Goldust Released

[The Crippler]

Goldust released
June 14, 2006

WWE has come to an agreement on the release of Goldust (Dustin Runnels) as of today, June 14, 2006. WWE wishes Dustin the best in all future endeavors.

WWE.com

[yankeesman77]

shame he was released but I am surprised he even stayed this long. Yet another potential group broken up by the wwe booking team tsk tsk tsk. Long time no see Ken where ya been.

[razh304]

omg thats awful i just started to like goldust too, :( they could of gotten goldust a good storyline but once again they release him :(

[shakie]

hey didnt they just reciently make a goldust article in raw mag?

o well too bad for him

[OMEN]

Goldust is one of those guys that never really seems to go away,Although he has been released again by the wwe i bet in a few months time he will suddenly re-appear.
It's a shame that Dustin Rhodes has never managed to build a decent wrestling career and step out of the shadows of his father that fat lump Dusty Rhodes the 'American Dream'

[kane_rules_all]

if goldust does resign. hopefully he will get used properly. anyway goldust has hilarous promos like when dressed up as the croc hunter and invaded the locker room. or on raw when goldust dressed up as santa claus and gave himself and booker the tag team titles and gave christen some ass cream. but for the father dvd goldust is in most of it.

[Will]

Dustin gets hired and fired frequently. he'll be back in a about a year or so.

[The Lost Soul 13]

For me it is all about consistency with Goldust. If something worth while is written for him he is incredible. If the writers do something sub par, Goldust seems to follow suit. Either way he is very close to being considered one of the great all time mid carders in WWE history. If he could truly make great TV rather than have it written for him he would be a shoe in.

[scorpionf]

Golddust will be back in WWE soon enough.

He comes and goes from there so often. Besides, he will probably be back there again before this time next year.

[kane_rules_all]

As reported before, Dustin Runnels was fired for missing the 6/12 RAW due to a court appearance. A decision was made at the show to let him go.

It was said that Runnels didn't previously inform WWE officials that he was going to miss the show due a court appearance. However, Runnels claimed that he did call the office ahead of time, or at least attempted to. When they found out he missed the show, the heat was on him for not checking in with the information ahead of time.

Runnels wanted to keep his job so badly that he offered to work for free for a month if he wasn't fired. WWE officials didn't go for it and Vince McMahon made the final call to get rid of him.

source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter