For me personally, Goldust was a midcarder character, he was a great Heel and a credible IC champion. He was controversial, Bizarre, unfiltered and adult rated he was made for the WWF/E Attitude Era. He is the 2nd greatest character Vince Mcmahon ever created after the Undertaker. And in my opinion the character Goldust DOES deserve to be in the WWE hall of fame.
Lol, are you forgetting the Vince McMahon character he created? Basically one of the greatest heel characters of all time. Also the undertaker character wouldn't have lasted past the New Gen era without Mark Calloway evolving it.
@@andrejohnsao7899 I remember Booker joked about that in an interview. He said it was great because they didn't have to wrestle and still got paid. They just filmed some 30 min - 1 hr worth of promos and they were done for most nights
Ppl will say crap like "Vince done this to rib and hurt the Rhodes family" I disagree. Dustin being himself was only gonna go so high because ppl are just gonna see u as The Dreams son. Goldust got him to heights he would have never achieved otherwise and got him out of his dad's shadow with his own identity.
Back then I hated Goldie. I thought it was stupid and disgusting. Now 2023 I see it as amazing, groundbreaking and simply genius. Dustin deserves an Emmy .
@@zackfair6791 I think of it like actors on a TV show being given a character to play that they don't particularly like, but it's their job to say the lines. Or to grope another character, if that's what the script says.
In the beginning, Goldust's entrances on television would cut to 16x9 letterboxing - like a movie screen, and be shown with a different filter while golden confetti rained down from the ceiling. It was amazing. I got to see it once in person. The golden confetti was little circles of thin gold plastic sheeting, about 1 inch in diameter - that was how they fluttered much slower than normal confetti. It was incredible in person and for a long time I had a few of those little gold pieces of gold plastic in the pocket of my winter jacket.
I will say this that when Dustin ever officially retires, his Goldust RUN will be his ticket to the WWE Hall of Fame. He made the most of that character, and probably one of the few iconic and memorable characters in a crappy era of WWF wrestling (1995). Dustin is a legend.
Nah it’s still creepy. Not because it’s a trans person, but because it’s Vince mcmahon’s funhouse mirror image of what he thinks trans people are. That trans and androgynous are the same thing. Can’t you see that? You’re in denial.
Goldust was a character way ahead of his time yet could only really exist in the attitude era. Probably a lot of us watchibg then as kids/young men never fully understood him at the time, but for me he is a hall of famer.
This is such a tough gimmick to pull off. I can't think of too many people that could make this work and he had massive heat with the fans. He was such a great worker in the ring though. I think Vince gave him and Dusty some of the toughest gimmicks because of things that happened in the territory days but they both doubled down and got over quickly.
“The bizarre one “ was quite the appropriate moniker for him. You didn’t know why Goldust was the way he was but you didn’t have to. It was actually more intriguing, not knowing.
The shock value was great and the way the character evolved was disturbing and kept people wondering how far it would go. I saw an interview with the Hitman and he recommended new wrestlers in the business watch Dustin because he thought he was such a pro in the ring. Dusty was about as charismatic as anyone can be and I enjoyed his matches a lot also.
@@IAmKillEveryone " it was like they were screaming every profane name that they could possibly call me, and I was like, ‘Holy f*ck’. And I’m looking at Savio in the ring and I’m staying away from the rails because they’re stepping over, and they’re spitting, and they’re cussing. And this is…’95, this is 1995 or 1996"
Over here at Puerto Rico, he created IWA which was super hot from 1999 - 2004 My friend says it was even better than WWE, I dont know cause my dumass stopped watching wrestling in 98😂😅
I got a lot of crap as a kid for being such a Goldust fan. But it was just so bizarre and edgy that it was fun. Here was a character who didn't give a damn what he did. Now that's punk rock...
I remember the first time I saw Goldust in action. He was so different from ever heel I'd ever seen and instantly stood out. He was ahead of his time. Also, those Goldist Booker promos were legendary.
As a kid watching, i knew the character was "weird" but it made me a fan. His take as a heel and badass theme song sold me, and i remember getting a Goldust figure for Christmas, one of the best toys i ever gotten lol. I hope Dustin gets induced to the hall of fame cause no one could've pulled off that character, cause it was way ahead of its time!!!
This guy definitely deserves to be in the Hall of Fame… how many guys would go to that level of commitment and entitlement… especially back then when maybe wasn’t accepted as much you know
I love how many characters that really made it were started by a phone call from Vince and them just saying yes even tho they didn’t have a clue what it would be 🤣 Im so glad that Dustin and Cody are friends now and that Dustin made peace with his dad , thank god.
