Jim Ross shoots on why Dusty Rhodes couldn't step away as booker

[@tylowe78]

I can hear old wrestling stories all day. The politics alone is intriguing.

[@pandavelli8176]

I NEVER watch new wrestling lol but I eat these shoot interviews from the old-timers up!!!

[@WarrenSummerlin]

Everyone here and future viewers. Let’s all have a moment of silence to be thankful we grew up in the times we did, when the internet didn’t ruin story line’s and imaginations 👉🏻✌️

[@LM-oi3sf]

Amen. I loved tuning in Monday nights and never knowing what was going to happen. Loved the few times I had enough saved up allowance to get a PPV and not knowing what was going to happen. I haven't watched wrestling for about 20 .it's lost it's mystique and turned into gymnastics practice. However there's a few few diamonds in the rough. Daniel Bryant , Bailey are great. Auska is the best right now, in my own opinion.

[@TheDimeDrawer]

Dusty Rhodes drew lots and lots of dimes 💰💵👍...

[@willtheangrydudeist9120]

Very true.... And he spent lots and lots of quarters... lol

[@Kevin-cy4qn]

@ I think his Biggest & BEST feud was with Tully Blanchard over Luger FOR SURE, & rivals the feud with Flair, by FAR TO!

[@charles1964]

@@Kevin-cy4qn Nobody made that fat f*ck look better than Tully did in the ring and out...

[@Jcrash71]

Not really...

[@LM-oi3sf]

I'd much rather watch an old Dusty match than annything now. The women are way better than the men now. An Auska match is way better than annything Roman has ever done!

[@marka.graffakasnakebitenat3736]

Butch Reed has done both Baby face and Heel in Mid-South. And did it very very well. His matches with Kamala, Diabase, Terry Taylor, Dugan were spectacular.

[@corkscrewfoley]

Dusty being a world champion and head booker really soured me on him. I know others did it too, but how many others had Dusty finish named after them?

[@pumpkinsdontcry]

I miss Dusty

[@starwars518]

I can remember Watts trying to push Master G

[@jojo6028]

I never got bored with Dusty ever, heck I remember his last interview he was all happy like he won the lottery... Then he was gone. Look it up it's on the box set. The bar being raised too damn high was fine with me...

[@Exodus-sb8so]

Butch Reed is awesome.

[@VERDICTInsanity]

Would be possible for u guys to talk about why Ken Shamrock never got the big title? Was watching him in ‘97 and he seemed like he was unstoppable

[@leonche64]

Shamrock was mostly WWF, I don't even remember him in the NWA/WCW. That is the time that Stone Cold, the Undertaker, and The Rock were taking off. Not much room for Ken.

[@turasuicide6093]

Bruce Prichard said that Shamrock was not reliable.

[@Frank-mk1ls]

@@turasuicide6093 bruce prichard is full of shit

[@big_dro1713]

@@Frank-mk1ls Why do you say that?

[@KyleS.1987]

@@Frank-mk1ls Bruce is full of shit, but not about everything. I don't have a hard time believing that Ken wasn't particularly reliable.

[@marcoluca9232]

Surprised how candid J.R. is here about Dusty considering his role at AEW and the stroke Cody has there. Most people would have been deflecting those questions.

[@zach6800]

I don't think JR cares, he loves to spin a yarn and he's very good at it courtesy of being a part of an industry with a lot of interesting stories.

[@leonche64]

He is not saying anything bad, just about what happened.

[@TL2354]

Why? He’s not bad mouthing Dusty. Grow up

[@SteveHolsten]

@Mauricio93201 He's making them happy or he would've been gone by now!

[@Batony]

He’s set for life. He doesn’t care.

[@TheRealDebussyFarts]

Can we have the J. Arn Show? I’d love to hear their respective experiences during the Monday night wars, and then later on when they worked together at WWE. We can also get some AEW stories. For those among us that like being lied to, we can get 83 Weeks To Wrestle. This would surely save Conrad time, although there would be less content to advertise his mortgage racket on. Oh well, and old booger eating wrestling fan can dream.

