Bonus Drive Thru: Jim Cornette on The Road Warriors "Spike" Angle With Dusty Rhodes 

" I said a lil blud, kid." 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

I remember seeing this on TBS when I was a kid. I liked both Dusty and the Road Warriors and I did not know what to do. I remember seeing their match and all I did was cheer because I liked them both.

Wait, Rusty Shackleford? As in, Dale Gribble?

“All you kids at home, try this on your buddies!”

I was horrified watching that shit live on television as a little kid.

I remember this, but the Horsemen attack on Dusty in the parking lot. That was traumatic to .e! Lolz

"Goddamn it Dale! Rusty Shackleford's just the name you use to order pizza!" gotta love a bit of king of the hill

I remember the Patera cinder block angle! LOL! Great stuff! Solie's reaction to Gordy was classic!!

'Get a 'lil blud, get a 'lil blud...'

Arn and Tully created the ripple effect and 1988 Crockett selling to Turner ended the best era of wrestling for me

Yea I thought Dusty was cool but NO WAY in hell was I gonna Boo the Road Warriors

King of The Hell fan as well. I do remember the Saturday night of watching this with my grandparents because my parents didn't have cable yet . I grew up in southwest Va 30 minutes north of Johnson City, TN. NWA, Memphis Wresting and later on in the early 90's Smoky Mountain Wresting. I moved to Ohio in Nov . 95 with my girlfriend and now my wife of 21years . We stopped watching WWE/old WWF . Old school wrestling is dead & gone. Its sad but thanks to all the Real Wrestling Fans i can find about anything i want on RU-vid. Buddy landel was my parents neighbor , as i lived in Chilhowie ,Va all my life. I moved away for 3 years and within a year or two Buddy moved in 5 house's down from Mom & Dad. We miss Buddy dearly and all the old school wrestling days .

I remember that spike angle looking so vicious on tv.

Heenan, Cornette, Heyman . . . I can listen to them with my eyes closed and it's still quality entertainment.

I loved Dusty's promo on the Roadies not too long after this, promoting his and Sting's tag match against them.

Dusty Rhodes was still good in the ring in his late stage in career and after his in ring work

Damn, one of the few times Jim doesn’t say “if that is your real name.” Because Rusty Shackleford was100% Dale Gribble’s alias on King of the Hill.

I remember seeing this and when the Road Warriors turned on Sting. I was confused as a kid lol I didnt know wether to boo or cheer...so I just stared

The Road Warriors should've used pocket sand on Dusty's eye instead of the spike. Would've been far more devastating.

why is Dale Gribble writing Jim Cornette?

Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling reference at 0:14 made my day!

the warriors turned on sting in a six man match they were pissed dusty wasnt there!! setting up the starrcade match vs dusty and sting.

I remember when 4 horsemen broke Dustys arm.

I just read about this situation in JR's book.

When They Made Dusty Come Out in That Polka-Dot-Outfit on TV...That Was Instant Burial. (Dusty Shoulda Wrestled in His SKOAL Jacket...Over-Top of The Polka-Dot-Outfit They Made Him Wear to Bury Him.)

Clash of the Champions, I remember this.

As a kid this was so weird to watch. I had to go with my boys though Road Warriors for life.

I believe, in my honest opinion, that the downfall of wrestling on the superstation can be traced back to this moment. What did Dusty think would happen? In defense of WTBS, they had to watch their ass, or risk being confronted by the FCC. I would fail as a booker, but what could have worked, was to have the Road Warriors ALMOST spike Dusty. Imagine the fans on the edge of their seat " Oh my God, oh my God, their going to spike big Dust!" Bring them to that edge, and then none other than the Midnight Express run in to save the day. BOOM! The Road Warriors are instant heels, and the MNE are beloved more than ever. It could have changed history.

I remember this when I was a kid. It didn't get more "real" feeling than this.

