Ric Flair

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 3-Defeating Hulk Hogan for the WWF Championship at
Survivor Series 1992

## Face of WCW and longest reigning heaviweight champion(1989-1992)

WCW was centered around Ric Flair as it began with the 1989-1992 period being known as the "nature boy era". He debuted in the first ever Saturday Night saying he didn't need to qualify for the tournament as he was already in, his first match was at Saturday Night 3 defeating The Great Muta in the first round of the tournament, he would defeat Sid Vicious in the semi finals and in the finals at Wrestlewar he defeated Sting to become the inaugural WCW Heaviweight champion, after the match Ole Anderson and Barry Windham came out as all 4 men re-formed the Four Horsemen

Ric Flair defended against Eddie Gilbert and Sting for a second time before Ricky Steamboat made his WCW debut as he wanted the belt, Steamboat would quickly get a team against Four Horsemen consisting of Junkyard Dog, Terry Funk and Warrior and at Halloween Havoc they defeated 4HM in a wargames match with Warrior pinning Flair. At Starrcade, Flair defeated Warrior to retain the title after the horsemen interfered

Flair began 1990 in a big feud against Terry Funk, he defeated him at Wrestlewar and then Funk decided their final match would force the loser to quit WCW and at Capital Combat Flair sent Funk packing as he forced him to say "i quit". After the match, Barry Windham was kicked out of the group and replaced by the debuting Arn Anderson, throught the summer he defended against people like The Great Muta, Scott and Rick Steiner and Barry Windham before Ricky Steamboat stepped up as his next challenger.

At Halloween Havoc, they had a 5 star match where Flair managed to retain with help from the horsemen, a 60 minute time limit 2 out of 3 falls match where if Four Horsemen interfered, Flair would lose, was made for Starrcade and it was the single best WCW match ever achieving 5.25 stars, both men were tied 1-1 with 10 seconds to go but Steamboat managed to do the dragon wizard and win the title with 5 seconds to go but Ted Turner came out and overruled the decision as both Flair and Steamboat's shoulders were down therefore the match ended in a draw. Their series ended in a steel cage match at Wrestlewar 1991 which was yet again 5 stars and Flair broke Steamboat's legs to retain the title

At Saturday Night 100, Flair and Sting defeated Fabulous Freebirds to win the tag titles as Flair cheated, Sting was tired of this and was getting huge crowd support so he did the scorpion death drop to him as he left 4HM, the titles were vacated a week after. At Superbrawl 1, Flair defeated the returning Dusty Rhodes after Sid Vicious showed up as a new member of 4HM and injured Dusty's son Dustin. Sting, Lex Luger, Barry Windham and Dusty Rhodes formed a short alliance as they defeated Four Horsemen at Great American Bash. Arn Anderson and Larry Zbyszko left 4HM due to this leaving only Ric Flair and Sid Vicious

At Halloween Havoc, Flair almost beat Lex Luger when Sid beat him up ending it in a DQ, Flair was pissed that Sid interfered and slapped him so Sid ended up turning on Flair as well. This went on to Starrcade where Ric Flair defended the title against Lex Luger and Sid Vicious in a triple threat in a match which was overshadowed by "Sting" chants

At Superbrawl 2, Sting would finally get his title shot against Ric Flair who had now achieved 1000 days as champion but Vader attacked Sting before the match and Rick Rude took his spot, Flair retained yet again. Sting and Flair were set to fight for good at Wrestlewar 1992 but Ric Flair left for WWF with the WCW Heaviweight belt before it happened

## WWF's Four Horsemen and 2 time world champion(1992-1993)

After the Wrestlemania 8 main event, Lex Luger, Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart attacked Haku, Rick Martel and WWF Champion Koko B.Ware, pointed to the stage and out came WCW Heaviweight champion Ric Flair officially on WWF as he formed WWF's version of the Four Horsemen

The brand split began as all of Four Horsemen were drafted to Smackdown as the first picks, the WCW Heaviweight Championship design was used and renamed as the World Heaviweight Championship but GM of Smackdown Bobby Heenan announced the title would have a new lineage and be up for grabs in a battle royal which Yokozuna won. At In Your House 2 Yokozuna managed to retain against Flair, they had one last match in an episode of Smackdown with Bobby Heenan as the special guest ref and he shockingly chairshotted Yokozuna to give Flair the title win as he revealed himself as the manager of Four Horsemen

Tatanka was involved in a feud with Shawn Michaels which gradually become against all of 4HM as Tatanka defeated Bret Hart to become NO1 contender to the world heaviweight championship, Flair undervalued him so it was a shock as at Summerslam Tatanka pulled off the upset and beat him to become world heaviweight champion

