Post by Grey on Aug 14, 2005 8:02:45 GMT -5
Source : www.rajah.com/base/2005/3920
“American Dream” Dusty Rhodes was a guest on this week’s WWE ByteThis! internet show and made some major announcements regarding his status and future with WWE:
- He is signed to a Legends contract and has verbally agreed to work with WWE’s Creative Team.
- He’s very close to signing on the dotted line and that “[officially] signing with WWE is just a formality”. He met with WWE’s current Creative Team and sees this as a great opportunity to work with the young minds at WWE and to contribute his own style and philosophies to the product.
- This is a chance for him to really see what’s going on in the industry. Dusty used a phrase which I read Jimmy Hart use on WWE.com, and that was - the future is the past. He thinks the business has evolved too much and things need to be brought back to basics. Today’s product shouldn’t be radically different than what it was 10 years ago - it should be an updated version of the basic principles that have stood for decades and made wrestling great. He spoke passionately about the business as a whole and that there are several things that need to be changed. He sounded excited at the opportunity to work with WWE in its current state, which clearly has a lot of work that needs to be done.
- Dusty spoke very highly of Stephanie, saying she is a lot like her father in her understanding of the business.
- This is an opportunity, some of which come later in life than others, to play again for the Yankees. The Yankees are the greatest franchise in the history of sports and World Wrestling Entertainment is the greatest company in the history of sports entertainment. WWE is a tremendous, huge company.
- One thing he wants to do before he retires is wrestle Ric Flair at a houseshow one more time. He said he didn’t care if it was only a 1-night thing, but he seemed to be very excited about the chance to face Flair before he officially retired.
Overall it was a very good interview and Dusty seems hungry to prove himself. There are not many bookers around today with more experience than Dusty and it’s clear he has a vision for how to turn things around for WWE.
“American Dream” Dusty Rhodes was a guest on this week’s WWE ByteThis! internet show and made some major announcements regarding his status and future with WWE:
- He is signed to a Legends contract and has verbally agreed to work with WWE’s Creative Team.
- He’s very close to signing on the dotted line and that “[officially] signing with WWE is just a formality”. He met with WWE’s current Creative Team and sees this as a great opportunity to work with the young minds at WWE and to contribute his own style and philosophies to the product.
- This is a chance for him to really see what’s going on in the industry. Dusty used a phrase which I read Jimmy Hart use on WWE.com, and that was - the future is the past. He thinks the business has evolved too much and things need to be brought back to basics. Today’s product shouldn’t be radically different than what it was 10 years ago - it should be an updated version of the basic principles that have stood for decades and made wrestling great. He spoke passionately about the business as a whole and that there are several things that need to be changed. He sounded excited at the opportunity to work with WWE in its current state, which clearly has a lot of work that needs to be done.
- Dusty spoke very highly of Stephanie, saying she is a lot like her father in her understanding of the business.
- This is an opportunity, some of which come later in life than others, to play again for the Yankees. The Yankees are the greatest franchise in the history of sports and World Wrestling Entertainment is the greatest company in the history of sports entertainment. WWE is a tremendous, huge company.
- One thing he wants to do before he retires is wrestle Ric Flair at a houseshow one more time. He said he didn’t care if it was only a 1-night thing, but he seemed to be very excited about the chance to face Flair before he officially retired.
Overall it was a very good interview and Dusty seems hungry to prove himself. There are not many bookers around today with more experience than Dusty and it’s clear he has a vision for how to turn things around for WWE.