The Goldust character was unique and ahead of it's time. Dustin deserves credit for doing it well, no one else on roster during the the 90s could have performed it other than Dustin. No doubt he deserves to be in the Hall of Fame.
I always loved the comedic element to gold dust. His butt bump move, his Irish whip, fall on the ground and face slap move, his taunt, it was so much fun
The thing that Dustin showed above all is just pure commitment to a character and getting it right. And it was a one in a million chance to work. It also put something on the screen that needed less stigma and I think he was the man to do it. Dustin to me is one of the all-time greats for his characters as well as the longevity of his wrestling career.
I give credit to Dustin for being able to survive being hit with omophobic slurs night after night literally for YEARS just for doing his job This speaks volume about how professional he was.
@JG-lo1vb in a time when people like Mathew Shepard, were being tortured and left to die by his own countrymen for being gay in the wrong town....it's not.
Wether you like the gold dust persona or not no one can deny that Dustins character work was probably some of the best there’s been , if you think about his upbringing and how different it is from the act then that makes it even more special to be honest
Amazing that Vince would propose this and even more amazing how much Dustin embraced the role. A truly memorable character and so important for the roster
The Miz was a transitional wwe champion... if they found a way to make the miz champion then yes goldust could of been not just a transitional champ but a legitimate champion for a decent run.
Its really interesting how he was uncomfortable with it, didnt' get it at first, but still said he's gonna give this a try. Also not for nothing, the Golddust music might be the best WWF music of all time haha
I still listen to those songs (especially the one on wwe anthology) pretty regularly. There's a level in Skylanders Racing (or Superchargers Racing, maybe both) that's this golden pyramid Indiana Jones type thing and the song always makes me think of Goldust too.
To be fair if it was done today the writing would be worse off for it and it would be very pandering. The character wouldn't last. It worked because of the time.
@@JungleCatRico I agree, his character was ahead of its time. It definitely would have felt like it was pandering to the LGBTQ+ community if done today. But since it was around a time when LGBT wasn't as acceptable it worked.
I never hated Goldust like everyone else, but he always confused the shit out of me as a kid 🤣 Now that I’m grown, I understand the genius behind the character. Bro was completely unpredictable
I dont think he'd ever admit to it but i think Vince stopped caring about his creation as a fan would when the PG era started and just started running it like a business.
The WWE was PG for the majority of its existence it was only TV-14 for maybe 6 years at most, that is a small amount of time when you are talking about a 50 year old company. Vince’s father believed that pro wrestling was family entertainment, everyone can enjoy it so had he been alive he would have been not very happy with what his son was doing. It is why Sammartino cut ties with them until he was inducted, he didn’t want to be associated with it. Had the nWo not happened it would have stayed PG.
@@andrewft31 Vince loves every horrible raunchy thing that era ever did. he was extremely proud of it and wouldn't have done it any other way. I just watched a clip of Golddust explaining that Vince came up with his gimmick and when Golddust ran his hands up and down another dudes crotch for the first time, Vince was absolutely ecstatic about it. this was well before NWO. Vince also clearly had no problem inserting himself in many such segments such as him trying to get multiple people to kiss his bare ass on tv, publicly cheating on his wife and making out with Dawn Marie on tv, trying to kiss trish stratus's bare ass on tv. if he was ashamed of it, he wouldn't have personally inserted himself into the show. he loved every second.
@andrewft31 it wasn't pg, they went pg after they left Thursday night Smack down on UPN44 cable twelve. The moment it went to cable it all went to the drain.
If I remember, Cody had said whilst Dusty and Dustin were in a bad spot when Goldust debuted, Cody remembers when the family was watching when the first promo for Goldust was cut, when he would look at his dad, Dusty was secretly smiling when watching it on TV. Dusty loved his kids, even when he was mad at em
I remember when I seen him when I was child looking like what’s going on with this guy but as I grew older and understood the wrestling business I grew a deep appreciation for his character for Dustin to pull that off during that time is nothing but remarkable the Gold Dust character is literally why he became a wrestling legend besides being Dusty Son
Goldust is a legendary character. Had it been portrayed by a wrestler without Dustin's pedigree it would've failed miserably. It was a fantastic gimmick at the perfect time.
Sign of a great deal of faith, booking someone with a tough job and not only getting it over but also making it last, two examples Kane as the Undertaker’s brother and Goldust as the bizarre one. Goldust had some epic non wrestling and wrestling moments and pairing with Booker T was perfect. He also does a solid Spinneroonie.
