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Friday Afternoon Diversion: Dusty Rhodes' Bedtime Stories

By Chuck Sudo in Arts & Entertainment on May 23, 2014 8:00PM

Sherlock Holmes had Moriarity. Batman had The Joker. Dracula had Van Helsing. There's always some evil to counteract good and, in the 1980s, the despicable Ric Flair's virtuous nemesis was Dusty Rhodes. "The American Dream" and the son of a plumber was a blue collar alternative to the styling and profiling "Nature Boy" and his allies in the Four Horsemen.

And when Rhodes wanted to he could scare the Bay-hay-zeus out of someone.