Rick Rude
Real name: Richard Rood
Hometown: Robbinsdale, MN
Membership: partners with Jesse Barr, Manny Fernandez, First Family, Paul Jones Army, Heenan Family, Dangerous Alliance, Triple Threat, New World Order, D-Generation X, nWo Hollywood, nWo Wolfpac
A.K.A.: Ricky Rood, the WCW Phantom
Finisher: The Rude Awakening
Background: Sometimes a jerk can be right, but he's still a jerk.
Rood was just a middle-class kid from Minnesota, used to pal around with his buddy Curty Henning. Seeing the success Henning had, Rood figured why not? So he went from arm wrestler to professional bad guy Rick Rude.
Had some success, even tangled with the Road Warriors for a bit. That got him on the radar of Bobby Heenan thus he was spirited away to the Northeast. Did alright there, as the crowd loved to hate him as much as they wanted to cheer whoever would knock him down.
But McMahon couldn't give him quite the push he wanted, so when a up and coming dude named Paul E. Dangerously called him, well, Rude vanished and the Phantom stalked the south for a bit.
Rude would later return to New York, but that is recounted elsewhere.
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