in the 70's with the NWA to preventEddie Einhorn's promotion from going deeper into the WWF . Harley Race defended the belt in MSG against Rhodes and Backlund. The WWF recognized the NWA belt as a world title along with their own version.
In life, a man can be anything he wants when he grows up; he can be participant or he can choose to be the best, and in the fake yet action-packed entertaining world of professional wrestling - Ric Flair was and always will be the BEST!
@timmyb1567 No Shit! Those two guys are the best ever! You sure in the hell know what you're talking about! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO..... "I have dined with kings and Queens, slept in alleyways and ate pork and beans!"
You knew when a wrestler had that bleach blond hair he was a bleeder.. Loved that shit! Had to be able to see the blood from the cheap seats so the pros had to have that blond hair... WHOOOOOOOO000000oooooo
flair was still a punk bitch compared to The Dream!
Classic Flair. The sweat, the blood, the eyes bugging, the voice cracking. Even the poor acoustics somehow work to enhance the monolog. I was lucky enough to see Flair, Wahoo, Ricky Steamboat and may of the Mid-Atlantic legends live and in their prime back in the 70's. Wrestling only got bigger. It has never been better.
That's how you cut a wrestling promo! Promos nowadays don' t have a fraction of the passion and realism of the classic stuff...and don't even get me started on the actual in-ring action. That's why I can't even watch the current day stuff anymore.
@Davidhgi Not anymore. Flair put that up as collateral when he was supposed to be doing a series of shoot interviews. However, when he reneged on those, the video company took control of the belt.
Now this is my favorite Ric Flair. The biggest face in the Mid Atlantic. Before the Horseman when he would just go out and beat every opponent they put in front of him down. The best in the game bar none. Not Hogan, not Backlund, not Steamboat, not Bockwinkel, not Inoki, not ever Race. Ric Flair whoooo!
@Darkchyld702 No Shit! Flair is the best ever, period! I would like to talk some wrestling with you at some point because you obviously know what you are talking about! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@domamania Bruno Sammartino would have gotten schooled if he ever got in the ring with a technician like Space Mountain! Bruno wasn't shit when he left the East Coast. Over in the NWA you had to know how to wrestle. There were guys like Jack Brisco, Dory Funk, Lou Thesz, Ray Stevens and many more. Sammartino was a mid card guy in the NWA and that's how it is! Learn to live with it, learn to love it! Diamonds are forever and so is Ric Flair! Whoooooo!
@Darkchyld702 o really, apprently you know jack shit about bruno. Bruno had sold out tours in South America, Canada, Australia, Europe, AND Japan. Also in every major News Paper and magazine of that time. Wow mid carder, that why NWA and WWF was about to make a deal that would unify the title and give it to sammartino , that to me is no mid carder. Flair lost the title16 times But bruno only 2 times. Bruno Samatino THE LIVING LEGEND AND LONGEST CHAMPION IN WWF WWE HISTORY.
@domamania Give the belt to Bruno? Lol, that's quite a claim. And I'm not dissing Bruno he's one of the strongest wrestlers ever but Flair was the WORLD champion and defended the belt around the globe on a daily basis. Bruno defended in the North East every month or so. And Flair was very strong himself just ask his former training partner and room mate Ken Patera. And the WWF was still a part of the NWA at the time and considered it's champion the world champion. They left in the mid 80's.
@Darkchyld702 well i am not making that claim, i am just REstating what Bruno said in one of his interviews. Bruno Sammartino, was WORLD chapion in Canada with the wrestling organization from Toronto and WORLD chaMpion in the USA by the WWF. Your worng, Bruno defended the title in North America, South America, Asia, Europe, and Australia. With all to respect but NWA and WWF was two sperate companies one did not belong to the other. the WWF was known as capital wrestling owned by Jessy Mcmahon
Part 2) --- and Jessy Mcmahon gave the company to his son Vince Mcmahon Sr in 1956, then Mcmahon sr made it to WWWF in 1961 with Buddy Rogers as first Champion, then with bruno holding the title pretty much of the time of the 60s and 70s. Then in 1984 Vince sr Sold the company to Vince Jr and then on in until 2002 it was known as WWF.
