According to both Honky and Valentine, Rhythm and Blues were booked to win the tag team titles. They even main evented several house shows against the then WWF tag team champion Hart Foundation. The gimmick made Valentine miserable and admitted that he simply didn’t give the gimmick his best effort.ĭespite that, the Rhythm and Blues team got over as heels. With a new look, Gorilla Monsoon started to dub Valentine “Box Car Willie” and more so than not, used that nickname more than calling him Greg Valentine. Eventually, Valentine came around and reluctantly agreed to dye his hair black. It took the Rhythm and Blues’ manager Jimmy Hart to convince Valentine to stick with the team and go along with the gimmick. Valentine was, by his own self admission, an old school wrestler who believed in tough, hard nosed wrestling and rely less on gimmicks. Valentine was dead set against that idea and threatened to quit the company. Jesse Ventura suggested that Greg Valentine dye his long blonde hair jet black and match the Honky Tonk Man. The pair did work well together and Vince McMahon liked the team, but felt that something was missing. Thus, the team was christened ‘Rhythm and Blues.’ It was ‘Ravishing’ Rick Rude who looked at both of them and said, ‘Well Honky Tonk Man has all the rhythm and Greg Valentine always looks depressed so he’s the Blues.’ Pat Patterson loved the name and ran to tell Gorilla Monsoon. Five minutes before their debut match, Honky and Valentine were still nameless. Both wrestlers were okay with forming a tag team as they both got along and felt it could have them still be a part of WWF’s programming.Īccording to the HonkyTonk Man, Patterson was stuck on what to name the new tag team. With nothing for either man to do creatively, Pat Patterson came up with the idea of making Honky and Valentine a tag team. Individually, they had solid runs as Intercontinental champions. In the end, De Bruyne decided to join Wolfsburg and spent a productive year at the Volkswagen Arena before being snapped up by City for 76 million euros in 2015.In 1989, the WWF careers of both The HonkyTonk Man and Greg ‘The Hammer’ Valentine were stagnating. So I thought maybe Chelsea would let me go. “Klopp wanted me to come to Borussia Dortmund, and they played the kind of football that I enjoy. When I came back to Chelsea the next summer, a few German clubs wanted to sign me,” he continued.Īnd it was while he on loan at Werder Bremen, he was noticed by Klopp, who wanted to take him to Borussia Dortmund, but Mourinho put a stop to that. So I went to Werder Bremen in 2012, and that season went great. The plan was always for me to go on loan for a bit. But the truth is that I only ever spoke to him twice. “When I was at Chelsea, there was so much in the press about my relationship with José Mourinho. He was loaned out to Genk then Werder Bremen to gain experience. And Mata was also out of favor at the time, so José said, “Well, you know, if Mata leaves, then you will be the fifth choice instead of sixth,” De Bruyne explained in his piece published by Players' Tribune. So it’s going to be different, no? We had a bit of a conversation about me going back out on loan. José was just kind of waiting for me to say something, and finally I said, “But … some of these guys have played 15, 20 games. And it’s like - five goals, 10 assists, whatever. Then he started reading the stats of the other attacking forwards - Willian, Oscar, Mata, Schürrle. Ten recoveries.' It took me a minute to understand what he was doing. He had some papers in front of him, and he said, 'One assist. "José called me into his office in December, and it was probably the second big life-changing moment for me. Full screen Kevin De Bruyne Marc Atkins Getty Images No joy at Chelseaīefore that, De Bruyne had been trying to be given regular playing time at Chelsea under Blues manager José Mourinho but without much success.
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