Masters of Dilusion: Big John Studd and Dutch Doogan

Wrestling With Heels On

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EPISODE SUMMARY

It came to me a week later while I was watching the eleven a.m. WWF ALL-STAR WRESTLING show. DUTCH DOOGAN, my alter ego, would look like BIG JOHN STUDD.

Like I said before, BIG JOHN STUDD was six foot ten. He weighed 365 pounds--a mountain of a man who looked like he could chop down trees without an axe. There weren’t too many wrestlers his size in the 80’s so he was a natural to challenge Andre’s status as the one and only true giant in wrestling. And so a rivalry was born.

Thing is, every time Studd claimed he was the true giant in wrestling; Andre would get pissed off…for real. Not only did Andre hate Studd’s claims, he hated the way Studd entered the ring: crossing his leg over the top rope just like Andre did. And it didn’t help Studd’s cause that he truly did want to be considered the true giant in wrestling. Big John Studd wanted to be the bigger star and so went out of his way to prove it.

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