Dusty Rhodes is a bona fide pro wrestling legend. ... Rhodes was a three-time NWA World's Heavyweight Champion. He won ...

Dusty Rhodes Though he never won the WWE Championship , the late, great Dusty Rhodes etched out a great legacy for himself thanks to his work in both the NWA and WCW.

Dusty Rhodes (real name - Virgil Riley Runnels Jr.) was born on October 11, 1945 in Austin, Texas. ... Dusty Rhodes: NWA Hall of Fame: 2011: WWE Hall of Fame : 2007: NWA US Championship: 1: ...

Dusty Rhodes won the NWA World heavyweight championship thrice in his career. Two of those wins came at the expense of Harley Race. Race had a habit of touring extensively over the country which ...

Dusty Rhodes, a WWE Hall of Famer, former NWA World Heavyweight Champion and all-time legend in the professional wrestling business, passed away in 2015 at the age of 69 due to kidney failure. The ...

In the NWA/WCW, he and Tully Blanchard delivered a very memorable feud and to heighten that effort, Dusty worked very well with Blanchard, Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson (The Four Horsemen).

Unfortunately, that reign with the NWA Tri-State Tag Team Championships didn't last long for Andre the Giant and Dusty Rhodes due to Andre getting signed by WWE.In response, the NWA removed the ...

Dusty Rhodes Though he never won the WWE Championship , the late, great Dusty Rhodes etched out a great legacy for himself thanks to his work in both the NWA and WCW.

Here are a few dozen of the big-time wrestlers who were affiliated with both WCW and NWA over the years. Between 1998 and 2001, some of the most well-known wrestlers of all time called Ted Turner ...

“It was Dusty Rhodes who was the one who got me hooked on wrestling,” said Hogan. “If Dusty Rhodes was not on TV on Saturday or Sunday morning here in Tampa, we were pissed off.

WCW Great American Bash: Greensboro, North Carolina: - Dusty Rhodes defeated NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair in a Steel Cage match to win the title - Magnum T.A. defeated Nikita Koloff ...

Dusty Rhodes was no stranger to cowbells, as seen in his various Texas Bull Rope matches, but he wrangled in a different kind of animal to his apartment."We had a donkey named Zeb," he once told ...