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#8 Sting vs. Ravishing Rick Rude--Clash of the Champions XVII
Ravishing Rick Rude had held the WWE Intercontinental Championship, but he wanted to be in the main event scene. When it looked like Rude was being pushed aside for the advent of the Ultimate Warrior, the Ravishing one took his services to rival WCW.
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He was quickly bundled into a feud with Sting, which would go on for some time and involve the world title at several points. However, one of their earlier encounters is still one of their best when they faced each other at Clash of the Champions seventeen.
Rick Rude is an underrated technical wrestler, and in WCW he dispensed with the 'lady's man' gimmick and was all serious business in the ring. His villainy was a great contrast to Sting's heroism, and this match is proof of that.
Why this is a must-see match: Sting and Rude would fight each other for higher stakes than this, but this is an athletic and brutal encounter that cements both men as top tier professionals.