Dustin did amazingly with Goldust. Back then it was real to me as well, and for that to work on children with the entire presentation, you know they struck gold
When I first started watching wrestling. Goldust was one of the very first characters I hated. Dustin did a great job being a heal. Great to see him many years later giving interviews like this.
I saw Goldust wrestle in 2012 in a basement in NY in front of 50 ppl when he was trying to get back into the swing of things. Nicest guy. Friggin tall. He said he was trying to get back in
Goldist was one of my favorites growing up, I didn't realize it at the time, but whenever he was on you couldn't look away from the screen, especially with razor ramon
That character is a classic. That music would hit, light flash and the glitter would start falling along with Marlena walking beside him holding her Cogar😂. That shit was awesome.
I never really got to watch his matches as a kid because my dad always made us change the channel any time he was on the screen and gave us this long speech about how it was a sin and all that bs. It was the first thing I can remember that brought my dad's beliefs into question for me. Goldust helped make me a free-thinker just by existing.
Goldust during the electrocution era was hilarious Great on the mic Early on I didn’t love his character but once the bizarre went in a more psychotic direction I loved it. Wish people took him more seriously as a performer his gimmick is one of the few odd ones to survive the attitude era
I really commend Dustin for serving the WWE for all the years he did as Goldust. Because as a young kid - I thought the gimmick was weird, lame and just not cool in any way. It was VERY funny - I have to admit that. But I believe Dustin always deserved better honestly, looking back.
People don’t understand how much heat and over he was at that time, I remember being at a house show at the cow palace, the type of shyt people were yelling on his way back to the dressing room. Was nuclear heat, Easily top 10 heels of all time
Gold dust could've been a good WWE champion he was a good intercontinental champion the fans would've loved him as WWE champion they could've done a lot more n better with him
Something just popped in my head when he said Vince McMahon now stays in his office and back in the day he was one of the fans I think he needs to come out of the office and be one of the fans again and for the gold dust character Hands down in my top five growing up watching him make that character what it is amazing my hat goes off to him
@@The3nd187 Sad thing about it is that everybody knew I knew one person in my life with that kind of money they all do it The one question I’ve been asking for the last day or two is which one of the family members release the information because it came out quite conveniently right when he was trying to get back into the company I thought my family was messed up sad to see a legacy get tarnished like that I don’t think I can ever recover I’m surprised wrestling is still on TV and not cancelled like everything else I haven’t watched wrestling for a very long time don’t think I’ll ever again
Dustin is a very underrated wrestler in his own right. Even in AEW as an "old hat" he's adding new moves to his repertoire, doing great work. Would have liked to see his natural self as an alter ego to Golddust.
i stopped watching wrestling in about the mid 80s just because i was starting high school and i was out doing things and i was playing guitar and trying to be in bands and stuff, but just every now and then in the 90s i would catch an episode when my roommates would be watching. so i saw Goldust every now and then and mostly was just curious and confused about what the hell he was supposed to be? he looked like he was supposed to be an alien or something, but based on like one of those weird 70s glam rock era sci fi films. and he would come to the ring with like a sexy girl companion but then he would do flirty sexual stuff towards his opponents so i was like is he supposed to be gay or bi or is he just supposed to be mentally messing with their heterosexuality to throw them off their game? so i was just utterly confused what exactly the gimmick was. now to hear this, he was supposed to be a movie star! how the hell is your gimmick that you are a movie star if you dont actually have any movies?
When i was in high school we had an assignment to write a haiku poem. I did mine based on goldust's feud with roddy piper. The teacher read it in front of the class and had the most puzzled look on his face...good times 😂
Dustin went with it and Goldust became one of the most memorable wrestling characters we've ever got. He filled his father's shoes and then some, I wish Dustin was treated with more respect.
When I was just a kid and Gold Dust was came out, it sort of confused me and I rationalized by thinking “it’s all a big joke”. My dad affirmed this assured me it was just to psyche out his opponents making them uncomfortable. So when he started showing up with a bombshell like Runnels this only confirmed what I thought. I never once thought he was gay.
Some of the funniest shit I saw on WWF back then was Goldust. Just hilarious seeing him getting all the other workers getting absolutely unhinged over him. Couple that with a hell of an entrance, & you had just gold!
Do you think the Goldust character could have gone further and become WWF Champion? Let us know in the comments.
The Goldust character feels custom made for the IC title. I can't see him being enough of a threatening heel or beloved babyface to be WWF champ.
Did golddust win any championships?
@@jameswesten2018 Intercontinental and tag team belts.
