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2. Ravishing Rick Rude
Everything about Rick Rude oozed his arrogance. His hip-swiveling, his swagger, his conduct with men and women alike. Even the slow turn that accompanied the Rude Awakening evoked that careful, confident persona.
Airbrushing his tights for all his big matches, Rick Rude added a level of psychology and manipulation to his gear that no one had really done before.
The most famous case was during his rivalry with Jake 'The Snake' Roberts, when the 'Ravishing One' would flirt with and hit on Jake's wife, Cheryl Roberts. Rude removed his tights to reveal a second pair, this one adorned with the airbrushed face of Jake's wife.
Jake would famously attack Rude and strip the tights off him, but the psychological warfare had already been won by that point. Rude was in Jake's head, and he wasn't leaving anytime soon.