[Mikey]

The overall number one seed in the tournament gets his first workout here, as “Nature Boy” Ric Flair has to deal with long time arch-nemesis Dusty Rhodes. The Dream slipped by Shane Douglas by the slimmest of margins in the first round. Will Big Dust get funky like a monkey? Or will Naitch take Rhodes to school like it’s 1985 all over again?





Poll closes Friday, 11:59pm EST.

[The Jewish Cunthead]

Sorry Dusty, you're done.

[williamssl]

Duh.

And no whining bullshit about throwing Dusty a vote cuz he deserves not to be shut out if ___________ didn't get shut out. Fucking vote straight up for who you think should win.



Duh.

[creepy]

So, the Rockets played the Horny-ets the other night and everytime Chris Paul scored the N.O. Announcer played a Ric Flair clip of "Wooooo!!!!" No one else, I think, transcends sports and sporfs entertainment like that.


I'm too fucking drunk to keep voting legit-ly......

[Lucky]

I'm 90% sure you're always too drunk to be posting/voting. And that's coming from me.

[National Champion Chris Cole]

I never liked Dusty anyway so this is really easy.

[Moosehead Jack]

Dust was another on of my favorites, but Flair has to go over here. Though I do hope Dusty doesn't get shut out

[Batman]

And for once, Flair won't have to cheat or get a reverse decision to beat him.

[Mikey]

Can I lock the poll now to preserve the shutout?

[The Jewish Cunthead]

Go now?

[Mikey]

fsolomon75 said:

Go now?

EXALT! Nobody else probably knows why, but fucking exalt!

[gooker]

Let me on this bandwagon!

WHOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

[Attitude Adjuster]

Couldn't you at least have found a better photo of Big Dust?

[gooker]

attitudeadjuster said:

Couldn't you at least have found a better photo of Big Dust?

Imagine being thrown in jail and waking up one night to see THAT standing in your cell's doorway?

[Batman]

Here he is at the peak of his career:



Damn. He was always pretty terrifyingly ugly, wasn't he.

Cody's mom must have been smokin' hot.

[gooker]

He has got one scarred-up motherfuckin' forehead. He must've been blading every night in the old days.

[DevSop]

I'm so close to giving Dusty a vote just to annoy everyone and then I realize the only reason he's in the second round and Sting isn't is because creepy's a fucking hypocritical moron.

[Batman]

The arguments for why one should vote for them were self-contradictory, that's true, but the man just voted for who he liked best.

Also, just because a race was close doesn't mean it's fair to single out one person and say it was "their fault."

The nine or ten other people who voted the same way can just as easily be considered the "deciding vote."

[Moosehead Jack]

wasn't it Owen vs. Sting? I voted for Owen


And Dusty shouldn't be getting shut out. I agree that Flair should win, but part of what made Flair so great was having an antagonist, and Dusty was his antagonist throughout the 80's

[Batman]

Sop was talking about two different close races from the first round he's mad about.

But, yeah, nobody would be "annoyed" if Dusty got a vote.

Also, wouldn't Dusty have been the protagonist?

[Moosehead Jack]

would he? I am not sure how that applies in wrestling, they were both after one another all the time, so I am not sure how that works

[Lucky]

If Dusty had ever entertained me with anything besides the fact that he sounded drunk every Saturday night I probably would have tossed him a vote to make sure he didn't become the first shutout victim. But I have NEVER understood what the appeal of Dusty was. But I don't get a lot of that era's guys, especially the faces.

[salmonjunkie]

Looks like Dusty's getting shut out, if you wheeeeeel.

[Batman]

Moose: I was just joking on the other sense of the word--protagonist and antagonist can also mean "good-guy" and "bad-guy."

You were clearly using "antagonist" in the other sense--"enemy." Dusty was certainly Flair's enemy. But he was also the good guy--"protagonist" opposite of "antagonist" . . .



Carry on, nothing to see here . . .

[The Jewish Cunthead]

salmonjunkie said:

Looks like Dusty's getting shut out, if you wheeeeeel.

That reminds me of the biggest Dusty mark from these parts.... who uhhh ain't here no more.