2016 Pro Wrestling Thread

"Cut the music! What I'd like to have right now, is for all you fat, out of shape, Bulgarian sweathogs, keep the noise down, while I show you ravishing Russians what a real man looks like. Hit the music!"

 

For posterity. Thank God for the 80s. Nowadays, Rick Rude would be held up on Gawker as a symbol of rape culture and a male-dominated worldview or some such bullshit.

 

Take a bow. You win SJ for the night.

 

How is he not a Hall of Famer?

 

Lotttt of drugs going on with Rude, allegedly. I imagine he'll get in someday though.

 

No disrespect, but, how many wrestlers from the 80's were not on coke?

 

No idea.
Sonny Blaze was AWESOME.

 

Not just coke, but steroids too -- and provably, I believe. I think he either admitted to them or was implicated in that trial in the early 90s.

 

Supposedly, Vince is still pissed off that Rude appeared on taped Raw and live Nitro simultaneously. He felt like Rude embarrassed the company.

It's likely at some point he gets in, as Vince pretty much forgives everyone eventually who has crossed him in the past (Savage, Graham, Madusa as examples)

 

Come on, Baron, Macho apparently slept with his daughter.

 

Yeah, but he's in the Hall now, and there had been discussions that he would do some work with the E before he had died.

 

For the record, the absolute best part of that clip is at 1:43 when the kid mimics Rude's hip swerve.