1. Bruce Prichard Talks About How Dusty Rhodes’ Ego Resulted In Him Not Becoming The #1 Star of WWF
During a recent edition of “Something to Wrestle With Bruce Prichard”, Bruce Prichard talked about how Vince McMahon wanted to make Dusty Rhodes the #1 star of the World Wrestling Federation and how that deal fell through. Below is what he said:
“When you go way back, and you talk about when Vince first started his expansion pre-Hulk Hogan, and Vince has this idea of creating a mega superstar, this mega champion, this mega draw. Before Hulk Hogan, that guy was Dusty Rhodes. They had brought Dusty in at Madison Square Garden. They brought him in for a few shows and did very well, worked with Superstar and that did very well. They even brought him into the Hit Factory, which was the “It” recording studio in New York City to do a couple of things as well.
Well, he is a body guy, since Vince was a bodybuilder himself, but he was also an attraction guy, and you take a look at Dusty Rhodes and what Dusty had done in Florida and everywhere that Dusty went, he drew money, and that was what Vince was looking for. He was looking for that guy in comparison to [Hulk] Hogan, quite frankly at the time, he was probably more attractive since he had been all over the country and he had headlined all over the country, so when Dusty came up, they were going to do the whole thing, but I believe Dusty’s ego was maybe not quite in check so much that Dream saw himself even bigger than Vince saw him and the deal fell through. Then of course Rocky 3 happened, Hulk Hogan is on the scene and the rest is history.
Dusty appealed to everybody. He didn’t have the body builder body physique. He appealed to that common guy who would be drinking a beer, and would think to himself, you know what, I can kick his a**. Dusty allowed them to live vicariously through the American Dream, which was what Vince saw in him early on, so you fast forward to 1989 when Dusty came in, and Dusty coming in, he was coming in as the American Dream, which at the time, if you remembered, we wouldn’t use guys and their gimmicks that previously had that gimmick. Vince had to change everybody and make them his own, but he let Dusty use his name and the gimmick.”
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