Dusty Rhodes on The Polka Dots Gimmick & Sapphire in WWF
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- Dusty Rhodes discusses his reaction to the Polka Dots gimmick and if it was a rib by Vince McMahon and the World Wrestling Federation. Stream New Shoot Interviews 📺 TitleMatchNetwo...
RIP to the late great American Dream. Here Dusty talks about his infamous gimmick in WWF where he was paired with Sweet Sapphire as his manager and asked to wear polka dots.
Fans for years have theorized that the character was a rib by Vince McMahon since Dusty was booking his main competition at Jim Crockett Promotions.
Hear why Dusty says he didn't mind the gimmick and was happy to get it over. He also thanked Vince for bringing in his son Dustin Rhodes (later renamed Goldust) in the early 90s.
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What I love the most is wen he talks about his kids. You can tell he is a proud father.
He and Sweet Saphire would dance, Gorilla applauded and Jesse was disgusted by it. 😅
This is an amazing shoot interview
I loved every second of it
One Of The Greatest Of All Time....
Tower of power...
Too sweet to be sower...
Three time NWA World Heavyweight Champion....
The American Dream Dusty Rhodes.....
Sour*
I still can’t get used to him not sounding like his ring persona! My brain is telling me this is a voiceover 😂🤦🏻♂️
Always enjoyed Dusty’s matches!
Nothing against Sapphire but Dusty Rhodes was such a charismatic natural that he didn’t need a manager to get over.
To Vince, it wasn't about Dusty "needing" someone or something. It was a marketing plot. Market the common man and the common woman
American Dream, American Dad.
Hell of a man.
I didn't care about the polka dots, I just wanted to see Dusty go up against the WWE guys. I would have liked to see Dusty Rhodes and Hulk Hogan tag team though.
Surprised they didn't do it at house shows
The polka dots were terrible... as a teenager I said "why?" Dusty got over, got over bigtime... but it was definitely satire... cartoonish... If Dusty wanted to do it, then bless him... Maybe at that time he knew he couldn't get over as a straight baby vs a heel... Theres no way he could go up against Undertaker, Kane, or any big nasty.... Dusty had that sweet Mid South style.
R.I.P Champ......
Always liked the dude, not one of my favorite wrestlers but still liked him. I miss 80s wrestling.
Vince McMahon tried to disrespect Dusty with the polkadots trunks gimmick.Dusty got himself over and with his charisma made himself popular and embraced it.That's how great Dusty was.🎉
Then again Poka dots were “in” in 89/90 along with neon colours and Bermuda shorts, it was a weird time.
Okay did you not watch the video?
I can hear him saying "Tony Schevone" 😂😂😂
I lived for JCP and WCW under Dusty's booking good or bad I enjoyed it more then WWF....
I saw Dusty at the 7/11 on Milton Rd in Charlotte NC in 1986 when I was 16 years old. Now, 38 years later I can see that Dusty was SMART! He was a master of his trade and would have master business man too.
Vince treated Dusty like dirt. Vince always took it personal with Dusty. The story of the polka dots and Sapphire has been told by many people. Dusty pulled it off. Vince just wanted to make Dusty work for it. It's even worse that Vince didn't treat his sons any better. Thank God HHH is in control now. If Vince were still there Cody would not be champion.
Love Ya "Dream"!
Whenever some wrestlers are talking about things Dusty said to them behind the scenes etc, especially when he was the booker & trying to talk them into things. They do his gimmick voice impression. Makes u wonder if he was actually working his fellow wrestlers.
It's weird hearing him talk in his normal voice.
Keep these Dusty Shoot Segments Posting.. Best as of Late along with Larry Z!
Never heard him talk normally before. Only in his dusty voice 😮
Rest in peace my brother miss you everyday
Dusty brought, " hard times" to his sons. Great of Dusty to admit. Thats how you grow.
What's crazy is his lisp was pretty much a work but his son Cody ends up with one for real. Lol
@@DarkShark-xj4fd it's rare. I seen one where it was like no lisp at all. Here it's just very faint. I'm 47 and always thought his lisp was like his wrestling interviews until a couple years ago when I ran into the other video I mentioned. I was shocked to say the least.
Might wanna check your ears. He's always had a lisp, you can clearly hear it in this interview.
@@GillBoldbergHis lisp is almost unnoticeable when he speaks normally. His lisp is like his black, jive talk. He turned both on high volume for the gimmick.
@@GillBoldberg might wanna check your eyes I said pretty much. His lisp on here is nowhere near his gimmick lisp. Nowhere near.