Dustin was a great talent 👏 b4 Goldust!! He took the character to a whole another level!! HOF#
Had razor not been weird about androgenous things I think putting the title on golddust and had razor cap the feud by beating him for it
For me personally, Goldust was a midcarder character, he was a great Heel and a credible IC champion. He was controversial, Bizarre, unfiltered and adult rated he was made for the WWF/E Attitude Era. He is the 2nd greatest character Vince Mcmahon ever created after the Undertaker. And in my opinion the character Goldust DOES deserve to be in the WWE hall of fame.
If it wasn't for Bookdust, Goldust would have gone down in history as a total failure.
@@JungSooLeeegolddust vs Piper was awesome.
Ha.
@@bryanmack4054 Goldust winning WWF Gold? Makes sense to me
@@JungSooLeee Goldust was a great heel long before that
Lol, are you forgetting the Vince McMahon character he created? Basically one of the greatest heel characters of all time. Also the undertaker character wouldn't have lasted past the New Gen era without Mark Calloway evolving it.
He did a phenomenal job. His character will live on forever. The comedy promos with Booker T are still some of my favorite WWF nostalgia
TELL ME, YOU DID NOT JUST SAY THAT. - Booker T
I think that's when he adopted that phrase.
Obi bookanobi SUKKKAAAAAHHHH
It was so good, they didn't have to wrestle
Also the R truth promo/team ups are comedy gold
@@andrejohnsao7899 I remember Booker joked about that in an interview. He said it was great because they didn't have to wrestle and still got paid. They just filmed some 30 min - 1 hr worth of promos and they were done for most nights
Goldust made it look so easy I would’ve never guessed he was nervous doing his act. That’s how good he is.
Ppl will say crap like "Vince done this to rib and hurt the Rhodes family" I disagree. Dustin being himself was only gonna go so high because ppl are just gonna see u as The Dreams son. Goldust got him to heights he would have never achieved otherwise and got him out of his dad's shadow with his own identity.
Back then I hated Goldie. I thought it was stupid and disgusting. Now 2023 I see it as amazing, groundbreaking and simply genius. Dustin deserves an Emmy .
Yup - can only say 'bravo' after the fact LOL
I feel bad that he was stuck with a gimmick he wasn't comfortable with but i guess that's the business.
I used to laugh so hard because of this dude. All these dudes out there going Super Sayan and then you had Golddust
@@zackfair6791 I think of it like actors on a TV show being given a character to play that they don't particularly like, but it's their job to say the lines. Or to grope another character, if that's what the script says.
Hey, hey, hey... back then it was still real to us damnit 😢
In the beginning, Goldust's entrances on television would cut to 16x9 letterboxing - like a movie screen, and be shown with a different filter while golden confetti rained down from the ceiling. It was amazing.
I got to see it once in person. The golden confetti was little circles of thin gold plastic sheeting, about 1 inch in diameter - that was how they fluttered much slower than normal confetti. It was incredible in person and for a long time I had a few of those little gold pieces of gold plastic in the pocket of my winter jacket.
Did you end up gay? 😂😂😂
Awesome memory.
He was so natural at portraying Goldust, that i thought that was his own gimmick. Im surprised to hear how much coaching he had gotten.
I was surprised he didn't understand he was copying Exotic Adrian Street. Even used his own wife as a valet.
I will say this that when Dustin ever officially retires, his Goldust RUN will be his ticket to the WWE Hall of Fame. He made the most of that character, and probably one of the few iconic and memorable characters in a crappy era of WWF wrestling (1995). Dustin is a legend.
I really wished they inducted him last year, since the theme was “Hollywood” it just made sense but yeah he definitely is a hall of famer
I'm sat here tryna work out why you capitalised the word RUN 😂
1995 was a great time in WWF wrestling. If you were an early 80s baby that is...
A crappy era? That was the best era 96 to 2006
@@caper087 He literally said 95 which wasn't a great year...
Goldust... the gimmick you LOVED to HATE back in the the day. He had me eating out of the palm of his hand when I was a kid. Expertly played, Dustin.
Nah it’s still creepy. Not because it’s a trans person, but because it’s Vince mcmahon’s funhouse mirror image of what he thinks trans people are. That trans and androgynous are the same thing. Can’t you see that? You’re in denial.
I always skipped the channel when he was on
@@bigdonald123Afraid you'd catch gay through the screen or something? Lmao c'mon bro
@thisdude9363 nah I'm not weak minded like you that's not the kinds sh*t I'm into I watch what I like 💯
@@thisdude9363I skipped all his parts to, I'm happy for you that u loved that tingly feel it gave you in your tummy. Others (real men) were repulsed.
