Dusty Rhodes
Real name: Virgil Runnels Jr.
Hometown: Austin, TX
Membership: Texas Outlaws, America's Team, the Super Powers, partners with Dick Murdoch, Larry Henning, Dick Slater, Superstar Billy Graham, Manny Fernandez, NWO Hollywood, Superstars
A.K.A.: The Midnight Rider, the Bounty Hunter, Mr. Ichiban, the American Dream
Finisher: Bionic elbow
Background: Just a son of a plumber.
Virgil Runnels grew in a middle class family but he had higher aspirations than getting a factory job or working a ranch. Hitchhiking up north, he fell in with a rough crowd. Betrayed during a job in Florida, Dusty decided to reinvent himself as the American Dream.
During the late 70's he briefly served as on the Superstars, leading an effort to arrest his former partner Superstar Billy Graham. When that proved unsuccessful, Dusty headed south and carved himself a place in history.
In 1989 he headed up North and rejoined the Superstars but this time things were different. Now clad in black and yellow costume and forced to use giant polka-dots as weapons, Dusty found himself losing against younger and hungrier villains, including a newly debuting Undertaker.
Disgusted, Dusty headed back South and stayed there for the rest of his career.
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