Goldust

## Goldust/Dustin Rhodes

 Roster
 3-Marriage to Marlena segment

## Alliance with his dad(1991-1993)

Dustin Rhodes made his debut at Saturday Night 95 as WCW Heaviweight champion Ric Flair asked who was gonna be his next challenger. He had his first match at Saturday Night 100 defeating Tama. At Superbrawl 1 he was scheduled to face Flair for the title in the main event but instead announced his father's return as Dusty fought Flair instead, afterwards Four Horsemen injured Dustin

He only returned in august wanting revenge on Barry Windham because due to his stupidity in a wargames match, his father was injured. At Halloween Havoc, Dusty returned during their match announcing he was now the owner of WCW, Dustin proceeded to lowblow Windham and defeat him as the father and son duo turned heel with Dusty firing Windham. Doom came out after the match saving Windham from further attack

At Starrcade 1991, Doom defeated The Rhodes to make Windham re-signed, later on the night Dusty introduced the Cruiserweight Championship and held an 8 men package for it but as the match was ending, he added Dustin Rhodes to the match who easily became the inaugural CW champion

At Superbrawl 2, he was forced to run the gauntlet defeating Tom Zenk, Eddie Gilbert and Ricky Steamboat before losing the CW belt to Bobby Eaton in his fourth match. He had his rematch at Wrestlewar in a triple threat also involving Stan Lane but failed to win

Dustin started asking his dad for title shots but was constantly ignored and mocked, during Dusty's feud against Junkyard Dog, Dustin wanted to be the one to retire JYD and therefore get the TV Championship, Dusty slapped him due to this saying it was his duty to end JYD's career.

## Feud with Dusty and end of WCW career(1993-1994)

Dusty started disrespecting his son more and more slapping him everytime he asked for title shots and people slowly started supporting Dustin again. At Slamboree Dustin was scheduled to be in a NO1 contenders match to the WCW Heaviweight belt while Dusty was gonna face Vader but in the last minute Dusty made Dustin be destroyed by Vader and then replaced him in the fatal 4 way NO1 contendership match

After the WCW Heaviweight Championship was vacated, it was put up to grabs in a 32 men tournament, Dustin defeated Hawk and Arn Anderson and in the quarter finals he was scheduled to face his dad as Dusty forced his son to lay down for him but Dustin kicked out at 2 and proceeded to beat the hell out of his dad to a huge pop as he defeated him in one of the best face turns in history. He defeated Cactus Jack in the semi finals and faced one of Dusty's bodyguards Rick Rude in the finals at Fall Brawl but everyone was pissed as Dusty showed up and made sure Rude became the champion instead of his son

Everyone slowly started being against Dusty as Dustin kept attacking him and not even security would save Dusty, WCW personnel invaded the ring and refused to leave and continue the tapings if Dusty didn't give him a loser leaves WCW match against him and he was forced to accept. At Starrcade 1993 Dusty was the special guest ref in his own match so everytime he used a lowblow or chairs he told the ringkeeper not to end the match or else he'd be fired, by the end much of the WCW roster was ringside as Dustin lowblowed Dusty and the ringkeeper refused to ring the bell even if Dusty had called for it, Dustin hit the cross rhodes and pinned his dad as all of WCW's refs came out to count it, everyone celebrated with Dustin in Dusty's last match

Dustin quickly became the biggest face of the company but WCW did nothing with his overness(instead choosing Hogan as the hero of the company) as he was relegated to lowercard feuds beating Masahiro Chono at Superbrawl 4, he was briefly involved with Hulk Hogan in his feud against Dungeon of Doom but at Spring Stampede Meng, Avalanche, Sid Justice and Kevin Sullivan defeated Hogan, The Butcher, Dustin Rhodes and Stunning Austin

He started a feud against Barry Windham who was jealous he never got the support Dustin did, at Slamboree Windham defeated Dustin pretty much killing his push as he was gone for 2 months. He returned in the july 18th episode of Nitro to address the rumors of him leaving but he said his career was just starting, he started another random feud with Johnny B.Badd who wanted to move up to the heaviweight division. At Fall Brawl Dustin defeated Brian Pillman to win the United States Championship and later on the night defeated Badd in a singles match

At Halloween Havoc he immediatly lost the belt to Stunning Austin, afterwards he said he was taking some time off to take his career to the next step but he was interrupted by a debuting The Giant who chokeslammed him. The Giant wanted to be signed to WCW but Dustin wanted a stipulation as he would only get a WCW contract if he could defeat Dustin, Eric Bischoff added the stipulation that if Dustin lost he would be fired from WCW. At Starrcade 1994, only a year after his biggest win, he lost to The Giant in a last man standing match and was forced out of WCW

## One-off ECW appearance(1995)

He made a special appearence in the Return of the Funks special event as ECW Heaviweight champion Shane Douglas challenged anyone in the world to face him and Dustin showed up but lost

