Dustin “Black Reign” Rhodes Goes Private On X After Latest Meltdown
AEW star Dustin Rhodes is currently in full meltdown mode over fans daring to mention Black Reign. He recently went private on Twitter or X, for a pretty ridiculous reason.
The elder Rhodes boy is calling it one of the darkest periods of his life, demanding people stop tagging him with it, and threatening instant blocks left and right.
According to him, we have “no idea” what he went through during that time and we need to shut up about it because he wants to forget it ever happened.
Seriously bro?! LMAO
This is a man who has spent the better part of three decades in professional wrestling. He’s made excellent money doing it.
He’s had high-profile runs, memorable characters, and a long career that most people in the business would kill for.
And the thing that apparently still wounds him the deepest is a short-lived TNA gimmick from 2007–2008 where he painted his face black and silver and carried around a pet rat.
He didn’t enjoy the character. Fine.
Plenty of wrestlers have hated gimmicks they were stuck with. But treating any public mention of it like a personal attack is something else entirely.
One day he’s posting upbeat, positive content. The next he’s lashing out at anyone who brings up a part of his career he finds uncomfortable.
That kind of whiplash is hard to ignore.
Here’s the actual issue: no performer gets to decide which chapters of their public career are allowed to exist in the conversation.
Black Reign happened. It was televised. It was promoted.
Fans remember it—some ironically, some sincerely, some just because it’s part of the weird, messy history of this business.
Wanting people to pretend it never occurred because it coincides with a rough personal stretch doesn’t give him veto power over the past.
If the period was genuinely difficult for him due to personal struggles, that’s unfortunate and worthy of basic human respect. But respect is a two-way street.
Demanding that everyone else erase a piece of wrestling history from their memory because it makes him uncomfortable crosses a line.
He’s not the sole arbiter of what is and isn’t fair game when it comes to his own work.
Wrestling has always been full of characters, phases, and experiments that the performers themselves later disliked.
Most of them either own it, laugh about it, or simply move on.
Turning every mention into an emotional landmine and publicly cursing out fans for remembering something you did on national television is not strength.
It’s the opposite.
At the end of the day, Dustin Rhodes doesn’t control the narrative of his career any more than any other public figure does. People are going to talk about the parts that interest them—whether he likes it or not.
