[1990-07-29-WWF-Wrestling Challenge] Interview: Rick Rude & Bobby Heenan

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Rude does another promo that sounds way too written out in advance. Not digging this.

[PeteF3]

Same promo as SNME, with fewer animal puns and more screaming.

[soup23]

Eh I am really sick of this feud as no new ground has been broken for months. Rude again does decent promos but there is just not much of an emotional connection.

[Kevin Ridge]

Heenan wants Gene to refer to Rude as the next WWF Champion. Rude’s promo seems to be similar to a previous one he did.

[garretta]

Screaming psycho Rude doesn't really fit. He's much better off as the sleazy, oily ladies' man he was before, long hair and all. To be honest, they could have just scrapped the vignettes, played the same "he beat you once, he'll beat you again" card, left Rude's character totally alone, and gotten the same result. I liked the vignettes as much as anyone, but they simply don't translate into normal podium interviews. Heenan saves things as usual, particularly with his insistence on Mean Gene calling Rude "the next WWF champion".

 

It's interesting that they're actually acknowledging house shows in this feud; maybe they knew they'd let things lay a little too long and wanted to make sure that fans still cared about these two by teasing a possible non-televised title change.