Pro Wrestling Real Life Stories: Episode 1 - All In, CM Punk, Cody Rhodes, The Young Bucks, and the butterfly effect

#5 Dusty Rhodes explains how Vince McMahon and the WWF prevailed over WCW and the NWA

Dusty Rhodes (center) was a WWE Hall of Famer

With All In and the ongoing banter of Cody Rhodes, The Young Bucks and organizations such as ROH giving the WWE stiff competition--especially regards to the hardcore pro-wrestling fan-base--you can't help but recall the wide words by Cody's late father Dusty pertaining to WWE besting its rival organizations.

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Thanks to Wrestling Shoots for passing the audio of Dusty Rhodes' memorable, detailed business dissection on how Vince McMahon in a stroke of genius got a head start on WCW and the NWA.

"That's the word; the two logos, WWF and NWA; a wrestling fan knew NWA, the world knew WWF. Sports Illustrated, I don't care if I have to buy it to get on there, getting on the cover (of SI), I'm doing it." Dusty continued on how Vince McMahon and the WWF (now--WWE) left its competitors such as WCW and the NWA behind, "So, the first was recognition, in which they ran off and left us. We could not get recognized out of that NWA syndrome as we're gonna wrestle for an hour and you (WWE) are gonna entertain us for an hour."

"Vince entertained me for an hour--he entertained us--still doing it. We (NWA) were 'wrestling', and I was wrestling--We were wrestling for an hour, and we were great, and we were good, but the world wasn't buying that. They were buying the wrestling and entertainment more."