[@jrtjonathanwinchell3955]

Those two private jets from the NWA were the problem including Dusty and Ric showing a luxury of lifestyle sure didn't help matters both strong egos.

[@jrupp8853]

Too much Dusty by 1988. He's Midnight Rider, against the Horseman, Midnight Express, Barry Windham, Ronnie Garvin, and the Road Warriors.

[@lucag.lisickza425]

DEFINITELY

[@yehudafinkelstein7504]

Piss on Dusty!- Ole

[@toddburgess8285]

John Rupinski, next you’ll tell me he was one of the James Boys in NWA. 😂

[@Pillar5770]

Even Jim Cornette has said he thinks Dusty should have taken himself off the top of the card and/or taken a break from booking.

[@jrupp8853]

@@Pillar5770 "How are we going to miss you if you never go away."

[@rolltide9547]

It goes back to a wrestler should never be the booker. I think Flair is the only guy as a member of the booking team to book himself to drop the title.

[@deadaccount7520]

Something else may be factoring in. Wasn't the final scraps of the territories still "at war" with Vince. At that point....well...a lot can happen in 2 months.

[@MohamedAli-xu3uw]

You have a disqus account

[@secretaryyamas-u1273]

All they had to do was put the ego's aside I'm talking about Vern Gagne, Jim Crockett, Jerry Jarret, Bill Watts merged the territories Vince wouldn't been able to touch them instead he used it to his advantage right now it supposed to be WCW/WWF,WWE if the promoters would've merged.

[@David.M._1979]

Dusty booked Dusty. Other than Magnum he really didn't push anybody.

[@mirwaissnajibi]

He did push Nikita as well

[@SteveHolsten]

I thought he pushed the Horsemen too!

[@cassiewelch8142]

Dusty just didn’t push baby faces...mostly. He’d certainly push heels so he’d have someone to beat.

[@Batony]

He pushed the Midnight Express.

[@horrorfiend7694]

Are you kidding? Remember the Rock n Roll Express?!

[@TheM8trixHasYou]

Booking was not the problem....the problem was NOT PROPERLY MANAGING YOUR BUSINESS FINANCES, that was the ~Real~ Problem.

[@alberthenley2062]

Project Cadmus, you hit it dead on the head. Dusty was a genius booker-performer but bad decision maker and financial manager. He created some bad ass characters the Undertaker was one of them with Bruce Prichard.

[@MDJ-wb1pn]

That’s exactly what it was. Spending on things you don’t need to buy you can’t do as a small business or private business owner. Watch the spending and focus on the territory’s and talent.

[@Dakatari]

Dusty like the attention he received from being booker

[@farscape1714]

Wish JR was the booker for AEW.

[@TuMalditaMadre]

The marks would throw a fit

[@scottd5084]

Dusty towards the end was punch drunk

[@Kayfabe-226]

Just few things... Midnight Rider was first done in Florida before Crockett...JR saying he knew and Dusty knew about crockett's money problems but didn't JR broker the deal to sell Watts uwf to Crockett...JR had to know that uwf wasn't good deal because Texas was suffering money wise and UWF wasn't worth much at that point...these are questions nobody asks JR....

[@fightsports66]

From what I had read about it Watts called Crockett himself and the two of them did the deal. JR was not involved. I also read that Watts lied to Crockett and claimed that Vince had contacted him and tricked Crockett into thinking if he did not buy UWF then Vince would.

[@chrischar9428]

@@fightsports66 heard it was ross

[@keegan9470]

i saw conrad at thde golden coral swimming in gravy

[@Not-a-Bot-U-C]

I saw Conrad at the vault swimming in money

[@Cajunman1977-k3f]

Athletes aren't taught to manage money. No poor kid is taught about money. We need to teach poor kids in high school how to manage money. You can live like a king for a day or a prince for the rest of your life.

[@ram0666]

first you have to teach them how to make money.

[@chrischar9428]

Most professional athletes are

[@triumphantsam]

I was huge Dusty fan in the mid to late 80s; when he went to the then WWF, I lost my affinity for the Dream. The polka dots, the manager, the music- it was too much for me.

