Dusty Rhodes

Virgil Riley Runnels Jr., better known as The American Dream Dusty Rhodes, was an American professional wrestler, booker and trainer born on October 11, 1945, in Austin, Texas, who died on June 11, 2015. He worked for the National Wrestling Alliance and the World Wrestling Federation and presented the persona of an American everyman, billed as the son of a plumber, whose unathletic physique and charismatic interviews made him a star. He was a three-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion and, in Jim Crockett Promotions and World Championship Wrestling, a United States Heavyweight Champion and multi-time television, tag team and six-man tag team champion. He is one of seven men inducted into the WWE, WCW, Professional Wrestling and Wrestling Observer Newsletter halls of fame. His sons Dustin and Cody also became wrestlers, and late in life he worked as a backstage booker in WWE developmental territory NXT.