WWE 2K15: 15 Legends Who Need To Join Sting On The Roster

14. Rick Rude

Another performer who jumped between WCW and WWF during the years before the Monday Night Wars really kicked off, €˜Ravishing€™ Rick Rude was a multiple time world champion who never held the WWF€™s own world title. He did, however, hold the Intercontinental championship (back in the days when that actually meant something), and has been namechecked by WWE€™s publicity machine as being not only one of the greatest mic men of all time, but also possessing one of the greatest physiques of all time, a fact he wasn't shy about arrogantly displaying to every crowd he wrestled in front of. A little known fact about Rick Rude is that he was a founder member of Degeneration X, described as their €˜insurance policy€™ €“ he would hover menacingly at ringside during matches featuring other D-X members. Future storylines involving the group had to proceed without Rude when he elected not to work for Vince McMahon any longer after the events of the infamous Montreal Screwjob. 'Ravishing' Rick Rude would be a dynamite pick against almost any current WWE superstar, his devastating 'Rude Awakening' neckbreaker would vie beautifully against Randy Orton's RKO as classic finishing moves go, and as for overweening arrogance - let's see whether Dolph Ziggler can steal the show against 'The Sexiest Man Alive'...
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