Ric Flair Bio

Ric Flair Bio

Name            :            Richard Morgan Fliehr

Ring Name   :            Ric Flair

Birth Date     :           27 Feb 1949

Birth Place    :           Tennesse, USA

Mini Bio

Richard Morgan Fliehr isn't what you'd anticipate from an expert wrestler. A therapeutic understudy at Minnesota University (his dad was a specialist, his mom an on-screen character), Flair dropped out school to prepare for the mat wars under incredible previous AWA World champ Verne Gagne. He made his expert wrestling debut on December 10, 1972, wrestling "Scrap Iron" George Gadaski (genuine name: John Kosti) to a ten moment attract Rice Lake, Wisconsin. Subsequent to spending the initial couple of months of his profession with Gagne's Minneapolis Boxing and Wrestling Club (which utilized the brand name "American Wrestling Association"), Flair proceeded onward to Charlotte, North Carolina where he turned into a consistent for Jim Crockett Promotions (an individual from the overall endorsing body known as the National Wrestling Alliance) under the heading of go between (wrestling phrasing for author) George Scott. In 1981, he caught his first NWA World title (he would hold that belt authoritatively nine different times). Later on, he would work for both World Championship Wrestling (an organization framed by Ted Turner subsequent to purchasing the wrestling resources of JCP) and Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Entertainment. He has been formally perceived as a World champion (a honor which for the most part connotes that a wrestler is the top fascination in any given organization) 21 times, accumulating acknowledgment from the NWA, WWE, and WCW (and additionally the WCW turn off gathering WCWI, or World Championship Wrestling International). He is the main man in wrestling history to hold each of the four renditions of the title. 

Full Bio 

Richard Morgan Fliehr (conceived February 25, 1949), better known by his ring name Ric Flair, is an American expert wrestling director and resigned proficient wrestler. Depicted as one of the best proficient wrestlers ever, he has developed a legacy over a profession that traverses 40 years. Pizazz is noted for his residencies with the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, later WWE), and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). Since the mid 1970s, he has utilized the moniker, the "Nature Boy". 

Energy is authoritatively perceived by WWE and Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) as a 16-time best on the planet (eight-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion, six-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion, and two-time WWF World Heavyweight Champion). The real number of his big showdown rules fluctuates by source, running from 16 to 25 titles. A noteworthy pay-per-view fascination all through his profession, Flair took an interest in the end singles match of the NWA/WCW Starrcade, on ten events. PWI honored Flair their Wrestler of the Year Award a record six times, while Wrestling Observer Newsletter named Flair as the Wrestler of the Year on nine events. The main two-time WWE Hall of Fame inductee ever, initially drafted in 2008 for his individual profession and for a brief moment time in 2012 as an individual from the Four Horsemen, Flair is additionally a NWA Hall of Famer. In WCW, he additionally had two spells as a booker – from 1989–1990 and again in 1994.

Style was the principal WCW World Heavyweight Champion, having been honored the title in 1991. With that, he additionally turned into the principal WCW Triple Crown Champion after being honored the title, having effectively held the United States and World Tag Team titles. In 2005, he finished WWE's adaptation of the Triple Crown when he won the Intercontinental Championship, after as of now holding the WWF World Heavyweight Championship, and the World Tag Team Championship. Utilizing the authoritatively perceived sums (by WWE, TNA and PWI) of 16 big showdowns and six U.S. Title rules, Flair has won a sum of 31 diverse significant titles between the NWA, WCW, and WWF/E, with various territorial titles additionally shockingly. 

Early life 

Richard Fliehr was conceived on February 25, 1949 in Memphis, Tennessee. In the opening part of his collection of memoirs To Be the Man, he noticed that his original name is given on various records as Fred Phillips, child of Olive and Luther Phillips. He was received, at the season of his selection (organized by the Tennessee Children's Home Society) as reported in the opening section of his personal history entitled "Underground market Baby", his dad was finishing a residency in Detroit. In a matter of seconds a short time later, the family settled in Edina, Minnesota, where the youthful Fliehr lived all through his adolescence. After ninth grade, he went to Wayland Academy, a coeducational life experience school in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, for a long time (five years all out in secondary school) amid which time he took an interest in interscholastic wrestling, football and track. 

