My favourite part of the Seven promo is when Dustin says "Goldust almost killed my career" a fan in attendance shouts out a perfectly timed "...you never had one" 😂
Yeah well that fan was clearly an idiot. Makes you wonder about someone who thought it was clever. At least the tool who yelled it did it spur of the moment.
I agree. Being Dusty's son was never going to be easy but Dustin was able to step out of his father's shadow and forge his own career. A true workhorse who could get a good match out of almost anyone with a sliver of talent. Easy hall of fame pick.
yeah i think that fued got cut short because RIP Brodie Lee, but i was very curious to see if Dustin might have entetained the offer. He hasnt a a story in a while
But yet they could have tempted him to bring back Black Reign....He could have even found a new Rellik and they could have constantly told us how thats killer spelled backwards.
I had a laugh when the Dark Order tried to recruit Dustin and said you can come in as 7 and telling him he knows that he really wants to join the Dark Order and become 7 🤣🤣🤣 then I thought there must be loads of younger fans who had know idea what Evil Uno meant. It was a nice little Easter egg talking about a character that TNT had complaints and told WCW to drop the gimmick especially now since they’re back on TNT
If Seven had carried on, his legacy would probably ultimately just been disregarded as an Undertaker knock off, as there's not much else they can go with a character like that.
They fire wrestlers for blading? Do they have to only blade up when the company says they can or something? I've often wondered if it wouldn't be better to just have fake blood hidden somewhere for such occasions, rather than having their actual blood flying everywhere. Seems like a recipe for disaster to me, using real blood, and it disfigures guys.
backlot brawl, and still popping tagging with booker t in 2003. goldust and brian pillman wud have gone insane if brians unfortunate and untimely death didnt happen.
@@bigballrecall I wonder if the writers were trashing Goldust, I find it hard to believe that Dustin hated the Goldust persona yet played him on and off for over 20 years
@Master X Just a regular old traditional Batman villain. The true(st) Batman ever was The Animated Series. Imagine Goldust in that rogues gallery. He works.
Dustin Rhodes, a performer I came to respect more and more as time goes on. This guy took absolute trash and spun it into gold (see what I did there) and never gave up.
Rocco Viola Hansen should be a furniture salesman He'd be employee of the month every time out. 'I'm here to buy a dinner set for my wife?' 'Who don't youtake a seat?' 'No I just want a dinner set.' 'Just take a seat right over there!' By the end of the year he'd be the best seller of home furniture in the company's history.
I remember when all of this went down, and I remember being really excited about the gimmick. I have always liked the crazy supernatural gimmicks, due to the fact that your options with them are essentially limitless. I liked the vignettes, and I was a huge fan of Rhodes and all of his various gimmicks (I recognized him in the first vignette), and I was really excited to see what Russo would do with it. I was disappointed that they didn't go with it, but as a teenager at the time, I loved all Shitstain's worked shoot stuff. It's a shame that Dustin never really got the chance to be on top. He was as good as his dad, if not better. He just never really got the chance to show it for a variety of different reasons. At least he is being treated with respect and being treated like a legend in AEW. He deserves that.
@Gaylord Focker No. It was a direct ripoff of the villains of a 90s movie called Dark City, by the same director as did The Crow (which Sting ripped off). The makeup, the hat, the outfit, the floating/levitating. All straight from Dark City.
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Goldust would have been a career-ender when it came out but He owned it all these years. I just wish he was pushed more in his WWE returns. That wcw run ill blame bichoff
I was there when he made his debut. They had printed cards with the listing of all the matches for the night stuck into copies of WCW magazine there and his name was spelled "Se7en".
I honestly think a lot of the success of the goldust character came from his awesome entrance music. The music composers and the effect of entrance music is sometimes so under appreciated
I actually like Se7en. Reminded me of Salem's Lot/Nightmare on Elm Street sort of thing, but yeah the child molesting thing...OF course I also really liked Berlyn.
I love horror characters and would've loved seven but yeah the kid thing is very Jeffrey Epstein. I think if they peft that part out it would've been good.
