Bruce Prichard covered Rick Rude on a recent episode of his amazing podcast, Something To Wrestle With Bruce Prichard and nothing was off the table.
Bruce says that Rick Rude was notorious for starting trouble outside of the ring. He loved to fight and was never one to mess with. Ribbing him was off the table, and when there was no trouble to be had, he sometimes made it up for himself.
Prichard explains that Rude would often go out to a bar after the wrestling matches with his overly attractive girlfriend and send her out in the midst of the bar while separating himself from her. But Rick never took an eye off of his beautiful arm candy. He would pay close attention to her interactions with the patrons of the bar, and when he inevitably noticed someone hitting on her he would spring into action.
Bruce says Percy Pringle had many stories about how Rick Rude would intentionally get guys to hit on his girlfriend so he could fight them. Rude loved to confront the other guy and start an argument with them which would ideally lead to a bar room brawl, and nobody wanted to tangle with Rick Rude.
This just goes to show that if you’re ever out at a bar and see an attractive girl, it’s always a good idea to check and make sure that a wrestling show isn’t in town before making your move.
Bruce says that all of the girls who were pulled into the ring out of the audience for the Rude Awakening segments were screened ahead of time. Prichard says that they didn’t even have to pay most of them.
Prichard says that all he would have to say was, “Hey, you wanna be on TV,” and that was usually all it took. The fact that the girls got to get in the ring and tongue kissed the Ravishing One was just the icing on the cake to them.
Bruce said that he would usually ask a few girls in the crowd if they wanted to participate in the segment and get consent forms signed for all of them. Rude would then have the girls pointed out to him beforehand so he could scan the crowd and decide which one of the agreeable females he wanted to pull into the ring and make out with that night.
Not a bad gig.
