For over 11 years, the website Ravishing Rick Rude: A Remembrance has been providing wrestling fans with thousands of screen caps focusing on Rick Rude. You’ve probably run across this site if you’ve ever spent hours surfing around for hot images of gorgeous, muscular wrestlers like most normal people do.
Every wrestling fan develops a crush on a wrestler for a while and goons out over his matches, but I don’t think any fan has loved and worshiped a wrestler for so long and so consistently as the webmaster of Rude Remembrance has for the Ravishing One.
If there has ever been a wrestler who is worth worshiping for over a decade, it would have to be Mr. Rude.
You can see from these images (which were all swiped from the Rude Remembrance website) that this muscular daddy with his chiseled upper body loved to wear sexy, colorful tights that really hugged his assets. He was forever shaking his hips, flexing his abs, and letting other men pull down his tights. MMPPHHH!!
Another Rick Rude trait that is not mentioned often enough (because everybody is too busy drooling over his physique) is that Rude could wrassle. He wrote a few chapters in the ring psychology textbook, and played around with the erotic aspects of pro wrestling before anybody even realized that wrestling was supposed to be erotic. He sold his suffering like a champ, twisting and flexing every muscle, with his face controted in the most compelling “O” Faces. Despite his physical perfection and obvious strength, he was always willing to play the pathetic wimp — knowing this loss of power by a dominant male is a major turn-on for many wrestling fans. As stated on the Rude Remembrance website: “He was always entertaining and gave the crowds 150%.”
And he was perfect in the Alpha Male role, dropping elbows and “Rude Awakening” some punk so he could recline across the jobber’s broken body. I suppose if you were going to be locked in your bedroom, say for 11 years, and could only bring DVDs of one wrestler, Rick Rude would be right up there among the top choices.
The webmaster from Rude Remembrance also points out how Rude used every trick in the book to get us to stare at his strong glutes. He’d either shake his ass, flex his buns repeatedly, or “duck walk” after a hard Atomic Drop.
Currently the website features a poll where you can vote on your favorite “Hind Sight” technique used by Mr. Rude. Of course, having his tights pulled down by another wrestler is currently far ahead in votes. (You damned perverts!)
But I am sad to report that, after it’s great 11-year run, the Rude Remembrance site will be shutting down September 30, 2013. The webmaster was apparently using WebTV (also known as MSN TV) to store his images and create his web pages. It was recently announced that the service is ending after 17 years.
(For you youngsters out there, Web TV was a way to get online and even upload content from your television. However, with the rise of cheap tablets, it probably isn’t needed by many users any longer so they’re canceling it — times sure change fast these days!)
As this Internet thing evolves and gets fancier, many web surfers of a certain age will remember the original, earnest sites like Rude Remembrance with fondness. We didn’t have the best tools to work with, and we didn’t know what we were doing at first, but we knew we loved pro wrestling and that, somewhere out in Cyber-space, there had to be other fans who shared the same passion for rasslin’. Now there are many people posting great pro wrestling content on Tumblr, Twitter, and elsewhere, but at first, there were only a few of us.
So allow me to tip my virtual hat in humble tribute to my fellow long-time wrestling webmaster for his many years of service as I bid a fond farewell to Ravishing Rick Rude: A Remembrance. Thanks for being a pioneer in home-made pro wrestling web content. Thanks for putting your love of wrestling and your appreciation of Rick Rude’s work out there for all the world to see. “Thanks for the memories!”