I was intrigued as a kid seeing the video packages for Seven, I was disappointed when the character was immediately dropped but being grown up now I can laugh at how much Dustin ran down WCW with no regrets
@@Kas58223 That was horrible, wasn't it? It lasted a little more than a New York Minute...and that was all. By then, Dustin Rhodes was physically out of shape, and struggled in his matches. I was glad to see it come to an end.
@@ronaldshank7589 so was i and then hearing he was suffering mentally and having all sorts of problems I was so delighted he got himself in phenomenal shape no wonder the man himself never wants to mention it if it a dark period in his life
Yeah... right!😁😁😁 It was seemingly ridiculous. Oh, well... we've seen worse. Have you watched any WWE storylines lately? Some of them are so lame, that it makes the whole "Seven" storyline look somewhat good, in comparison. Oh well...it is what it is!
A shame he had to ditch this persona over those vignettes since it could have have given Dustin a chance to try and play a gimmick character far different from Golddust.
Just look at Dustin's Black Reign gimmick in TNA. It most likely would have gone like that. Though since Seven was Dustin's idea, MAYBE it would have been different. Depends on how much control over the Black Reign story Dustin had in TNA.
Thanks for this bio, I always see videos saying Seven was a child abductor character... But he's clearly taking inspiration from Salem's Lot with the promos... So that's so unfounded.
It seemed more like a horror movie akin to "The Boogeyman" or "Slender Man" These promos gave out some very child molester/murderer vibes. I'm surprised Russo didn't write in the "Come float with me" line, ripping off IT
Standards and Practices impeded a lot of the things creative wanted to do at that time and im not surprised they got in the way of Seven continuing on. That worked shoot promo is a huge reason it is remembered as well as it is and if Russo couldn't write the character into the show he had to change its course. I wonder if the intention was to re-debut Dustin shortly after and things just kept getting in the way of doing that for Dustin. Im guessing that the course of Dustin's debut of that character was well underway so they basically had to pay the intro off at least once. Seven likely didnt have real legs anyway but it is a very interesting story.
I always thought that even with that stupid burial promo, if they'd actually pushed Rhodes and allowed him to tear through some of the gimmicks on the roster that fans weren't liking so much in 1999/2000 (And there were a lot of those) and his gimmick could have been an audience avatar rebelling against everything wrong with WCW at the time, it could have worked. But they weren't going to do that. Ever.
Forget his in-ring work: Dustin Rhodes was the greatest actor and promo to ever grace the world of professional wrestling. No other great promo-giver ever had to work against his sexual orientation or challenge the cultural attitudes of the time. Goldust was probably the most psychological gimmick in the history of wrestling. Dustin sells himself short. He wasn't just a great wrestler; he was an artist.
You do a hell of a nice job on your video packages. The right amount of wrestling history and irreverent humor, sprinkled with just enough opinion and conjecture make your videos very entertaining. Plus you don't mind using a little bit of stronger language because you're dealing with adults here. And, oh yeah, no robotic delivery from a computerized voiceover. Keep it up man!
As I recall, part of Turner Broadcasting’s concern stemmed from the growing public hysteria around child abduction in the US. Following a handful of high-profile abduction cases in the mid to late ‘90s, US news media had started whipping people into a frenzy over the idea that every child was in constant danger of being kidnapped whenever their parents so much as blinked. South Park would famously parody the situation a couple years later with the episode “Child Abduction is Not Funny” when the hysteria hit its peak following the abduction of Elizabeth Smart.
I liked the worked shoot. If you have to cancel the gimmick, and you also had to get away from the Goldust gimmick, it made sense to take that head on.
If u think about it. 🤔 THIS WAS PURE GOLD! IT WOULD OF BEEN WCW version & answer to a UNDERTAKER like character they should of made Seven a lil more Poltergeist like but it was all there!
I always wondered what the plans were for the Seven Gimick. Obviously it was a Darkside Gimick. Did they tried to create a WCW Version of Undertaker? Was it the first Version of Black Reign (TNA)?
As a youngster I loved that entrance. Due to my family moving around, I actually never saw Dustin wear the gimmick without the white paint until this video, but I think there could have been something there.