Ric Flair entered the G1 and defeated his partner in the finals to win it all. Bobby Heenan was expecting Flair to choose his brand's title but Flair instead chose to have a match against Hulk Hogan for RAW's WWF Championship. At Survivor Series, Bobby Heenan turned on Four Horsemen to join the RAW stable Empire while Ric Flair won the WWF Championship in the main event against Hulk Hogan, after the show all of 4HM was traded to RAW in exchange for Empire

Four Horsemen coming to RAW caused a series of amazing shows which started with Four Horsemen invading RAW and injuring half the roster with Vince Mcmahon then firing GM Jim Duggan and replacing him with Harley Race, one of Flair's biggest old rivals. Flair defended against people like Roddy Piper and Hulk Hogan in episodes of RAW and Mabel at Royal Rumble 1993. Bret Hart and Lex Luger were co-winners of the rumble and at Wrestlemania 9 Lex Luger defeated Ric Flair to win the WWF Championship when Shawn Michaels came out, cashed in and became WWF Champion himself, the main event of Wrestlemania 9 was Bret Hart defeating Shawn Michaels to finally become WWF Champion in 1993’s Match of the Year, all Four Horsemen members held the title once during this night as they all shake hands and throw the 4HM sign to end the show

Flair pretended like everything was fine within the group while tensions were quickly rising as Bret and Luger acted as babyfaces while Flair and Shawn acted as heels. At Summerslam, Bret Hart defeated Ric Flair to retain the WWF Championship. After this, Ric Flair and Shawn Michaels suddenly attacked the RAW GM Harley Race which caused Flair to be suspended indefinetly

## Four Horsemen breakup(1993-1994)

Flair pretended like everything was fine within the group while tensions were quickly rising as Bret and Luger acted as babyfaces while Flair and Shawn acted as heels. At Summerslam, Bret Hart defeated Ric Flair to retain the WWF Championship. After this, Ric Flair and Shawn Michaels suddenly attacked the RAW GM Harley Race which caused Flair to be suspended indefinetly.

He returned in the 1993 Royal Rumble at number 7 and lastly eliminated Owen Hart to win it. A civil war was clearly brewing as the babyfaces Lex Luger and Bret Hart always tried to stop the heels Ric Flair and Shawn Michaels from causing too much chaos, Flair and Shawn ended up injuring GM of RAW Harley Race with Bret and Luger pushing them off. A huge segment happened to close off RAW 112 as Harley Race came out in a wheelchair with all of Four Horsemen in the ring. All of Four Horsemen had a legit claim for the title as Luger and Bret didn’t have a clean ending, Shawn had won the Survivor Series Briefcases and Ric Flair had won the Royal Rumble, Shawn tried to SCM Harley but Bret grabbed his leg telling him that enough is enough, Shawn calls him a coward for not putting the title on the line which finally begins a brawl between them and eventually all of Four Horsemen as Harley Race decides that Bret will defend against Shawn Michaels, Ric Flair and Lex Luger in a big Four Horsemen fatal 4 way, they continue brawling as 4HM has split. At Wrestlemania 10, Bret Hart defeated Flair, Luger and Shawn in the 4HM fatal 4 way on Flair's last WWF match

## Return to WCW and feud against Hogan(1994-1995)

Ric Flair returned in the first ever episode of Nitro as Hogan defeated Meng to retain the WCW Heaviweight title and Dungeon of Doom kicked out Meng and revealed their new leader: Ric Flair who came to retrieve the belt he never lost. At Nitro 2, Flair defeated Hogan to yet again become WCW Heaviweight champion. At Slamboree, Hogan won the title back

Randy Savage debuted on WCW as Hogan's ally and at Bash at the Beach Randy Savage, Meng and Hogan defeated Flair, Sid Vicious and The Butcher in a 6 men tag. At Fall Brawl a huge dream match happened as Flair defeated Savage, after the match Dungeon of Doom beat up Hogan and Savage when Brian Pillman, Paul Roma and Arn Anderson showed up and beat up DOD as Flair revealed he was now leading the NEW Four Horsemen. At Halloween Havoc, he was in his third wargames match as Four Horsemen defeated DOD, at Starrcade Randy Savage defeated Hogan and Flair in a triple threat to win the WCW Heaviweight title

At Great American Bash, Flair got another title shot but yet again lost to Randy Savage ending their feud

