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Classics: Dusty Rhodes talks about ‘hard times’

Chris Graham

Dusty Rhodes is easily on the list of top 10 mic guys all-time. This clip, from an Oct. 29, 1985 edition of Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling, might be his best promo ever.

The background for this interview with Bob Caudle was the walkup to Starrcade ’85 and a world-title match with Nature Boy Ric Flair. The match would end with what what we’d come to call later a Dusty Finish (Rhodes won the match and the title in the main event, only to have the decision overturned and the title returned to Flair on a technicality).

Enough with the storyline. Listening to Rhodes talk about hard times has a certain timeless resonance.

 

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