## Goldust(1995-1996)

In May 1995, WWF started airing vignettes for Goldust, a flamboyant character who also seemed really creepy, he made his official debut at RAW 166 after Savio Vega lost a match, he told Vega it was all okay and started getting touchy with him which Vega hated and tried to fight him but to not much success. At In Your House 17, he defeated Savio Vega but it was clear he was a gay character which quickly got the 90s crowd to turn on him

He continued to sexualize Vega and insinuating threesomes with other wrestlers like Men on a Mission blurring the lines of PG WWF, at Summerslam Goldust challenged Vega to a match where the loser would have to act and dress as the winner for 30 days as it was the only way Vega could finally reveal his true sexuality. At Summerslam Goldust defeated Vega

Vega started spitting on his name as he kept losing matches on purpose and humilliating himself to humilliate the Goldust character, at In Your House 18 he had an IC title match against Jeff Jarrett but Savio distracted him to not win. At G1 Finals, Savio vs Goldust ended in a double countout, they started being involved with Jeff Jarrett for the IC belt and at Survivor Series the feud ended as Jarrett defeated Goldust, Savio Vega and Bret Hart in a fatal 4 way to retain the belt

Goldust started a feud with Bodydonnas leading up to Wrestlemania as Bodydonnas wanted to knock some sense into Goldust and turn him into a real man. At Wrestlemania 12 they were having a handicap match when Vince Mcmahon suddenly showed up and replaced the match with a 7 men ladder match for the vacant IC belt between Goldust, Zip, Skip, Sensei Hakushi, Savio Vega, Marc Mero and King Kong Bundy which ended with Mero and Goldust unhooking the belt at the same time giving us no winner

## Intercontinental champion and marriage with Marlena(1996-1997)

An 8 men tournament began for the vacant intercontinental championship, Goldust defeated British Bulldog and X-Pac and on the finals he defeated Marc Mero to become intercontinental champion after Marlena debuted and helped him

Goldust defended the title against X-Pac at Money in the Bank and Bob Holly at King of the Ring but lost the title a day later against Brian Pillman. At Summerslam, Goldust and Marlena defeated Marc Mero and Sable

He wanted to be exposed to the world and wanted to prove he should be taken seriously and started announcing himself as Dustin Runnels, he admitted he was gay and the crowd booed him, due to this Dustin refused to have matches until he felt respected. He weirdly returned as Goldust in the Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal at Wrestlemania 13 and won it lastly eliminating Bradshaw

At Canadian Stampede, Mankind defeated Goldust and Bradshaw in a triple threat to become NO1 contender to the IC belt. He was involved in the G1 but afterwards a new angle began as he proposed to Marlena, Austin interrupted after she said yes and beat up Goldust. He became NO1 contender to Austin's IC title and had his marriage in the november 3rd episode of RAW is WAR when the glass shattered and Austin stunned Goldust, the priest and Marlena. He got his title match in december but failed to defeat Austin

## Managed by Dusty Rhodes(1998-1999)

In march, Goldust interrupted a Nation of Domination promo saying that they would never have full power if they don't have a white guy in it and started screaming about "White Power", he managed to gather Jeff Jarrett, Steve Blackman and Bob Holly to create a White Power group. At Unforgiven NOD defeated White Power in an 8 men tag as the group was silently dropped due to the poor reception and criticism it was getting

In may, Dusty Rhodes returned to WWF in a backstage segment slapping Goldust and telling him that he should be a man. The week after, Goldust re-debuted as The Man Formerly Known as Goldust but started being called Dustin Runnels regularly. Dustin tagged with Blackman for a while but Dustin proceeded to betray him

At RAW is WAR 308, Dustin was entering for his match when Kane punched him and chokeslammed him off the stage injuring him. He returned in the 1999 Royal Rumble as Goldust at number 27 but was eliminated by Austin. Dusty Rhodes was pissed at this but Goldust continued his flamboyant character as he characterized himself as a "gay man that fucks and has a marriage with a woman". Pager T ended up seducing Terri Runnels in a brief segment which started a short feud, at Over The Edge Goldust defeated Pager T and afterwards Dusty lowblowed his son. Dusty revealed in an episode of RAW that he only returned to make Dustin a man so he could handle the truth of a secret that he was hiding since his birth as he revealed that Terri Runnels was Goldust's long lost sister, Terri left Goldust in disgust and Goldust proceeded to beat up his dad with chairs. At Breakdown 1999 he defeated his dad Dusty Rhodes.

2 weeks later, he had his last WWF match in a Lightweight Championship NO1 contendership match against Ivory, Rios, Jeff Hardy, Matt Hardy, Taka Michinoku, Dick Togo and Mikey Whipwreck, he left WWF due to frustration of his directionless career

## Career history

### Companies/Promotions

 WWF
 WWF

### Face/heel turns

 Heel
 Face
 Heel

## Championships and Accomplishments

* World Wrestling Federation
* Intercontinental Championship(1 time)
* Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal(1997)

* World Championship Wrestling
* United States Championship(1 time)
* Cruiserweight Championship(1 time)