Ric Flair
Ric Flair
Richard Morgan Fliehr, better known by his ring name Ric Flair, is an American professional wrestling manager and retired professional wrestler currently signed to the WWE under a legends appearance contract. Also known as "The Nature Boy", Flair has cultivated a legacy as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, with a career that spans 40 years. He is noted for his tenures with the National Wrestling Alliance, World Championship Wrestling, the World Wrestling Federation, and Total Nonstop...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWrestler
Date of Birth25 February 1949
CityMemphis, TN
CountryUnited States of America
To be the World Champion in 1981 was a huge honour.
People think it’s hard to travel to the airports. 9/11 has made our travel difficult, with the security laws and that. As far as comparing what we do to driving 3,000 miles a week, making fifty bucks a night, sometimes one hundred bucks a night, it’s a lot different. Guaranteed contracts, first class air fare, Hilton hotels in London, Champaign. Waddaya want? What more could you ask for!
We used to wrestle every night, 385 times a year. For ten years. 365 days. Never had any holidays off, ever. Holidays were always two-day venues. Two event venues. Afternoon and night.
I enjoyed my time as Raw Co-Owner. Actually I got beat more! I got beat up a lot as Co-owner but it was ok.
I think my fondest memories would be with Sting, and Steamboat, Dusty and er… I made a lot of money wrestling Wahoo McDaniel and Jack Mulligan too. It’d be hard to pinpoint one.
I thought Chris Benoit was worthy of being a Horseman. I thought Dean Melinko was. Obviously I thought Steven Michael was, though obviously he was inexperienced, I thought he was a perfect fit as a horseman. I did not like the Paul Roma deal. I did not like Sid Vicious or about two or three guys that they put in there, I just couldn’t see it. I couldn’t stomach it, but I had to.
We only work… the most I ever work is three days a week. Very rare that I will work four. If I’'m involved in a scenario where they need me to be in it, I don'’t mind. They always work around my children’s schedule, their sports, and stuff like that. That’s been very important to me.
My kids are my main hobby but, now they’ve gotten older, they’ve forced me to do things without them. I do a lot of things with my boat. My wife and I enjoy boating.
I bleed like nobody else.
I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.
Hell you're Shawn Michaels! The greatest wrestler of all time!
It's the greatest show on earth. It's unbelievable.
My problem is that I think everybody needs to work as hard as I worked when I was in my prime.
I was really good at being a bad guy.