## Feud against Barry Windham and turning face(1995-1996)

Ric Flair blamed Lex Luger for Four Horsemen's downward spiral and made him prove why he should stay within the group because Barry Windham also wanted in. At Bash at the Beach, Luger destroyed Windham but Windham rolled him up to win, Ric Flair didn't accept a cheap win so he lowblowed Windham and kept Luger in the horsemen. Barry Windham immediatly wanted revenge as he beat up Flair at any chance he had, he didn't wanna wait until Halloween Havoc and challenged him to a singles match in an episode of Nitro which Flair won after 30 minutes. Windham needed one more match against Flair and Flair says the only way he'd want Windham in another match is if his career was on the line, Windham took that bet and at Halloween Havoc he put his career on the line against Ric Flair. In a high stakes match, Barry Windham managed to finally defeat Ric Flair and keep his career intact.

After the World War 3 match was announced to be for the vacant WCW Heaviweight Championship, Ric Flair ambushed Windham trying to keep him out of the match, it failed as  Windham won the third battle royal and the match within ended with Ric Flair vs Barry Windham but Flair defeated him to become WCW Heaviweight champion once again and after the match Sting returned from a 2 year injury to end his story against Flair. At Starrcade 1995 for the first time ever Sting defeated Ric Flair to win the WCW Heaviweight championship, they shook hands as Flair turned face for the first time in his career

Barry Windham called out Sting on this decision refusing to believe that 4HM would ever be good guys, over the weeks Windham learned to respect Four Horsemen and more specifically Ric Flair, it culminated in a big 5 vs 5 match with Windham teaming up with Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Lex Luger and Sting defeating Dungeon of Doom and Windham finally shook hands with his biggest rival, Windham announced during an episode of Nitro that if he can't win the WCW Heaviweight title then he feels like he has done everything he can for this company and he announces his final match will take place at Uncensored 1996 and he chooses Ric Flair as his last opponent, in an emotional match Flair managed to defeat Windham in his last WCW bout and in the main event he was chosen as one of the men to fight against NWO along with Randy Savage and Sting but Nash and Hall kicked their ass and then Hogan turned heel joining them to a complete beatdown

## Struggle against NWO(1996-1997)

NWO started faking that Sting was part of NWO which Arn and Flair believed while Luger didn't which caused dissension within the horsemen. At Great American Bash Hall defeated Flair clean to retain the WCW Heaviweight Championship and at Hog Wild, Arn, Flair, Savage, The Giant and Ricky Steamboat lost to NWO in a wargames match so NWO became owners of WCW

NWO decided that everyone who was on Team WCW could not compete on PPV's anymore but the exception was if they were NWO TV champions, they made the inaugural championship match Arn Anderson vs Ric Flair which Arn won, they had a rematch and Ric Flair lowblowed Arn to become the champion just because he couldn't handle not being on PPV's. At Fall Brawl Ric Flair defeated Lex Luger and at Halloween Havoc, Savage, Flair and Arn defeated Hogan, Nash and Hall to get their PPV spots back but after the match Arn attacked Flair completely breaking up Four Horsemen

At World War 3 Roddy Piper defeated Lex Luger and The Giant in a handicap match for Piper, Flair and Savage to get WCW Heaviweight title shots at Starrcade. At Starrcade 1996 Kevin Nash defeated Hollywood Hogan, Ric Flair, Randy Savage, Roddy Piper and Scott Hall in a 6 men package to win the WCW Heaviweight Championship

At Nitro 147, Ric Flair shockingly defeated Kevin Nash to become the first man not with the NWO to win the WCW Heaviweight Championship in almost a year, after the match the former Mr.Perfect debuted to challenge for the title, he was renamed Curt Hennig and served as an ally to Flair against NWO but rivals with everything else. At Uncensored, NWO interfered during their match and they tried to fight them off together but Hennig backstabbed Flair and joined NWO as he won the world title

## Curt Hennig feud and first retirement(1997)

At Nitro 154, Ric Flair introduced his son David Flair in a tag match against Hennig and Hollywood Hogan and Hogan kept leg dropping Flair's son to injure him which riled up Ric even more. Curt Hennig was kicked out of the group 2 months after and wanted to prove himself as a good guy, Ric Flair came out and insulted Hennig. At Bash at the Beach, Flair kept using cheap moves and taunting Hennig as Hennig started becoming more agressive with Flair as well, Hennig had enough and chairshots Flair ending their match in a DQ as Flair managed to get his agressive side to come out and now Hennig might never be seen as a good guy again

NWO attacked Flair's son, David Flair and told Hennig that if he destroyed him in a match right now, he would get a title shot, Hennig started the match with a suicide dive towards NWO refusing to do anything to Flair's son. Ric Flair says he still doesn't trust Hennig, Hennig asks what he has to do to get people's trusts, Flair said all he had to do was take the title off of Hogan's hands and then hand it to Ric Flair which Hennig refused so they brawled

