Question about Goldust debut

[El Pollo Guerrera]

When Goldust first appeared in the WWF back in 95, were there any veiled references by the commentators about being Dusty's son?

[David-Arquette was in WCW 2000]

Not that I recall. I only remember references to Dusty around 97.

[MC Blowfish]

I wasn't watching much, but I don't remember them saying anything about it. I do remember being very confused on why Dustin Rhodes was dressed like that.

[auph10imitated]

None until 1997.

I was 11 years old and I knew Dustin Rhodes was coming in as it was in the magazines, but when he started doing promos I was unsure if that was him or not because he had long hair and there's no way you could grow hair that fast in 4 months... how stupid was I not to realise it was a wig. I was astounded when he took it off in his debut match haha

[SmashTV]

Sept 12, 2018 10:06:21 GMT -5 auph10imitated said:

None until 1997.

I was 11 years old and I knew Dustin Rhodes was coming in as it was in the magazines, but when he started doing promos I was unsure if that was him or not because he had long hair and there's no way you could grow hair that fast in 4 months... how stupid was I not to realise it was a wig. I was astounded when he took it off in his debut match haha

When he took the wig off in his debut, I felt a bit cheated. Here was this long, golden haired vision featured in the vignettes, and when he wrestles he has a crew cut.

I get that wrestling in the wig wouldn't have been manageable, but to me it initially took away some of his aura. It came back with some of his later 'flamboyant' mannerisms, however.

[WoodStoner1]

I think a bit before the "shoot" interviews, on an episode of Shotgun, the caption for Goldust's chyron said "What must his daddy think?"

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

They were implicit, like the shatter dreams was a tribute to Dusty.

Prichard said they were very careful with this early on because Goldust and Dusty weren’t speaking to each other. Bruce had to call Dusty a lot and give him a heads up.

[grungesmurf]

Sept 12, 2018 12:28:48 GMT -5 SmashTV said:

Sept 12, 2018 10:06:21 GMT -5 auph10imitated said:

None until 1997.

I was 11 years old and I knew Dustin Rhodes was coming in as it was in the magazines, but when he started doing promos I was unsure if that was him or not because he had long hair and there's no way you could grow hair that fast in 4 months... how stupid was I not to realise it was a wig. I was astounded when he took it off in his debut match haha

When he took the wig off in his debut, I felt a bit cheated. Here was this long, golden haired vision featured in the vignettes, and when he wrestles he has a crew cut.

I get that wrestling in the wig wouldn't have been manageable, but to me it initially took away some of his aura. It came back with some of his later 'flamboyant' mannerisms, however.

Yeah I kept waiting for him to grow his real hair out. The full bodysuit also threw me off at the time

[The Barber]

"Old-dust" LOL!

[johnnyk9]

I didn't actually recognize him until he took off the wig at IYH vs Jannetty I thought that was his hair in the promos then again I was only 9 at the time