[@yehudafinkelstein7504]

The polka dots were Vince trolling Dusty. Nearly every big NWA/WCW star met a similar fate. Huge face DDP turned into an awkward heel stalker. Sting jobs to HHH when he finally appears in WWE. Flair and Sid were huge stars that Vince couldn't mess with so their personas with Vince were the same as what they did in WCW.

[@knowyourroleboulevard7119]

@@yehudafinkelstein7504 Not necessarily Road Warriors or Steiners.

[@yehudafinkelstein7504]

@@knowyourroleboulevard7119 Tag teams that also fit the model of being already developed, so Vince couldn't screw it up. The Steiners were real life brothers, for example,

[@nebraskajoenelson8987]

That entire gimmick was vince. Dusty knew it was a joke....but he signed the contract so he gave it everything he had to get over. Then he did the same thing to Dusty's kid's Goldust and stardust

[@yehudafinkelstein7504]

@Java Flav Feuding with Dibiase didn't hurt. It was a continuation of the types of feuds he had with Tully and Flair.

[@bradyfry8031]

Man to think he passed away 7 years ago already, I feel like dusty would've had some kind of involvement with wrestling even to this day unless he were to die. The dream is missed and wrestling isn't the same without him

[@yehudafinkelstein7504]

Dusty was the HHH of his era with his own golden shovel.

[@thickerconstrictor9037]

Hhh has put over SO MANY people and given back to the business. Triple H was winning and holding titles when he was at the peak of his career and was in the position that you should have been in. He was one of the top guys if not THE top guy and people think he should have just been putting over all these people left and right when he was in his prime. Kevin that came back and Triple H as he should have. Scott Steiner came in and Triple H as he should have because that Diner was showing that you could not have the type of matches that they were expecting out of him. He was moving slow because of injuries and a and should not have Triple H in his prime to take the title when he was incapable of having quality matches. The only person during Triple H's Prime and that year that people were bitching about, that he did not put over that he 100% should have, was Booker T. He put over Goldberg who is HORRIBLE. The fans turned on Goldberg because WWE actually wanted him WRESTLE. They didnt want him to just have squash matches every night and he was exposed for being terrible and the fans started to boo him when they realized how awful he was once he had to wrestle matches that went longer than 2 minutes. And yet Triple H still put him over. Triple H has lost over and over and over and over and over and over to push new Talent but because he was THE GUY in the prime of his career and didnt drop the title to every person people thought should be champ. It's always the smart mark morons that sit at home behind their computers with their dick in their hand jerking off over the unpushed talent and whine about Triple H burying people. Triple H was on top of the WWE as he should have been and he was beating people that he should have been beat. With the exception of Booker T.

[@yehudafinkelstein7504]

@@thickerconstrictor9037 How about going over Sting? How about being in the main event of a Wrestlemania at age 47? How about boring us all to death with his 20 minute promos while wearing a suit? I apologize to Dusty, he was far better on the mic than hack HHH.

[@MrJon76]

@@thickerconstrictor9037 you forgot about RVD and Kane! Hunter should never have beaten them! Triple H was never on par with Austin, the Rock, Bret or Shawn! Their absence is the only reason Triple H was ever in the top spot in the first place! His run as "The Game" was a total ripoff of Lex Luger's heel persona in 1989 and his time with Evolution was spent being a poor imitation of Ric Flair circa 1984 - 1988!

[@andrewizard8285]

@@MrJon76 no one was on par with these lot

[@bb-gc2tx]

he bankrupted crockett promotions

[@PatI-zg9gm]

There is always going to be some static if an active wrestler is the booker. He was “over” since 1974, and the fans loved his in ring work/mike work. But he did have a tendency to make himself the focus of nearly every storyline, the main rival of every heel in the company. Some things happened that might have altered any plans to reduce his on camera roll. Those were the loss of Magnum, and the deaths of Von Erich and Hernandez, who would have moved on from World Class, likely to Crockett. All three of those guys were still in their 20’s, and would have taken pressure off Rhodes.

[@PtolemyJones]

I feel like the accountant was partially to blame, foe not telling the truth.

