In 1987,
Ricky Steamboat
won the Intercontinental Title from Randy Savage at Wrestlemania
III in one of the greatest matches in WWF history.
The match
solidified Steamboat’s
position as the best worker.
The
Intercontinental Title
solidified Steamboat’s position as the organization’s number two baby
face.
Six weeks later
he dropped
the Intercontinental Title to one of the worst workers in the company:
the Honky Tonk Man.
Disgusted,
Steamboat walked
away from the company.
It would be
almost a year
before he would return to the WWF.
Why?
Many stories
cite the birth
of Steamboat’s son Ritchie as the reason why The Dragon dropped the
Intercontinental
Title and left the WWF for several months.
But in Part III
of his two-hour
interview with Wrestling Perspective, Steamboat reveals there is
more to this story … much more.
You can read
the entire story
in Wrestling Perspective #109.
In this candid
interview,
Steamboat also discusses:
- His legendary
1989 series of
matches with Ric Flair.
- Why he and Ric Flair worked together so well.
- The psychology
of working long
matches.
- Why he and Randy Savage never had a classic rematch.
- His 1989
contract dispute with
WCW.
- Who came up
with the "family
man" gimmick and why Steamboat thinks it backfired.
These
topics and
many others
are addressed by Steamboat in Wrestling Perspective #109.
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these
excerpts
below:
Steamboat on his reputation for working
long matches
in the WWF: "Most of the guys, when
they
found out they were getting hooked up with me for a series, they
started
working out. (Wrestlers) would tell me, 'You know, I'm probably going
to
haave the greatest matches of my life working with you.'"
Steamboat on his fire
breathing
gimmick : "I'd have to go about every three months to get a blood
check.
Kerosene has a lot of lead in it, and it's the same thing as kids
eating
lead paint."
Steamboat on all of
the animal gimmicks
in the WWF: "It looked like Noah's Ark. Vince was the proclaimed
Noah."
Steamboat on working opening matches with
Haku: "We
would go out and have such great matches that the rest of the guys
hated
to go out after us'"
Steamboat on working
with Ric Flair
in 1989: "We liked to work, and we knew we could ... We felt so
comfortable
with each other."
Steamboat on why his
famous 1989
two-out-of-three fall match with Ric Flair: "The only thing we had
was the finish. The rest, we just wing it, and call it in the ring."
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What
Else Will
You Find
In Issue #109?
- Wrestling
Perspective's 2004
Editors Award For Lifetime Achievment. We look back at a wrestling
threesome
that set a standard of excellence in professional wrestling as of yet
unequaled.
- The Annual Phannies -- The worst of the
worst are, ahem,
honored. The Phantom of the Ring and Bill "Potshot"
Kunkel
skewer wrestling's worst with the wit, style, and pizzazz in a 5,000+
word
article that will have you busting your gut from your own hearty
laughter.
What's a Phannie look like?
Well, here are a couple:
Worst Prop: Our old friend, the Wifebeater, who
brings a weedwacker
to the ring. What the hell is the significance of this? Could it be
because
he is a wifebeater his wife wouldn't give him any love, so he uses the
weedwacker to, say, help himself? Just when we think we've seen it all,
they always take us a peg lower. At least the Sandman's "Singapore"
cane
made a modicum of sense.
Dishonorable Mention: The inevitable stretch limo.
Worst Highlight Show: The highlight reel of Raw,
proving beyond
a doubt that anything worth watching on that show took place within a
two-minute
time frame.
- That's not all ... there's also a very
informative letter
from Dr. Mike Lano about Fred Blassie.
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