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Pro wrestling legend Dustin Rhodes has held a championship belt in nearly every organization he entered, including most recently being a tag team champion in Ring of Honor.
Rhodes was a fan favorite in WWE when he was known as Goldust and was one of the first wrestlers to join All Elite Wrestling when the company started up in 2019. Outside the ring, another has become a show stealer and he is a beast.
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Beast, a Mastiff, with American professional wrestler Dustin Rhodes at Crufts 2026 on 5 March 2026. (Royal Kennel Club/BeatMedia)
Rhodes’ mastiff, named Beast, has proven to be one of the best show dogs on the circuit in recent years and he added to his CV on Thursday when he won third place in the working group’s open category at Crufts in the UK – the world’s biggest dog show.
“It’s an incredible, incredible show,” Rhodes told Pakinomist Digital. “I guess this is the world’s biggest dog show, so we decided to go big or go home. Great, great show.”
Dogs in the working group must help and protect their owners.
Dustin Rhodes celebrates the AEW TNT Championship win at All In: Texas on July 12, 2025. (Ricky Havlik/AEW)
“Beast is really good at spotting someone who has high blood pressure or low blood pressure and we’ll go and check them out. He’s a very smart dog,” he said. “Mastiffs are amazing, amazing animals, man. I would never own a breed other than a mastiff, and I’ve had all kinds of dogs in my life, and mastiffs are just everything – clean, loyal, loving, just crawl on your lap, hurt your bones.”
Rhodes said Beast outweighs him by a whopping 250 pounds, and with that comes a hefty diet. He revealed on X that he spends about $200 a month on food, as Beast enjoys about eight cups a day of dry food, chicken, rice and steak in his diet.
The wrestler said he “never thought” he would ever get into the dog show business, but has found tremendous success about two years into the endeavor. Now he has eyes at the top of the charts.
“Go for the (best in show) record,” he told Pakinomist Digital when asked about long-term goals. “About twenty I think for mastiffs. We’ve got 13 right now. So we’re going to do our best over the next year and a half, two years, really campaign the dog and advertise the crap out of it. Hopefully we’ll get there.”
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Rhodes’ team includes his wife, Ta-rel Runnels, and agent Terry Smith.
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