I'd like to know Cornettes view on Ronnie Garvin turning on Dusty Rhodes during his match with Whindam.

TBS got what they deserved for trying to ban blood on TV. How the hell can you ban blood in a combat sport? How naive could they be to think they knew more about how to run pro wrestling than Dusty Rhodes? They didn't have any idea about how the wrestling business worked. All these guys are supposed to get punched and kicked in the face and somehow never bleed? That exposed the business entirely. So TBS deserved to go out of business and they did get what they deserved. If you don't want violence on your TV station, don't air combat sports.

Damn I remember this as a kid

Oh yeah...if Death of WCW was right, Dusty did that because he was pissed off at both TBS for banning weapon shots and blood on TV and he was pissed at Jim Herd because Herd overruled Dusty on having Ric Flair drop the title to Rick Steiner.

I bet this shit was horrifying back in the day watching Dusty get stabbed and shit 😶😶😶

I Believe that It Was a TBS Executives Trying to Censor Dusty, & Dusty Saying that You Don't Tell Him What to Do ...

Road Warriors were so over, they had to do something horrible to turn. They should have come in the ring during a Rhodes vs Flair title match and burned them... too much?

Jimmy Cornette, I think this angle about Dusty getting spiked by Animal and Hawk goes back to when the Russians took a cement block and hit Animal in the head with it and caused injury to Animal's orbital bone in the Greensboro Coliseum because Animal had to have a drainage tube put in between is eye and his nose at that time

Wonderful old school Wrestling VIOLENCE!!!!! 😀 👑🏆

Rusty Shackleford ?!?!? Dale Gribble is not only still alive but also watching classic wrestling & sending emails to the greatest Classic Wrestling Historian of all time !

Road Warriors were so over that Dusty got more heat over this than the Warriors.

I remember when the 4 horseman would take a camera and attack Dusty on the parking lot etc.. Pretty brutal stuff...speaking of Gordan being outraged Gordan Solie on Georgia Championship Wrestling ..telling kids to not use these wrestling moves because they can lead to harm. (Bob Roop interups) . " unlezz iz someone you don't like..your little brother or something.." Gordan look mortified.😂

King of the hill. LMFAO

Love to hear Jim Cornett speak. He tells it like it Absolutely is Lmao.

One of the Saturday nights Dusty is doing a promo and you can hear this kid yelling “BIG FAT WHALEE.”

Brian really won't let go of disliking Dusty for continually putting himself over at this time. It's a major irritant to him and he keeps harping on it.

good old dale.

King of the Hill reference

I can remember some really piss poor WCW shows during this era....so much so that I watched maybe every other week

Rusty …. Shackleford

A little disappointed Jim doesn't know King of the Hill

Who had the better spike-to-the-eye spot, Dusty or Terry Funk?

I started watching wrestling in ‘82……in hindsight wrestling was great when Dust was booking. It wasn’t like he had a HHH reign of terror

What does Brian have against dusty Rhodes and the Rhodes family he’s constantly running them down. Is he jealous because he wasn’t Dusty’s kid ? It just seems very personal to Brian

Nowadays, this would be common place...

Ahh piss! I was born in 1978! I watched a bunch of cage matches with bloody beat downs between Flair and Dusty! The backlash was DUMB.

Weren't the Road Warriors already Heel when they turned on Sting? Like before they beat the Midnights for the belts in NOLA.

The booker never should be wrestling to.... cause they always gonna put there self over most of the time

Rusty Shackleford.....wait...Dale?

It was a good one.....

I also watched this live as an 8 year old

6:18 haha

The idea of a wrestling manager is hilarious I think. It seems like it's mostly for when you have a wrestler that can't cut a promo without looking like an idiot.

Honestly, this is what made me stop watching Ever since 1984 Dusty and the RW were my absolute favorites and when they team together and Dusty put on the paint...OMG everything was right in the wrestling world. When THIS happened...I was sooo made, I stopped watching. Then they went to the WWF and that What a Rush crap?? That was it... I was done.