One of the best wrestling characters of all-time. That feud with Razor Ramon was gold.
And Ahmed Johnson.
Goldust was a character way ahead of his time yet could only really exist in the attitude era. Probably a lot of us watchibg then as kids/young men never fully understood him at the time, but for me he is a hall of famer.
This is such a tough gimmick to pull off. I can't think of too many people that could make this work and he had massive heat with the fans. He was such a great worker in the ring though. I think Vince gave him and Dusty some of the toughest gimmicks because of things that happened in the territory days but they both doubled down and got over quickly.
“The bizarre one “ was quite the appropriate moniker for him. You didn’t know why Goldust was the way he was but you didn’t have to. It was actually more intriguing, not knowing.
The shock value was great and the way the character evolved was disturbing and kept people wondering how far it would go. I saw an interview with the Hitman and he recommended new wrestlers in the business watch Dustin because he thought he was such a pro in the ring. Dusty was about as charismatic as anyone can be and I enjoyed his matches a lot also.
Goldust was the last guy I can think of that got real heat even after the curtain being pulled back.
@@IAmKillEveryone " it was like they were screaming every profane name that they could possibly call me, and I was like, ‘Holy f*ck’. And I’m looking at Savio in the ring and I’m staying away from the rails because they’re stepping over, and they’re spitting, and they’re cussing. And this is…’95, this is 1995 or 1996"
I'm still convinced the gimmick was a rib on Dustin, but he made it work.
It's very good to know that it was Savio's idea.
Savio has a great business mind. He helped countless wrestlers over the years. An unsung heroe.
Over here at Puerto Rico, he created IWA which was super hot from 1999 - 2004
My friend says it was even better than WWE, I dont know cause my dumass stopped watching wrestling in 98😂😅
Goldust and Booker T to this day is still one of my favourite tag teams
That's King Booker you Pesent, 👑....😁
I got a lot of crap as a kid for being such a Goldust fan. But it was just so bizarre and edgy that it was fun. Here was a character who didn't give a damn what he did. Now that's punk rock...
You were born ahead of your time.. always loved Goldust promos
nah your gay dude admit it
Too funny
I remember the first time I saw Goldust in action. He was so different from ever heel I'd ever seen and instantly stood out. He was ahead of his time. Also, those Goldist Booker promos were legendary.
He played goldust sooo well that I’m shocked this wasn’t his own creation. Mad props to him because he really owned that character!
It only worked because of the time and place the world was in.
Also, because his wife, Terry, was UNBELIEVABLE!
Terri had a fantastic rack 😂
Well obviously, the time and place are big factors concerning everything.
@Erebus008 Keep quiet. Quit being an insufferable contrarian
His character was HILARIOUS 😂. When he was being the Roc. During a promo video. Made me a fan
As a kid watching, i knew the character was "weird" but it made me a fan. His take as a heel and badass theme song sold me, and i remember getting a Goldust figure for Christmas, one of the best toys i ever gotten lol. I hope Dustin gets induced to the hall of fame cause no one could've pulled off that character, cause it was way ahead of its time!!!
This guy definitely deserves to be in the Hall of Fame… how many guys would go to that level of commitment and entitlement… especially back then when maybe wasn’t accepted as much you know
Well... commitment? How about the Boogeyman, the guy's eaten millions of worms for his gimmick.
I love how many characters that really made it were started by a phone call from Vince and them just saying yes even tho they didn’t have a clue what it would be 🤣
Im so glad that Dustin and Cody are friends now and that Dustin made peace with his dad , thank god.
Just say you like gayass gold dust. LOL
The Goldust character was unique and ahead of it's time. Dustin deserves credit for doing it well, no one else on roster during the the 90s could have performed it other than Dustin. No doubt he deserves to be in the Hall of Fame.
Similar with Undertaker if another wrestler had that character it wouldn't of worked and definitely wouldn't of lasted
Who woulda guessed you'd see a Goldie every time you go to Walmart in 2024
It was based on Exotic Adrian Street gimmick from back in the 70's.
I always loved the comedic element to gold dust. His butt bump move, his Irish whip, fall on the ground and face slap move, his taunt, it was so much fun
The thing that Dustin showed above all is just pure commitment to a character and getting it right. And it was a one in a million chance to work. It also put something on the screen that needed less stigma and I think he was the man to do it. Dustin to me is one of the all-time greats for his characters as well as the longevity of his wrestling career.
