
Virgil Runnels
Biography
Virgil Riley Runnels, Jr., better known as "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, was an American professional wrestler, booker/writer, and trainer who most notably worked for the National Wrestling Alliance, NWA Championship Wrestling from Florida, Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP), and WWE. Rhodes is considered one of the greatest wrestlers and talkers in the history of professional wrestling. Rhodes was a three-time NWA World's Heavyweight Champion, and during his time in Jim Crockett Promotions' Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling, later known as World Championship Wrestling (WCW), he was a NWA United States Heavyweight Champion, and multi-time NWA World Television, NWA Tag Team and NWA World 6-Man Tag Team Champion. He also won many regional championships, and is one of seven men inducted into each of the WWE, WCW, Professional Wrestling, and Wrestling Observer Newsletter Halls of Fame. His sons, Dustin and Cody, both pursued careers in professional wrestling, performing for WWE and AEW. Following his retirement from wrestling, he made occasional on-air appearances on WWE television and pay-per-views and worked as a backstage booker/writer and producer in WWE's NXT developmental territory. Billed as "the son of a plumber", Rhodes did not have a typical wrestler's physique; his character was that of the "common man", known for the personality exhibited in his interviews. WWE chairman Vince McMahon remarked that no wrestler "personified the essence of charisma quite like Dusty Rhodes".
TV Shows(30)

WWE Rivals
Dusty Rhodes

Biography: WWE Legends

WWE Rivalries
Self

Wrestlemania Rewind
Dusty Rhodes
The JBL and Cole Show
Dusty Rhodes

WWE NXT

WWE Hall of Fame
Self

TNA iMPACT!

TNA iMPACT!
Dusty Rhodes.

TNA iMPACT!
Dusty Rhodes
Major League Wrestling: Underground TV

ECW on TNN
Dusty Rhodes

WCW Thunder
Dusty Rhodes

WCW Monday Nitro

WCW Monday Nitro
Dusty Rhodes

Burke's Law
Archie 'Mad Dog' McCray

Raw
Dusty Rhodes

ECW Hardcore TV

Raw

Clash of the Champions
Dusty Rhodes