Dustin Rhodes own interview said Seven was his own creation, and he liked and wanted this gimmick to work so well. So, this wasn't Vince Russo creation
I genuinely liked this entire debacle. The vignettes were hilarious and creepy, and the shoot promo was great way to reintroduce Dustin as a no-nonsense fighter.
Loved this! I’ve always been curious about the Seven gimmick because such little stuff is out there about it as it was so brief! Dustin’s entire career presents so much content! WB hits it out the park again, keep the videos going man, some of the best wrestling content on TH-cam right now 👏🏻
Honestly this could’ve worked the idea of Seven is interesting the floating to the ring was overkill but, i think it was a inside jab at the WWF for the silly stuff they did with entrances (By this time period the internet itself was bleeding into Pro Wrestling and effecting all (3) promotions (Dustin Rhodes can pull of anything he gets overlooked as how good his was) Why so many buy into Cody Rhodes being the second coming of Dusty Rhodes is insulting Dustin so much better
Dustin Rhodes was doing his best Peter Pan interpretation? Gotta give it to Dustin though as just like his dad and his brother, he threw himself into whatever gimmick he was given.
What's sad is Dustin Rhodes never made it to any of the AKI wrestling games. He was in WWF during Would Tour and Revenge and in WCW for Wrestlemania 2000 and No Mercy.
I would’ve liked to have seen where this gimmick would have went. The vignettes were well produced and effectively creepy. I don’t know how it would’ve translated in the arena though.
I always attempted to figure out how no one seemed to realise how the character was coming across before he debuted. I know Goldust was controversial but he actually committed to it in the early days and made the character interesting. With Seven it just seemed to be let's make him overly weird just for the sake of it and was a case of let's do something similar to what worked for you before.
I wish you would’ve mentioned Evil Uno trying to recruit Dustin Rhodes 2 months ago on AEW Dark as the 7th member of The Dark Order, in an attempt to revive the Seven gimmick.
I really remember his run in wcw in 2001 fondly; Jonny Ace appeared to finally know how to use him properly and he was wrestling in winning efforts vs Jarrett & Ric Flair. It showed his Texan tough guy character was enough, it’s a shame wcw died so abruptly during this period.
Without The Goldust Gimmick, Dustin Would Not Have Lasted In The Wrestling Industry. Dustin Runnels Took The Goldust Gimmick And Kept It Relevant For Over 20+ Years. Goldust Helped Dustin Get Out Of The Shadow Of His Father, "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes. Dustin Has The Honor Of Portraying The Most Flamboyant Character The Wrestling Industry That Has Ever Existed. Goldust Is A Shoe-In For The Hall Of Fame.
This bio is longer than Dustin's run as Seven.
I was thinking that lol.
This comment deserves a few thousand more likes
@@mrc3rtifi3d13 And a mini documentary lol
I wrote a comment, then scrolled down and found this much better version lol
Ya beat me to it.
My favourite part of the Seven promo is when Dustin says "Goldust almost killed my career" a fan in attendance shouts out a perfectly timed "...you never had one" 😂
Hahaha
he died why disrespectful?
@@dreadxplayzs7849 he’s not dead 🤦🏻♂️
@@dreadxplayzs7849 someone doesn’t know the difference between DustIN and DustY?
Yeah well that fan was clearly an idiot. Makes you wonder about someone who thought it was clever. At least the tool who yelled it did it spur of the moment.
When you speak of Dustin Rhodes, you gotta put some respect on his name as he is one of the most underrated work horses to ever step in the ring.
I agree. Being Dusty's son was never going to be easy but Dustin was able to step out of his father's shadow and forge his own career. A true workhorse who could get a good match out of almost anyone with a sliver of talent. Easy hall of fame pick.
U damn right
I think u mean RESPEK.....per birdman
Yeah he's the same mastermind that came up with Black Reign and Rellik
Like Mick Foley
Always got time for the Son of a Son of a Plumber
Well good news there 2 of them
Grandsthon of a plumbah baybeh
The son of the son of a plumber
Goldust is the attitude era before the attitude era. He owned that character to the fullest and made it believable.
Let’s not forget the episode on AEW Dynamite last year when The Dark Order tempted Dustin to join them and become Seven again.
