David Flair David Richard Fliehr ( March 6 , 1979 ) better known by his ring name David Flair is a professional wrestler best known for his time in World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) , where he held the United States and World Tag Team championships . He is the son of former wrestling world champion Ric Flair and the older half brother of Reid Flair . Professional wrestling career . Early days . Growing up , Flair never wanted to become a wrestler ; he always wanted to be a state trooper . He appeared on camera backstage with his father at Starrcade 1993 in World Championship Wrestling . In the storyline , his father was going to have to " retire " if he lost his match , so his family appeared to increase the emotion . In late 1998 , David was back on WCW TV sitting front row and getting involved in some skirmishes with Eric Bischoff and the nWo . World Championship Wrestling ( 1999 - 2001 ) . He eventually decided to become a wrestler and teamed with his father in his debut match at WCW / nWo Souled Out on January 17 , 1999 . They wrestled Curt Hennig and Barry Windham and won the match . After the match , the entire nWo came out , and Hulk Hogan lashed David with his belt until David ' s back ( and stomach where the belt whipped around and struck ) was full of welts while his father was handcuffed to the ring ropes . In his autobiography , Ric Flair alleges that Hogan took liberties with his son by whipping him far more times than agreed upon and that he would never forgive Hogan for this . To his credit , David took the punishment without complaint ; both in the ring and backstage . On February 21 at SuperBrawl IX , David turned on his father and joined the nWo Wolfpac . He used a taser on his father to help Hogan win their WCW World Title match . He did not wrestle for a while but did appear in vignettes with Samantha ( Torrie Wilson ) while he was training at the WCW Power Plant . Flair started to wrestle a regular schedule in May 1999 . He made up with his father who then had the Four Horsemen help Flair win matches . Ric , being the on - screen WCW President , stripped WCW United States Champion Scott Steiner of his title and awarded it to Flair . On July 11 , Flair defeated Dean Malenko , with the help of Ric and Arn Anderson , to keep the title in his first defense on pay - per - view . In August , Ric had real - life problems with Eric Bischoff backstage and was removed from television . Flair was left on his own and lost his US Title to Chris Benoit on August 9 . During a storyline in September , Wilson left Flair for Billy Kidman . Ric and Anderson returned to TV and tried to help David . In October , Diamond Dallas Page and his wife Kimberly started a feud with the Flairs . Kimberly kept Flair distracted while Page , in storyline , injured Ric . In response , Flair went insane after seeing his injured father . Flair injured Page in the WCW World Title Tournament that was being held on " WCW Monday Nitro " . He used the crowbar and only stopped when Kimberly got in between him and her husband . This led to a storyline where Flair stalked Kimberly . She got one of her husband ' s teammates Bam Bam Bigelow to help her , but Flair used the crowbar on him too . Vince Russo finally scheduled a match between Flair and Kimberly for " WCW Mayhem " on November 21 . Kimberly tried to seduce Flair and then " hit him low " , but he had a cup on . Page and his friend Chris Kanyon came to her rescue and laid Flair out . Anderson arrived again but got laid out by Flair , who ran off into the fans . Flair was joined by Daffney at Starrcade in 1999 . He was joined a little later by Crowbar . They formed a team called the New Hardcore Revolution and won the vacant WCW World Tag Team Titles in a tournament final on January 3 , 2000 over Kevin Nash and Scott Steiner with Anderson as the special referee . They lost the titles to Big Vito and Johnny the Bull , " The Mamalukes , " on January 19 . Flair soon split with Crowbar and in May 2000 , joined Vince Russo ' s New Blood . He dumped Daffney and took Miss Hancock ( Stacy Keibler ) as his valet . He also turned on his father again which led to a match against him at The Great American Bash . Flair lost , but the next night , he won a match against his father to retire him and shave his father ' s head . Near the end of 2000 , Flair and Keibler were going to have an on - air wedding as part of a new storyline . Before that could happen though , it was revealed that Stacy was pregnant and that David was not the father . This led to Flair trying to figure out who the father was with the help of Ric , whom he had made up with , and Anderson . He even had a match with Buff Bagwell to get Bagwell ' s DNA . This storyline ended abruptly when Miss Hancock returned to television with Shawn " The Star " Stasiak and a baby carriage in the ring . Instead of a baby , however , it was revealed that there were 8x10 pictures of Shawn in the carriage . After this angle , Flair was no longer seen in WCW as a competitor . On the February 12 , 2001 edition of Nitro , as on - screen CEO Ric Flair and the Magnificent Seven were trying to discuss things inside the ring , Kevin Nash appeared on the Turnertron and told Ric that he has his son David in his locker room . Nash told Ric that his number one priority was to become the number one contender to the WCW World Heavyweight Championship , which was held by Scott Steiner . His number two priority was getting a rematch for Dustin Rhodes against Rick Steiner , who was WCW U . S . Champion at the time . Nash felt like Ric had wronged Rhodes , and he felt Rhodes could beat Steiner in a rematch . Out of concern for his son ' s safety , Ric granted all of Nash ' s requests . Nash would get his title shot against Scott Steiner for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship later that night , and Rhodes would get his rematch against Rick Steiner . Later that night , Nash came to the ring with Ric ' s son David . As they started coming to the ring , Nash gave a punch to David . Ric Flair and WCW security came out as Ric begged Nash to stop assaulting his son . Nash did not listen and gave David a Jackknife Powerbomb . Ric and WCW security started came to the ring to pull David out as Scott Steiner was coming down to the ring alongside Midajah . NWA and WWF / E ( 2001 - 2002 ) . Flair toured in the independent circuit for the first part of 2001 . He teamed with Don Factor to win the NWA World Tag Team Championship on March 21 . They lost them on March 23 . He then teamed with Romeo Bliss to win the NWA Georgia Tag Team Championship on March 24 . They lost them on April 21 . In May 2001 , the WWF picked up Flair ' s WCW contract and sent him to Ohio Valley Wrestling . He stayed there and feuded with Val Venis and had a brief tag team with Mark Jindrak until late 2002 , when they dropped his development contract . He did make two appearances on WWE TV during 2002 as he was beaten up by The Undertaker on March 4 and wrestled the Undertaker on March 14 as part of the build - up for his father ' s match against Undertaker at WrestleMania X8 . Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ( 2002 - 2003 ) . Flair joined Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in December 2002 . He joined Vince Russo ' s Sports Entertainment Xtreme ( S . E . X . ) group . He had a brief feud with Curt Hennig and then left S . E . X . to form Next Generation with Brian Lawler and Erik Watts . Together , they feuded with Dusty Rhodes and mocked him with an old NWA World Title belt . David left TNA in early 2003 . Independents and beyond . After TNA , David toured the independent circuit , winning the IWA Intercontinental Title from Ray Gonzalez on November 28 , 2003 . He lost it back to Gonzalez two days later . David Flair quit IWA after problems with IWA promoter Victor Quinones . David was in a dark match before an episode of " WWE SmackDown " in the spring of 2006 , which he lost to William Regal . He also competes for the Hermie Sadler - owned UWF Live organization , based primarily in the Carolinas and Virginia . David was on hand when his father , Ric , was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame on March 29 , 2008 , when he had his final match in the WWE to date against Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania XXIV , and at Ric ' s Farewell Ceremony the following night on " Raw " . On December 6 , 2008 , he wrestled a match with his brother , Reid , who was making his professional wrestling debut , defeating The Nasty Boys via submission in Charlotte , North Carolina , with Hulk Hogan as the special guest referee . Personal life . Flair previously dated Stacy Keibler during their time together in WCW . He now has a wife named Robin and they reside in Shelby , North Carolina .