Honestly it would completely depend on the gimmick he was given. I could see a scenario where if he was given a lame gimmick, or lack of faith by Vince, he could be just another guy today. If you need an example, think Bobby (Robert) Roode. Great look, good worker, they do nothing with him. Also, don't underestimate Bobby Heenan's impact on Rude's career.
He had a womanizing gimmick for awhile, the heat on that alone these days would definitely get some attention if done correctly. But if it was WWE writing it would probably go over like a lead ballon.
@@rawsko0316 Well, to be fair to modern day WWE, the company being public combined with the development of PC culture has increasingly put pressure on them to tame the product and avoid the wrong kind of attention.
Rude is probably my second favorite of all time behind Macho man. Love hearing the stories of him kicking ass backstage or off site. Wish he was still around. I'm sure his shoots would be among the best to listen to.
"Cut the music! What I'd like to have right now, is for all you fat, out of shape, (insert city name) sweathogs, to keep the noise down while I take my robe off and show the ladies what a REAL man is supposed to look like. Hit the music!"
Road Warrior Hawk (as Crusher Haig) and Rick Rude (as Ricky Rood) both appeared on the April 18th, 1983 PNE house show in Vancouver and both worked the May 3th, 1983 All Star Wrestling TV taping in Burnaby, BC. (NWA Vancouver territory.)
"What I'd like to have right now, is for all you fat, ugly, inner-city sweathogs to keep the noise down...OH WHAT A RUSH!" I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'D WORKED OUT.
Well yea I did enjoy the evil clown stuff and when Matt Bourne showed up in ECW he even had a spilt personality character going and the face paint in half was great that he went crazy
I was literally just listening to the other story and really wanted to know the history behind that Matt Bourne comment...glad this popped up right after
Always looked forward to Rick selling atomic drops - lol - what was particularly good is that he had several ways of selling them so it never got stale.
God I hated atomic drops too 😂 So glad they stopped using them. They were just such a lame weak move. Lol but Rude did have the best sells to them. Tully Blanchard had a great sell for them too
"Did I put that in a decent way?".. Me: "Well yeah that was about as polite as you could make it. And considering that this was Jim saying that, and he is not known for holding back, I was kind of surprised at his restraint."
I know Rude had those runs with the International World Heavyweight Championship but imo he is the greatest ever that didn't have a run with either the WWF or WCW belt. He definitely should have, he was excellent both in ring and on the mic.
I always wondered what would of happened if Road Warriors stayed in WCW during the NWO run. Hennig and the Road Warriors being managed by Rick Rude would have been cool to see.
@@CometVS exactly. I know they were trying to stay working and didn't care for their deal financially in WCW but damn I wish they wouldn't have gone back to Vince. Their legacy took a MAJOR hit from that point on. It was like they were at his mercy and he took full advantage of it.
Re: the Rat Pack; I think Corny was confused, at first, with Mr Olympia, Jerry Stubbs, who turned heel in Mid-South and teamed with DiBiase. Jerry and Arn looked a lot alike and Arn teamed with Stubbs as Super Olympia, at one point. Rood came into Georgia, under his birth name (Rood) sometime around the debut of the Road Warriors and was skinny as all hell and was being sold as a champion arm wrestler. Rude was green as hell and not great shakes in the ring; but, by the time he was working Memphis, against Lawler and Idol, he had really grown as a worker. By the time he had left the WWF and was working in WCW, he was one of the best in the business. Ed Sharkey's guys were all great weightlifters; but, they never learned to wrestle until they got into the territories.
@@TERRELL_GASKINS First of all ..... " It's a screen don't talk to me like..... " How can I talk to a screen. Secondly if I was in an old cemetery and saw Erskine Von Blitzken passed in 1755 and reacted emotionally to it you would think I was nuts. So yes you are looking for what wrestling fans call a cheap pop .
The road warriors used the live with Rick Rude and Nakita Koloff. Also jake roberts. Jake on a shoot interview discusses how him and the road warriors came up with the legion of doom name.
