Ric Flair

Extracted Attributes

• Gender

  Male

• Moniker

  the Nature Boy

• Education

  University of Minnesota

• Full Name

  Richard Morgan Fliehr

• Ring Name

  Ric Flair

• Occupation

  Retired Professional Wrestler

• Career Span

  50 years

• Citizenship

  United States

• Date of Birth

  1949-02-25

• Place of Birth

  Memphis, Tennessee, United States

• Completed WWE Triple Crown

  Yes

• PWI Wrestler of the Year Awards

  6 (record)

• First to Complete WCW Triple Crown

  Yes

• First WCW World Heavyweight Champion

  Yes

• WWE Recognized World Championship Reigns

  16 (8 NWA, 6 WCW, 2 WWF)

• Ric Flair's Claimed World Championship Reigns

  21

• First WCW International World Heavyweight Champion

  Yes

• Wrestling Observer Newsletter Wrestler of the Year Awards

  8 (record)

Timeline

• Born Richard Morgan Fliehr. (Source: Wikidata, Wikipedia)

  1949-02-25

• Made his professional wrestling debut as Ric Flair in Rice Lake, Wisconsin, against George "Scrap Iron" Gadaski. (Source: Web Search Results)

  1972-12-10

• Toured Japan for the first time, including a steel-cage match against Rusher Kimura. (Source: Web Search Results)

  1973

• Wrestled "Rowdy" Roddy Piper for the first time in a match aired on Minneapolis television. (Source: Web Search Results)

  1973-10-03

• Began using the moniker "the Nature Boy" in the mid-1970s. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)

  1970s

• Made his Madison Square Garden debut against Pete Sanchez. (Source: Web Search Results)

  1976-03-01

• Won his first World Heavyweight Championship (NWA House Show). (Source: Web Search Results)

  1981-06-17

• Headlined the premier annual NWA/WCW event, Starrcade. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1983

• Participated in a famous cage match against Ricky Morton on the fourth night of the NWA's annual Great American Bash Tour. (Source: Web Search Results)

  1986-07-05

• Began a stint as a booker for World Championship Wrestling (WCW). (Source: Web Search Results)

  1989

• Co-headlined WWE's WrestleMania after winning the Royal Rumble. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)

  1992

• Won the WWF Championship in the Royal Rumble match, becoming the first and only man to do so from the 3rd spot. (Source: Web Search Results)

  1992

• Began another stint as a booker for World Championship Wrestling (WCW). (Source: Web Search Results)

  1994

• Inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame for his individual career. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)

  2008

• Inducted into the NWA Hall of Fame. (Source: Web Search Results)

  2008

• Participated in his retirement match against Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania 24. (Source: Web Search Results)

  2008-03-30

• Inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame for a second time as a member of The Four Horsemen. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)

  2012

Ric Flair

Richard Morgan Fliehr (born February 25, 1949), known professionally as Ric Flair, is an American retired professional wrestler. Regarded by multiple peers and journalists as the greatest professional wrestler of all time, Flair's career spanned 50 years. He is noted for his tenures with Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, later WWE) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). Much of his career was spent in JCP and WCW, in which he won numerous titles. 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. Pro Wrestling Illustrated awarded him their PWI Wrestler of the Year award a record six times, while Wrestling Observer Newsletter named him the Wrestler of the Year (an award named after him and Lou Thesz) 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, the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame. Flair is recognized by WWE as a 16-time world champion (8-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion, 6-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion, and two-time WWF Champion), although the number of his world championship reigns varies by source, ranging from 16 or 17 to 25. He has claimed to be a 21-time champion. He was the first holder of the WCW World Heavyweight Championship and the WCW International World Heavyweight Championship (which he also held last). As the inaugural WCW World Heavyweight Champion, he became the first person to complete the WCW Triple Crown, having already held the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship and WCW World Tag Team Championship. He then completed the WWE Triple Crown when he won the WWE Intercontinental Championship, after already holding the WWF Championship and the World Tag Team Championship.

Web Search Results

• Ric Flair - Pro Wrestling Wiki - Fandom

  Richard Morgan Fliehr (February 25, 1949) is a retired American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Ric Flair. Flair is considered to be one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time with a professional career that spans 41 years and is noted for his lengthy and highly decorated tenures with the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and the World Wrestling Federation (now known as WWE). Flair is officially recognized by WWE, TNA and PWI [...] Richard Fleihr (Ric Flair) was born on February 25, 1949. In the opening chapter of his autobiography To Be the Man, he notes that his birth name is given on different documents as Fred Phillips, Fred Demaree and Fred Stewart. At the time of his adoption (arranged by the notorious Tennessee Children's Home Society, later shut down for adoption fraud), his father was completing a residency in Detroit. Shortly afterward, the family settled in Edina, Minnesota, where the young Richard Fliehr lived [...] In World Championship Wrestling (WCW), he also had two stints as a booker in 1989–1990 and 1994. Flair also became the first and only man to have won the WWF Championship in a Royal Rumble match, when he accomplished this in the 1992 edition of the event. In 2012, Flair became the first ever double inductee in the WWE Hall of Fame, first inducted in 2008 for his individual career, and for a second time in 2012 as a member of the Four Horsemen. He is also an NWA Hall of Famer (class of 2008).

