Nice piece that brought back some old NWA memories. Ah, Dudes with Attitudes. I forgot all about that face group. NWA had a way in this era of presenting faces that made you want to boo them, but in a fun way, I recall. Sometimes you booed just because of a name like here. This stuck out more because the general fan base at the live shows there always seemed to lean heavy into liking the heels, and not just The Four Horsemen, but others from the roster too like Midnight Express and a few others.
Yeah, the NWA really had a knack for cool heels. Aside from the Horsemen and the Midnights, acts like Doom, Great Muta, Cactus Jack, and the Skyscrapers were presented as badasses, whereas they leaned more on the dorky or tamer characters on the face side. Sure, you had cooler characters like Lex, Sting, the Road Warriors, etc, but you also had the other Dudes With Attitude, Captain Mike Rotunda, and the Dynamic Dudes (too many dudes!). Even family man Ricky Steamboat got some jeers when faced against the cosmopolitan Ric Flair.
One of my most vivid NWA memories from a live event is when Sid Vicious and Danny Spivey wrestled the newly formed Dynamic Dudes. The crowd cheered Sid, the monster heel, wildly and equally as passionate booed Ace and Douglas. The two looked visibly surprised by the jeers.
Nice piece that brought back some old NWA memories. Ah, Dudes with Attitudes. I forgot all about that face group. NWA had a way in this era of presenting faces that made you want to boo them, but in a fun way, I recall. Sometimes you booed just because of a name like here. This stuck out more because the general fan base at the live shows there always seemed to lean heavy into liking the heels, and not just The Four Horsemen, but others from the roster too like Midnight Express and a few others.
Yeah, the NWA really had a knack for cool heels. Aside from the Horsemen and the Midnights, acts like Doom, Great Muta, Cactus Jack, and the Skyscrapers were presented as badasses, whereas they leaned more on the dorky or tamer characters on the face side. Sure, you had cooler characters like Lex, Sting, the Road Warriors, etc, but you also had the other Dudes With Attitude, Captain Mike Rotunda, and the Dynamic Dudes (too many dudes!). Even family man Ricky Steamboat got some jeers when faced against the cosmopolitan Ric Flair.
One of my most vivid NWA memories from a live event is when Sid Vicious and Danny Spivey wrestled the newly formed Dynamic Dudes. The crowd cheered Sid, the monster heel, wildly and equally as passionate booed Ace and Douglas. The two looked visibly surprised by the jeers.