8 Wrestling Finishers Made Out Of Spite

5. The Shattered Dreams

The Young Bucks Meltzer Driver
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It's well know that Dustin Rhodes and his legendary father Dusty weren't on the best of terms by the time the Natural departed WCW and headed to the then-WWF in late-1995. As Bruce Prichard put it on his Something to Wrestle podcast, Dustin and Dusty were "estranged" at this point.

Following his King of the Road bout against Bunkhouse Buck, the Dustin and his opponent were both fired after bleeding in said contest. Of course, this was when WCW had a strict 'no blood' policy in place, although in Rhodes and Bunk's defence, it was agent Mike Graham who encouraged them to get juice here.

Seeing the Goldust idea as a way to step out of his old man's shadow, Dustin jumped at the chance to embrace this new persona when WWF presented it to him.

The Goldust name itself was in reference to Dusty, with the American Dream having had that word emblazoned on the bank of his trunks at times over the decades. As for Goldie's signature moves, he would torment opponents with the Curtain Call and the Shattered Dreams.

Shattered Dreams. American Dream. Issues between Dustin and Dusty at the time. It's not hard to piece that particular puzzle together.

The caveat with the Shattered Dreams, mind, is that this manoeuvre was only a successful finisher if the referee was distracted, for the move was literally a straight kick to the balls of Goldust's opponents.

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