The Miami News – March 18, 1977
By Bill Brubaker
TAMPA – On television, he seems to be serious when he tells an opponent: “I’m gonna break your back!” or something equally terrible. In wrestling magazines, he swears, “I like to hurt people.” But, does he really?
He is perhaps the most hated wrestler on the Florida tour – hated, that is, by the thousands of fans who gladly pay $3 or $4 to watch him dirty-punch “good guy” Dusty Rhodes and call him, as he did in one recent match, “you son of a bitch, you.” Continue reading