The Blacktop Bully Recalls King Of The Road Match With Dustin Rhodes: ‘We Had So Much Fun And Both Got Fired, It Was Incredible’

Could you imagine losing your job for doing what you’re told to do? That’s what happened to The Blacktop Bully a.k.a Smash of Demolition.

Barry Darsow was known for the majority of his career as Smash in the legendary tag team and stable named Demolition. Darsow joined Lars Frederiksen and Dennis Farrell for the Wrestling Perspective Podcast episode and remembered back on during his time in WCW. He praised a man who is still in the wrestling business today and that is “The Natural” Dustin Rhodes.

“The Blacktop Bully was one of my favorite gimmicks. You had Dustin Rhodes on the other day. What a great guy; Dustin is one of the best workers in this business, too, by the way. When I had that truck match [King of the Road] with him in WCW, we had so much fun in that match, and we both got fired. It was incredible.” Darsow said.
Barry would recall some of the details of the match. 

“We drove 60 miles around Atlanta, [we] had helicopters with cameras and trucks with cameras. We were wrestling, we were having a great time, and we ended up bleeding like crazy everywhere. The office told us to get blood, so we ended up hitting the barbed wire. We did everything there, and we were bleeding from head to toe, and they ended up cutting out a bunch of that match too.”

Darsow was not at all expecting to get the phone call that most wrestlers don’t want.

Barry said, “We were in a field when the match was done, and I looked at Dustin. I gave him a big hug. I said, Dustin, that was the freaking best match. That was the funnest. What a match. We hugged each other. I ended up driving back to Charlotte. He went to wherever his home was. The next day I got a call from Eric Bischoff, and Eric said, Barry, what a match, and he said I got good news and bad news for you. I said, well, what is the good news? He said it’s one of the better matches I’ve ever seen. I said, well, what’s the bad news? He goes, you’re fired. I said, fired; it was one of the best matches ever. He says you weren’t supposed to have any blood on TV. It was an uncensored match.”

Eric Bischoff fired and rehired Darsow a year later.

“That was the one thing I said to Eric. I hope you fire everybody involved. He said, no, it’s just you three. So anyway, we got fired for having one of the best matches. He hired me back after that, about a year later. So he was good with his word.” Barry said.

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