Ric Flair says Rick Rude is NOT in the same class as the Freebirds

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Who is more well known to people who stopped watching wrestling in the 90s? Unless you were in OK or Texas, you didn't know about the Freebirds beyond the extra shytty version in early WCW that were a dorky mid card tag team. People remember Rick Rude even if they grew out of wrestling 20+ years ago.

Who drew more money? Freebirds.
 

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Who drew more money? Freebirds.

I'm sure an argument can be made that Rude contributed to more gates and bigger gates than the Freebirds by virtue of his status in the biggest company in the world during a boom period. Rude was selling out MSG/Spectrum/Boston Gardens with Warrior and Piper. Freebirds were selling out the 4500 seat Sportatorium. Big difference.
 

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I'm sure an argument can be made that Rude contributed to more gates and bigger gates than the Freebirds by virtue of his status in the biggest company in the world during a boom period. Rude was selling out MSG/Spectrum/Boston Gardens with Warrior and Piper. Freebirds were selling out the 4500 seat Sportatorium. Big difference.

The Freebirds were one of the hottest acts of the 80s anywhere in the country. Rude never achieved anything close to that and that's with the WWE machine. If you don't know what you're talking about, please don't bother responding. Do your homework and get back to me because I don't think you realize how hot the Freebirds were with the Von Erich boys.
 

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I'll just leave this here, from 1986

3- 5/04 Fabulous Freebirds (Michael Hayes & Terry Gordy & Buddy Roberts) vs Kerry & Lance Von Erich & Steve Simpson- WCCW Six Man Tag Titles/ Rick Rude vs Bruiser Brody- WCCW Title Texas Stadium, Irving TX 24,121 (20,023 Paid $193,108 Jack Adkisson)

4- 4/20 Bruiser Brody & John Nord vs Greg Gagne & Jimmy Snuka- Cage Match/ Road Warriors vs Fabulous Freebirds (Michael Hayes & Terry Gordy)- AWA Tag Title Cage/ Stan Hansen vs Nick Bockwinkel- AWA Title (Wrestle Rock) Metro Dome, Minneapolis MN 23,800 ($270,000 Verne Gagne)
 

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The Freebirds were one of the hottest acts of the 80s anywhere in the country. Rude never achieved anything close to that and that's with the WWE machine. If you don't know what you're talking about, please don't bother responding. Do your homework and get back to me because I don't think you realize how hot the Freebirds were with the Von Erich boys.

Rude was in a bigger machine working bigger buildings with more money involved. The big shows you highlight were unique and super shows. WWF was running arenas with crowds that size on a monthly loop. Putting WrestleRock or Superclash attendance on the Freebirds is bizarre. It was a super show with AWA/JCP/WCCW putting on the biggest event they could to try to compete with the WWF and had damn near all of the top stars in the era that weren't in the WWF.

It's not like AWA and WCCW were running even 10K seat arenas very often. Scale matters here. Rude was operating on a much larger scale.
 

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Rude was in a bigger machine working bigger buildings with more money involved. The big shows you highlight were unique and super shows. WWF was running arenas with crowds that size on a monthly loop. Putting WrestleRock or Superclash attendance on the Freebirds is bizarre. It was a super show with AWA/JCP/WCCW putting on the biggest event they could to try to compete with the WWF and had damn near all of the top stars in the era that weren't in the WWF.

It's not like AWA and WCCW were running even 10K seat arenas very often. Scale matters here. Rude was operating on a much larger scale.


The point is..Rick Rude was elite level everywhere he went. Lol.
 

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lol relax im just fukking with you man. If anything Michael Hayes really does think hes black lol.


I don't fukk around like that nikka cause my life really been affected actually by racism and I have real white ivy league educated and successful enemies...
That shyt ain't no damn joke, fool.


Racism is fukk'n serious as fukk and anything in wrasslin, period.
A black person has to deal with racism and their gateway to wrasslin is racist from hogun to the freebirds.

So wtf are you talembout,....

Some of you nikkaz is bonafide fukk'n clowns.
Plus, nikka did you even see the freeterds wrassle.
So why the fukk is yo peanut gallery ass doing but clown shyt.

nikka go table yourself and die.


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