@@easyriderrider4580 I think he did say that at some point. I had a run where I watched his shoots. I think a lot of what he says are like in character though (if you know what I mean)... which makes them not really shoots then right? but I think he says things just to get reactions. I can respect that really.
Rude & Manny Fernandez were an awesome heel team, of course that was right before Rude left the NWA to go work for Vince, it would've been cool if Manny would've gone with Rick to Vince's, they would've been an awesome heel team for Vince.
Ole Anderson was more influential and important than people realize. Even the bad influences we've been told about actually were super important to the history of the business.
Matt Bourne. Best known for being an evil clown. Arn Anderson. Best known for being the Enforcer of the Horsemen, and one of the most respected men in the business. I think Arn came out ahead, on this one.
Thee absolute funniest Rude story I have ever heard, was about one or two women, legitimately approaching him, hitting on him and trying to get fucked by him. I just can't remember if it was one or two women. But Rude pauses, takes a deep breath, sits down on something and says, "If I looked like you and you looked like me would you fuck me?". HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
If you listen to Arn's Podcast, Bill Watts was sending Matt Bourne to GCW and Junkyard Dog pointed out that Marty Lunde looked like he was an Anderson so Watts sent them as a tag team. When they arrived Ole came up with Arn. It wasn't Continental and Ron Fuller - Arn was in Pensacola working for Bullet Bob Armstrong.
@@chrischar9428 You are right - there were two divisions of SECW (one based in Knoxville, the other in Panama City) before they combined in 1985 and became Continental. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Championship_Wrestling
I'm always skeptical when Brian says "We have had a lot of people sending in messages about this" as it's more likely it is something he thinks will get a lot of hits on youtube. I have sent loads of great questions but they never get replies and certainly not shout outs.
Perhaps your questions are not as good as you think they are or maybe they are just spammed with messages. Know a guy that had to hustle Twitter hard to get one question asked on Arn's show.
@@hattorihanzo2275 Certainly my questions may not be as good as I think. Here was one I did recently- Subject: Did Yokozuna do a Banzai Drop on Vince McMahon's voice box? (I always try to put a good subject header in to catch Brian's attention and to have him immediately understand the content of the question. My email then went: Dear Jim Do you have any idea why Vince McMahon's voice has a rasping almost muted tone now? He sounds like he has had surgery on his throat but I have not read anywhere about this. He sounds like Yokozuna once did the Banzai drop on his voice box! It may also account for the permanently watery eyes he seems to have now too. Any reason's for Mr McMahon's dodgy larynx would be most welcome. Keep up the great work What do you think? I think that would have had a very entertaining answer by Mr Cornette. Thanks for the reply Hattori
Rick Rude didn't need to be in LOD. He is a top 5 heel of all time. IMO... Ted Dibiase / Rick Rude / Hollywood Hogan / Mr McMahon / Roddy Piper in no specific order.
@@btipton6899 Flair is top 10, but I think he was as beloved as he was hated from being a heel. everyone wanted to be flair in the four horsemen. I'm talking serious heat. dibiase with his gimmicks, rude with his chippendales shit talking, hogan turning on the fans, mr mcmahon screwing bret / austin, and just about everything Roddy did early in his career.