!!!!!!!!!!
yeah i think that fued got cut short because RIP Brodie Lee, but i was very curious to see if Dustin might have entetained the offer. He hasnt a a story in a while
But yet they could have tempted him to bring back Black Reign....He could have even found a new Rellik and they could have constantly told us how thats killer spelled backwards.
Did they tell him "Dustin sucks"?
I had a laugh when the Dark Order tried to recruit Dustin and said you can come in as 7 and telling him he knows that he really wants to join the Dark Order and become 7 🤣🤣🤣 then I thought there must be loads of younger fans who had know idea what Evil Uno meant. It was a nice little Easter egg talking about a character that TNT had complaints and told WCW to drop the gimmick especially now since they’re back on TNT
If Seven had carried on, his legacy would probably ultimately just been disregarded as an Undertaker knock off, as there's not much else they can go with a character like that.
I don't think so. Sting is remembered as one of the greatest character. If seven went good he would have been praised
@@ShubhamMishrabro Sting wasn't Taker, he was The Crow, a movie character almost no one remembers.
@@micahjohnsonboxing6409 and seven wasn't undrrtaker too use that logic here too
@@micahjohnsonboxing6409 Sting was Sting before he went crow. I'm pretty sure people remember the crow movie. Brandon Lee was the son of Bruce Lee
All depends on the booking
My favorite is when he says in the promo "WCW is like home for me" a company that previously fired him for Blading.
I misread that as balding. 🤭
Anyone caught blading in my house or on the road is kicked out!....
Wasn‘t That His dad
Nope it was the infamous tractor trailer match....
Between the Natural and the BLACKTOP BULLY....
They fire wrestlers for blading? Do they have to only blade up when the company says they can or something?
I've often wondered if it wouldn't be better to just have fake blood hidden somewhere for such occasions, rather than having their actual blood flying everywhere. Seems like a recipe for disaster to me, using real blood, and it disfigures guys.
The goldust gimmick is one of the best gimmick in WWF history
I prefer the Stone Cold Steve Austin gimmick, myself!
I used to play war zone just to fight with Goldust
I agree. I hold that gimmick in high regard. It was creepy, the theme and entrance was great and Dustin is a very good worker.
backlot brawl, and still popping tagging with booker t in 2003. goldust and brian pillman wud have gone insane if brians unfortunate and untimely death didnt happen.
Yeah but would you like to play the character ?
Dustin: "Goldust sucked"
Also Dustin: *goes on to be Goldust for numerous years to come*
He thought,
GOLDUST sucked....
He ,
was wrong....
It was a work
@@bigballrecall I wonder if the writers were trashing Goldust, I find it hard to believe that Dustin hated the Goldust persona yet played him on and off for over 20 years
but as time went on he got bored with his role as gold dust them they had cody as star dust the both didnt see no growth in wwe
Right
Mid-90s Goldust could have been a Batman villain.
lol awesome
Maybe a James Bond villian
@Master X Just a regular old traditional Batman villain. The true(st) Batman ever was The Animated Series. Imagine Goldust in that rogues gallery. He works.
Definitely
I loved how he made Goldust a comedic character when Dustin came back to WWE. He was basically himself in gold paint.
Dustin Rhodes, a performer I came to respect more and more as time goes on. This guy took absolute trash and spun it into gold (see what I did there) and never gave up.
100% on board with you.
That's pretty much every Rhodes, Vince gives em trash and they still go over.
Chris hansen shouldve came to the ring and told seven to"take a seat"
" i just came to get something to eeeeeeeeeat!!!"
@@JackPeloquin tie your shoes!!!!
Rocco Viola Hansen should be a furniture salesman He'd be employee of the month every time out. 'I'm here to buy a dinner set for my wife?' 'Who don't youtake a seat?' 'No I just want a dinner set.' 'Just take a seat right over there!' By the end of the year he'd be the best seller of home furniture in the company's history.
