Rick Rude’s wife was Michelle Rood. She was his second wife. They got married in 1988 and were together till his death.
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Richard Erwin Rood a.k.a “Ravishing” Rick Rude was born on December 7, 1958. He was an American professional wrestler who competed for World Championship Wrestling (WCW), World Wrestling Federation (WWF now WWE), and Extreme Championship Wrestling, among others (ECW). Richard Clyde Rood and Sally Jean Thompson raised Rude in St. Peter, Minnesota. Tom Zenk, Brady Boone, Nikita Koloff, Curt Hennig, John Nord, and Barry Darsow, all of whom went on to become professional wrestlers, were his classmates at Robbinsdale High School in Robbinsdale, Minnesota. Curt Hennig, a boyhood buddy, was especially close to him.
Rude wrestled from 1982 to 1994, when he retired due to injuries, with one last match in 1997. He was a four-time world champion, three-time WCW International World Heavyweight Champion, one-time WCWA World Heavyweight Champion, one-time WWF Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion, and the one-time WCW United States Heavyweight Champion, among many more achievements. Rude has competed on pay-per-view for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship and the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, the latter in the main event at SummerSlam in 1990. Rude continued to manage wrestlers after his retirement.
Rude, Shawn Michaels, Triple H, and Chyna formed the D-Generation X stable in late 1997. He became the first individual to appear on both the WWF’s Raw and WCW’s Monday Nitro shows on the same night on November 17 of that year, during the Monday Night Wars, since the former was pre-recorded and Rude had left for WCW in the interim. In 2017, he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame after his death.
Rude was found unresponsive by his wife on the morning of April 20, 1999, and died of heart failure at the age of 40. He died of an overdose of “mixed pharmaceuticals,” according to an autopsy report. Rude was preparing to return to the ring at the time of his death. He may have died as a result of the effects of gamma-hydroxybutyrate, a narcolepsy preventive medicine. Rick Rude was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame on March 6, 2017, according to WWE. Rude was inducted by Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat. On his behalf, Michelle, Merissa, and Richard Jr. accepted.
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Rick Rude’s wife was Michelle Rood. She was his second wife. They got married in 1988 and were together till his death. Rood married his first wife Cheryl Holler, his love interest, in 1976. In 1982, the couple divorced. Richard Jr., Merissa, and Colton are the children of Michelle and Rick. Colton, his younger son, died in a motorbike accident in Rome, Georgia, on September 3, 2016, at the age of 19. Despite his “Ravishing One” reputation, Bret Hart has revealed that Rude was a loving family man who never removed his wedding band during matches, instead covering it with tape.