As an adolescent, Fliehr took a late spring work as a lifeguard at a neighborhood pool in Minnesota. He got his first presentation to the wrestling business when he met the Vachon siblings. In both 1966 and 1968, Fliehr won the state tuition based school wrestling title and was enlisted to the University of Minnesota on a football grant, where he played close by Greg Gagne, the child of Verne Gagne.[citation needed] He dropped out of school without getting his degree. He then acted as a bouncer at an adjacent club, where he met Olympic weightlifter Ken Patera, who was planning for a ring vocation at Verne Gagne's wrestling school. Patera acquainted Flair with Verne Gagne, who consented to take him on as an individual from his preparation class.

Proficient wrestling vocation 

Under the tutelage of Josh Klemme and Billy Robinson, Flair went to Gagne's first wrestling camp with Greg Gagne, Jim Brunzell, Iron Sheik, and Ken Patera at Gagne's horse shelter outside Minneapolis in the winter of 1971. On December 10, 1972, he made his presentation in Rice Lake, Wisconsin, doing combating George "Scrap Iron" Gadaski to a 10-minute draw while embracing the ring name "Ric Flair". At that point weighing almost 300 pounds with short chestnut hair, Flair hardly looked like his future "Nature Boy" picture. Be that as it may, he drew consideration with his appealling identity and ring continuance. Amid his time in the American Wrestling Association (AWA), Flair had matches with Dusty Rhodes, André the Giant, Larry Hennig, and Wahoo McDaniel. 

Style initially contended in Japan in 1973 for International Wrestling Enterprise (IWE), because of a working assention between AWA promoter Verne Gagne and the IWE. After Flair left the AWA for Jim Crockett Jr's. Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling (MACW) in 1974, he started working visits for All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW). On April 27, 1978, Flair tested for the NWA United National Championship in a losing exertion. All through the 1980s, Flair protected the NWA World Heavyweight Championship in All Japan against any semblance of Genichiro Tenryu, Riki Choshu, Jumbo Tsuruta, Harley Race, and Kerry Von Erich. On October 21, 1985, Flair wrestled Rick Martel in a twofold title match where he protected the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and tested for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship, however the match finished in a twofold countout. As All Japan pulled back from the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) in the late 80s, World Championship Wrestling (WCW) started a working concurrence with New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). In 1989, the working assention prompted a fight amongst Flair and Keiji Mutoh, who was wrestling under The Great Muta trick, in the United States for WCW. On March 21, 1991, Flair protected the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and tested Tatsumi Fujinami for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship in a twofold title match on the WCW/New Japan Supershow at the Tokyo Dome. Fujinami beat Flair for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, yet later lost the title at the main WCW SuperBrawl PPV on May 19, 1991 in the United States. 

At the point when Flair left WCW for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in 1991, he kept on visiting Japan in the Super World of Sports (SWS) advancement, because of an understanding amongst WWF and SWS. He shielded and held the WWF World Heavyweight Championship against Genichiro Tenryu on September 15, 1992 in a match that brought about a draw. In August 1995, under a WCW contract, Flair took an interest in the G1 Climax competition in New Japan, where he beat Shiro Koshinaka, drew Masahiro Chono, and lost to Keiji Mutoh. On July 17, 1996, Flair tested Shinya Hashimoto for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship in a losing exertion in NJPW. 

At the end of the day under the WWE standard, Flair kept on visiting Japan occasionally somewhere around 2002 and 2008. He effectively guarded the World Tag Team Championship with Batista against The Dudley Boyz twice in February 2004. On the February 7, 2005 scene of Raw, communicate from the Saitama Super Arena in Japan, Flair lost to Shawn Michaels in a singles match. In February 2008, Flair wrestled Mr. Kennedy in the Ariake Coliseum and William Regal in the Budokan Hall, both under the stipulation that he would resign on the off chance that he lost. 

On January 2, 2013, All Japan declared that Flair would make his arrival to AJPW without precedent for a long time on January 26, 2013, cooperating with Keiji Mutoh to go up against Tatsumi Fujinami and Seiya Sanada. This would have been his first expert wrestling match since his September 2011 misfortune to Sting on Impact Wrestling and his first for All Japan since March 1987. In any case, on January 26, only minutes before the begin of the All Japan occasion, the advancement declared that Flair was compelled to haul out of his match as a result of a "sudden ailment", later reported as a severely swollen left leg. Style was supplanted in the match by his child Reid, additionally wound up getting required in the match himself, conveying slashes to Seiya Sanada.

