10 Things You Didn't Know About The NWA World Heavyweight Championship
3. Dusty & Cody Rhodes Are The First Father And Son Combination To Hold The Title
Though the title has more history than almost any in the industry, Cody really did set a brand spanking new record with the strap upon upending Nick Aldis at ALL IN.
Cody and Big Daddy Dusty became legitimately the first ever father-and-son pairing to claim the prize. Numerous second generation opportunities have presented themselves (and its likely even more will should Cody salvage its relevance for future generations of performers) but somehow, famous fathers and shambolic sons such as Fritz Von Erich and David Flair respectively never did reps with the ‘10 Pounds Of Gold’.
It's one of the great inter-generational wrestling stories, and it's even more impressive that it happened over 20 years after it seemed destined to. Dustin Rhodes was an (over)pushed commodity underneath his father in early-1991 WCW, but when Ric Flair departed for WWE, he inadvertently took away the future Goldust's opportunity for some nepotistic glory. Rhodes' troubled tenures in TNA throughout the mid-2000s never saw him positioned as a realistic threat to the prize, whilst Cody's own job security within WWE made the events of the last few years little more than an internet forum pipe dream.