Talk:Dusty Rhodes (wrestler)

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[edit] Topic which should be addressed

  • Where he was born and grew up (Texas I believe)
  • I read somewhere where he played football for West Texas State. He was the primary blocking fullback for (future Dolphin great) Mercury Morris.

Nothing about his early life is addressed - the article only talks about wrestling or as Ted Turner calls it "rass-lynn" Hokeman 22:32, 12 March 2006 (UTC)


I think he has 3 sons, or maybe Cody's other half brother, or maybe like a step brother, because there is someone who wrestles in NWE as Kevin Runnels and he says that he is Cody's bro and Dusty's son —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.113.39.210 (talk) 03:48, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Did Virgil [Dusty] ever live in Cleveland or Splendora, TX?

I knew a Virgil Runnels when I was 13 (1963). Virgil's Uncle lived in either Cleveland or Splendora, TX. He visited the church I went to in Houston. This Virgil was a few years older than me. Can anyone verify if this was the same "Dusty Rhodes"?

Sandra Bradley

[edit] Requested move

Virgil Runnels, Jr. → Dusty Rhodes – Seems to better comply with WP:NAME, he's been known as Dusty Rhodes his whole career, which is quite a long time. --JFred 06:12, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Survey

Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your opinion with ~~~~
  • Support For most of his career he was Dusty Rhodes, I support.(Halbared 06:27, 20 June 2006 (UTC))
  • Support Dusty Rhodes is the "most recognisable". -- JHunterJ 11:03, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Support We at WP:PW should stick to kayfabe whenever possible. Fewer conflicts with WP:NC. kelvSYC 17:37, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Support per nom. Tromboneguy0186 07:59, 25 June 2006 (UTC) Oppose I'd like to avoid "(wrestler)" wherever possible Tromboneguy0186 04:41, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Oppose, per the reasons I stated here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mike_Plotcheck#Discussion. Individual wrestlers should *never* be indexed under the names of the characters they played, and in this day and age it is pointless to "stick to kayfabe" when discussing the lives of the wrestlers themselves. Tuckdogg 23:47, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Support. Based on autobiographies and interviews, his friends and co-workers refer to him as "Dusty", not "Virgil". McPhail 00:18, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment: Mick Foley's autobiographies and interviews show that almost everyone refers to him as "Cactus," but I still don't think his page should be moved to "Cactus Jack." Tuckdogg 18:11, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
That's hardly relevant, given that Foley has wrestled under his own name for the last six years, and wrestled as Mankind for four years before that. Runnels has always been known as Dusty Rhodes, except for his brief stint as the Midnight Rider. Moreover, he conducted his "real life" business as NWA/WCW booker under the name "Dusty Rhodes" - he used the name off camera in a professional and personal context. McPhail 23:21, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Support for the reasons McPhail stated. TJ Spyke 21:49, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion

I just noticed that Dusty Rhodes is a disambiguation page, which means that if the page is moved, it will probably be moved to Dusty Rhodes (wrestler). Also, since he's listed on the disambiguation page, is a page move really necessary now? --JFred 18:33, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

From the opposing vote above, what's wrong with (wrestler)? -- JHunterJ 10:46, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Would you type in "(wrestler)" when searching for someone on here? I wouldn't. --Dubhagan 16:05, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
Right. I wouldn't type in "Virgil Runnels, Jr." either though. That's what the redirections and disambiguation pages are for. The question is, what's wrong with (wrestler) that isn't wrong with (actor), (baseball player), (film), (novel), or any of the other widely used disambiguation suffixes? -- JHunterJ 17:04, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
Just a personal opinion, but particularly so here because most, if not all, articles with "(wrestler)" can be titled differently. Unless you use middle names, there's really no way to differentiate between "Brad Daugherty (poker player)" and "Brad Daugherty (basketball)" That's just not the case with just about all wrestling articles, including this one. Tromboneguy0186 23:25, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Doesn't really matter to me, but would "American Dream" Dusty Rhodes work? Like "Stone Cold" Steve Austin? Calaschysm 22:59, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

That'd be fine by me. Tromboneguy0186 23:25, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
I would object to that. The article title would be somewhat long and verging on pov. Suffixing an article title is not a big problem. McPhail 00:19, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Result:move

Ok, the majority is in favour, so I will do it, but elegant is a different word. -- Kim van der Linde at venus 21:37, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Runnels

I know this isn't a forum but I don't know where else to look, why are all the Rhodes called Runnels when only Goldust married Terri Runnels? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.229.169.189 (talk) 21:37, August 25, 2007 (UTC)

Runnels is their legal last name Terri's last name was only Runnels cos she married Goldust. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.72.233.105 (talk) 12:04, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Rhodes is his stagename, while Runnels is his real last name. His sons also took his stagename as their last name in professional wrestling. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ehammon1 (talk • contribs) 20:23, 10 March 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Busting

From the article: "pulled a spike out of his shoulder pad and jammed it in Rhodes' eye busting it wide open." Come on... if you guys are going to protect this article and not let me correct it, at least get the "busting it wide open" out of there, which sounds like it was written by a third grader. 69.215.147.150 (talk) 02:49, 16 April 2008 (UTC)