@@KevinWM2 Did you even read the comment? He said the lisp was a work which it is not. Obviously he's going to play it up in front of a crowd.
Okay, Dusty can say, all day long, that Vince McMahon didn't intend to embarrass him with the polka dot gimmick, but when he says Vince was "testing him" with it, that's the "tell." Rhodes wasn't in his prime at that point, but he wasn't all that far from it, and his character was a total badass, for years, in the NWA, so what he may have been at some early stage of his career isn't relevant. He built himself into a legend in the rival company. Seems to me that the polka dot gimmick was an intentional effort to humiliate him, publicly and brutally. They wanted to show the fans what they could do to the top guy from the other promotion. I hated what McMahon and the WWF did to Dusty Rhodes.
That's exactly what McMahon did. He may have liked Dusty but he sure wasn't gonna give him free reign either.
literally everyone involved, including Dusty himself, said it wasn't intended to embarrass him and he didn't HAVE to do it....what more proof do you need? You "smart marks" just believe whatever you want regardless of the evidence right in front of your face
First of all Polka dots, Golddust and Stardust. If you think Vince wasn't embarrassing the entire Runnels family. You voted for Biden. 🙄
He should have made Ric Flair Spartacus and have him run to the ring with a shield and spear 😂
@@cutekanjii Similar to what he did to Ron Simmons. The first black Worlds Champion.
He has to tell us Cody is his 14 year old! LoL 🤣🤣🤣 nice
The common man,the American Dream Dusty Rhodes.Dusty was the first amazing promo he is pretty much as close as you can get to a textbook promo.I still have Ric Flair as the greatest promos.This is my list.1 Ric Flair 2 Dusty Rhodes 3 The Rock 4 Jim Cornette 5 Stone cold Steve Austin 6 HBK Shawn Michaels 7 Triple H 8 Scott Hall 9 Harley Race 10 Tully Blanchard
No Jake the snake or Piper come on man lol
Dr D David Shultz promos were almost too real even for wrestling. Great heel promo he was
Dusty is on my mount rushmore.
#RIPDustyRhodes
#RIPSapphire
Dusty's a cool dude, I can see why he was so over in his time.
St.louis gal.
Dusty is the primary reason the current WWE roster is so good.
I agree yet WWE is still currently pure S#!* as good as it is.
@@gc5907 You must not have been watching from 2005-2022 if you think it is that bad.
much as i love dusty he did tend to gloss over a LOT and even invent some stuff beetween him leaveing crockett and returning then eric takeing over! There was a hell of a lot of comeings and goings in that period before bischoff took over and yes dusty was there behind the scenes but for him to say he got it ready for eric is not 100% the way it was
Honestly the whole gimmick was bad. Sad cause Dusty was a great wrestler.
Dusty
Very insightful comment.
Rhodes
Dusty is lying his ass off....Vince made him wear them polkadots
Rip dusty
He was one of my favourite wrestlers but he wasn’t a good booker at all. At least not in dubya C dubya. Still though, with the exception of The Rock, he’s got to be the best on the mic of all time. If you will.
He refused to go heel because it would hurt not only his young kids and his little fans💜💜💜
Something he mentioned that I myself have never understood either. How the hell was Goldust not the World Champion of WWE? You'd think with how much Vince McMahon loved his company being mentioned outside the wrestling bubble, here comes a character that everyone outside of wrestling was talking at that time and he never was the world champ. You'd think Goldust would've been doing the media tour non-stop at the time.
sapphire was annoying lol
You could tell by listening to her she had an IQ of about 70
She was meant to humiliate Dusty as was the polka dots.
Vince did that to mock dusty I don't care what dusty says... And sapphire was a racist poke.... the name & the look Vince McMahon is a low key Racist Vince Sr was a good man!!
@@DarkShark-xj4fdDustys a lie, maybe he didn't want to talk sh*t about Vince. Dusty has always been known as a person who doesn't tell the truth
@@Coco-xw3wp You are exactly right. vkm told it to his inner circle, and Dusty was not alone in these kind of humiliations.
Rhodes
R.I.H you will be missed 🙏🏾
RIH means rot in hell.
@@RefrigerationJones or rest in heaven
Hello
I never particularly liked Dusty's wrestling or his character. Was too cheesy and fake. I know how legendary and influential he was in the business... but in my opinion, he's overrated.
he must live in a alternate earth wheres theres 28 hours in a day and 429 days in a year !!! or he just likes to exaggerate