Yea. Wonder what he was getting paid lol
I give credit to Dustin for being able to survive being hit with omophobic slurs night after night literally for YEARS just for doing his job
This speaks volume about how professional he was.
Probably made it easier that he got to go back to his hotel with his wife Terri every night. A very easy snap back to reality.
What did he care? He wasn’t gay.
@@Ori0n1975 Mohammed Hassan did care a lot being called a terrorist and he wasn't a terrorist either
@@NekoHibaCosplayWell being called a terrorist is probably worse than being called gay lol
@JG-lo1vb in a time when people like Mathew Shepard, were being tortured and left to die by his own countrymen for being gay in the wrong town....it's not.
Wether you like the gold dust persona or not no one can deny that Dustins character work was probably some of the best there’s been , if you think about his upbringing and how different it is from the act then that makes it even more special to be honest
Just say you’re gay.
@@Max-zv8hmpathetic
Not a fan.
Amazing that Vince would propose this and even more amazing how much Dustin embraced the role. A truly memorable character and so important for the roster
A lot of wrestlers could learn from Dustin. A true professional. He knows it's a work. He knows he's playing a character.
Could the Goldust character have gone further and become WWF Champion? Let us know in the comments below!
The Miz was a transitional wwe champion... if they found a way to make the miz champion then yes goldust could of been not just a transitional champ but a legitimate champion for a decent run.
Razor should have been
as a heel absolutely. Goldust, holding the gold would have been great
No
I dont see why not.
Its really interesting how he was uncomfortable with it, didnt' get it at first, but still said he's gonna give this a try. Also not for nothing, the Golddust music might be the best WWF music of all time haha
I still listen to those songs (especially the one on wwe anthology) pretty regularly. There's a level in Skylanders Racing (or Superchargers Racing, maybe both) that's this golden pyramid Indiana Jones type thing and the song always makes me think of Goldust too.
You have to keep in mind that Dustin was raised to do whatever you had to do to take care of your family and pay the bills.
His work on the mic during "Good Friends, Better Enemies" is incredible. Made that match bearable.
I was there. It was pretty bad
@@BootleggedAtTheGatheringDustin threatening to kiss every single person in the audience, hilarious.
Dustin knocked Goldust out of the park. I hate that they killed his push. If that character debuted today, it would’ve went straight to the moon.
To be fair if it was done today the writing would be worse off for it and it would be very pandering. The character wouldn't last. It worked because of the time.
@@JungleCatRico I agree, his character was ahead of its time. It definitely would have felt like it was pandering to the LGBTQ+ community if done today. But since it was around a time when LGBT wasn't as acceptable it worked.
I never hated Goldust like everyone else, but he always confused the shit out of me as a kid 🤣 Now that I’m grown, I understand the genius behind the character. Bro was completely unpredictable
Dustin did one hell of a job as golddust . He was brilliant. Just like his dad made those poka dots cool he did the same with golddust.
Vince made fools out dudes is what I see it as
I dont think he'd ever admit to it but i think Vince stopped caring about his creation as a fan would when the PG era started and just started running it like a business.
I think you are right. I can't blame him. pretty much went from being the owner of the popular bar in town, to a popular daycare center
The WWE was PG for the majority of its existence it was only TV-14 for maybe 6 years at most, that is a small amount of time when you are talking about a 50 year old company. Vince’s father believed that pro wrestling was family entertainment, everyone can enjoy it so had he been alive he would have been not very happy with what his son was doing. It is why Sammartino cut ties with them until he was inducted, he didn’t want to be associated with it. Had the nWo not happened it would have stayed PG.
@@andrewft31 Vince loves every horrible raunchy thing that era ever did. he was extremely proud of it and wouldn't have done it any other way. I just watched a clip of Golddust explaining that Vince came up with his gimmick and when Golddust ran his hands up and down another dudes crotch for the first time, Vince was absolutely ecstatic about it. this was well before NWO. Vince also clearly had no problem inserting himself in many such segments such as him trying to get multiple people to kiss his bare ass on tv, publicly cheating on his wife and making out with Dawn Marie on tv, trying to kiss trish stratus's bare ass on tv. if he was ashamed of it, he wouldn't have personally inserted himself into the show. he loved every second.
@andrewft31 it wasn't pg, they went pg after they left Thursday night Smack down on UPN44 cable twelve. The moment it went to cable it all went to the drain.
