10 Wrestlers You Didn't Know Worked For ROH
You certainly won't remember these wrestlers in Ring of Honor
6. Dusty Rhodes
The American Dream may have been a good 15-or-so years past his prime by the time Ring of Honor entered into existence, but nostalgic fans still got a real kick out of seeing Dusty Rhodes do his thing.
Indeed, in the early 2000s it wasn’t uncommon to see the son of a plumber bleeding on a local indie show, whether it was for his own Turnbuckle Championship Wrestling promotion, or a new player in the market like MLW or ROH.
Dusty worked a match at Ring of Honor’s The Epic Encounter in April of 2003, though his bout wasn’t the epic encounter in question. That was a 40+ minute Two out of Three Falls classic between Bryan Danielson and Paul London.
Dusty’s participation was as the special attraction in the main event, a 10-person I Quit Bunkhouse Riot match. A very different sort of match than ROH typically put on, it offered a nice bit of variety for fans who had sat through hours of cutting-edge technical wrestling.
It actually started with a cute bit, as someone dressed as Dusty’s old ‘Midnight Rider’ gimmick made their entrance, only for Rhodes himself to use the distraction to jump his opponents.
Then it became anything but ‘cute’ as the kicking, punching and bleeding began, with Dusty’s crew getting the win with the old fork-in-the-mouth routine.
