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Rhodes Family Legacy of Hardcore: photos
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Aug. 28, 1978: WWE Champion "Superstar" Billy Graham and top contender Dusty Rhodes settle their series of matches with a Texas Bullrope Match at the Mecca, Madison Square Garden.. e' X1 c6 o% z1 O' y
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9 F! p% r$ y9 }! t% L' c( `Rhodes battles fellow WWE Hall of Famer Tully Blanchard in a Barbed Wire Ladder Match during the NWA's 1987 Great American Bash tour. The prize? Bragging rights and $100,000.
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$ T5 |$ @3 o7 h0 R' v/ s* z% j, EYears before becoming Goldust, "The Natural" Dustin Rhodes readies the bullrope for a fight against Bunkhouse Buck at WCW Slamboree 1994.
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# `, w/ E: s+ |6 d+ d' |Rhodes uses the cowbell that's tied to the bullrope to great effect.
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In a come-as-you-are Bunkhouse Match at WCW Spring Stampede 1994, Rhodes and Buck rekindle their rivalry.- z5 q: [/ ?7 L7 s2 b
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1 X# f y" J2 P# v" Q7 WThe bad feelings between Rhodes and Bunkhouse Buck's Stud Stable partners reach their crescendo inside the War Games steel cage.# v& f* y- [2 e. q+ I
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Before joining the fray, all patriarch Dusty can do is offer moral support to his outnumbered son, Dustin.
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- {1 r- G- c- y$ j7 y* V. y3 F"Rowdy" Roddy Piper takes the fight to Goldust in the first-ever Hollywood Backlot Brawl at WrestleMania XII.
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As a member of The Legacy, Cody Rhodes teams with Ted DiBiase to face D-Generation X, Triple H and Shawn Michaels, inside Hell in a Cell.
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Cody Rhodes takes flight with an outside-the-ring dropkick against Rey Mysterio. The Extreme Rules 2011 bout is fought under Falls Count Anywhere rules.
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