His Vince McMahon impersonation was Top Tier 😂
If I remember, Cody had said whilst Dusty and Dustin were in a bad spot when Goldust debuted, Cody remembers when the family was watching when the first promo for Goldust was cut, when he would look at his dad, Dusty was secretly smiling when watching it on TV. Dusty loved his kids, even when he was mad at em
"Dustin wanted to get breast implants and we had to talk him out of it" - Jim Cornette
Lucky it wasn't 2023, someone probably would get a sex change to get over lmao
WHAT?
@@frostedbutts4340Jim Cornette would be cancelled in 2023 for talking him out of it
@@frostedbutts4340lol, what an illogical statement made by someone trapped in a bubble...
@@frostedbutts4340 It's been 0 days since someone last made an irrelevant social commentary on CuRrEnT yEaR
Gold dust scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. I loved it. One of the most iconic characters.
Goldust is so unique, his comedy segment is the most hilarious, funniest segment ever. My favourite is when he's with Booker T lol
He went from "what the fuck does androgynous mean?" to "Vince, I want to get breast implants"! Lol
why does Dustin have such a good impression of vince😂
The thing that I remember most was Goldust and Rowdy Roddy Piper in the backlot brawl, WrestleMania 12 I think
His match with roddy piper was his best match for me had everything
Wrong. His greatest match was with Marty Janetty, because it was his debut.
I remember when I seen him when I was child looking like what’s going on with this guy but as I grew older and understood the wrestling business I grew a deep appreciation for his character for Dustin to pull that off during that time is nothing but remarkable the Gold Dust character is literally why he became a wrestling legend besides being Dusty Son
It was the perfect midcard character and Dustin was amazing. I LOVED the period where he would use movie quotes in his promos.
Upper mid card.
we def need more interview story - clips like this more often haha
Goldust is a legendary character. Had it been portrayed by a wrestler without Dustin's pedigree it would've failed miserably. It was a fantastic gimmick at the perfect time.
It was a copy of Exotic Adrian Street.
In a way yes they did similar things. The world has evolved a lot in the past 30 years lol. What was a heel before might be a face these days.
@@maskcollector6949 Similar is an understatement.
Thank you for all the laughs and shock moments, definitely one of the top 10 most entertaining
He is a true professional in the wrestling business. I hope he gets into the Hall of Fame.
Sign of a great deal of faith, booking someone with a tough job and not only getting it over but also making it last, two examples Kane as the Undertaker’s brother and Goldust as the bizarre one. Goldust had some epic non wrestling and wrestling moments and pairing with Booker T was perfect. He also does a solid Spinneroonie.
Dustin did amazingly with Goldust. Back then it was real to me as well, and for that to work on children with the entire presentation, you know they struck gold
This character was ballsy for its time. Highly underrated heel and Dustin was a great wrestler.
When I first started watching wrestling. Goldust was one of the very first characters I hated. Dustin did a great job being a heal. Great to see him many years later giving interviews like this.
I watched Dustin Rhodes in WCW as a kid when he was “The Natural”. When I found out he was Goldust I couldn’t believe it
I saw Goldust wrestle in 2012 in a basement in NY in front of 50 ppl when he was trying to get back into the swing of things. Nicest guy. Friggin tall. He said he was trying to get back in
When Gold Dustin popped out in a promo for a kendo stick match. If ya know, you just smiled.
Suddenly, Vince's involvement in making Goldust makes a lot of sense.
You know somewhere Vince has a secret room where he dressed up as goldust pretending to be Buffalo Bill from Silence of the lambs. 😂
He was so entertaining in the ring!
"The crowd exploded on me!" Pause lol
Goldist was one of my favorites growing up, I didn't realize it at the time, but whenever he was on you couldn't look away from the screen, especially with razor ramon
He was Right!...before my time that I understood wrestling, I loved his theme song and the gold dust falling when I was a kid 🤪🤠 hahah
"Rub up my chest, and down my legs, and rub on my...." PAUSE
His wrestling heel was one of the few that could be genuinely disturbing. He did an amazing job.
That character is a classic. That music would hit, light flash and the glitter would start falling along with Marlena walking beside him holding her Cogar😂. That shit was awesome.
One of the greats 💯💯💯
I never really got to watch his matches as a kid because my dad always made us change the channel any time he was on the screen and gave us this long speech about how it was a sin and all that bs. It was the first thing I can remember that brought my dad's beliefs into question for me. Goldust helped make me a free-thinker just by existing.
Your father was a sensible man for that. You are a disgrace to him
Goldust during the electrocution era was hilarious
Great on the mic
Early on I didn’t love his character but once the bizarre went in a more psychotic direction I loved it. Wish people took him more seriously as a performer his gimmick is one of the few odd ones to survive the attitude era
"Shattered Dreams" is the greatest finishing move of all time!