@@titansrule72 yeah for sure.. but there came a point real soon after that they were considered cool.. nwo shirts were literally all you saw in the crowds. I'll agree Hogan drew heat for the turn but it wasn't that sustainable. Hell you could probably throw Austin and Rock in there too, but the fans sided with them before they even turned face
What I would like to have right now, is for all you fat, out of shape, AEW sweathogs...keep the noise down while Jim pays tribute to one of the greatest wrestling villains of all time. Now hit the play button 0:00
The more I look back at NWA stuff (Stampede Wrestling was the closest thing I experienced as a kid in the 80s in Canada), the more mixed my response is. Sure, there was a lot of great stuff that went on in JCP. But the promotion that was supposed to be about serious, reality based wrestling had a number of guys with facepaint who walked out to the ring like real life cartoon characters, which I thought the NWA was completely against. Obviously, things changed after Ted Turner bought the company and you saw a lot of cartoony stuff because Turner owned a lot of classic movies and some idiots decided that creating wrestling characters based on some of the characters in some of those movies was a good idea. But even before that, the Road Warriors/LOD, Sting and others all became popular in NWA/WCW wearing facepaint. To be successful as a wrestling promotion, you need a booker who understands psychology and someone who understands the culture and can deliver that booking and psychology in a modern, contemporary way. The early 90s were a terrible time business-wise for wrestling because the world was changing and wrestling barely noticed. They saw that hip hop was popular, and without actually understanding why that was, they just brought in bad wrestlers because they could say yo baby yo in a way that convinced southern kids under the age of 10. Wrestling at its best is believable. Even though you know it's a work, you don't want to see something obviously fake. It's same reason rational adults don't typically watch animated films. Even though you know it's a movie, it should at least be somewhat believable.
Richard Erwin Rood is another one of those performers who should have been Heavyweight Champion. Wow the tag team division definitely would've sucked without the Road Warriors
Totally understandable for Rude not to be able to follow Dennis Condry. Sharkey never taught the Minnesota crew shit, he was no trainer. And there was no mat in the basement of that church they worked out in. ( or ring ropes) Rick had the body and the charisma and could talk. He just needed the reps in the ring working with professionals like Bobby Eaton and Dennis Condry. Two of the greatest wrestlers ever and a well-oiled machine of a tag team. But once Rude got to WCCW in Texas he had those reps in the ring and nobody could touch him. Rick Rude and Razor Ramone were my two favorite wrestlers of all time.
What if , in an alternate universe Rude and animal were the Road Warriors and Hawk ended up in The Ravishing gimmick gyrating with a mullet ! LOL !!! I would love to hear Hawk cut a Rude ish promo LOL
i cant fathom how far hennig went in just few years, early footage mid80-1989 & then him in 1990 he was incredible on par(ALMOST to the caliber of a bret hart)Just mention of the harts is a can of worms by itself Bret Hart Lived,breathes,drank and exuded the posture of the champion...everytime shawn lost a belt,2 him it it was literally like losing his manhood...for him the champions was was to him what a bottle of vodka was 2 my dad(before he quit)anyway i started on Perfect & inappropriate segues aside,Pefect was incredible not only was his premature passing a shame but the years injuries took off his...what could have been GREAT GREAT milestones in his career .He should have been the champ @1time...like say mania 8 picture this,savage goes over..but then BEFORE survivor series,around May start planting the seeds,then throw almost the exact same vignettes in(with few alterations)Heenan,Razor rub it in perfects face that he's #2,then razor cuts in and says #3 a match is set for like summerslam,perfect goes over,which gives him a title shot at flair at survivor series for the gold.Then the hitman could have STILL been where he needed to be by wrestlemania.
"I look real good and feel even better, I make a burlap sack look like a cashmere sweater." - Rick Rude
Bars!!!! 😂
@@danielwilson9724 Bars?
@@user-qx5nk6qg2b yeah, bars!! U know like rappers call each line of a rhyme their bars? It was a joke off that like Rick Rude had bars too.. 😉 lol
@@danielwilson9724 Okay.
Rick Rude would be massive if he around nowadays and on the scene. Amazing performer and an all time great heel
Meh, when he was with DX as their manager and then went to WCW, he really wasn't a hit by that point.
@LastDropFalls who are you even talking to? The original post or the first reply?
Honestly it would completely depend on the gimmick he was given. I could see a scenario where if he was given a lame gimmick, or lack of faith by Vince, he could be just another guy today. If you need an example, think Bobby (Robert) Roode. Great look, good worker, they do nothing with him.
Also, don't underestimate Bobby Heenan's impact on Rude's career.
He had a womanizing gimmick for awhile, the heat on that alone these days would definitely get some attention if done correctly. But if it was WWE writing it would probably go over like a lead ballon.
@@rawsko0316 Well, to be fair to modern day WWE, the company being public combined with the development of PC culture has increasingly put pressure on them to tame the product and avoid the wrong kind of attention.
