You were the real "American Dream",
and you supplied our lives with endless delight. You gave us long lasting smiles every time you'd step up to a fight.

In four plus decades, you never quit. With over fifty titles under your name, won all with wit.

Your legacy will forever be imprinted in history. Your name forever in our hearts. You showed wrestling isn't just entertainment but it's also an art.

Virgil "Dusty Rhodes" Runnels Jr,
from the west shores of America to the east shores of Japan, you will always be loved by each one of your fans.

For you were more than a man, and you were more than a dream, you were the real deal, and an inspiration to me.

So I say my goodbyes and show my respect in this short and tacky poem. A new king in the heaven of legends has now taken the throne.