Rick Rude beat Sting in Japan to become the WCW International Heavyweight Champion. Sting dove on Rude, causing Rick to hit his back on a raised platform. Rude's back injury forced him to retire from ...

Did Rick Rude make Sting break character? Selling is an important in pro wrestling as it makes the in-ring moves more believable, while also complementing a match’s overall storytelling. In the case ...

Despite a body of work that earned him several high-profile feuds against top babyfaces and a few brief main event runs, "Ravishing" Rick Rude was never the "top guy" in either WWF or WCW, a fact that ...

“What I’d like to have right now, is for all you fat, ugly, inner-city sweathogs to keep the noise down while I take my robe off and show the ladies what a real sexy man looks like…” With those words, ...

Like many wrestling greats, Rick Rude underwent several gimmick changes before finding the most "over" version of himself that — in late '80s WWE — wowed the ladies and called out the "fat, ...