@@patriceaqa288 brillant!!!! Lol
matt gaetz is gonna play 7 at the next wrestlemania and trump as his manager
I remember when all of this went down, and I remember being really excited about the gimmick. I have always liked the crazy supernatural gimmicks, due to the fact that your options with them are essentially limitless. I liked the vignettes, and I was a huge fan of Rhodes and all of his various gimmicks (I recognized him in the first vignette), and I was really excited to see what Russo would do with it. I was disappointed that they didn't go with it, but as a teenager at the time, I loved all Shitstain's worked shoot stuff. It's a shame that Dustin never really got the chance to be on top. He was as good as his dad, if not better. He just never really got the chance to show it for a variety of different reasons. At least he is being treated with respect and being treated like a legend in AEW. He deserves that.
I honestly think this character looked good, His song thème was awesome
Look like Uncle Fester mixed with undertaker lol
@Gaylord Focker No. It was a direct ripoff of the villains of a 90s movie called Dark City, by the same director as did The Crow (which Sting ripped off). The makeup, the hat, the outfit, the floating/levitating. All straight from Dark City.
True him and the brood hands down the best of the best
Hey Wrestling Bios, thanks again for another amazing video!!! Have you ever thought about covering Jim Cornette or Dutch Mantell?? I've always been interested in everyone's careers in Pro Wrestling but you don't see many managers covered as apposed to Wrestlers on TH-cam or any other platforms in the kind of format you use. Just a hopeful suggestion coming from one of your biggest fans on TH-cam!!! Thank you so much for making an incredible and VERY addicting channel on here!!! You've definitely saved this channel from being boring or repetitive in my perspective!!! Keep up the good work my friend 😁🤘🏾🤟🙌😎
In the hands of a good writer, a character based on Dark City could have been interesting...
But Vince Russo isn't that writer.
Broke a 1000 guitars; never drew a dime!
The Goldust gimmick was 20 years ahead of it’s time
No one in the world who wasn't NWO or Goldberg was getting over in WCW in '99
"The Natural" Dustin Rhodes was genuinely one of my favorite wresters when I was a kid. Something about his wrestling style I just really enjoyed.
Distin as Dustin is the best Dustin.
Goldust would have been a career-ender when it came out but He owned it all these years. I just wish he was pushed more in his WWE returns. That wcw run ill blame bichoff
If you ever want to see an under utilised wrestler here he his. Everything wrong with WCW at that time.
right, bc WWE was pushing him with multiple titles so much they accidentally pushed him to WCW 😂
Dustin va bunkhouse buck from 93-94 was an AMAZING bloody feud
I was there when he made his debut. They had printed cards with the listing of all the matches for the night stuck into copies of WCW magazine there and his name was spelled "Se7en".
His character and noir look were inspired by the killer in David Fincher's Se7en, I think.
I honestly think a lot of the success of the goldust character came from his awesome entrance music. The music composers and the effect of entrance music is sometimes so under appreciated
This gimmick looks like WCW was trying to make their own Undertaker.
They made their own undertaker with the crow version of sting
@@dafttassia1960 umm no not close
That's an interesting thought!
@@dafttassia1960 Sorry, but the Undertaker came out in November, 1990. The Crow Version of Sting began in late 1996, & it expanded from there.
In an all too near alternate realm it was just another Leslie go away gimmick :
The BOOTYTAKER.....
15:19 - Kinda interesting to see that he kept wearing the Seven hat & overcoat - just not the facepaint - after the character was axed.
I actually like Se7en. Reminded me of Salem's Lot/Nightmare on Elm Street sort of thing, but yeah the child molesting thing...OF course I also really liked Berlyn.
Goldust and Booker T as a dysfunctional tag team was the best storyline angle for me
I love horror characters and would've loved seven but yeah the kid thing is very Jeffrey Epstein. I think if they peft that part out it would've been good.
You're literally the only person who ever would have put those two completely unrelated things together.
@@the-NightStar Nah there are atleast 4
That is literally the best Goldust theme. Whoever your producer is, they're a boss.
He’s his own producer, that’s the thing.
@@Thor-Orion does he upload anywhere all these soundtracks? i want the undertaker ones
@@brucewhite360 I think he said they’re on his Patreon? I could be wrong though
I was a kid when this was going on and I was super disappointed they didn’t go with it. I was very much interested in this character.
