Posted September 27, 201311 yr comment_5564947 So, it looks like I'll be interviewing Dusty Rhodes. You guys are probably as good as it gets when it comes to hardcore fans. Any ideas for moments and stories I should ask him about? Also, what questions do you have about his career that he might be able/willing to answer? Things that have been bugging you? I will have to mix these in with stuff about his current storyline, but I'd love to try to make some of this for "us" too. Help appreciated.
September 27, 201311 yr comment_5564971 I'm always wary of contributing to threads like this because I don't know what is to inside baseball and/or what would be fair game, but I would be interested in hearing Dusty talk about the differences in feel and significance between working in places like Toronto, the Kiel and MSG. I'd also like to hear whether or not he preferred working solo as a heel or teaming with Murdoch.
September 27, 201311 yr comment_5564996 Yeah it's hard interviewing wrestlers because you don't know if they are going to have as good of a memory as the interviewer then you bring up something that doesn't mean anything to them and it sours the interview a little bit. If Dusty plays ball, I would be interested in the creative process behind the Kevin Sullivan turn into the Prince of Darkness because no one had ever done anything like that in wrestling really before they did that. Plus I'm interested in the Eddie Graham/Vincent J. McMahon relationship where Dusty would go in and out of Florida and WWF at times.
September 27, 201311 yr comment_5564997 Was/is it difficult watching your kids attempting to make their mark in the business that their father was a bonafide legend in?
September 27, 201311 yr comment_5564998 What's your all-time favorite angle that you booked for yourself or someone else? What were your plans for 1989 booking-wise had you remained with Turner/WCW?
September 28, 201311 yr comment_5565005 I'd be curious if he felt stifled creatively in WWF. It had such a different pacing to it. They'd run 2/3rds of a year of house shows off of basically one angle. In Crockett he had to come up with ideas almost constantly. WWF was such a slow moving train in comparison.
September 28, 201311 yr comment_5565006 And conversely I wonder if his time in WWF was a relief of sorts since all he had to do was show up and perform rather than book and deal with all the shit that comes with that.
September 28, 201311 yr comment_5565034 I would ask Dusty why did the promotion under his watch (JCP) give the fans so many false finishes? What was the long term booking rationale behind that? Why did Lex Luger never get a run with the gold? Estimating about 90% of the people involved in the company blame him for the downfall of JCP what is his honest assessment of that? Are there contributing factors we don't know? Why did Dusty stay face in the late 80's? Did he not hear the boos? Why not join The Horsemen??
September 28, 201311 yr comment_5565039 Does he know why his Hasbro figure is worth so much money? Seriously, that would be a blinding question for either: A ) An answer. B ) The best miffed look ever.
September 28, 201311 yr comment_5565056 How did he get the splotch on his stomach? I'd always heard that happened from a match with Abdullah where fire was involved.
October 2, 201311 yr comment_5565682 Pretty sure that's where he had the word "Goodyear" dermabrased off.
October 2, 201311 yr comment_5565698 I would ask Dusty why did the promotion under his watch (JCP) give the fans so many false finishes? What was the long term booking rationale behind that? Why did Lex Luger never get a run with the gold? Estimating about 90% of the people involved in the company blame him for the downfall of JCP what is his honest assessment of that? Are there contributing factors we don't know? Why did Dusty stay face in the late 80's? Did he not hear the boos? Why not join The Horsemen?? 1. That's not what a false finish is. A false finish is a near fall.2. So you want Snowden to alienate Dusty and WWE?
October 2, 201311 yr comment_5565706 Ask him if there is a guy that he feels like he personally dropped the ball on. Someone he felt had the talent and ability to be a player but for whatever reason he never got around to giving them a push.
October 2, 201311 yr comment_5565709 How did he get the splotch on his stomach? I'd always heard that happened from a match with Abdullah where fire was involved. This was explained on the WWE documentary. It was a medical condition from when he was young, I can't remember the exact details. Gallbladder or something.
