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Rhodes Family Legacy of Hardcore: photos
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4 I/ _6 F% T# b# fAug. 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.& L$ c; h/ O8 O' g; C( L- z
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" N+ G U: T9 d/ L) H% ZRhodes 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 $100,000.
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Years before becoming Goldust, "The Natural" Dustin Rhodes readies the bullrope for a fight against Bunkhouse Buck at WCW Slamboree 1994.
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Rhodes uses the cowbell that's tied to the bullrope to great effect.$ j5 e, C) R+ }9 q# ?
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! ^1 C, [& J# Z0 YIn a come-as-you-are Bunkhouse Match at WCW Spring Stampede 1994, Rhodes and Buck rekindle their rivalry.
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( \% o1 C$ e7 d; ~, yThe bad feelings between Rhodes and Bunkhouse Buck's Stud Stable partners reach their crescendo inside the War Games steel cage.
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: J* L) |! }3 M- TBefore joining the fray, all patriarch Dusty can do is offer moral support to his outnumbered son, Dustin.9 z8 w. U( w/ }, Y
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% v0 M, Y. o3 o7 B"Rowdy" Roddy Piper takes the fight to Goldust in the first-ever Hollywood Backlot Brawl at WrestleMania XII.( P# X$ n/ c9 k" C% B' x
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. I* z% M/ j, L) h: {" M3 z' ~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.2 s% w6 ~; {6 C; M: ]) \' B
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