Rude is probably my second favorite of all time behind Macho man. Love hearing the stories of him kicking ass backstage or off site. Wish he was still around. I'm sure his shoots would be among the best to listen to.
Rude was such a great heel. "All you mouth breathing men shut up while I show your wives and girlfriends what a REAL man looks like."
No what man would watch a program where Rude is stripping in front of you? Sounds weird
It's not a Rude promo if you don't mention sweat hogs
@@fatalsniper3413 That was his gimmick.
"Cut the music! What I'd like to have right now, is for all you fat, out of shape, (insert city name) sweathogs, to keep the noise down while I take my robe off and show the ladies what a REAL man is supposed to look like. Hit the music!"
@@fatalsniper3413 "Stripping"? He took off his robe and still wore more clothing than other guys, including Hogan, Savage and even Dusty.
Road Warrior Hawk (as Crusher Haig) and Rick Rude (as Ricky Rood) both appeared on the April 18th, 1983 PNE house show in Vancouver and both worked the May 3th, 1983 All Star Wrestling TV taping in Burnaby, BC. (NWA Vancouver territory.)
I always loved Rick Rude, I miss that guy.
I like Rick Rude because he reminds me of me - Jesse Ventura
The “Rude” Warrior would have been awesome lol
Legion Of Ravishers
instead of The Dream Warriors be The Rude Warriors ;)
"What I'd like to have right now, is for all you fat, ugly, inner-city sweathogs to keep the noise down...OH WHAT A RUSH!"
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'D WORKED OUT.
The Rick Rude Warrior art work is fucking hilarious.
Road Warrior Gyro
I wonder why the artist gave rude demolition ax face paint
@Marc Carran I've seen road warrior Hawk with several different styles of face paint, sometimes it had blue and yellow mixed in
"What a crusssssssh!"
Rick was so good, he could’ve pulled it off😁
Rick Rude is the pinnacle of pro wrestling heels. Nothing better.
Yeah. Piper is up there too.
@@flch95 Piper was a wayyy better heel than Rude though.. And I say tht as a longtime fan of Rude. But Piper just drew heat and put asses in seats
Knowing this makes Doink waaay creepier.
Well yea I did enjoy the evil clown stuff and when Matt Bourne showed up in ECW he even had a spilt personality character going and the face paint in half was great that he went crazy
@Silence, Yeah, Matt had ALOT OF ISSUES & seemed like a very depressing person unlike his Dad who was not only a great worker, but he was a nice guy.
This isn't even the only incident. Mistreatment of a female was also one of the reason for his real life issues with Duggan.
I was literally just listening to the other story and really wanted to know the history behind that Matt Bourne comment...glad this popped up right after
Rick would have been a great road warrior. He had that pure, tough guy energy.
Rude was me, and my friend's, favorite wrestler! We loved him! He was spectacular in WCW
Always looked forward to Rick selling atomic drops - lol - what was particularly good is that he had several ways of selling them so it never got stale.
Your spot on there! 👍
God I hated atomic drops too 😂 So glad they stopped using them. They were just such a lame weak move. Lol but Rude did have the best sells to them. Tully Blanchard had a great sell for them too
I'm trying to picture Ravishing Rick Rude saying OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH WHAT A RUSHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
The Rude warriors
And he could probably pull it off too.
And then putting his hands behind his head and doinh the hip swivel 😂
@@danielwilson9724 Of course lol
My all time favorite heel. My #2 all time favorite wrestler. Love Rick Rude. Such a great wrestler
Grew up watching wrestling 70s thru 90s, Cornette's insight is invaluable 😅👍🏽
Boy... the Road Warriors Documentary sure did gloss over the Pre Warriors careers of hawk and animal
Rude, Tully and Gino Hernandez were 3 of my all time favorite heels.
Thats a great list👍🏻
Now thats a stable id of liked to have seen..