• 40 Years of Ric Flair: The Career of the Greatest Wrestler Ever

  ## Featured Video ### Browns' QB Soap Opera Getting Good 🍿 On Dec. 10, 1972, in the small town of Rice Lake, Wis., Richard Morgan Fliehr stepped into a wrestling ring and became Ric Flair. Though he only wrestled a 10-minute draw against George "Scrap Iron" Gadaski, that one match sparked four decades of a seemingly never-ending wrestling legend. [...] In the summer of 1973, only six months into his wrestling career, Flair toured Japan for the first time, even competing in a steel-cage match against Rusher Kimura. On Oct. 3, 1973, Flair wrestled "Rowdy" Roddy Piper for the first time in a match that was aired on Minneapolis television—though that tape appears to have been lost to the sands of time. After that match, Flair wrestled on television again, once more against Piper, as well as Chris Taylor (see video), Joe Guzman, and others. [...] On March 1, 1976, Flair made his Madison Square Garden debut when he wrestled Pete Sanchez (see video). Over the next few years, Flair became a main draw in Mid-Atlantic, battling men like McDaniel, Andre the Giant, Dusty Rhodes, Ole Anderson, Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat, Blackjack Mulligan, Bobo Brazil and even the original "Nature Boy," Rogers. By the early 1980's Flair had come to be known as one of the biggest wrestlers in the world. ## TOP NEWS

• The Greatest Ric Flair Performance Ever - YouTube

  World Heavyweight Champion of the 1980s, there's an image in your mind of just who Ric Flair is. What one might miss if they've only heard of Flair or have hazy memories of him from childhood is that the polished veneer of the well-dressed styling and profiling champion really served to mask the insatiable greed of a psychopathic jealous maniac. All that without even getting into the real life scandals that have marred Flair's legacy since. But just talking wrestling, Flair remains one of the [...] What do you know firsthand or personally that's worth a million dollars and looks like a million dollars? What would your first answer be? It would have to be the world champion. That's right. Ric Flair. You know Ric Flair. If you've been a pro wrestling fan for any amount of time, you've heard of the 16 World Championship Reigns, the brash attitude, the booze, and the customtailored suits. Whether you saw the last of his days as a wrestler in the WWE or grew up with him as the perennial NWA [...] turn in some of the greatest performances in a career filled with greatness. The one we have the most complete picture of and the one that's perhaps most famous from this rivalry for that reason is the July 5, 1986 cage match against Ricky Morton on the fourth night of the NWA's annual Great American Bash Tour. This match may be the most developed and realized Ric Flair performance ever. one where we see him devolve from the composed, swaggering champion he presents to the miserable monster

• The best and most significant Ric Flair matches : r/SquaredCircle

  Ric Flair Vs Shawn Michaels – Wrestlemania 24 - _This match had a retirement stipulation to it; where if Ric Flair lost he would have to retire. This isn’t the best wrestling match of all time, but it’s one of the saddest and storytelling matches of all time. Honestly, Ric Flair has had one of the best careers of all times with so many endless classics its no wonder why people consider of the greatest wrestler of all time. The whole weekend was super special for Flair – he was inducted to [...] 1974: Ric Flair Vs Chris Taylor - AWA 1974 - One of Ric Flair's earliest wrestling matches. 1981: Ric Flair Vs Dusty Rhodes – NWA House Show 17/06/1981 - _Ric Flair’s first World Heavyweight Championship win._ 1982: Ric Flair Vs Jerry Lawler - AWA 1982 Ric Flair Vs Kerry Von Erich – WCCW 28/12/1982 1983: Ric Flair Vs Harley Race – NWA Starrcade 1983 1984: [...] 1992: 30 Man Royal Rumble Match – WWF Royal Rumble 1992 – 3 ¾ - _The Iron Man of the Rumble Ric Flair enters from the 3rd spot and lasts just over an hour and wins it – but not only wins the Rumble but wins the WWF Championship. This is arguably one of the best Rumbles of all time, and also has as all-star wrestlers in it. All signs pushed to a Flair/Hogan Main-Event at Wrestlemania 8. Also if you can find the full__post-match promo__with Flair I highly recommend it._

• Ric Flair's greatest wrestling moments and matches - Facebook

  Ric Flair and The Four Horsemen | The greatest moment was him beating Hollywood Hogan it was the best ever God bless him | Facebook Log In Log In Forgot Account? Image 1 Ric Flair's greatest wrestling moments and matches Summarized by AI from the post below but as a kid watching the Dusty vs Ric matches were golden! 1y []( Kelvin Daniel [...] Image 5: Executive Business Fish Business fish, a person with a pink fish head wearing a suit and tie, flexes their arms, causing their suit to rip and exposing their muscles while saying yeah sticker 1y See more on Facebook See more on Facebook Email or phone number Password Log In Forgot password? or Create new account

• Award

  WWE Hall of Fame

• Image

  

• Gender

  male

• Educated At

  University of Minnesota

• Instance Of

  Q5

• Occupation

  writer

• Citizenship

  United States

• Date Of Birth

  2/25/1949

• Place Of Birth

  Memphis