Pizazz marked with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in August 1991 and started showing up on TV as a standout amongst the most despised heels the following month. At first, he showed up on WWF appears with the "Enormous Gold Belt", calling himself "The Real World Heavyweight Champion." Led by his "money related counsel" Bobby Heenan and his "official advisor" Mr. Immaculate, Flair over and again issued difficulties to WWF wrestlers like "Boisterous" Roddy Piper and Hulk Hogan, wrestling a group drove by Piper at Survivor Series in 1991 and helping The Undertaker rout Hogan for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship that same night.

WCW sued Flair trying to recover the belt, however Flair asserted that he claimed the belt in lieu of the US$25,000 store paid by NWA champions after winning the title, which had not been come back to him when he was let go from WCW. In the 2008 DVD Nature Boy Ric Flair: The Definitive Collection, Flair asserted that right up 'til today he has never been paid the $25,000 store, in addition to interest.

At the Royal Rumble in 1992, Flair won the Rumble match to guarantee the empty WWF World Heavyweight Championship. Pizazz attracted number three the Rumble coordinate and kept going a then-record about a hour, last taking out Sid Justice with assistance from Hulk Hogan, who had been wiped out by Justice seconds earlier. After his triumph, Flair turned into the wrestler who had taken minimum time since his presentation to win the WWF World Heavyweight Championship with 113 days. Randy Savage then tested Flair for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship as a major aspect of the twofold headliner at WrestleMania VIII. In the storyline, Flair insulted Savage by asserting that he had an earlier association with Savage's better half, Miss Elizabeth, and that he had the photos to demonstrate it (which were later uncovered to be doctored photographs). Savage vanquished Flair for the title at WrestleMania. In July 1992, as Savage arranged to protect the title against The Ultimate Warrior at SummerSlam, Flair and Mr. Impeccable sowed doubt between the two by proposing that they would back either amid their match. They really assaulted both Savage and Warrior and harmed Savage's knee, a damage that Flair abused to recapture the title in a match with Savage on September 1. His second rule was brief, be that as it may, as he lost the title to Bret Hart on October 12, 1992. 

Energy cooperated with Razor Ramon to go up against Savage and Perfect at the Survivor Series 1992. Flair showed up in the Royal Rumble in 1993, then lost a Loser Leaves the WWF match to Mr. Immaculate on the following night's (January 25) Monday Night Raw in a match taped six days earlier. Flair then satisfied his residual house show duties, showing up on February 10, 1993, preceding coming back to WCW. On The Ultimate Ric Flair Collection DVD, Flair portrayed his first stretch with the WWF as "the best 18 months of my vocation, outside the time I went through with Arn Anderson and The Four Horsemen".

Energy triumphantly came back to WCW as a legend in February 1993, as a consequence of a "no-contend" statement he was not able wrestle, so he facilitated a fleeting syndicated program in WCW called A Flair for the Gold. Arn Anderson normally showed up at the bar on the show's set, and Flair's servant, Fifi cleaned or carried endowments. When he came back to activity, Flair quickly held the NWA World Heavyweight Championship for a tenth time subsequent to overcoming Barry Windham at Beach Blast before WCW at last left the NWA in September 1993. At Fall Brawl, Flair lost the title, now rebranded the WCW International Championship, to "Bewitching Rick" Rude. At Starrcade in 1993, Flair vanquished Vader to win the title for the second time. 

In the spring of 1994, Flair turned tweener and began another fight with long-lasting opponent Ricky Steamboat and tested Steamboat to a match at Spring Stampede which finished in a no challenge from a twofold stick, creating the title to be held up. Energy crushed Steamboat in a rematch to recover the held-up title at Super Brawl. The WWE does not consider this triumph another title win. 

Pizazz then tested Col. Robert Parker to wrestle one of his men at Slamboree, which ended up being Barry Windham, and Flair vanquished Windham, thereafter Flair discreetly turned heel and took Sherri Martel as his supervisor. 

