Tony Khan respects Dustin Rhodes.
"The Natural."
During his recent appearance on the Sports Guys Talking Wrestling podcast, the AEW and ROH President spoke about his massive level of respect for the pro wrestling legend, as well as how he has been important to All Elite Wrestling since the beginning of the company.
Featured below are some of the highlights from the interview where he touches on this topic with his thoughts.
On how much he respects Rhodes: "Dustin Rhodes is one of the best pro wrestlers in my lifetime. I’ve been looking up to Dustin Rhodes since I first started watching pro wrestling, he’s one of the first wrestlers I ever saw and throughout his career, he’s maintained a really high standard of excellence, physical fitness right now is at a premium. I think Dustin, right now, these last ten years is in much better shape than he was in the decade prior to that which is unusual and his staying power, his longevity is also really unusual."
On how Rhodes has been very important on-screen and off-screen in AEW: "To have somebody doing some of their best wrestling at this advanced age, it’s unusual. I think Dustin could continue on for many, many years and wrestle at a very high standard for a long time to come. I respect the hell out of Dustin Rhodes. I can tell you [show host] also respect the hell out of him. He’s just a tremendous, tremendous wrestler and I think he’s somebody that really, really, for AEW, since the very beginning has been very important on-screen and off-screen."
Check out the complete Tony Khan interview at Spreaker.com. H/T to POST Wrestling for transcribing the above quotes.