Hey buddy, that's Gorgeous Gino Hernandez. And we appreciate that he is YOUR CHAMPION! 😂
Awesome of it was a faction and Gino Hernandez definitely would have been a horsemen
Tully had that swag strut
"Did I put that in a decent way?".. Me: "Well yeah that was about as polite as you could make it. And considering that this was Jim saying that, and he is not known for holding back, I was kind of surprised at his restraint."
I loved how Corny said, "BONE of contention...."LOL
Rick Rood was one of the toughest in the buisness. Arm wrestling champion as well. Forearms as big as most dudes calves. Hell of a wrestler and heel.
It’s wild imagining Rick Rude being green. Jim’s stories are the best.
You could see him being green on the wrestling gold set.
@@maxxdahl6062 I will have to check that out!
@@WyattHolliday Best wrestling dvd set I've ever bought.
@@maxxdahl6062 I’m getting it now!
I know Rude had those runs with the International World Heavyweight Championship but imo he is the greatest ever that didn't have a run with either the WWF or WCW belt. He definitely should have, he was excellent both in ring and on the mic.
Rick Rude, Ted DiBiase , Jesse Ventura, Bobby Heenan and Razor were my favorite heels ever.
Arn is the only one alive out of the road warriors, rick rude, and matt Bourne
And Curt Hennig
The list goes on and on..
That is depressing 😒
@@alphatoddio I second tht too.
No ( or very little) steroids. Just a guess.
I always wondered what would of happened if Road Warriors stayed in WCW during the NWO run. Hennig and the Road Warriors being managed by Rick Rude would have been cool to see.
Scott Norton, John Nord and Barry Darsow were there at the time too. Had almost the whole crew minus Nikita Koloff
Weren't they still in wcw right as the NWO started? I remember them being there in 1996.
@@maxxdahl6062 They were in WCW up until JUST before the nWo showed up. They were on Slamboree and Hall debuted the following night.
Lot better than how RW were used in WWF during those 90 years. Jobbing to DX and Hawk in ridiculous angles.
@@CometVS exactly. I know they were trying to stay working and didn't care for their deal financially in WCW but damn I wish they wouldn't have gone back to Vince. Their legacy took a MAJOR hit from that point on. It was like they were at his mercy and he took full advantage of it.
The image of Arn running in and Stone Colding everyone in the ring
Rude vs Warrior steel cage match summer slam was so epic as a kid
Glad to know I understood the call enough to get tge general idea of what Rick was supposed to do.
"(Expletive) it, tag out!" 😆
Bundy and Rude in Memphis were a phenomenal tag team.
The next generation of the Minnesota wrecking crew
Road Warriors are awesome they trained and lived like 3-4 miles from where I'm posting this comment over in NE Minneapolis
Kudos to Jim for remembering Hawk’s brief run as Martin Van Nostrand.
Awesome Shoot Today Jim!!😎🐐🐐
"hey uncle Jim, look at me Uncle Jim"
@@andrewbowyer5043 Don't Be Dumb🤦😂😂
Re: the Rat Pack; I think Corny was confused, at first, with Mr Olympia, Jerry Stubbs, who turned heel in Mid-South and teamed with DiBiase. Jerry and Arn looked a lot alike and Arn teamed with Stubbs as Super Olympia, at one point.
Rood came into Georgia, under his birth name (Rood) sometime around the debut of the Road Warriors and was skinny as all hell and was being sold as a champion arm wrestler. Rude was green as hell and not great shakes in the ring; but, by the time he was working Memphis, against Lawler and Idol, he had really grown as a worker. By the time he had left the WWF and was working in WCW, he was one of the best in the business.
Ed Sharkey's guys were all great weightlifters; but, they never learned to wrestle until they got into the territories.
The Rick Rude story is a fantastic example of the career of anyone star worthy. From "What? I can't get it" to one of the all time greats
Hearing stories like the dennis/rude match makes you appreciate today's wrestling and how far it's come.
How so? Because it makes me appreciate the old days more
RIP Hawk Animal and Rick Rude🙏🏽
Stop going for cheap thumbs up. Those fellas passed years ago
@@jeffmac9642 Stop up voting your own comment.BTW Animal died last September.