I was intrigued as a kid seeing the video packages for Seven, I was disappointed when the character was immediately dropped but being grown up now I can laugh at how much Dustin ran down WCW with no regrets
Let’s not forget Black Reign 🤦♂️
Let’s yes forget Black Reign!
@@Kas58223 That was horrible, wasn't it? It lasted a little more than a New York Minute...and that was all. By then, Dustin Rhodes was physically out of shape, and struggled in his matches. I was glad to see it come to an end.
@@ronaldshank7589 so was i and then hearing he was suffering mentally and having all sorts of problems I was so delighted he got himself in phenomenal shape no wonder the man himself never wants to mention it if it a dark period in his life
One of wcw finest moment 😂
The kid diddler seven 😂😂😂😂
Yeah... right!😁😁😁 It was seemingly ridiculous. Oh, well... we've seen worse. Have you watched any WWE storylines lately? Some of them are so lame, that it makes the whole "Seven" storyline look somewhat good, in comparison. Oh well...it is what it is!
how bout a video on barry windham as the widow maker. it be a short one lol
That "Widowmaker" gimmick...yeesh! I'm glad that it up and vanished like a cracky in the wind!
A shame he had to ditch this persona over those vignettes since it could have have given Dustin a chance to try and play a gimmick character far different from Golddust.
Lol
With his ability to get the Goldust character over, it makes you wonder how far he could taken the Seven character.
I agree
Goldust is 100x better
@@Terrythetroll. he means as imagine If they went through with this idea is would of been crazy
@@MrGinja123 yeah I don’t think so....
Just look at Dustin's Black Reign gimmick in TNA. It most likely would have gone like that. Though since Seven was Dustin's idea, MAYBE it would have been different. Depends on how much control over the Black Reign story Dustin had in TNA.
"Young, new, upcomer Jeff Jarrett" lmaoo
Who's older than Dustin.
You put this out JUST as I was about to work out. Perfect!
I wished they still went ahead with it.
Thanks for this bio, I always see videos saying Seven was a child abductor character... But he's clearly taking inspiration from Salem's Lot with the promos... So that's so unfounded.
Surprised his theme wasnt done by Neneh Cherry considering how long the gimmick lasted
This really weirded me out when it aired, I can't believe Seven was his idea, wtf!
It seemed more like a horror movie akin to "The Boogeyman" or "Slender Man"
These promos gave out some very child molester/murderer vibes. I'm surprised Russo didn't write in the "Come float with me" line, ripping off IT
@@RNCV-uf7wu Didn't someone compare him to Powder? Anyway, I'm glad it didn't work out.
@@0therun1t21 Did they? Yeah, I expect Dustin wish he stayed in WWF as his 99-2001 WCW run pretty abysmal
@@RNCV-uf7wu I agree, and thanks!
@@RNCV-uf7wu It's a straight ripoff of Dark City.
Standards and Practices impeded a lot of the things creative wanted to do at that time and im not surprised they got in the way of Seven continuing on. That worked shoot promo is a huge reason it is remembered as well as it is and if Russo couldn't write the character into the show he had to change its course. I wonder if the intention was to re-debut Dustin shortly after and things just kept getting in the way of doing that for Dustin. Im guessing that the course of Dustin's debut of that character was well underway so they basically had to pay the intro off at least once. Seven likely didnt have real legs anyway but it is a very interesting story.
I always thought that even with that stupid burial promo, if they'd actually pushed Rhodes and allowed him to tear through some of the gimmicks on the roster that fans weren't liking so much in 1999/2000 (And there were a lot of those) and his gimmick could have been an audience avatar rebelling against everything wrong with WCW at the time, it could have worked.
But they weren't going to do that. Ever.
Absolutely this. Dustin could have been a major force in WCW after that promo, but then.... what happened? Nada.
lets be honest here................SEVEN would have been great.
that entrance and creep videos... another wcw could have been moment
With Dustin in makeup the sky was the limit.
Forget his in-ring work: Dustin Rhodes was the greatest actor and promo to ever grace the world of professional wrestling. No other great promo-giver ever had to work against his sexual orientation or challenge the cultural attitudes of the time. Goldust was probably the most psychological gimmick in the history of wrestling. Dustin sells himself short. He wasn't just a great wrestler; he was an artist.