[@rickydona919]

the popping noises make it really difficult to listen to this

[@thegoldentroll]

I know. Thankfully there are no pooping noises in this video.

[@TuMalditaMadre]

You wouldn't have been able to listen to anything before the 80s

[@madamefeast4824]

I didn't notice until I read your comment. You bastard

[@ryandavis4448]

What movie poster is that jim ross clash ad from? Not Goonies? What is it?

[@lucky-sz4eq]

Indiana Jones.

[@bumblefoot5]

Godbless Dusty. He gave us so many gifts. His last gift was a son to put wrestling back on TNT. The man would be so proud of Cody. Big props to JR for helping them we both know at this point JR could do what he wants in life. JR being there is very important in AEW.

[@bb-gc2tx]

uh ok smark dusty gave us soooooo many gifts 😂😂😂😂

[@bumblefoot5]

@@bb-gc2tx you two years late to that convo kid.

[@bb-gc2tx]

@@bumblefoot5 two years ten years 100 years will never change the fact that your comment is one of the smarkiest douchiest most pathetic comments ive ever read. look at all the gifts dusty gave us lmao

[@joeparker7508]

Conrad who booked the OLE turn on DUSTY

[@Batony]

Ole

[@Cre8Lounge]

You would think Hogan would tell stories too like Booker T on these type of shows

[@n.harmonvilla7648]

He's the elephant in the room and the Skeleton that outgrew the closet, while it would be therapeutic and probably the BEST "his story" of the business; idk if hogan can escape his own ghosts much less survive the Internet's shit.

[@punktalley]

@@n.harmonvilla7648 I don't know if he could tell the truth or keep his stories from contradicting each other.

[@stephenrogers4537]

Too much power not enough people knowing what they're doing ran the company broke simple🤔 it happens in business everyday small companies family companies huge conglomerates money is power. Empower a person that can't handle it like giving somebody a set of car keys and tell him to drive drunk eventually he's going to crash🤔

[@popeyedoyle6360]

Who did Conrad marry in Flairs family again? David?

[@henrikschmidt3964]

Bill Watts really should have been looking for a different succesor to JYD. Whomever he found he was looked at as JYD v.2.0.

[@doylemurphy152]

He had someone in Hacksaw Duggan.

[@AaronLesterMedia]

David Allan Coe was cool for the highlight videos back then but it wasn't worth it.

[@chrischar9428]

I never heard of him at the time. How much did he cost

[@charles1964]

@@chrischar9428 Nobody had really heard of him, but Dusty was a Big Fan. What good is a $60,000 house when it cost you $90,000 to promote?

[@matthewgabbard6415]

They really could have used Steamboat back during this period

[@Gerlad970]

Stop this insane back ground since you are showing its more important thna what is being said.

[@deandremajor6278]

Conrad talks a lil too much

[@ChadIsAmazingMakeADifference]

Think your slick oil money Jim. Dad had u. I c.

[@michaelrodgers6210]

Can’t watch this because of the awful recycling ad for JR grilling…ugh! Talk about desperate !!!

[@sammyc7565]

Hey hey hey hey

[@ChadIsAmazingMakeADifference]

lolZZZzz. i got a pair whats ur size bossmen

[@rustyloudermilk4010]

DUSTY HELPED RUN CROCKETT OUT OF BUSINESS

[@tritchie6272]

Not from what I've gathered. Crockett was expanding beyond his financial abilities. I wish I could remember who said it. But somebody said Crockett was buying up new and expensive territory's when he couldn't afford to.

[@chrischar9428]

@@tritchie6272 he had to

[@marcusdavis9030]

Ronnie garvin said it

[@lucag.lisickza425]

i never bought the dusty rhodes character. personally i never understood why he was considered so important respect other great wrestlers of the era

[@secretaryyamas-u1273]

He was a charismatic wrestler became a booker learning the business from OGs like Eddie Graham Dory Funk SR, his contributions to Wrestling served its purpose.

[@ram0666]

its called charisma. the character doesnt matter,charisma is what counts. dusty had plenty of it.

[@DarksaberForce]

He appealed to the common working man.

[@chrischar9428]

His ego