13 Biggest Takeaways From The Revival On Talk Is Jericho

Dusty Rhodes Wanted Them To Succeed To Stick It To Management

If there was one man who knew that the two men would have to work a lot harder than anyone else to get their gimmick over, it was the man who took them under his wing when they first started in NXT, The American Dream Dusty Rhodes.

The two men would sit in Dusty’s office, eating homemade ice cream and talking about their characters. Dusty told them to never break up, to become each others shadows, because he wanted their success to be a lesson to WWE. After all, who knows more about getting himself over with believable southern-style wrasslin then being dressed in a clown outfit by WWE than the Dream?

The Revolt talk about being from the south – they’re both from North Carolina – and that their accent was always going to be an obstacle in WWE, but dusty wanted them to stick with it, to quotes ‘shove it in Vince’s face’

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Dash Wilder Was Named For Personal Reasons

Both men have truly touching memories with the American Dream. Two days before he died, Dax said that Dusty came up to him while he was training with Sami Zayn and said:

“Dawson you’re the best wrestler we’ve got bar none, Sami I’m talking straight to you.”

Cash’s story gets even more personal, saying that he’d never actually like the name Dash that much, but the reason that Dusty pushed hard for him to be called it was because of his son Cody’s former gimmick, Dashing Cody Rhodes, saying he’d always liked the name. Aw, Dusty, you wonderful plumber’s son

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Vince Was Surprised By How Articulate They Were

When talking about their gimmick, the Revolt explained a lot of the philosophy behind their act as tag team wrestlers, especially as heel tag wrestlers, but one of their main reasons for sticking to their ‘wrestle smart, no flips’ gimmick was that they wanted to buck against the perception, both in WWE and around the world, than people from the south were dumb.

They speak about all the stereotypes, deliverance, inbred hicks etc, and how much those tropes stick in WWE, despite Vince being a Carolina native himself. Much like Vince insisting that the very articulate yankee Luke Harper speak in a southern drawl purely because he looked like he would, Vince couldn’t believe how articulate The Revival were when he heard them speak.

He said ‘man, we can send you out into the world for all these meetings and meet and greets, and Good Morning America.’ And the idea that Vince thought two men from North Carolina wouldn’t be able to speak to the public, there’s the writing on the wall. Does Vince really hate his own origin story that much, it would explain a lot.

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