In June 1994, Flair vanquished Sting in a unification match, combining the WCW International World Heavyweight Championship with the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, and setting his heel turn. In the wake of turning into the brought together and undisputed WCW champion, Flair quarreled with Hulk Hogan upon Hogan's entry in WCW in June 1994, losing the WCW World Championship to him in July at Bash at the Beach. This was the main significant match and for most fans, the first run through Flair and Hogan were seen wrestling in the most needed dream match ever. Hogan and Flair wrestled before in non broadcast matches in the WWF and were booked to at last crash at Wrestlemania VIII, yet Vince McMahon eventually chose to scratch off the fantasy coordinate a month preceding Wrestlemania. Their first conflict in a prominent way was not until this match in WCW. Style kept on fighting with Hogan lastly lost to Hogan in a steel confine retirement match at Halloween Havoc. Energy took a couple of months off a short time later before returning as a wrestler and low maintenance chief for Vader in 1995 (clarified on-air by having Flair bother Hogan for a considerable length of time until Hogan and Savage both requested of WCW administration to give Flair a chance to return). 

On April 29, 1995, Flair wrestled Antonio Inoki before 190,000 observers in Pyongyang, North Korea at the May Day Stadium in a losing exertion under a joint show between New Japan Pro Wrestling and World Championship Wrestling. The occasion was communicate on August 4, 1995 on Pay Per View under the title of Collision in Korea. 

In the fall of 1995 Flair started a short quarrel with Arn Anderson, where in a label match with Flair and Sting versus Anderson and Brian Pillman; Flair turned on Sting and improved the new Four Horsemen with Flair as the pioneer, Arn Anderson, Brian Pillman, and Chris Benoit as the individuals. 

With the new Four Horsemen, Flair won the big showdown two more times before the nWo attack storyline started in WCW. In December 1995 at Starcade, Flair crushed Randy Savage for the WCW World Title, with a considerable measure of assistance from the new Four Horseman. Jimmy Hart was ringside for Flair, where the commentators specified Hart was being a go getter in changing his backing to Flair after Luger was disposed of in the triangle match with Sting going before the headliner. Energy won that triangle match by tally out to acquire a title match with Randy Savage in the headliner. The topic of this Starcade, was Lex Luger, Savage, Flair, and Sting had to every wrestle two matches that night; WCW versus Japan, Wrestling World Cup or in the headliner. Amid the headliner Flair was harmed gravely by Jimmy Hart's amplifier and draining seriously, it seemed Savage would win however each of the three Four Horsemen individuals hurried to the ring and Arn Anderson thumped out Savage with knuckle reinforcements permitting Flair to stick Savage to win the match. 

A while later Savage won the title back on Monday Nitro after Starcade, however Flair won the following match at Super Brawl to recover the title. This is the main time in history where two wrestlers won and lost the big showdown in WWE and WCW from each other consecutively. The quarrel with Savage from multiple points of view proceeded with their same fight from the WWE. Miss Elizabeth returned as Savage's director, yet this time betrayed him and turned into Flair's valet. Together with Woman and Debra McMichael they would escort Flair to his matches until Miss Elizabeth was taken by the nWo in the fall and in the long run returned as Savages valet when he joined the nWo in 1997. Pizazz lost his World Title in the long run three months after the fact to The Giant. 

This quarrel with Savage proceeded with The New Four Horseman joining the Dungeon of Doom to make an Alliance to end Hulkamania. Together the groups wrestled Hogan and Savage in a triple steel confine, End of Hulkamania match; losing to the rejoined Mega Powers. A short time later Flair went ahead to win the United States title and there were likewise changes in the Four Horseman in 1996, as Brian Pillman left WCW and Steve "Mongo" McMichael turned into the fourth part. 

At the end of the day as a top babyface, Flair assumed a noteworthy part in the New World Order (nWo) attack storyline in late 1996 and all through 1997. He and the other Horsemen frequently led the pack in the war against Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, and Hollywood Hogan. Pizazz additionally fought with Roddy Piper, Syxx, and his old foe, Curt Hennig, in 1997 after Hennig was offered a spot in the Four Horsemen just to turn on Flair and the Horsemen at Fall Brawl in 1997. Hennig punctuated the demonstration by hammering the confine entryway onto Flair's head.

