page_title: Ric Flair
section_title: Championships and accomplishments
hierarchical_section_title: Ric Flair / Championships and accomplishments
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context_page_description: Richard Morgan Fliehr, better known as Ric Flair, is an American professional wrestling manager and retired professional wrestler signed to WWE on a legend’s contract.
  Ranked by multiple peers and journalists as the greatest professional wrestler of all time, Flair had a career that spanned 40 years. He is noted for his tenures with Jim Crockett Promotions, World Championship Wrestling, the World Wrestling Federation and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. Since the mid-1970s, he has used the moniker "The Nature Boy". A major pay-per-view attraction throughout his career, Flair headlined the premier annual NWA/WCW event, Starrcade, on ten occasions, while also co-headlining its WWF counterpart, WrestleMania, in 1992, after winning that year's Royal Rumble. PWI awarded him their Wrestler of the Year award a record six times, while Wrestling Observer Newsletter named him the Wrestler of the Year a record eight times. The first two-time WWE Hall of Fame inductee, first inducted with the class of 2008 for his individual career and again with the class of 2012 as a member of The Four Horsemen, he is also a member of the NWA Hall of Fame, and the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame.
context_section_description: George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame
  Class of 2013
  Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling/Jim Crockett Promotions/World Championship Wrestling
  WCW World Heavyweight Championship (6 times)
  WCW International World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
  NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship (3 times)
  NWA (Mid Atlantic)/NWA Television Championship (2 times)
  NWA (Mid Atlantic)/WCW United States Heavyweight Championship (6 times)
  NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Rip Hawk (1), Greg Valentine (1), and Big John Studd (1)
  NWA World Tag Team Championship (Mid-Atlantic version) (3 times) – with Greg Valentine (2) and Blackjack Mulligan (1)
  First WCW Triple Crown Champion
  National Wrestling Alliance
  NWA World Heavyweight Championship (9 times)
  NWA Hall of Fame (class of 2008)
  Pro Wrestling Illustrated
  Feud of the Year (1987) The Four Horsemen vs. The Super Powers and The Road Warriors
  Feud of the Year (1988, 1990)  vs. Lex Luger
  Feud of the Year (1989) vs. Terry Funk
  Inspirational Wrestler of the Year (2008)
  Match of the Year (1983) vs. Harley Race (June 10)
  Match of the Year (1984) vs. Kerry Von Erich at Parade of Champions 1
  Match of the Year (1986) vs. Dusty Rhodes at The Great American Bash in a steel cage match
  Match of the Year (1989) vs. Ricky Steamboat at WrestleWar
  Match of the Year (2008) vs. Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania XXIV
  Match of the Decade (2000–2009) vs. Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania XXIV
  Most Hated Wrestler of the Year (1978, 1987)
  Rookie of the Year (1975)
  Stanley Weston Award (2008)
  Wrestler of the Year (1981, 1984–1986, 1989, 1992)
  PWI Wrestler of the Decade (1980's)
  Ranked No. 3 of the top 500 wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 1991, 1992, and 1994
  Ranked No. 2 of the top 500 singles wrestlers of the PWI Years in 2003
  Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum
  Class of 2006
  St. Louis Wrestling Club
  NWA Missouri Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  St. Louis Wrestling Hall of Fame
  Class of 2007
  World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment/WWE
  World Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Batista (2) and Roddy Piper (1)
  WWE Intercontinental Championship (1 time)
  WWF World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
  Royal Rumble (1992)
  Thirteenth Triple Crown Champion
  Slammy Award for Match of the Year (2008) vs. Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania XXIV
  WWE Hall of Fame (2 times)
  Class of 2008 - individually
  Class of 2012 -  as a member of The Four Horsemen
  WWE Bronze Statue (2017)
  Wrestling Observer Newsletter
  Best Heel (1990)
  Best Interviews (1991, 1992, 1994)
  Hardest Worker (1982,1984-1988)
  Feud of the Year (1989) vs. Terry Funk 
  Match of the Year (1983) vs. Harley Race in a steel cage match at Starrcade
  Match of the Year (1986) vs. Barry Windham at Battle of the Belts II on February 14
  Match of the Year (1988) vs. Sting at Clash of the Champions I 
  Match of the Year (1989) vs. Ricky Steamboat at Clash_of_the_Champions_VI:_Ragin'_Cajun
  Most Charismatic (1980, 1982–1984, 1993)
  Most Outstanding (1986, 1987, 1989)
  Readers' Favorite Wrestler (1984–1993, 1996)
  Worst Feud of the Year (1990) vs. The Junkyard Dog
  Worst Worked Match of the Year (1996) with Arn Anderson, Meng, The Barbarian, Lex Luger, Kevin Sullivan, Z-Gangsta, and The Ultimate Solution vs. Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage in a Towers of Doom match at Uncensored
  Wrestler of the Year (1982–1986, 1989, 1990, 1992)
  Most Disgusting Promotional Tactic (1994) Retirement angle
  Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 1996)
caption: Flair was also inducted in 2012 as a member of The Four Horsemen
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