I really commend Dustin for serving the WWE for all the years he did as Goldust. Because as a young kid - I thought the gimmick was weird, lame and just not cool in any way. It was VERY funny - I have to admit that. But I believe Dustin always deserved better honestly, looking back.
It helped him to create his own identity and get out from under the large shadow of his father.
As a kid watching from 2008-13, I liked Goldust. He was entertaining
This guy has got to have some damn good stories... Give him the floor and let him speak
I love these behind the scenes stories.
Dustin honestly made a character that was a jobber and kept gold around his waist for years. Never stayed at the top, but was always close.
His Vince McMahon impression is spot on
He did what he had to do and nailed it!!!!!!!
His Vince impression is AMAZING
Guaranteed a future Hall of Famer.
Props to Savio and Dustin. That character was WAY ahead of it's time.
Goldust would have made a great European champion
People don’t understand how much heat and over he was at that time, I remember being at a house show at the cow palace, the type of shyt people were yelling on his way back to the dressing room. Was nuclear heat, Easily top 10 heels of all time
He’s definitely one of foundering Fathers of the attitude era
Dustin is a legend. He killed it with Goldust!
Dustin does a pretty good Vince McMahon voice
Man Wcw dustin was one of my earliest wrestlers i remembered knowing and liking... boy was i shocked when i realized😂
Gold dust could've been a good WWE champion he was a good intercontinental champion the fans would've loved him as WWE champion they could've done a lot more n better with him
Something just popped in my head when he said Vince McMahon now stays in his office and back in the day he was one of the fans I think he needs to come out of the office and be one of the fans again and for the gold dust character Hands down in my top five growing up watching him make that character what it is amazing my hat goes off to him
We all know why he was in the office now.
@@The3nd187 Sad thing about it is that everybody knew I knew one person in my life with that kind of money they all do it The one question I’ve been asking for the last day or two is which one of the family members release the information because it came out quite conveniently right when he was trying to get back into the company I thought my family was messed up sad to see a legacy get tarnished like that I don’t think I can ever recover I’m surprised wrestling is still on TV and not cancelled like everything else I haven’t watched wrestling for a very long time don’t think I’ll ever again
Dustin is a very underrated wrestler in his own right. Even in AEW as an "old hat" he's adding new moves to his repertoire, doing great work. Would have liked to see his natural self as an alter ego to Golddust.
I think he should've been wwf champ once with the goldust character. He did such a good job with what he was given.
i stopped watching wrestling in about the mid 80s just because i was starting high school and i was out doing things and i was playing guitar and trying to be in bands and stuff, but just every now and then in the 90s i would catch an episode when my roommates would be watching. so i saw Goldust every now and then and mostly was just curious and confused about what the hell he was supposed to be? he looked like he was supposed to be an alien or something, but based on like one of those weird 70s glam rock era sci fi films. and he would come to the ring with like a sexy girl companion but then he would do flirty sexual stuff towards his opponents so i was like is he supposed to be gay or bi or is he just supposed to be mentally messing with their heterosexuality to throw them off their game? so i was just utterly confused what exactly the gimmick was. now to hear this, he was supposed to be a movie star! how the hell is your gimmick that you are a movie star if you dont actually have any movies?
Dustin Rhodes was a fun wrestler to watch. Unique and silky smooth arsenal in the ring. The classic guy who works with the guy that draws the house.
Vince created a universe
When i was in high school we had an assignment to write a haiku poem. I did mine based on goldust's feud with roddy piper. The teacher read it in front of the class and had the most puzzled look on his face...good times 😂
Dustin went with it and Goldust became one of the most memorable wrestling characters we've ever got. He filled his father's shoes and then some, I wish Dustin was treated with more respect.
Sabio knew because that is a recurrent character in Lucha Libre since the 1940s, their name is Exóticos.
When I was just a kid and Gold Dust was came out, it sort of confused me and I rationalized by thinking “it’s all a big joke”. My dad affirmed this assured me it was just to psyche out his opponents making them uncomfortable. So when he started showing up with a bombshell like Runnels this only confirmed what I thought. I never once thought he was gay.
I always liked the Goldust character. I never could figure out why, but the character was just interesting.
Some of the funniest shit I saw on WWF back then was Goldust. Just hilarious seeing him getting all the other workers getting absolutely unhinged over him. Couple that with a hell of an entrance, & you had just gold!
I love everyone's impression of Vince lol, i can hear him saying it in his voice lmao.