In April 1998, Flair vanished from WCW TV, because of a claim documented by Eric Bischoff for no-demonstrating a live scene of Thunder on April 16, 1998 in Tallahassee, Florida. After the case was settled, Flair made an astonishment return on September 14, 1998 to ceremoniously change the Four Horsemen (alongside Steve McMichael, Dean Malenko, and Chris Benoit). Pizazz quarreled with Bischoff for a while thereafter. Style over and again raked Eric Bischoff's eyes amid this quarrel. This finished in a match at Starrcade 1998 amongst Bischoff and Flair. Bischoff was successful after impedance from Curt Hennig, a previous individual from the Four Horsemen. The next night in Baltimore on Nitro, Flair returned and debilitating to leave WCW, requesting a match against Bischoff for the administration of the organization. The match was made, and in spite of the nWo meddling for Bischoff's sake Flair won and was conceded the position of president of WCW. This brought about a match at Superbrawl amongst Flair and Hollywood Hogan for the WCW Championship, which Flair lost in the wake of being sold out by his own child David Flair. Despite this double-crossing, Flair marked a rematch at Uncensored 1999 which was charged as a First Blood Barbed Wire Steel Cage Match against Hogan where Flair's administration and Hogan's WCW World Heavyweight Championship were hanging in the balance. Regardless of being the first to drain, Flair won the match by pinfall on account of the inclination of the official Charles Robinson, who excludeed Hogan. 

As on-air President, Flair started manhandling his energy much like Bischoff had, favoring reprobates over fan top picks and notwithstanding recompensing the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship, which was emptied by Scott Steiner because of damage to his child David and depending on whatever methods important to keep David U.S. Champion. Pizazz in the long run framed a stable of adherents which included Roddy Piper, Arn Anderson, and the Jersey Triad to keep things all together. Style's rule as president arrived at an end on the July 19 scene of Nitro, when he confronted and lost to Sting for the position. Throughout the match, Sting had Flair in his Scorpion Death Lock, yet with the arbitrator thumped oblivious, no choice could be come to. A returning Eric Bischoff went to the ring and started requesting the timekeeper to ring the chime, which he in the end did, recompensing the match and the administration to Sting (who immediately surrendered it after getting it). 

Energy won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship twice amid 2000, the organization's last entire year of operation. At the point when WCW was obtained by the WWF in March 2001, Flair was the pioneer of the abhorrent gathering called the Magnificent Seven. Pizazz lost the last match of Nitro to Sting, reproducing the second match of Nitro in 1995. By the by, Flair has over and over expressed in different meetings how upbeat he was when WCW at last shut down; in spite of the fact that, in the meantime, the way that numerous individuals would lose their occupations disheartened him. 

Following a 8-month break from wrestling, Flair made an arrival to the WWF in November 2001. Energy returned on Raw after the end of the "WCW/ECW Invasion" that finished in a "Champ Take All" match at Survivor Series won by the WWF. Pizazz's new on-screen part was that of the co-proprietor of the WWF, with the clarification that Shane and Stephanie McMahon had sold their stock in the organization to a consortium (in particular Flair) preceding obtaining World Championship Wrestling and Extreme Championship Wrestling. Style's quarrel with Vince McMahon drove them to a match at the Royal Rumble in January 2002 in a Street Fight, where Flair crushed McMahon. Pizazz additionally wrestled The Undertaker at WrestleMania X8 in March 2002 where Flair lost. The "co-proprietor" point finished in mid 2002, when Flair controlled Raw, and McMahon controlled SmackDown! After Steve Austin unexpectedly left WWE in June, while in a system with Flair, a match was hotshotted amongst Flair and Vince for sole responsibility for, which McMahon won, because of impedance by Brock Lesnar. 

At Unforgiven in 2002, Triple H guarded the World Heavyweight Championship against Rob Van Dam. Amid the match, Ric Flair came down to the ring and snatched the heavy hammer from Triple H and prodded hitting him before hitting Van Dam, permitting Triple H to get the win, turning him heel all the while. Starting there on, Flair went with Triple H to the ring as his director. Soon after, Batista moved from SmackDown! to Raw and Flair likewise started going with him to the ring while keeping on supporting Triple H. In 2003, at Bad Blood, Flair could overcome Shawn Michaels after Orton hit Michaels with a seat. Soon thereafter, Triple H held his World Heavyweight Championship in a Hell in a Cell match against Kevin Nash. 

