{"id":53195,"date":"2015-06-12T16:33:14","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T21:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=53195"},"modified":"2015-06-12T16:33:14","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T21:33:14","slug":"wwe-loses-legend-dusty-rhodes-the-american-dream-dead-at-age-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=53195","title":{"rendered":"WWE Loses Legend \u2013 Dusty Rhodes \u201cThe American Dream\u201d Dead at Age 69"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"polls-1037\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_1037\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_1037_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"7becb821e5\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"1037\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Do you think the wrestlers of today have the same Charisma as Dusty did in his heyday?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-1037-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-2853\" name=\"poll_1037\" value=\"2853\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-2853\">Yes, they do and even more.<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-2854\" name=\"poll_1037\" value=\"2854\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-2854\">No, not even close.<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(1037);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(1037); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-1037-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=53195 \" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=53195 \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-53196 size-full\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dusty.jpg\" alt=\"Dusty\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>By Nick <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u201cRed\u201d<\/span> Conley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WWE Legend Virgil Runnels, more commonly known as Dusty Rhodes or \u201cThe American Dream,\u201d died on Thursday, June 10 in a hospital in Florida. While the WWE has yet to release specific details of his death, unconfirmed local reporting suggests that Rhodes suffered \u201cnumerous complications\u201d at night which led to him being rushed to the hospital early Thursday morning, where he later died. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Since his reported death, there has been an outpouring of emotion among fans and wrestlers alike issuing tributes to Runnels and his contribution to professional wrestling. Runnels had been wrestling since the 1970s and inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2007. Beginning in the 1970s, he worked in every major nationally televised promotion in the US, to include the WWE, WCW, ECW, and TNA. Runnels was a three-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion, and voted \u201cPro Wrestling Illustrated\u201d most popular wrestler of the year three times.<\/p>\n<p>While he was in less than stellar shape and supported bright polka dotted attire, he was absolutely amazing on the microphone and brought tremendous energy to the ring. Despite retiring, Runnels was still very much involved in the WWE, particularly by working as a creative consultant and with young new talent at the WWE Performance Center in Florida. He also has made numerous appearances on Monday Night Raw over the past year with his real-life sons Dustin Runnels and Cody Runnels, who wrestle under the names Cody Rhodes\/Stardust and Goldust.<\/p>\n<p>This is certainly a sad day for the WWE, as Dusty Rhodes was one of the best and loved the WWE till the end. It will be difficult for a modern-day superstar to ever really rival the energy that Rhodes brought to the ring. The outpouring of support and tributes among fans, current WWE management, current WWE wrestlers, and past wrestlers is clear evidence of Rhodes\u2019s good character and contribution to professional wrestling.<\/p>\n<p>[si-contact-form form=&#8217;2&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nick \u201cRed\u201d Conley WWE Legend Virgil Runnels, more commonly known as Dusty Rhodes or \u201cThe American Dream,\u201d died on Thursday, June 10 in a hospital in Florida. While the WWE has yet to release specific details of his death, unconfirmed local reporting suggests that Rhodes suffered \u201cnumerous complications\u201d at night which led to him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13005],"class_list":["post-53195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-wwe-loses-legend-dusty-rhodes-the-american-dream-dead-at-age-69"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53195"}],"version-history":[{"count":-2,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}