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Post by eDemento2099 on Oct 8, 2017 22:49:57 GMT -5
Seeing as how it's October, I'm reminded of WCW's Halloween Havoc PPV, and how Rick Rude used to wrestle with a pair of tights featuring customized details to reflect this thematic event. I also remember Rude having his tights customized with the face of Jake Roberts' wife when he was involved in a feud with Jake Roberts.
My question is, did Rick Rude have a custom pair of tights made for every night that he wrestled, or did he have generic pairs that he wore for most events, and custom pairs that he broke out for PPVs and high-profile matches?
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Oct 8, 2017 23:14:18 GMT -5
From what I’ve seen the airbrushed ones were for special occasions. He would wear regular, single coloured ones for a regular match.
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Post by BJ Sturgeon on Oct 9, 2017 13:28:29 GMT -5
I think he wore purple tights with darker purple/black stripes quite a bit. He may also have worn the tights with RAVISHING in multiple colours on several ocas sion.   |
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Post by eDemento2099 on Oct 9, 2017 16:23:01 GMT -5
Ha ha ha, I love the way Rude and that woman are looking at each other in the 2nd photo! |
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Post by mizerable on Oct 9, 2017 17:28:45 GMT -5
My favorite pair was the pair he wore at Survivor Series 1987 with the road signs on them. Too bad there aren't any very good pictures of them.  He must've worn them a couple times. |
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Oct 9, 2017 18:32:42 GMT -5
My favourites are from Survivor Series 89. He had the faces of his teammates on the front and the faces of his opponents on the back.
“The tights on my bee-hind are telling the tale. Which team will perish and which will prevail”
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Post by agent817 on Oct 9, 2017 19:48:45 GMT -5
I think he wore purple tights with darker purple/black stripes quite a bit. He may also have worn the tights with RAVISHING in multiple colours on several ocas sion. Mike McGuirk certainly liked what she saw. |
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Post by BD Punk AKA SUSPENDED! on Oct 9, 2017 19:55:26 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure in the last few months of his WWE run and his entire WCW run he always had on some sort of airbrushed tights. They weren't always customized for each opponent, but I'd say after 1989 they were always airbrushed.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2017 20:01:39 GMT -5
I think he wore purple tights with darker purple/black stripes quite a bit. He may also have worn the tights with RAVISHING in multiple colours on several ocas sion. Yeah the purple attire was what I was thinking of as well...His Hasbro figure even has the attire  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2017 21:52:54 GMT -5
My favourites are from Survivor Series 89. He had the faces of his teammates on the front and the faces of his opponents on the back. “The tights on my bee-hind are telling the tale. Which team will perish and which will prevail”   |
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Post by Mozenrath on Oct 10, 2017 3:17:09 GMT -5
My favourites are from Survivor Series 89. He had the faces of his teammates on the front and the faces of his opponents on the back. “The tights on my bee-hind are telling the tale. Which team will perish and which will prevail” I sent these to my friend who doesn't watch wrestling, with zero context. She is awfully confused. |
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Post by thecrusherwi on Oct 10, 2017 6:15:26 GMT -5
My favourites are from Survivor Series 89. He had the faces of his teammates on the front and the faces of his opponents on the back. “The tights on my bee-hind are telling the tale. Which team will perish and which will prevail” The Rude Brood can't stop laughing at Rick's infinate gyrations |
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Post by HisRoyalGreeness on Oct 10, 2017 6:43:40 GMT -5
My personal favorite was a pair he wore in WCW. It had various female celebrities such as Madonna, Cindy Crawford, and Kim Bassinger among others on them with speech bubbles talking about what they loved about Rude. I can't find pictures of them but I haven't forgotten about them in over 20 years.
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Oct 10, 2017 14:07:55 GMT -5
I think he wore purple tights with darker purple/black stripes quite a bit. He may also have worn the tights with RAVISHING in multiple colours on several ocas sion. Mike McGuirk certainly liked what she saw. She always was a HUFD. Hard up for a date. |
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Post by jason1980s on Oct 10, 2017 20:10:35 GMT -5
1980s and early 90s was such a colorful period for wrestling and his tights were some of the most colorful of the time period.
The Hasbro figure is a generic version of his purple colored striped tights. The LJN toy is lightyears ahead of the Hasbro. For being as colorful as he was, Rude deserved better from Hasbro.
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Post by Clint Bobski on Oct 11, 2017 19:05:40 GMT -5
He did have sort of generic-type ones for house shows pre 1990 - like these   But from 1990 onwards he pretty much had airbrushed ones I think. These were still his best in my opinion:  |
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Post by mizerable on Oct 11, 2017 20:05:33 GMT -5
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Post by Hit Girl on Oct 11, 2017 20:53:14 GMT -5
I liked the ones with JYD's face on them.
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