwo first came out. i was so into that . but i was only like 8 and then he ran out of ideas and it turned to crap
muscletruckdude 2 years ago
The promoters at WCW wanted to keep the old guys at the top like Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan, Sting, Lex Luger, and The Steiner Brothers. It was like they didn't want to give the younger guys a chance. Dusty wanted to keep himself at the top long after fans stopped caring. Example: Winning the Bunkhouse Stampede Battle Royals.
mkl62 2 years ago
Triple H should do this with Cody Rhodes with three other guys
Descoob 2 years ago 2
This when I started to know wrestling was fake. I was a little kid and shocked at first, but than I thought. Why in the fuck is the cameraman just watching...and how come nobody got arrested..They just had a match to settle it...lol...ah childhood memories. :)
Wisebrother78 2 years ago
i remember that. i was around 6 or 8 years old
chasegreen707 2 years ago
HAHAHA!!!! that bleep looks like a big black skeet on rhodes arm.... ric skeeted!
twelvgage1984 2 years ago
What a laugh, how some people take this vid so serious. Yeah it's a little violent in some ways, but I'm sure after they all went out and got a beer! lol. I mean some are talking about prosecuting on here? what, yeah Im sure they would tape themselves carrying out "assault and battery" on tape!
Filmaker25 2 years ago
Classic !!! the 4 Horsemen were it back in the day. Great entertainment as kids. a Good DDT never hurt nobody!! LOL
stillthefnshow 2 years ago
fake shit.
veeseee128 2 years ago
priceless!!!
AvEryBadApPLe 2 years ago
I was at a pizza parlor watching this and yelling get him horesmen when a guy yelled fight back Dusty. I said shut up not relizing 15 of his biker buddys were with him. If the cop didnt come out of the can that moment they would have beaten me worse then Dusty got beat
gamehound83 2 years ago 4
Awesome
chandlerdakid 2 years ago
do you guys think this shit was real
lilchambo 2 years ago
we know it's not real but it's entertainment
mrWATCHUMACALLIT 2 years ago
At the time I was a kid and I thought this was so real. Lol.....
elvaliente 2 years ago
Classic
hank7216 2 years ago
If Dusty felt like prosecuting, to be fair he has a fairly good piece of evidence. Walk to the cops, "watch this clip on youtube, you can see who it is, I'd like to press charges". Seriously, I know it's fake, but you still would'nt tape yourselves doing it.
SyGreenblum 2 years ago
Are you for real?? I mean this may be violent, but Im sure as wrestling goes, this was staged right on down to the tying to the truck. Im sure these guys would tape themselves carrying out a real "assault and battery" What kind of genious would do that?? Dusty didn't even look like he broke a sweat. So stop worrying!
Filmaker25 2 years ago
Er, no, I am not "for real" it is what we like to call sarcasm.
SyGreenblum 2 years ago
and the fact I mentioned youtube (not being invented at the time) would surely suggest I was not being entirely serious...
SyGreenblum 2 years ago
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Make it good!
Amr3561 2 years ago
I vividly remember watching this angle on NWA World Wide Wrestling on channel 17Saturday @ 2pm.
philaman1972 2 years ago
lol the 4 horsemen were so evil. They did their stuff the mafia way.
raffen79 2 years ago 11
@raffen79 The OGs of professional wrestling. Forget the nWo and DX, The Horsemen laid the foundation, and teams like the nWo, DX and Evolution came along that path.
jw870206 1 year ago
OK if this was supposedly "ruff footage' why was the "black dot" on the screen?!
Carloscda40 2 years ago
The American Dream Dusty Rhodes got jumped by the horsemen.
khiemvu88 2 years ago
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khiemvu88 2 years ago
What year is this?
MistahPibb 2 years ago
1986
mamacornettesmoney 2 years ago
Awesome, thank you.
