Rick Rude

Roster
 3-Winning 1989's Money in the Bank

## Various feuds(1987-1989)

Rick Rude debuted at Superstars 95 after Roddy Piper set his sights on the WWF Championship, Piper asked who he was which led to an attack by Rude. At SNME June, a distraction by Rude caused Honky Tonk Man to defeat Roddy Piper with HTM getting his first win ever on WWF. Rude claimed that the reason he was doing this was because Piper is washed up and he's now a movie star so he shouldn't be on WWF. Rude's first match was at Superstars 98 where he defeated Greg Valentine in the quarter finals of the King of the Ring. At Superstars 100, Rude defeated Piper to enter the G1.

Rick Rude would defeat One Man Gang to win King of the Ring but he failed to defeat IC Champion Bret Hart at Summerslam.

At Superstars 121, Rick Rude got a WWF title shot against Ted Dibiase but didn't win, Rude's next feud started the next week as he randomly attacked Hulk Hogan on his locker room, at Royal Rumble Rude got a huge win beating Hulk Hogan. Rude was in the 16 men tournament for the WWF Championship at Wrestlemania 4 but was defeated by Hulk Hogan in the first round.

At Summerslam, Rude was involved in a battle royal to determine the NO1 Contender to the WWF Championship and was the last one eliminated by Jake Roberts. At G1 Finals, Rick Rude won the 24/7 Championship Royal Rumble match, he managed to evade most of the ambushes for the title but at Survivor Series, after defeating Barry Horowitz, Virgil swooped in and rolled Rude up to win the title.

At SNME December, Rick Rude defeated Ted Dibiase and Ultimate Warrior to win back the 24/7 Championship. At Wrestlemania 5 he was in the million dollar title 6 men ladder match which was won by Virgil.

## Mr.Money in the Bank and departure(1989-1990)

He started a short feud with Brutus Beefcake, he lost to him at SNME May. At SNME June, he defeated Bad News Brown, Mr.Perfect, Earthquake, Typhoon and Rick Martel to win the MITB briefcase, he defeated Beefcake in an episode of Superstars to defend the briefcase.

At Summerslam 1989, the most humilliating moment of Rude's career happened as Hulk Hogan defeated Haku and Andre The Giant to retain the WWF Championship, afterwards Jimmy Snuka returned to save Hogan from a Haku and Andre beatdown, Rick Rude clocked Hulk Hogan on the head with the briefcase and cashed in but Jimmy Snuka re-entered the ring and beat down Rude to end the match in a DQ with Rude becoming the first ever man to unsuccessfully cash in the briefcase.

At SNME September, Ted Dibiase defeated Rick Rude after Dibiase called Rude out on being a loser who for some reason decided to cash in when Hogan's friend was still there. At G1 Finals, he got a fair shot against Hulk Hogan but still failed to win the title ending his push for good.

After the IC Championship was vacated, he was involved in a tournament for it, he managed to go into the finals at Royal Rumble 1990 against Koko B.Ware and proceeded to beat him with the help of Dino Bravo. Dino and Rude formed a shortlived alliance which ended at Wrestlemania 6 as Koko defeated Rude, Bad News Brown and Dusty Rhodes in an elimination match to win the IC title, this was Rude's last WWF match

## WCW and Dangerous Alliance(1991-1992)

Rick Rude technically debuted for WCW in the first WAR PPV interrupting Rick Martel who was calling out anyone on the WCW locker room, Rude defeated him but since this show wasn't canon, technically Rude hadn't debuted yet.

He made his official debut at Wrestlewar as US Champion Vader challenged any new guy in the locker room, Vader defeated Rude but Stunning Steve Austin debuted and attacked Vader along with Rude beginning the Dangerous Alliance.

At Saturday Night 100, Vader was facing Austin when Rude attacked Vader with a chair and both men proceeded to injure the champion. Since he hadn't defended the title for more than 30 days, Rude and Austin demanded for Ted Turner to fire him, when Turner was about to make the announcment at Great American Bash, Vader returned and retained the title against Rick Rude.

Paul E.Dangerously started managing Dangerous Alliance and made them a group as he recruited The Enforcers for it, this all led to Starrcade 1991 where Vader would face Stunning Austin and The Enforcers in a handicap match, if Vader won he wouldn't have to defend the US title against Rude immediatly after. But Dangerous Alliance picked up the win and Rude had his US title match but STILL was defeated by Vader. After the match, Vader decided to join DA to give them the brute strength that they need.