At the stature of Evolution's energy, the gathering controlled the greater part of the male-based titles of Raw after Armageddon. Batista cooperated with Flair to win the World Tag Team Championship from the Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley) in a Tag Team Turmoil match and Triple H recaptured the World Heavyweight Championship from Goldberg (in a Triple Threat coordinate that likewise included Kane), with the assistance of alternate individuals. In January 2004 at the Royal Rumble, Flair and Batista effectively protected the World Tag Team Championship against the Dudley Boyz in a Tables match, and World Heavyweight Champion Triple H battled Shawn Michaels to no challenge in a Last Man Standing match, in this manner holding the title. Energy and Batista lost the World Tag Team Championship on February 16 version of Raw to Booker T and Rob Van Dam. At WrestleMania XX, Evolution vanquished the Rock "n" Sock Connection (The Rock and Mick Foley) in a 3-on-2 handicap match. after one week on Raw amid the 2004 RAW Draft Lottery Flair and Batista crushed Booker T and Rob Van Dam to win their second and last World Tag Team Championship. While still World Champion, Benoit cooperated with Edge to take the World Tag Team Championship from Flair and Batista on April 19 Raw. 

At SummerSlam, Orton stuck Benoit to end up the new World Heavyweight Champion and the most youthful World Champion in WWE history to date. Batista lifted Orton on to his shoulders in what seemed, by all accounts, to be a festival, yet taking after the thumbs down from Triple H, the gathering continued to assault Orton. At Unforgiven, Triple H beat Orton to recapture the World Heavyweight Championship, with assistance from Flair, Batista, and Jonathan Coachman. Orton's quarrel with Evolution proceeded until Survivor Series where Triple H, Batista, Gene Snitsky, and Edge were vanquished by Orton, Maven, Chris Jericho, and Chris Benoit in a Survivor Series match for control of Raw over the next month. 

In the Elimination Chamber match at New Year's Revolution, Batista, Orton, and Triple H were the last three staying in the match. Orton disposed of Batista with a RKO and Triple H stuck Orton with Batista's win the title. Triple H recommended that Batista not enter the Royal Rumble match, needing the gathering to concentrate on Triple H holding the title. Batista declined, entered the Rumble at number 28 and won. Triple H attempted to induce Batista to challenge the WWE Champion John "Bradshaw" Layfield of SmackDown! instead of for his World Heavyweight Championship. This included Triple H plotting a fight amongst JBL and Batista, demonstrating JBL insulting Batista in a meeting and organizing an assault on Batista with a limousine intended to look like Layfield's. The plan was unsuccessful and at the brand contract marking service, Batista stayed on Raw, chafing Triple H and accordingly stopping the group. Batista crushed Triple H for the World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania 21. 

After Vengeance, Triple H required some serious energy off, Flair turned face surprisingly since 2002 preceding going ahead to win the Intercontinental Championship, and the gathering was disintegrated. Triple H returned at the "WWE Homecoming" scene of Raw on October 3 where he was to group with Flair in a label group match against Carlito and Chris Masters. In the wake of winning that match, Triple H sold out Flair and assaulted him with a heavy hammer. 

Toward the end of 2005, Flair had a fight with Edge, coming full circle in a WWE Championship TLC match on Raw in mid 2006. On the February 20 scene of Raw, he lost the Intercontinental Championship to Shelton Benjamin. Pizazz took some time off in mid-2006 to rest and wed for the third time; he returned in June to work a project with his genuine opponent Mick Foley that played off their true blue past hostility. Style vanquished Foley at Vengeance in a 2 out of 3 falls match, then at SummerSlam in an "I Quit" match. 

Along these lines, he was included in a competition with the Spirit Squad on Raw. On November 5, 2006 at Cyber Sunday, he caught the World Tag Team Championship from the Squad with Roddy Piper. On the November 13 scene of Raw, Flair and Piper lost the Tag Titles to Rated-RKO, because of a circle issue with Piper and must be flown quickly back to the USA when Raw was off the air. On November 26, 2006 at Survivor Series, Flair was the sole survivor of a match that included himself, Ron Simmons (supplanting a harmed Piper), Dusty Rhodes and Sgt. Butcher versus the Spirit Squad. Style then left TV because of his separation hearings. 

Energy then started collaborating with Carlito after Flair said that Carlito had no heart. Pizazz crushed Carlito in a match after which Carlito understood that Flair was correct. Energy and Carlito went head to head against Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch in a main contender's match for the World Tag Team Championship yet were vanquished. The two collaborated on the WrestleMania 23 pre-appear, and crushed the group of Chavo Guerrero and Gregory Helms. Following quite a while of contention amongst Flair and Carlito, the group split up when Carlito assaulted Flair amid a match. At Judgment Day, Flair crushed Carlito with the figure four leglock.