@@jeffmac9642 ok so why are you assuming I said that for clout at the end of day it's a fucking screen don't talk to me like I'm disrespecting them
@@rob.3575 I don't upvote because I don't care about it 🤷
@@TERRELL_GASKINS First of all ..... " It's a screen don't talk to me like..... "
How can I talk to a screen. Secondly if I was in an old cemetery and saw Erskine Von Blitzken passed in 1755 and reacted emotionally to it you would think I was nuts. So yes you are looking for what wrestling fans call a cheap pop .
The road warriors used the live with Rick Rude and Nakita Koloff. Also jake roberts. Jake on a shoot interview discusses how him and the road warriors came up with the legion of doom name.
I thought that it was Jake Robert's who was supposed to be in the Road Warriors, right? Or am I confused, lol.
@@easyriderrider4580 I think he did say that at some point. I had a run where I watched his shoots. I think a lot of what he says are like in character though (if you know what I mean)... which makes them not really shoots then right? but I think he says things just to get reactions. I can respect that really.
Rick Rude looks like Bennett from Commando in that thumbnail.
So spooky .was watching the dark side of the ring episode on the road warriors when this notification came up
Oh my fucking God I laughed out loud for this story. Thanks so much guys, I needed it.
Even with his career success, Rick Rude was never used correctly.
Sadly vince m did not believe in heel champions.
@@booty121212 Boy, how the times have changed. We were robbed.
Rest In Peace Curt Hening, Road Warrior Hawk, Rick Rude, Road Warrior Animal.
And the original Doink Matt Borne
Minnesota wrecking crew
Rude's fued with Austin Idol in Memphis was when I knew he was going to be very special
Glad some asked this i was looking into this but couldn't find anything.
I feel like dennis at my job quite frequently. I'd love to tell most people "fuck it, tag out"
That story near the end is hilarious 😂
I Was Wonderin' about that "Doink", "Keep it in His Pants" Line, RoadWarrior Deal Worked Out.
Rude & Manny Fernandez were an awesome heel team, of course that was right before Rude left the NWA to go work for Vince, it would've been cool if Manny would've gone with Rick to Vince's, they would've been an awesome heel team for Vince.
I was familar with the story but the way he said it made it seem like doink was hawk or animals dad lol
"or between whatever was spread" hahahah I spit my drink out
One of the matches on the road warriors dvd was the road warriors vs Arn and Paul Jones on georgia tv
Travis . . . that thumbnail, tho . . .
Imagine if Gagne could've kept all that talent in his backyard in the AWA... damn, something was in that Minnesota drinking water.
Can you imagine Rick Rude, Curt Henning, The Berzerker, Tom Zenk, Nikita Koloff and Barry Darsow all went to high school together
Rick Rude is why I wear a mustache.
Wow that quite a history lesson in them 13 min. Thanks 🌽dawg
Rude is in the top 10 heels of all time..
Ole Anderson was more influential and important than people realize. Even the bad influences we've been told about actually were super important to the history of the business.
Matt Bourne. Best known for being an evil clown. Arn Anderson. Best known for being the Enforcer of the Horsemen, and one of the most respected men in the business. I think Arn came out ahead, on this one.
but everyone loves Doink !
Howdy friends 👋.
Rick Rude would be great as a trainer today, the Road Warriors put butts in seats and sold merchandise (💯 better than what we see today!)
Rude worked Mid Atlantic, Georgia and Mid South before getting a push in Memphis. Greener than grass is an understatement.
LMAO Rude as a Road Warrior wouldve been SO awesome!
Rick Rude was a heel you would love and hate the guy was a beast and his feuds were epic
Great story and infor
"Keep the noise down while I take my robe off and show the ladies what a real sexy man is supposed to look like.. hit the music!" 😁
Thee absolute funniest Rude story I have ever heard, was about one or two women, legitimately approaching him, hitting on him and trying to get fucked by him. I just can't remember if it was one or two women. But Rude pauses, takes a deep breath, sits down on something and says, "If I looked like you and you looked like me would you fuck me?". HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Man, I would have loved to have seen Arn laying everyone out.
