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When Dusty Rhodes Arrived in WWE – Sean Mooney Tells the Full Story

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Sports News, Sports, News, Wrestling

4.7796 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

On The Golden Era Podcast, Sean Mooney shares never before heard backstage stories about the American Dream himself Dusty Rhodes and reveals the real reasons behind his shocking arrival in WWE. Get the inside details the unexpected twists and the moments that made this chapter of wrestling history unforgettable.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What is going on wrestling fans?

0:10.7

It's I-C-E-M-Hourn-Media and prime time with Sean Mooney, the Golden Era podcast.

0:15.8

Mooney, how you doing today?

0:19.0

American Dream. I wish I had a cowboy. today American dream is just a common man working with his hands well yeah you know that I think was a

0:34.1

great theme song and I know Dusty loved it from good sources.

0:38.0

Well, I hope fully you're the source because today we're talking about when Dusty

0:42.4

Rhodes came to the W-W-E-F, put the F back in, God damn it.

0:47.6

And my question to you about Dusty Rhodes is now we've talked about Legion of Doom coming

0:52.9

in.

0:53.9

We've talked about Rick Flay. We talked about Texas tornado, Dusty Rhodes. Now, we've talked about Legion of Doom coming in. We've talked about

0:54.2

Rick Flayor. We've talked about Texas tornado, Dusty Rhodes. Now, do you feel like Dusty

0:59.3

Rhodes was the last person that was part of a different era, different territories that Vince

1:05.6

McMahon did not bring in yet because before this, he brought in Starz from so many different organizations hacks are jim dougan

1:12.5

mandala man they were somebody else somewhere else do you feel like dusty roads was the last i guess outlaw

1:18.5

that wasn't purchased by vince McMahon yeah i think it uh you know there were there were others but

1:24.4

dusty certainly stands out because he i think you could say could say in a sense that he was a holdout.

1:30.5

You know, even like Rick Flair, of course, that whole process of trying to get him to the WWE was, you know, lengthy.

1:39.4

But Dusty was on that radar.

1:41.5

They tried a few times and he was in the middle of trying to get other

1:45.4

independent organizations going and keep them going. But there's, there's stories, you know,

1:51.1

Bobby Heenan going backstage and trying to get him to come. And he's like,

1:54.1

eh, I'm going to try and, you know, keep what I've got going here. So yeah, I think that you could

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