Well said I agree nobody could pull off this character like him
He was good getting into the minds of his opponents and the fans. Props to Dustin for using this gimmick pretty well.
"The Natural" seems like a cross between SCSA and "Mean Mark" Calloway.
Buddy asked:
"Can you guess what was wrong with this gimmick?"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You do a hell of a nice job on your video packages. The right amount of wrestling history and irreverent humor, sprinkled with just enough opinion and conjecture make your videos very entertaining. Plus you don't mind using a little bit of stronger language because you're dealing with adults here. And, oh yeah, no robotic delivery from a computerized voiceover. Keep it up man!
As I recall, part of Turner Broadcasting’s concern stemmed from the growing public hysteria around child abduction in the US. Following a handful of high-profile abduction cases in the mid to late ‘90s, US news media had started whipping people into a frenzy over the idea that every child was in constant danger of being kidnapped whenever their parents so much as blinked. South Park would famously parody the situation a couple years later with the episode “Child Abduction is Not Funny” when the hysteria hit its peak following the abduction of Elizabeth Smart.
Someone in WCW should have told Turner broadcast to run with this no matter how controversial it is it puts more eyes on TV
It was that older tbs audiance that bought the bread and butter for years before, they were the ones they (turner)worried about...
Always remember his catch phrase.
“Prepare your diddle hole!”
Now THAT'S just... for lack of a better word...sick!😁😁😁
MY HOLEEE!!!
U don't piss on hospitality
I didn't know Dustin wrestled as P. Diddy!
I liked the worked shoot. If you have to cancel the gimmick, and you also had to get away from the Goldust gimmick, it made sense to take that head on.
If u think about it. 🤔 THIS WAS PURE GOLD! IT WOULD OF BEEN WCW version & answer to a UNDERTAKER like character they should of made Seven a lil more Poltergeist like but it was all there!
I always wondered what the plans were for the Seven Gimick. Obviously it was a Darkside Gimick. Did they tried to create a WCW Version of Undertaker? Was it the first Version of Black Reign (TNA)?
They said it was based on Dark City.
As a youngster I loved that entrance. Due to my family moving around, I actually never saw Dustin wear the gimmick without the white paint until this video, but I think there could have been something there.
*That 'floating' entrance was awesome thou*
These videos are getting me through almost everything right now, unbelievable stuff
Dustin Rhodes own interview said Seven was his own creation, and he liked and wanted this gimmick to work so well. So, this wasn't Vince Russo creation
What's great is The Macho Man was his own character. Ooooooooooooooooh Yeeeeeeeeaaahh! Dig It!
I’m one of those people who believes Seven could’ve worked.
They probably would have made him a comedy character like the did with Great Khali and Vladimir Kozlov
Who knows but I did love that entrance
Very unique
I genuinely liked this entire debacle. The vignettes were hilarious and creepy, and the shoot promo was great way to reintroduce Dustin as a no-nonsense fighter.
With the right writers I truly believe that Seven character could of went over real well.
Loved this! I’ve always been curious about the Seven gimmick because such little stuff is out there about it as it was so brief! Dustin’s entire career presents so much content! WB hits it out the park again, keep the videos going man, some of the best wrestling content on TH-cam right now 👏🏻
Honestly this could’ve worked the idea of Seven is interesting the floating to the ring was overkill but, i think it was a inside jab at the WWF for the silly stuff they did with entrances (By this time period the internet itself was bleeding into Pro Wrestling and effecting all (3) promotions (Dustin Rhodes can pull of anything he gets overlooked as how good his was) Why so many buy into Cody Rhodes being the second coming of Dusty Rhodes is insulting Dustin so much better
Man, me and my friends in high school thought Golddust was a great character. Could wrestle and kick ass and was a great heel. So good!
Dustin Rhodes was doing his best Peter Pan interpretation? Gotta give it to Dustin though as just like his dad and his brother, he threw himself into whatever gimmick he was given.
And was able to nail it all the same. The midas touch!
I never realized it was a worked shoot. That promo always felt like a legit burial because of how much heat was behind it.