This was the first thing I thought of when Jericho stabbed Moxley in the eye here in Miami. Like Jim said, the future of wrestling is in the past😁😁😁

lol jim is great

I remember seeing this live and it was surprising when I saw it and it sure looked realistic enough! I think Dusty knew what he was doing Cornette is hilarious to listen to.

Rusty Shackleford

dat damn Rusty I thought that powerbomb put him down for good Imma find you Rusty

1988 could be considered a good year going to a bad time for nwa/wcw being arn and Tully leaving, and the Crockett sell, owners.. not liking dusty bloody booking.. literally..

You wanna turn the warriors heel. You do it in 1986. And have them destroy and i mean destroy the rock and roll express. And left magnum run in. And get the spike. Boom. Heels in 2mins

I write from the Mid- South area

Dale gribble is a fan of jim cornette not to surprised

Rusty Shackelford.. aja Dale gribble

This is why wrestling was so great u gotta watch the reactions and the locker room clearing out. It seemed so real

Dusty taking himself off the card may have set the precedence for Vinces (both) to leave themselves off the card...??

Dale Gribble?

Common sense is something most people just don't have anymore

Did I not see Ivan koloff go in that ring to help run off the Road warriors? I guess this is after he turned face

I remember watching this at my mom and dad's house when I was home from break in college. I know that they didn't actually stick the spike in his eye, but man this looked real when it happened. Loved the Road Warriors and this made them even seem more savage then they already were!!!

There was something about Tully Blanchard I did not like. It wasn't because he was a heel.; I liked the rest of the Horsemen. I just couldn't put my finger on it. No, I felt like he was a heel in real life. I could be wrong, but I don't think so.

Holy shit, they actually cheered the dynamic dudes?

I bet that if tbs could have a do over they'd never have let dusty go

Dusty did a hell of alot for wrestling but if he hadn't fired Buddy Landel i think us old school wrestling fans could be watching a hell of a lot more of Buddy's matches on RU-vid. Any Buddy Landell fans out there please reply.

Dirty Rhodes got spiked !

jim makes a lot of excuses for dusty's booking.

I was in Carolina at the time and people were sick of Dusty.

Dusty was known as a bleeder

I like to listen to these with my smoking mountain wrestling T-Shirt on. Jim is a wrestling time machine and it's great.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-o5Q2MaUNOJU.html here is the angle footage

3:39 is the main problem with today's society... One parents don't tell there kids not to do stupid things... Two even if they do tell there kids not to be stupid the kids don't listen and the parents are afraid to smack a child upside the head because of other people calling the cops

That just about killed WCW

A Tosh.0 shout out from Cornette? Didn't know he was a fan.

Road Warriors never really held the World Tag Belts for any extended period of time.. The Horse Men ran Ruff Shot over the tag belts from 85 to 88.. The Mid Night Express didn't mind playing 2nd fiddle carrying the U.S tag Belts..

steamboat didnt like dusty's booking....we wouldnt have got the steamboat flair matches in 89, if scott wasnt the booker...cornette always leaves that out when dissing scott..who -granted- wasnt great in that run

I never watched Nwa or wcw or whatever as a little kid, only wwf. I’m not sure if it even showed up here in pnw. But I still remember hearing about them stabbing dusty with a spike from their pads lol.

I remember that angle.. As a kid, I was about 9 years old at the time.. But, I ran outside telling my friends the Road Warriors killed Dusty Rhodes.. Lol.. Yeah, y'all got me on that angle

Hey Brian, stop trying to short shit the american dream!!!

Cornette is wrong. People were sick of Dusty.

Please let’s ask him about what he thinks about having open gay men in the business and what does it do to the business and how the guys feel about it please let him answer that 😂😂😂

Sorry JC but Dusty was overrated and he did do a lot to kill the company.