If you listen to Arn's Podcast, Bill Watts was sending Matt Bourne to GCW and Junkyard Dog pointed out that Marty Lunde looked like he was an Anderson so Watts sent them as a tag team. When they arrived Ole came up with Arn.
It wasn't Continental and Ron Fuller - Arn was in Pensacola working for Bullet Bob Armstrong.
Pretty sure that was Continental
@@chrischar9428 You are right - there were two divisions of SECW (one based in Knoxville, the other in Panama City) before they combined in 1985 and became Continental. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Championship_Wrestling
fantastic Rick Rude story....
Yeah Rude was in mid atlantic in the beginning too
The dashing ravishing axing smashing Rick The rude road warrior.
I'm always skeptical when Brian says "We have had a lot of people sending in messages about this" as it's more likely it is something he thinks will get a lot of hits on youtube. I have sent loads of great questions but they never get replies and certainly not shout outs.
Perhaps your questions are not as good as you think they are or maybe they are just spammed with messages. Know a guy that had to hustle Twitter hard to get one question asked on Arn's show.
@@hattorihanzo2275 Certainly my questions may not be as good as I think. Here was one I did recently- Subject: Did Yokozuna do a Banzai Drop on Vince McMahon's voice box? (I always try to put a good subject header in to catch Brian's attention and to have him immediately understand the content of the question.
My email then went:
Dear Jim
Do you have any idea why Vince McMahon's voice has a rasping almost muted tone now? He sounds like he has had surgery on his throat but I have not read anywhere about this. He sounds like Yokozuna once did the Banzai drop on his voice box! It may also account for the permanently watery eyes he seems to have now too. Any reason's for Mr McMahon's dodgy larynx would be most welcome.
Keep up the great work
What do you think? I think that would have had a very entertaining answer by Mr Cornette. Thanks for the reply Hattori
Rick Rude didn't need to be in LOD. He is a top 5 heel of all time. IMO... Ted Dibiase / Rick Rude / Hollywood Hogan / Mr McMahon / Roddy Piper in no specific order.
And Flair
@@btipton6899 Flair is top 10, but I think he was as beloved as he was hated from being a heel. everyone wanted to be flair in the four horsemen. I'm talking serious heat. dibiase with his gimmicks, rude with his chippendales shit talking, hogan turning on the fans, mr mcmahon screwing bret / austin, and just about everything Roddy did early in his career.
@@titansrule72 Hollywood Hogan was just as beloved in NWO as he was when he was a face..I'll agree with you on McMahon tho.. monster heel
@@J.P.G.78 I dunno do you remember those wcw crowds showering hogan and hall and nash in garbage and drinks circa 96?
@@titansrule72 yeah for sure.. but there came a point real soon after that they were considered cool.. nwo shirts were literally all you saw in the crowds. I'll agree Hogan drew heat for the turn but it wasn't that sustainable. Hell you could probably throw Austin and Rock in there too, but the fans sided with them before they even turned face
Could you imagine Road warrior Rick with the NWA tag belts defending under Freebird rules with Hawk and Animal?
That would have been freaking awesome!
Or a program/ war games between the horseman vs rude curt and the warriors.
What I would like to have right now, is for all you fat, out of shape, AEW sweathogs...keep the noise down while Jim pays tribute to one of the greatest wrestling villains of all time.
Now hit the play button 0:00
Barry Darsow said Rude was the pit bull of the Minnesota Boys.
Rude was 1 hell of a tough sob and hardly anyone would fuck with him. Plus that's what a wrestler should look like.
