Ric Flair: Difference between revisions

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For an in-depth look at his career, go check the article on him at [[wikipedia:Ric Flair|That Other Wiki]].

 

* [[Also Sprach Zarathustra]]: Became his entrance music, and is pretty much universally associated with him in pro wrestling.

* [[Badass Grandpa]]: After his return to WCW in 1998, Flair was pretty much this for the next decade.

* [[Badass Long Robe]] / [[Badass Longcoat]]: A sparkly, ''befeathered'', occasionally-pink ring robe. And yet [[Real Men Wear Pink|still manages to look masculine]].

** Flair's ''[[Wrestlemania]] 24'' "retirement" match. [[Shawn Michaels|"I'm sorry. I love you."]]

* [[Blood Is the New Black]]: Whole hospital refrigerators could be filled with the bags of blood [[Ric Flair]] has bled over the course of his career. One of the most common images of him is with his hair dyed solid red and his face a red mask.

** [[Bloody Hilarious|"I'M ALL OUT OF MILK!" *blades* *eats cereal*]]

* [[But You Screw One Goat!]]: On one episode of TNA iMPACT!, [[Ric Flair]] claimed to have engaged in carnal relations with Zenyatta. Zenyatta is a race-horse.

* [[Flung Clothing]]: Some of his promos towards the end of [[WCW]] would see him rip off his suit until he was down to his underwear... and to add salt to the would, he would drop elbows on his suit jacket.

** According to pretty much everyone, Flair was fond of doing this while partying too.

* [[Game-Breaking Injury]]: Flair would use chop blocks, kicks, ANYTHING that would weaken an opponent's legs and/or knees to soften them up for the Figure Four.

* ''[[God]]'' [[A God Am I|Am I]]: In TNA, he literally thinks that he is the wrestling form of ''God''. Not ''a'' god. '''God.'''

* [[Good Is Dumb]]: Inverted, as Flair would famously lure Sting (aka "[[Fan Nickname|the dumbest man in wrestling]]") into the Four Horsemen and then turn on him, kicking him out of the group. And he did it '''twice.'''

* [[Groin Attack]]: Pretty much every heel during Flair's heyday used the Low Blow. Flair [[Trope Codifier|turned it into an art form.]]

* [[Insult Backfire]]: The widespread "Woo" after using one of Flair's moves used to be a [[Take That]] devised by [[ECW|Shane Douglas]]. It later became an endearing [[Shout-Out]].

* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: With [[Shawn Michaels]] and [[Triple H]], the former of which wrestled Flair in his WWE "retirement" match and the latter inducted him into the Hall of Fame.

* [[Large Ham]]

* [[Leitmotif]]: ''[[Also Sprach Zarathustra]]'', Flair's famous entrance theme.

** [[The Coats Are Off]]

* [[Like a Son to Me]]: In [[TNA]] he has [[AJ Styles]] and Kazarian, who even got into a fight for Ric's love.

** The plane crash that broke his back caused him to alter his style in-ring. To the end, he never took another drop directly on his back (its slightly to the side).

* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Flair [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hunVTAbsUg dismantles] Carlito in one of the greatest examples in professional wrestling history.

* [[Rule of Cool]]

* [[Serious Business]]: Over half of Flair's career was during the days of kayfabe being unbroken.

* [[Theatrics of Pain]]: If Flair wanted you to believe he was in pain, he would make you believe it.

* [[Throw It In]]: At an NWA TV taping in 1986, Flair, Ole, and Arn Anderson, Tully Blanchard, and manager JJ Dillon were placed in an impromptu interview spot together due to time constraints. The four wrestlers had been working as something akin to a [[Power Stable]] before this, but then Arn said "The only time this much havoc had been wreaked by this few a number of people, you need to go all the way back to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!" during the interview; just weeks later, fans were carrying "[[Four Horsemen]]" signs to NWA events. The name stuck, and the Four Horsemen went on to become arguably the most successful and powerful stable in pro wrestling (until the [[New World Order]] came along).

* [[Verbal Tic]]: Rhymes with "boo"...

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