Vader demanded that the "prophecy of gold" should be completed which means Dangerous Alliance gets all WCW gold, Vader decided to forfeit the United States Championship and give it to Stunning Austin which made Austin reconsider his position about Vader as a leader and actually liking it while Rude still hated him. Eventually they all won gold except for Rude who failed to win the TV Championship twice against The Great Muta which led to Dangerous Alliance walking out on him. At Beach Blast, tensions were at an all time high with Rude and Dangerous Alliance even if they defeated Diamond Alignment in a wargames match with Rude getting the winning pin, in the main event Rude helped Vader retain the WCW Heaviweight Championship against Kensuke Sasaki, but after the match Rude attacked Vader with the title turning face, Stunning Austin looked towards Rude with disappointment on his face.

## World title shots and WCW Heaviweight champion(1992-1993)

At Great American Bash, Rick Rude vs Stunning Steve Austin in a no DQ match main evented the show with Rick Rude winning and becoming the NO1 contender for the WCW Heaviweight championship, he was finally gonna get his shot against Vader. During the buildup they had a forearm fight which ended with security breaking them out but Rick Rude managing to break Vader's nose anyways. At Halloween Havoc, Vader defeated Rude to retain the title in the first ever last man standing match.

Rude still held a grudge against Vader and was starting to help owner of WCW Dusty Rhodes to beat him up forming a group along with Road Warriors, this slowly caused a double turn with Vader turning face and Rude turning heel. At Superbrawl 3 Vader defeated Rude again.

Rude was gone from april until july, he returned at Saturday Night 216 when the WCW Heaviweight Championship was vacated and a huge 32 men tournament began, Rick Rude defeated Booker T in the first round and proceeded to talk shit about the crowd that didn't give him the pop he deserved for his return. He defeated Barry Windham in the second round, The Great Muta on the quarter finals and his long time partner Stunning Steve Austin in the semi finals. At Fall Brawl, Rude faced off against Dustin Rhodes for the title, Dustin had just turned on his father to one of the biggest pops ever for WCW and was massively over but Dusty showed up during the match and chairshotted Dustin for Rick Rude to become WCW Heaviweight champion.

Rude's run as champion was the most hated thing in WCW as he kept getting favors by Dusty Rhodes and easy matches like Kevin Sullivan at Halloween Havoc, at Battlebowl Stunning Steve Austin managed to win it and was gonna face Rick Rude at Starrcade 1993. In the show which was the culmination of a story that had lasted since early 1991, Rude defeated Austin to retain the title but after the match Eric Bischoff showed up as the new WCW owner revealing that the night wasn't over yet for Rude as he had one more challenger to go through, the debuting HULK HOGAN. Hogan easily defeated Rude in under a minute to win the title and end Rick Rude's WCW run.

## Lex Luger's manager(1998-1999)

At Nitro 188, 5 years after his retirement, Rick Rude showed up backstage as he wanted to manage Lex Luger who was going on a downward spiral. At Superbrawl VIII, after The Mob almost injured Rude's neck, The Mob's leader Konnan defeated Luger.

Rude thought a tag partner was what Luger needed to end his losing streak so he got another man with a losing streak, The Barbarian. At Slamboree, Luger and Barbarian defeated Vampiro in a handicap match which was Luger's first win since october 96 and Barbarian's first win since october 95.

At Great American Bash, Luger and Barbarian won the CITL tag team match but they were the first men to lose their cash in match against Steiner Brothers later on the night. Rude was hugely disappointed by this and said that Luger needed to take a lot of time off WCW to learn and to get that main event spot back but first he had to cut off the dead weight as Luger turned on Barbarian.

Rude introduced Luger back to WCW on the january 11th episode of Nitro introducing him as "The Narcissist" Lex Luger, Luger started a winning streak but Rick Rude tragically died on may 2nd 1999. They continued Luger's gimmick with a "list" of things that Rude wanted Luger to do, he continued to honor Rude's legacy even incorporating some of Rude's moves into his moveset.

## Championships and accomplishments

* World Wrestling Federation
* Intercontinental Championship(1 time)
* 24/7 Championship(6 times)
* King of the Ring(1987)
* Money in the Bank(1989)

* World Championship Wrestling
* WCW Heaviweight Championship(1 time)