10 Unique Ways Wrestlers Celebrated Winning Matches
4. ‘Ravishing’ Rick Rude Gives One Lucky Fan Their Own Rude Awakening
Few wrestlers through the years have had a more memorable way
of relishing a victory than “Ravishing” Rick Rude.
If you watched Wrestling Challenge or Superstars of Wrestling back in the day, you likely saw Rude battling a local ham-and-egger, putting the no-name loser down with relative ease with the Rude Awakening neckbreaker.
Afterward, the Ravishing One and manager Bobby “The Brain” Heenan would pick out a woman from the crowd to enter the ring and have an entirely different kind of Rude Awakening performed on her – a deep, passionate kiss that left the woman flat on her back in the ring. Making out with a fan to celebrate a win was a surefire way to get under the crowd’s collective skin.
And of course, the gimmick backfired when Rude tried to pick Jake “The Snake” Roberts’ wife out of the audience, kicking off a great mid-card feud that this young fan loved as a kid.