Rick Rude

Reading through the Horseman thread yesterday got me thinking about something. Why didn’t Rude and Savage cross paths during his first title run? It would have made perfect sense for Rude to be Savage’s primarily challenger after DiBiase got his MSG rematch (the match where DiBiase broke his nose, not the steel cage match). It was in Rude’s natural personality to chase after Elizabeth and I can imagine those two could have had some pretty good matches even though Rude wasn’t considered a great worker just yet (although he proved that when matched with a quality opponent he had the ability). Instead Savage spent most of his post-DiBiase time struggling in matches with Andre.

There is a record of one encounter between the two from Mid-South with Savage playing the face. Five of the ten minutes is major stalling with the exception of Savage executing the mother of all airplane spins. After the stalling it gets pretty good but again it’s just a small sample. Find it on YouTube, especially since Savage playing the face in Memphis is quite the sight itself.

Anyway Blog of Doom’ers what do you think? Savage-Rude in the summer of 1988 sound like something that would have gotten asses in the seats?