Ric Flair VS Pete Sanchez 03.01.1976 MSG

[stolis51]

Classic..I had never seen Flair in mid 70's,wrestle in enemy territory from New York..Great video quality..Thanks for all who commented on this..Great imfo..

[HorrorFreak68]

Many people don't remember that Ric Flair's finishing maneuver used to be a simple suplex up until about 1979.

[HorrorFreak68]

OMG......Did Sanchez REALLY wear those tights??? LMAO

[Wayneman117]

Sanshaz...hmm, is that his Christmas tighty-whities-hahahha

[MIZIKE69]

flair vs backlund where's that video

[spacebullseye]

I notice that this was a bit before Flair started putting 'RF' on the sides of his wrestling boots.

[Lovelygal71]

@7:05 my favorite part. "Dynomite,WOOOOOOOOOOO!" LOL :D <3

[Lovelygal71]

love this one. :D

[japanpro1]

what was sanchez thinking when he chose those trunks. i saw him in a number of arena matches ten years earlier. he was yawn inducing, still is here.

[ec2man]

@japanpro1  You're so right: they are truly bizarre wrestling trunks.

[123torrent]

This must have been one of Flair's first matches back after the plane crash because that was Oct 4 1975.

[Jarrelka]

Ric flair born as a old man and he will die as a old man.

[SmilingSynic]

Flair had IT back then.

Whooo!

[slimmsayton]

God Vince SUCKED as a commentator. His observation was actually that Flair isn't that well conditioned? Conditioning was Flair's thing. It's why he could work so well deep in a match.

[rosario508]

@slimmsayton I think you're taking his comments way to seriously. Sanchez was obviously the face in this match and he was trying talk up the good guy. And do you think

Vince really believed that? It's show biz man.

[AnimalLover1977]

Where was this at ? And is this Flairs first debut on TV ever ?

[arobinson68]

@AnimalLover1977 This was at Madison Square Garden in N.Y, and it was actually Ric Flair's first appearance in the WWWF (now WWE) This was a taped area match, and not on television. During the old territory period, various promoters would allow their wrestlers to participate in promotional matches in other areas. The main 3 promotions at the time was: WWWF (East coast) NWA (Southern States, U.S. territories - Guam, Puerto Rico, etc.. and the AWA (Mid west)

[bigpoppanard]

@arobinson68 The NWA organization was GLOBAL, withe member promotions all over the world including the WWWF at this time of this match. WWF left the NWA for the last time in 1983 thanks to Vince MacMahon Jr.

[Baltimoreman78]

So we seet an early version of "Woooooooooooo", "The Straight Back Bump" and the "A more perfect Flair Flop" I'd Say he's developing nicely

[ECWnWWF]

notice they spell it "RicK" Flair on the graphics.

[redwonder]

wow...Vince Mcmahon calling a Flair match...beautiful post!