In wrestling, Ric Flair had a character as a rich, arrogant, entitled asshole and one of his main rivals was Dusty Rhodes, a schlubby working man who was the “son of a plumber.”
During one of their many feuds, Dusty delivered what is widely regarded as one of, if not the greatest, wrestling promos of all-time:
Dusty’s son, Cody, never had a great level of success in the WWE but went off on his own as an independent, basically organized a hugely successful PPV on his own and then, with the backing of a rich NFL owner, became both a top-level talent and behind-the-scenes promoter for a newly launched promotion, AEW, which is a David to the WWE’s Goliath.
Cody recently delivered a promo which might rival his dad’s for intensity and passion, in part, because both had a feeling of being “real” in the otherwise contrived world of pro wrestling:
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