Right there is my father the American Dream dust zeros.
[APPLAUSE] It's so
simple to say that's my father but
in reality yeah, he's a legend.
Yeah, he's the son of a plumber.
He's a common man to me.
He's all those things to me he was my hero.
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As I got hip to the industry, I worked up a little courage.
And I remember, I asked him and I worded it very poorly.
I said, I didn't know that you were champion like Hulk Hogan.
[APPLAUSE] He looked at me with
the same eyes that Liberty has.
And he said very stern and very patiently,
he explained to me the champion's advantage.
He said that he had won the match but because it was by count out,
he did not take home the Championship belt.
So I'm eight years old.
What's a boy to do?
Right then in there at eight years old,
I knew not what I wanted to do, what I needed to do.
I was going to win this championship belt right here.
[APPLAUSE] I was going to place it I was going to bestow it into
the hands of the American Dream Dusty Rhodes and I would tell him,
nobody can take it away from you now.
[APPLAUSE] And there are many here tonight who have followed my journey but
for those who are new to it >> Unfortunately, that dream died
It died right in front of me.
That opportunity passed
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>> That opportunity passed or did it?
>> [APPLAUSE] >> Yes,
I cannot physically put that title belt into my father's hand.
I cannot bestow it upon the American dream dusty roads, but I certainly.
Only, can put it around the waist, of the American Nightmare.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> I'm going to give the distinction that
my family has long since been denied, and I'm going to do it for you,
I'm going to do it for me, I'm going to do it for my family, and I am going to do it,
>> For the American Dream, Dusty Rhodes.
>> [APPLAUSE]
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>> Emotionally charged mission statement delivered by Cody Rhodes.
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>> [APPLAUSE].
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