October 2, 201311 yr comment_5565718 I would ask Dusty why did the promotion under his watch (JCP) give the fans so many false finishes? What was the long term booking rationale behind that? Why did Lex Luger never get a run with the gold? Estimating about 90% of the people involved in the company blame him for the downfall of JCP what is his honest assessment of that? Are there contributing factors we don't know? Why did Dusty stay face in the late 80's? Did he not hear the boos? Why not join The Horsemen?? 1. That's not what a false finish is. A false finish is a near fall.2. So you want Snowden to alienate Dusty and WWE? These can be re-worded to have more appealing language but are still valid questions. Not every interview has to be a list of reasons why the subject is awesome. Snowden knows that as well as anyone.
October 2, 201311 yr comment_5565719 I would ask Dusty why did the promotion under his watch (JCP) give the fans so many false finishes? What was the long term booking rationale behind that? Why did Lex Luger never get a run with the gold? Estimating about 90% of the people involved in the company blame him for the downfall of JCP what is his honest assessment of that? Are there contributing factors we don't know? Why did Dusty stay face in the late 80's? Did he not hear the boos? Why not join The Horsemen?? 1. That's not what a false finish is. A false finish is a near fall.2. So you want Snowden to alienate Dusty and WWE? These can be re-worded to have more appealing language but are still valid questions. Not every interview has to be a list of reasons why the subject is awesome. Snowden knows that as well as anyone. I don't mean the negativity. I mean that there's a delicate line of what is and isn't too "inside" for a WWE PR interview.
October 2, 201311 yr comment_5565775 Wrestlers are rarely asked tough questions in interviews, which is why most wrestling interviews suck. All wrestling interviews are PR interviews in some form or another.
October 2, 201311 yr comment_5565778 I'd always heard that Dusty's splotch was kind of like Pinnochio's nose. The splotch appears when he's bullshitting and disappears when he's telling the truth. (I'll leave now, sorry)
October 2, 201311 yr comment_5565796 I would ask Dusty why did the promotion under his watch (JCP) give the fans so many false finishes? What was the long term booking rationale behind that? Why did Lex Luger never get a run with the gold? Estimating about 90% of the people involved in the company blame him for the downfall of JCP what is his honest assessment of that? Are there contributing factors we don't know? Why did Dusty stay face in the late 80's? Did he not hear the boos? Why not join The Horsemen?? 1. That's not what a false finish is. A false finish is a near fall.2. So you want Snowden to alienate Dusty and WWE? These can be re-worded to have more appealing language but are still valid questions. Not every interview has to be a list of reasons why the subject is awesome. Snowden knows that as well as anyone. I don't mean the negativity. I mean that there's a delicate line of what is and isn't too "inside" for a WWE PR interview. Not only that, but these questions are "Southern rasslin' shit" that in their world is pretty much irrelevant.
October 3, 201311 yr comment_5565805 Wrestlers are rarely asked tough questions in interviews, which is why most wrestling interviews suck. All wrestling interviews are PR interviews in some form or another. Recently, I was prepping someone for red carpet interviews. Most performers don't want to be interviewed let alone asked tough questions, which is why most interviews in general are PR exercises where the interviewer tries to not upset the interviewee. The interviews that most of us would like to read are dream interviews for the most part.
October 3, 201311 yr Author comment_5565853 Here's what I came up with. I took a number of questions from here, but most ended up scrapped when he cut things down to 20 minutes and then threatened to kick my ass if I actually held him 20 minutes. So, to the delight of possible no one but me: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1795613...-mcmahon-family
October 3, 201311 yr comment_5565858 I actually really enjoyed it, especially Dusty's subtle kayfabe turn at the end and you working with him a bit so he could make the pitch for the ppv. Thanks for asking some stuff about Murdoch. Still the most insane revelation to come out of this is that you are from South Carolina too and we possibly went to a bunch of the same shows at the Township
October 3, 201311 yr comment_5565860 Thanks for using my question and actually evolving it into a more interesting question.
October 3, 201311 yr comment_5565881 I too am from South Carolina and was probably at the Township with you guys! Small world....
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