Pro wrestling legend and AEW Star Dustin Rhodes recently appeared on the "Talk Is Jericho" podcast to discuss a number of topics such as how former WWE Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon presented to him his Goldust gimmick by mentioning that it is an androgynous character and it is somehow related to Adrian Street and Adrian Adonis as well as how he just agreed with everything Vince told him the first time.
Dustin Rhodes said:
“He [Vince] said androgynous. Vince said that the first time when he presented that character to me, I was just agreeing with him. I had no idea what the hell that meant until we hung up the phone and I looked in the dictionary. I went what did I just sign up for?”
“[Chris Jericho – How did he pitch it?] Well, he’s like, Yeah, this androgynous character and he mentioned Adrian Street, Adrian Adonis, so I remember them and how they presented their characters and things like that. I’m like, okay, that’s kind of cool, so just this flamboyant person, right.”
“That’s what I thought androgynous meant, was flamboyant. And it’s a little different than that, but he presented that you know, and I sunk my teeth into it. And it took me a good six months up there to try to figure it out. Because I didn’t want to touch on the over the line kind of homosexuality type thing. Yeah, I did not want to do that. And Savio talked me into it one night, and we were in the garden. And I was so nervous because Vince was there. This was when he was at the curtain a lot watching the matches.”
You can check out Dustin Rhodes' full comments at this link. H/T to Inside The Ropes for transcribing the above quotes.
