The American Dream Dusty Rhodes

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Dusty Rhodes -- the rotund, easy bleeding, easy talking professional wrestler who billed himself as "The American Dream" -- died Thursday, the WWE said on its website.

Rhodes, whose real name was Virgil Runnels, was 69.

Rhodes rose to fame as a common man figure. He didn't have the chiseled body some associate with today's wrestlers. He was a good guy wrestler, often battling heels like Abdullah the Butcher, Blackjack Mulligan, Harley Race and The Four Horseman, who were led by Ric Flair.

Interestingly where I grew up Dusty was one of the good guys but up in Minnesota, where my family often went on vacation, he was regarded as one of the villains.

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He was really funny in interviews. My older brother and I were big fans when we were kids. There's a Dirty Dusty Rhodes documentary on Netflix.

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[Bill the Cat]

Dusty Rhodes -- the rotund, easy bleeding, easy talking professional wrestler who billed himself as "The American Dream" -- died Thursday, the WWE said on its website.

Rhodes, whose real name was Virgil Runnels, was 69.

Rhodes rose to fame as a common man figure. He didn't have the chiseled body some associate with today's wrestlers. He was a good guy wrestler, often battling heels like Abdullah the Butcher, Blackjack Mulligan, Harley Race and The Four Horseman, who were led by Ric Flair.