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Solomonster Sounds Off

Sound Off 387 - PAYING TRIBUTE TO THE AMERICAN DREAM

Solomonster Sounds Off

The Solomonster

Tv & Film, Wrestling, Sports, Tv Reviews

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2015

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Solomonster opens the show with a tribute to one of the most iconic wrestlers of all time, "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, who passed away this week at 69. Looking at his career from the AWA to Florida, through Crockett Promotions and WWE, three big things he is responsible for creating, one way WWE should honor him and what his death might mean for the Stardust character.
We also have surprising MONEY IN THE BANK predictions, the latest on a possible deal with WWE and EVOLVE, Bull Dempsey's new NXT gimmick, why GFW is dead in the water if they don't get a good TV deal, why Cesaro and Swagger should NOT reform The Real Americans, the two main roster guys Steve Austin should interview next on the network, the Mount Rushmore for the Intercontinental title, thoughts on last weekend's Legends of Wrestling show at Citi Field and Scott Steiner's terrible tattoo, and CM Punk wins for Awesome Tweet of the Week!

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0:00.0

To circle back to the Hall of Fame for a second. I believe you're being

0:03.0

inducted tomorrow night by Dusty Rhodes, who is somebody that you have a

0:06.6

great deal of history with. What was it like working with Dusty and your

0:10.6

thoughts on him being the one to induct you into the Hall of Fame?

0:13.8

I think that Dusty should have the greatest perspective of what the horseman meant to the company

0:21.8

and meant to this business of anybody because he was the

0:25.3

recipient of as as Arne said the the wrestling fans and the people we wrestled and the

0:31.6

companies we were a benefit to them and that's what we tried to be.

0:36.0

And I think that Dusty is a great guy to induct us,

0:40.0

but I know that we can still nail him from behind if he doesn't do a job.

0:45.0

I personally am honored that Dusty's putting us in.

0:50.0

You had to be there and live it and he lived on the other side of the fence.

0:54.8

But those years were special and I looked at Tully many times on that private jet and I said,

1:00.1

you know, we're going through a period and I'm young in the business but we're going through a period that will never be recaptured. I said it'll never be like this again because it was so unique to have a wrestling company with two private jets and a limousine picking you up at the foot of the steps every time you landed.

1:17.0

And dropping your Mercedes off outside at Butler Aviation.

1:20.0

It was a rare time in the industry, and I knew that it was going to be once in a lifetime and Dusty was a huge part of that.

1:27.5

He was hugely responsible for a lot of that and he lived it with us and he breathed it with us and he breathed it with us and I for want him glad he's inducting us.

1:37.0

I don't have to say a lot more about the way I feel about Rick Flair. No respect, no honor. There is no honor among

1:47.3

thieves in the first place. He put hard times on dusty roads in his family.

1:53.0

You don't know what hard times are that is.

1:55.6

Hard times are when the textile workers around this country

1:59.2

are how to work.

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