Ric Flair says the only way he'll stop taunting Hennig is if one of them leaves WCW. At Nitro 179, they main evented as David Flair showed up to lowblow Hennig, Ric Flair also lowblowed him and won the match like this. Hennig took it out on Flair doing a promo saying that he didn't make a good decision when he joined WCW but he tried to redeem himself since then, but there's 1 main factor that's not letting him get the respect of the people backstage and that's Ric Flair, he laid out that Ric Flair knows he's not the main face of WCW, just the main veteran and he cannot bear the thought that he needs to retire just like his former friends Barry Windham and Arn Anderson, Perfect challenges Flair to a career threatening match and Flair calmly accepts as he knows what Hennig said is true and at Starrcade 1997, Hennig defeated Flair in a steel cage match to end Flair's career

## Co-Owner of WCW(1998-1999)

The new owner of WCW Arn Anderson announced that Ric Flair was the first ever man inducted into the WCW Hall of Fame, he ended the show with a retirement speech hyping up his former friends and future talent as Arn offered him a co-owner position on WCW which he accepted

Ric started training his son David to become a legit wrestler and sometimes got heated when he wouldn't win matches but Arn reminded Ric that he couldn't have biases towards wrestlers. Flair made a match between Bret Hart, Lex Luger and Curt Hennig to determine Goldberg's US title challenger in the following PPV but when Bret won he decided to pick Ric Flair as Goldberg's challenger. At Bash at the Beach, Ric had his first match in 6 months with a loss to Goldberg

On the last Nitro of 1998, David Flair was bitching about his losses in an interview when Ric slapped him and said he would teach him the right ways. Ric started managing David Flair but Arn told him he could either be a manager or co-owner and Ric chose the co-owner spot. The Hacker revealed that Ric used his position within WCW to get David Flair a spot in NWO Wolfpac and basically "security", as soon as Arn learned about this he fired Ric from his co-owner position.

## Manager to David Flair and return to in ring competition(1999-)

Ric became a full time manager to David always helping him cheat in matches turning heel. Ric Flair came out of retirement in the march 13th episode of Nitro as he teamed up with Mean Gene losing against Paul Orndorff and Shanoon Moore in the first round of a tag team tournament. At Uncensored, Ric defeated The Hacker to get his revenge and his cheating ways led to Slamboree as David defeated Ernest Miller, Jeff Jarrett and Chris Kanyon in a 1 night tournament to become WCW Heaviweight champion

David quickly lost the title 2 weeks later to Bam Bam Bigelow and the father-son duo started a feud against the lawyer Hugh Morrus and his client Chris Kanyon as Hugh filed a lawsuit against them. The court room session settled a tag team match between them, if Hugh and Kanyon won, Kanyon would get another shot at the title and Ric would be sued 1 million dollars; if Ric and David won, Ric Flair would get another WCW Heaviweight title shot and Kanyon would be sued 500 000 dollars. At Great American Bash Ric and David won and afterwards David lowblowed his father

Arn Anderson announced he would be stepping down as WCW owner and held a match between Ric Flair and Larry Zbyszko at Road Wild to determine the new owner which Ric won

## Career history

### Companies/Promotions

 WWF(Smackdown)
 WWF(RAW)
 WCW

### Face/heel turns

 Face
 Heel

## Championships and Accomplishments

* World Wrestling Federation
* WWF Championship(1 time)
* World Heaviweight Championship(1 time)
* G1(1992)
* Royal Rumble(1994)
* Shocking Moment of the Year(1992) debut and forming Four Horsemen at Wrestlemania 8

* World Championship Wrestling
* WCW Heaviweight Championship(4 times)
* WCW Tag Team Championships(2 times) - with Sting(1), with Brian Pillman Lex Luger and Arn Anderson(1)
* NWO TV Championship(1 time)
* Wrestler of the Year(1990)
* Match of the Year(1989) with Sting, Ole Anderson and Barry Windham vs Warrior, Ricky Steamboat, Terry Funk and Junkyard Dog at Halloween Havoc
* Match of the Year(1990) vs Ricky Steamboat at Starrcade
* Match of the Year(1991) vs Ricky Steamboat at Wrestlewar
* Match of the Year(1995) vs Barry Windham at Nitro
* Shocking Moment of the Year(1989) Ric Flair's bump at War Games
* Shocking Moment of the Year(1994) returning only 1 night after Wrestlemania 10