Damn! Can Booker T and goldust get a video?
I’ve heard rumors that the kid in the vignettes was Cody
That’d would definitely be something cool asf
What's sad is Dustin Rhodes never made it to any of the AKI wrestling games. He was in WWF during Would Tour and Revenge and in WCW for Wrestlemania 2000 and No Mercy.
Me: Mom, can we get some Undertaker?
Mom: We have Undertaker at home.
Undertaker at home:
I knew this vid was coming sooner or later lol
The intro song to this is awesome
Good lord! I lost it at “Guitar on a Pole” match!
Sounds like an epic match. Can't believe we don't see this more. 😂😂😂
@@gfpbaneable thank god we dont see this more. By not seeing it, it means nobody has given Russo a job again.
Love these Videos and how well researched you always are. Would love to see you do one of these videos about Sean O'haire.
Goldust commitment to the role was what made his matches fun and entertaining to watch what a legend🤙💪
That kid in the Seven promos was Cody Rhodes.
Cody was 14yrs old at that point in time, that kid was half that age so it couldn't be Cody at all
I pretty much don't even watch TV anymore thanks to Wresting Bios. Thank you for providing your unique and often hilarious entertainment!
I would’ve liked to have seen where this gimmick would have went. The vignettes were well produced and effectively creepy. I don’t know how it would’ve translated in the arena though.
I loved goldust he was funny creepy and unique. Glad he gave it his all. Legendary gimmick
Thanks for this video, the character 7 is one I’ve always been curious about!
I always attempted to figure out how no one seemed to realise how the character was coming across before he debuted. I know Goldust was controversial but he actually committed to it in the early days and made the character interesting. With Seven it just seemed to be let's make him overly weird just for the sake of it and was a case of let's do something similar to what worked for you before.
guess i missed 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 i remember syxx and se7en though
Syxx was 1, 2, 3 (Kid)
Been watching tons of your videos. Great work man, brings me the feels!
Would it be wrong of me to request a black reign video sometime in the future?
Myah myah myah
@@Reilove1 MYAH MYAH MYAH indeed.
The context of how Dustin was doing personally aside, the gimmick was so camp I loved it.
I mean, given Dustin has publically spoken about how painful this time of his life was due to crippling addiction, I'd say its a bit on the nose.
@@mattyking Yeah.. that I understand.
You mean UP the nose.....
I wish you would’ve mentioned Evil Uno trying to recruit Dustin Rhodes 2 months ago on AEW Dark as the 7th member of The Dark Order, in an attempt to revive the Seven gimmick.
He was sticking to things people actually watched
I really appreciate the amount of work and detail you put into these videos. Best wrestling channel on youtube.
Vince Russo loved worked shoots. But he also loved legit shoots. He did create the brawl for all.
George Costanzas favourite name 😂
Never thought of that before 🤣
The original pipe bomb. I'm so happy for him that he is finally home at AEW.
Ironically, I find that the theme fits Seven's concept better than Goldust.
I am actually interested to see what Seven would have done had he not been cancelled.
The underrated concept of this page is the music production. Straight 🔥🔥🔥
Seven looks like one of the dudes from that old scary movie called Dark City lol
I really remember his run in wcw in 2001 fondly; Jonny Ace appeared to finally know how to use him properly and he was wrestling in winning efforts vs Jarrett & Ric Flair.
It showed his Texan tough guy character was enough, it’s a shame wcw died so abruptly during this period.
At first I hated the Goldust character. Thinking of him as a wierd freak, I was creeped out by him. But after a while he became one of my favorites.
I wish the Seven character was allowed, it looked like a winner
Without The Goldust Gimmick, Dustin Would Not Have Lasted In The Wrestling Industry. Dustin Runnels Took The Goldust Gimmick And Kept It Relevant For Over 20+ Years. Goldust Helped Dustin Get Out Of The Shadow Of His Father, "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes. Dustin Has The Honor Of Portraying The Most Flamboyant Character The Wrestling Industry That Has Ever Existed. Goldust Is A Shoe-In For The Hall Of Fame.
I LOVE these behind the scenes look at individual wrestlers! Great job and keep it up!!!