Richard Erwin Rood ( born Richard Erwin Rood ; December 7, 1958 - April 20, 1999 ), better known by his name "Ravishing" Rick Rude, was an American professional wrestler who advocated many promotions, including the World Championship Wrestling (WCW). ), World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and Extreme Wrestling Championship (ECW). He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame on April 1, 2017.
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Rood fought from 1982 until his retirement in 1994 due to injury, and in 1997 was the final match. Among other awards, he was a four-time world champion (three-time WCW world champion in heavyweight and one-time WCWA world heavyweight champion), one-time world champion in intercontinental WWF heavyweight and one-time WCW champion in US heavyweight champion. Rood also challenged WWF World Heavyweight Champions and NWA World Heavyweight Champions on a pay-per-view basis.
In 1997, Rood co-founded influential stable D-Generation X, as well as Sean Michaels, Triple H and Chyna. On November 17 of the same year, he became the only person who appeared on WWF's “Raw War” and on Monday on Monday in Nitro on the same evening when the first one was recorded in advance, and Rood left for WCW.
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Early life
Rood was born in St. Peter, Minnesota to Richard Clyde Rood and Sally Jean Thompson. He attended Robbinsdale High School in Robbinsdale, Minnesota with Tom Zenk , Dean Peters, Brady Boone, Nikita Kolov , Kurt Hennig , John Nord and Barry Darsow , all of whom later became professional wrestlers. He was especially close with his childhood friend Kurt Hennig.
- Intro songs
- Smooth Operator By Sade (WCCW)
- The Stripper By David Rose (WWF)
- Toccata And Fugue In D Minor By Bach (WCW)
- Big Brother By Unknown Artist (WCW)
- Simply Ravishing By Harry Slash (WCW)
- The Stripper By David Rose (ECW)
- Simply Ravishing By Harry Slash (ECW)
- Rockhouse By Frank Shelley (WCW)
Crown tricks
- Rude Awakening (Delayed Hangman's Neckbreaker With Theatrics)
- Overhead Gutwrench Backbreaker Rack
- Belly To Back Suplex
- Camel clutch
- Delayed backbreaker
- Diving fist drop
- Spike piledriver
- Diving knee drop
- Forearm club
- Figure Four Leg Lock
- Sleeper hold
- Pointed elbow drop
- DDT
Titles and awards
- Championship Wrestling from Florida
- NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship (Florida version) ( 2 times ) [2] [3]
- NWA United States Tag Team Championship (Florida version) ( 1 time ) [4] - with Jesse Barr [2]
- Continental Wrestling Association
- NWA / AWA Southern Heavyweight Championship ( 1 time ) [2] [5]
- NWA / AWA Southern Tag Team Championship ( 1 time ) [6] - with King Kong Bundy [2]
- Jim Crockett Promotions / World Championship Wrestling
- WCW International World Heavyweight Championship ( 3 times ) [2] [7]
- WCW United States Heavyweight Championship ( 1 time ) [8]
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Mid-Atlantic version) ( 1 time ) [9] - with Manny Fernandez [2]
- Nintendo Top Ten Challenge Tournament (1992) [10]
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated
- Most Hated Wrestler of the Year (1992) [11]
- PWI ranked him No. 4 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 1992 [12]
- PWI ranked him No. 57 of the top 500 singles wrestlers of the " PWI Years " in 2003
- World Class Championship Wrestling / World Class Wrestling Association
- NWA American Heavyweight Championship ( 1 time ) [13]
- WCWA Television Championship ( 1 time ) [2] [14]
- WCWA World Heavyweight Championship ( 1 time ) [2] [15]
- World Wrestling Federation / WWE
- WWF Intercontinental Championship ( 1 time ) [2] [16]
- WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2017) [17]
- Slammy Award (1 time)
- Jesse "The Body" Award ( 1987 )
- Wrestling observer newsletter
- 5 Star Match (1992) with Steve Austin , Bobby Eaton , Larry Zbyszko , and Arn Anderson vs. Sting , Ricky Steamboat , Dustin Rhodes , Barry Windham , and Nikita Koloff (February 24, WarGames match , WrestleWar )
- Best Heel (1992) [11]
- Most Unimproved (1993)
- Worst Worked Match of the Year (1992) vs. Masahiro Chono at Halloween Havoc
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Find a Grave - 1995. - ed. size: 165000000
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Error in footnotes ? : Invalid
<ref>; no text for footnotes - ↑ NWA Southern Heavyweight Title (Florida) history . Wrestling Titles. The appeal date is May 25, 2008.
- WA NWA United States Tag Team Title (Florida version) history . Wrestling Titles. The appeal date is May 25, 2008.
- ↑ NWA / AWA Southern Heavyweight Title history . Wrestling Titles. The appeal date is May 25, 2008.
- ↑ NWA Mid-America / AWA Southern Tag Team Title history . Wrestling Titles. The appeal date is May 25, 2008.
- ↑ WCW International World Heavyweight Title history . Wrestling Titles. The appeal date is May 25, 2008.
- ↑ NWA / WCW United States Heavyweight Title history . Wrestling Titles. The appeal date is May 25, 2008.
- ↑ NWA World Tag Team Title (Mid-Atlantic / WCW) history . Wrestling Titles. The appeal date is May 25, 2008.
- ↑ Nintendo Top Ten Challenege Tournament . Pro Wrestling History. The appeal date is July 28, 2015.
- ↑ 1 2 Rick Rude: Awards . Pro Wrestling Illustrated . WrestlingData. The appeal date is May 25, 2008.
- ↑ Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) 500 for 1992 . The Internet Wrestling Database. The appeal date is February 13, 2015.
- ↑ NWA American Heavyweight Title history . Wrestling Titles. The appeal date is May 25, 2008.
- ↑ World Class Television Title history . Wrestling Titles. The appeal date is May 25, 2008.
- ↑ WCWA World Heavyweight Title history . Wrestling Titles. The appeal date is May 25, 2008.
- Ick History of the Intercontinental Championship: Rick Rude's first reign . WWE. The appeal date is May 25, 2008.
- R "Ravishing" Rick Rude to enter WWE Hall of Fame (English) , www.wwe.com .