Pizazz has shown up in TV programs. In 1996, Flair, alongside other WCW wrestlers, showed up in a scene of Baywatch as themselves. In 2013, Flair showed up in, Stuff You Should Know, in the scene, "Bacteriopolis", as Dr. Roland Grayson. In 2014, Flair voiced himself in the vivified arrangement, Uncle Grandpa, in the scene, "History of Wrestling". 

In 2009, Flair voiced the character, Commander Douglas Hill, in the computer game, Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising. 

It was reported on July 8, 2012 that Flair was to show up at Insane Clown Posse's thirteenth Annual Gathering of the Juggalos weekend as a fundamental stage host who was responsible for declaring the entertainers. Nonetheless, his appearance at the occasion was stopped after he was hit with a water bottle tossed from the group before reporting Tech N9ne to enter the primary stage, and soon thereafter he cleared out and did not declare Tech N9ne or do a reversal out on the fundamental stage to report the rest of the entertainers. 

In 2015, Flair made his element film debut, showing up in Magic Mike XXL. From May 2015-April 2016, Flair was host of a podcast titled "WOOOOO! Country". The podcast was put on rest after scene 46 which was transferred on April 1, 2016. Style came back to podcasting on MLW Radio with another show called the Ric Flair Show in July 2016 

Individual life 

Style wedded his first spouse, Leslie Goodman, on August 28, 1971. They had two kids, little girl Megan and child David, before separating in 1983 following twelve years of marriage. On August 27, 1983, he wedded his second spouse, Elizabeth Harrell ("Beth"). Promoter Jim Crockett Jr. served as the best man for the wedding. They had two kids, girl Ashley and child Reid. Beth likewise showed up in WCW somewhere around 1998 and 2000. Pizazz and Beth separated in 2006 after about 23 years of marriage. On May 27, 2006, Flair wedded his third spouse Tiffany VanDemark, a wellness contender. In 2008, Tiffany petitioned for separation from Flair, which was finished in 2009. On November 11, 2009, Flair wedded his fourth spouse, Jacqueline "Jackie" Beems, in Charlotte, North Carolina. As of September 3, 2012, Flair is experiencing his fourth separation, which is stil pending. Meanwhile, Flair is dating Wendy Barlow (the servant "Fifi" from Flair's WCW meeting section "A Flair for the Gold") as archived on ABC TV's Celebrity Wife Swap where he swapped spouse/sweetheart with Roddy Piper and his better half Kitty. Pizazz and Barlow got occupied with July 2016. 

Energy's child David is a semi-resigned proficient wrestler. Style's more youthful child Reid, who marked a formative contract with WWE close to the end of 2007, was a proficient secondary school wrestler and showed up on WCW TV alongside his sister Ashley and relative Megan. In 2004, Flair turned into a granddad at 55 years old, when his more seasoned girl, Megan Fliehr Ketzner, brought forth her first youngster, a little girl named Morgan Lee Ketzner on May 9. On May 17, 2012, it was accounted for that Flair's little girl Ashley had marked with WWE and embraced the ring name Charlotte. On March 29, 2013, Reid kicked the bucket from a unintentional overdose of heroin, Xanax, and a muscle relaxer. 

In December 2005, a judge issued capture warrants for Flair after a street rage occurrence that occurred in Charlotte, North Carolina in which Flair purportedly escaped his auto, snatched a driver by the neck, and kicked the entryway off the driver's game utility vehicle. Pizazz was accused of two wrongdoings, damage to individual property and basic threatening behavior. This episode was derided on WWE programming, most quite by the wrestler Edge. 

In September 2007, Flair opened a money related business called Ric Flair Finance. In July 2008, Flair Finance petitioned for insolvency. Taking after Flair's introduction in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling his previous boss, Ring of Honor, recorded a claim in 2010, asserting that Flair owed them over $40,000 and that he had not showed up at a few occasions that he was authoritatively committed to show up at. The claim was never determined. 

Highspots Inc. asserted that Flair had given them the NWA World Heavyweight Championship belt as insurance. A warrant for Flair's capture was issued in May 2011 for being held in hatred of court for damaging the terms of his settlement with Highspots. On the off chance that Flair had neglected to go along he could have conceivably confronted 90 days in prison. On June 25 Highspots discharged an announcement over their authority Facebook page expressing that somebody had paid Flair's obligations. 

Energy has since quite a while ago upheld Republican political hopefuls in North Carolina governmental issues. In 2000, Flair investigated the likelihood of running for legislative head of North Carolina, however he never recorded the papers. 