MistahPibb 2 years ago
i rember this this its almost as good as ric flair scraping the skin off ricky mortons face (rock and roll express)on the concreate
poopiepanties 3 years ago
they all went out and got a beer after this.
veeseee128 3 years ago 4
That's some Academy Award type acting right there,
attilathehunz 3 years ago 3
NWA was the bomb just like stampede in canada.WWE sucks John Cena seen one match seen them all.
happycnd 3 years ago 5
3:19 "MAKE IT GOOD!" lol
wpgniceguy 3 years ago 2
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wpgniceguy 3 years ago
I liked Dusty Rhodes up until the time that I realized that he came up with the ideas to make himself appear to be a martyr time after time. All of this stuff is fake. To be consise, Rhodes was eventually fired for having the Road Warriors gouge his eye with a steel spike and make a bloody mess. That incident was Dusty's idea, and he was told not to do it, he did it anyway, and got fired. Dusty played the pity card hundreds of times. Dusty and others get rich by cutting themseves with razors.
jdohe 3 years ago
"All of this stuff is fake."
Thank you for that ground breaking and thought provoking contribution to this video.
ebeneezzer 3 years ago 4
I'm not sure if this next story is true-my source wasn't that good. Anyway I heard that on Georgia Championship Wrestling in the 70's, Dusty had some fans escorted out of the tv studio during a station break because they had a sign that said "Dusty's A Fat Bum". He did have a big ego-that's for sure. When they aired this video back then, I couldn't stop laughing-it was so phony and Dusty looked like he'd been drugged.
Bela195401 3 years ago 2
I don't doubt that is true. Did you know that almost ALL the signs you see at wrestling events are made up by the wrestling organization and handed out to fans as they come in? I remember a story that made the newspapers in which Rhodes attacked a man in a bar because Rhodes was drunk and the man asked "Aren't you the guy that wrestles on TV?" What is amazing about him is how well he could move around 300 pounds of lard.
jdohe 3 years ago
jdohe, did Rhodes get fired because they didn't want the Road Warriors to turn heel? I remember that incident as being pretty cool, it shocked the fans and the announcers the way a heel turn should.
wolfsblood07 2 years ago
Rhodes got fired because he was told not to do the angle with his eye getting gouged by the Road Warriors. Dusty made a career out of playing the role of the martyr - and it was Dusty's idea to have the RW's gouge his eye with the spike to elicit sympathy for himself. When you find out that Dusty was working with his opponents in pre-planned attacks, it makes you lose respect for him. He now disgusts me.
jdohe 2 years ago
Dusty played the pity card so many times but it worked! Seeing him get betrayed never got old because his image as a big dumb lovable hick with that million dollar smile should make other wrestlers hate him.
I remember the Road Warriors attacked Sting in a TV match before they attacked Dusty with the spike. I preferred the Warriors as heels because it suited their image.
Aside from a few dumb things he did, I thought Dusty was one of the best good guys ever.
wolfsblood07 2 years ago 3
Ted Turner didn't want any blood on the TV shows. And Dusty went out and did it anyway. After his firing, he attempted to revive the old Florida territory, but it fizzled after a few months. Terry Funk, Bam Bam Bigelow, Fred Ottman, and Dustin Rhodes were on the roster. Dusty then went to WWE on The Son of a Plumber angle. He was paired with Sapphire. In February 1991, he returned to Atlanta and was responsible for Flair leaving.
mkl62 2 years ago
Ottman was Tugboat for those who don't know. Good for Ted about the blood thing. The wrestlers should have been very grateful to him for that and the much higher salaries. Hogan, Hall, Nash, Savage, Okerlund, Heenan and several other of the top-line WWF staff were all eager to cash in with Ted. Main reason for WCW crumbling is because Ted was too generous with the $ and too generous with giving control to imbeciles. One big reason to stop the blood was the fear of HIV / AIDS.
jdohe 2 years ago
Ottman was also Big Bubba, the Belt Collector in Memphis. U.S. Steel/Big Steelman in Florida. Tugboat/Typhoon in WWE. And The Shockmeister in WCW, which was a ridiculous gimmick, IMO. A hazard from blood would also be hepatitis. That is what is wrong with Superstar Billy Graham today.
mkl62 2 years ago
You know your stuff mkl62! I didn't know that Ottman had so many aliases. One problem with multiple aliases is that is exposes how fake the characters are. One ironic thing about AIDS is that it may have actually prevented more disease than it caused because people are more careful now - which has the side effect of fewer cases of hepatitis and many other diseases. In fact, I'll bet Superstar Billy Graham got his hepatitis from dirty steroid needles.
