Yep...
Although I always think of Dusty/MR and remember Jim Ross' overselling it so badly... "The Midnight Rider looks familiar, but I just can't place him!!!" Most five-year-olds could.
Not to mention big Dust had used the exact same angle in Florida when fueding with Sullivan.
As Tully once said....."Dusty, every man in Austin knows the color of the inside of your moms bedroom...." Now that is a promo.
As for DDP, I went to a Nitro in Atl at the height of the monday night wars and DDP was THE most over guy as for a pop and sustained pop.....more than Hogan, nWo, Hall/Nash, Goldberg, etc.... He was WAY over and like Mass said, I know DDP got a break because of Bischoff, but he certainly ran with it.