Farewell To Dusty Rhodes, The American Dream

Posted Jun 12, 2015
A pro wrestler’s sudden death is by now no more surprising than the passing of another world’s oldest human. But today’s news that Dusty Rhodes was gone shook me. Try as my parents surely did, traditional theater never did anything for me. But damn if I wasn’t awed every time I watched the guy born Virgil Runnels Jr. in character as the wrestler Dusty Rhodes. (Deadspin)

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