jdohe 2 years ago
That could be, but back in the day, wrestlers fought on dirty mats. So there was no telling what kinds of bacteria were on those mats. When Owen Hart suffered his fatal fall, Jeff Jarrett went on next against Val Venis. Jarrett has said that he couldn't quit staring at the blood stain on the mat. A real tragedy.
mkl62 2 years ago
I remember seeing that pay per view. I am surprised how little it was discussed afterwards. Jarrett was real shaken up. According to Mick Foley who was in the ring at the time, Owen attempted to get up after the fall and was concious. Where is all the video of this? What was the cause of the accident? Obviously he fell because it happened when cameras were not on the ring, in between matches, during an intermission. I think if he landed in ring w/o hitting cable he would have survivied.
jdohe 2 years ago
Foley wasn't out there, but was on the card. Jerry Lawler went in there and gave him CPR. It wasn't shown on the broadcast. They just showed the pre-taped video's. Vince wanted Owen to flirt with Debra and feud with Jeff, but he didn't want to because he knew that it would affect his kids. After Arn Anderson retired, Kevin Nash parodied him as a womanizing drunk and Arn's son was teased at school about it. I'm sure that went through Owen's mind.
mkl62 2 years ago
I looked up Superstar Billy Graham on Wikipedia and found something unexpected. It quotes him as saying "I'm the man of the hour, the man with the power, too sweet to be sour!" Which is odd because I distinctly remember Dusty Rhodes saying that several times. Incidentally, Superstar was in no way related to his fake brother Eddie nor fake nephew Mike, nor any of the other "Graham" family of wrestlers. He is 66 years old and in remarkably good shape.
jdohe 2 years ago
There have been several fake brothers in wrestling. The Anderson Brothers were the most famous, IMO. Gene was the only legitimate Anderson. Lars was Larry Heimeini and Ole was Al Rowjowski. Marty Lunde would become nephew Arn, and Ric Flair would become a "cousin' to the Andersons, sometimes teaming with them and sometimes feuding with them.
mkl62 2 years ago 2
@jdohe Rhodes always seemed to get the crap kicked out of him.
GoblinGirl 1 year ago
Tully Blanchardis a Christian to our knowledge.
generationll 3 years ago 2
classic shit, man
travisrashawn216 3 years ago
dis dum
StewartGriffin2000 3 years ago
that was no porn soundtrack per se... it was the theme to the mid atlantic wrestling weekly show. I always thought that and the world wide wrestling theme were so sick
vrtrop 3 years ago
Is this fake? or is this real?
tpda1990 3 years ago
Gotta love pro wrestling.........especially the porn soundtrack at the end.........down and out???? LOL
Hirosong 3 years ago 3
they got him tied up like a hog!
veeseee128 3 years ago
if U listen good enough, B4 they start on Dusty's hand, he tells them 2 "make it good"
Dre7Guevara 3 years ago
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one word... FAKE! hahaha bo..lo..nee
veeseee128 3 years ago
No, one word, TV. You don't watch a sitcom and think fake do ya, because that's basically what you're doing here.
Pirates98765432 3 years ago
Classic wrestling. Does anyone remember in 1996 when Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, and Sean Waltman payed homage to this in a skit with the Steiners. They chased after them in a car and caused them to flip it. Not an exact reenactment, but you could tell it was going back to this. The Horseman were the shit in the '80's. Wrestling was so much cooler back then.
nWo24life 3 years ago 2
how dare u compare them to the horsemen. and how the fuck could u tell where it was going
countof3everybodyOD 3 years ago
DUSTY SUCKS DUSTY SUCKS cmon DUSTY SUCKS
classichost 3 years ago
I cried for several hours after seeing this occur. This was truly catastrophic, and to me, it ranks right up (or down) there with the Rodney King incident, the whole Korresh thing in Waco, and the Columbine school shootings. This simply wasn't fair. A couple of you indicated that this might not have been "real", but I will remind you, that this occured in the south in the 80's and, you should know that in the south, ANYthing goes. Poor Dusty. Thank Heavens he bounced back strongly.
seanbonjovi8 3 years ago
LMAO!
asdffd 3 years ago
Damn....this shit seemed so real back then. I remember getting into fights about how real it was.
hiphopor 3 years ago