That war paint on Rude would have covered up his facial scar
Jesse Ventura said I like Rick Rude because he is a lot like me... ruggedly handsome
The more I look back at NWA stuff (Stampede Wrestling was the closest thing I experienced as a kid in the 80s in Canada), the more mixed my response is. Sure, there was a lot of great stuff that went on in JCP. But the promotion that was supposed to be about serious, reality based wrestling had a number of guys with facepaint who walked out to the ring like real life cartoon characters, which I thought the NWA was completely against. Obviously, things changed after Ted Turner bought the company and you saw a lot of cartoony stuff because Turner owned a lot of classic movies and some idiots decided that creating wrestling characters based on some of the characters in some of those movies was a good idea. But even before that, the Road Warriors/LOD, Sting and others all became popular in NWA/WCW wearing facepaint. To be successful as a wrestling promotion, you need a booker who understands psychology and someone who understands the culture and can deliver that booking and psychology in a modern, contemporary way. The early 90s were a terrible time business-wise for wrestling because the world was changing and wrestling barely noticed. They saw that hip hop was popular, and without actually understanding why that was, they just brought in bad wrestlers because they could say yo baby yo in a way that convinced southern kids under the age of 10. Wrestling at its best is believable. Even though you know it's a work, you don't want to see something obviously fake. It's same reason rational adults don't typically watch animated films. Even though you know it's a movie, it should at least be somewhat believable.
Richard Erwin Rood is another one of those performers who should have been Heavyweight Champion. Wow the tag team division definitely would've sucked without the Road Warriors
“Bone of contention” indeed
Rude perfected the cocky heel modus opporandi
Totally understandable for Rude not to be able to follow Dennis Condry. Sharkey never taught the Minnesota crew shit, he was no trainer. And there was no mat in the basement of that church they worked out in. ( or ring ropes)
Rick had the body and the charisma and could talk. He just needed the reps in the ring working with professionals like Bobby Eaton and Dennis Condry. Two of the greatest wrestlers ever and a well-oiled machine of a tag team.
But once Rude got to WCCW in Texas he had those reps in the ring and nobody could touch him.
Rick Rude and Razor Ramone were my two favorite wrestlers of all time.
Contemptible, perfect word to describe Rude’s attitude.
"Fuck it. Tag out."
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I see a lot of Rick Rude in Ricky Starks!! No one will ever top the ravishing one...but Starks is damn close!
Rude was a genetic marvel. Beautiful body
What if , in an alternate universe Rude and animal were the Road Warriors and Hawk ended up in The Ravishing gimmick gyrating with a mullet ! LOL !!! I would love to hear Hawk cut a Rude ish promo LOL
When will Jim give us his roster of wrestlers he’ll pick of he was starting a promotion today? Looking forward to that
Email him & maybe he'll answer on the show.
So many pro wrestling legends gone too soon rip The bad ass Road Warriors
I thought that Jake Robert's was supposed to be one of the original Road Warriors???
Rick Rude would be more ornery with todays wrestling than Jim is.
Than...
There'd be a lot broken jaws/noses...
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@@King4sshole89 or guns pulled, like with Bischoff
Wasn't Arn's first break when Ole turned on Thunderbolt Patterson? He turned on his partner because Thunderbolt disagreed with Arn's tactics.
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U know i was starting to think about road warriors and it happened
Rude my favorite heel of all time taken out of his prime
i cant fathom how far hennig went in just few years, early footage mid80-1989 & then him in 1990 he was incredible on par(ALMOST to the caliber of a bret hart)Just mention of the harts is a can of worms by itself Bret Hart Lived,breathes,drank and exuded the posture of the champion...everytime shawn lost a belt,2 him it it was literally like losing his manhood...for him the champions was was to him what a bottle of vodka was 2 my dad(before he quit)anyway i started on Perfect & inappropriate segues aside,Pefect was incredible not only was his premature passing a shame but the years injuries took off his...what could have been GREAT GREAT milestones in his career .He should have been the champ @1time...like say mania 8 picture this,savage goes over..but then BEFORE survivor series,around May start planting the seeds,then throw almost the exact same vignettes in(with few alterations)Heenan,Razor rub it in perfects face that he's #2,then razor cuts in and says #3 a match is set for like summerslam,perfect goes over,which gives him a title shot at flair at survivor series for the gold.Then the hitman could have STILL been where he needed to be by wrestlemania.