In the 2008 presidential race, Flair proclaimed his backing for the Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee. He said of Huckabee, "[Huckabee] is a quality individual, independent, an incredible family man and he has an extraordinary vision for our nation. Furthermore, I'm here to energize the group." 

Titles and achievements 

Worldwide Wrestling Institute and Museum 

George Tragos/Lou Thesz Hall of Fame (2013) 

Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling/Jim Crockett Promotions/World Championship Wrestling 

NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship (3 times) 

NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Rip Hawk (1), Greg Valentine (1), and Big John Studd (1) 

NWA (Mid Atlantic)/NWA Television Championship (2 times) 

NWA (Mid Atlantic)/WCW United States Heavyweight Championship (6 times) 

NWA World Tag Team Championship (Mid-Atlantic form) (3 times) – with Greg Valentine (2) and Blackjack Mulligan (1) 

WCW International World Heavyweight Championship (2 times) 

WCW World Heavyweight Championship (7 times) 

In the first place WCW Triple Crown Champion 

NWA World Heavyweight Championship (9 times) 

NWA Hall of Fame (Class of 2008) 

Fight of the Year (1987) The Four Horsemen versus The Super Powers and The Road Warriors 

Fight of the Year (1988, 1990) versus Lex Luger 

Fight of the Year (1989) versus Terry Funk 

Match of the Year (1983) versus Harley Race (June 10) 

Match of the Year (1984) versus Kerry Von Erich at Parade of Champions 1 

Match of the Year (1986) versus Dusty Rhodes at The Great American Bash in a steel confine match 

Match of the Year (1989) versus Ricky Steamboat at WrestleWar 

Match of the Year (2008) versus Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania XXIV 

Match of the Decade (2000–2009) versus Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania XXIV 

Most Hated Wrestler of the Year (1978, 1987) 

Most Inspirational Wrestler of the Year (2008) 

New kid on the block of the Year (1975) 

Stanley Weston Award (2008) 

Wrestler of the Year (1981, 1984–1986, 1989, 1992) 

Positioned No. 3 of the main 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 1991, 1992, and 1994 

Positioned No. 2 of the main 500 singles wrestlers of the "PWI Years" in 2003 

Proficient 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/World Wrestling 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) 

Imperial Rumble (1992) 

WWE Hall of Fame (2 times) 

Class of 2008 for his individual vocation 

Class of 2012 as an individual from The Four Horsemen 

Thirteenth Triple Crown Champion 

Slammy Award for Match of the Year (2008) versus Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania XXIV 

5 Star Match (1987) versus Barry Windham at the Crockett Cup on April 11 

5 Star Match (1989) versus Ricky Steamboat at Chi-Town Rumble 

5 Star Match (1989) versus Ricky Steamboat in a two-of-out-three falls match at Clash of the Champions VI: Ragin' Cajun 

5 Star Match (1989) versus Ricky Steamboat at WrestleWar 

5 Star Match (1989) versus Terry Funk in an "I Quit" match at Clash of the Champions IX: New York Knockouts 

5 Star Match (1991) with Barry Windham, Larry Zbyszko, and Sid Vicious versus Brian Pillman, Sting, Rick Steiner, and Scott Steiner in a War Games match at WrestleWar 

Best Heel (1990) 

Best Interviews (1991, 1992, 1994) 

Quarrel of the Year (1989) versus Terry Funk 

Match of the Year (1983) versus Harley Race in a steel confine match at Starrcade 

Match of the Year (1986) versus Barry Windham at Battle of the Belts II on February 14 

Match of the Year (1988) versus Sting at Clash of the Champions I 

Match of the Year (1989) versus Ricky Steamboat at Clash of the Champions VI: Rajin' Cajun 

Most Charismatic (1980, 1982–1984, 1993) 

Most Outstanding (1986, 1987, 1989) 

Perusers' Favorite Wrestler (1984–1993, 1996) 

Most exceedingly terrible Feud of the Year (1990) versus The Junkyard Dog 

Most exceedingly terrible Worked Match of the Year (1996) with Arn Anderson, Meng, The Barbarian, Lex Luger, Kevin Sullivan, Z-Gangsta, and The Ultimate Solution versus Mass Hogan and Randy Savage in a Towers of Doom match at Uncensored 

Wrestler of the Year (1982–1986, 1989, 1990, 1992) 

Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 1996)