@domamania I never said they were the same company. I just stated, accurately, that the WWF (Titan Sports) was a part of the NWA until the 80's. This is fact. Even the promotional flyers in the late 70's / early 80's would list Bob Backlund as WWF Champion and Ric Flair as NWA WORLD Champion. The NWA champion always got top billing. Titan considered NWA champion Lou Thesz it's champion until a dispute and then gave their belt to the man Thesz defeated for the title "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers.
@Darkchyld702 but the nwa and wwe were different comanies period, plus its depended on where the bill bord sign were. if it were in the noth then they would put wwf, but in the south nwa.
@domamania You like beating a dead horse I see. No one said they were the same company. And it made no difference where they were, if you were an NWA promotion you listed your promotions champion underneath the NWA champion. These were WWF billboards. The WWF was part of the NWA and listed it's champion as the world champion just as every other territory in the NWA did.
@Darkchyld702 What you say is the truth. The WWF title wasn't recognized as a world title until Hulk Hogan beat the Iron Sheik. Hogan was so huge that he singlehandedly made the WWF title a recognized world title.
Actually, the Blanchard/Wahoo team got together early in 1984. In fact, when Wahoo won the tournament for the US title after it had been held up it was in June of 84; five months before Starrcade.
I like he gave props to Wahoo
suncitynews1 1 week ago
This was when wrestling was AWESOME. McMahon sold it all out for cash. SAD.
GreatUncleSiggy 1 month ago
Look at that background!
kayele 3 months ago in playlist More videos from KabookiX
to be the man you must beat the man and flair is the man
LuapMr1950 3 months ago
Vince Sr started a talent sharing agreement
in the 70's with the NWA to preventEddie Einhorn's promotion from going deeper into the WWF . Harley Race defended the belt in MSG against Rhodes and Backlund. The WWF recognized the NWA belt as a world title along with their own version.
VolumedMusicMan 3 months ago
In life, a man can be anything he wants when he grows up; he can be participant or he can choose to be the best, and in the fake yet action-packed entertaining world of professional wrestling - Ric Flair was and always will be the BEST!
ouluvme2 4 months ago
HAHAHA! He sounds like he needed a Prozac!
MrNYCman530 5 months ago
Freakin awesome......maybe the best promo ever.
spudnutsncoffee 6 months ago
Damn this was GREAT!
GypsyRock 6 months ago 2
teh 1980's was all abou tmullets and attitude.
22centman36 6 months ago
fuckin epic
don417 6 months ago
Ric Flair being the man!!!!
Unionkyboy08 8 months ago
Anyone who wants to be a good wrestler should learn to promo like Flair and Dusty.... these guys were straight up amazing when it came to the mic
timmyb1567 9 months ago 2
@timmyb1567 No Shit! Those two guys are the best ever! You sure in the hell know what you're talking about! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO..... "I have dined with kings and Queens, slept in alleyways and ate pork and beans!"
danielria 7 months ago
Slick Rick.....pay homage to the greatest character actor of our time.Thanks for the memories!
boz987 9 months ago 2
ive seen hundreds of flair promos my entire life, this may be the best one ever
StIdes811 9 months ago
@StIdes811 I don't know how you can narrow one down to the best ever! There's been so so so many! WOOOO
ed2kou1 9 months ago
It's vignettes like this that made kids think pro wrestling was real. You can't deny the real passion. WOOOOOOOO!!
SignGuyDino 9 months ago 2
AMEN! WHOOOO!
MegaJaystar1 8 months ago
It still real to me Damnit!
J5MARLON 9 months ago
You knew when a wrestler had that bleach blond hair he was a bleeder.. Loved that shit! Had to be able to see the blood from the cheap seats so the pros had to have that blond hair... WHOOOOOOOO000000oooooo
flair was still a punk bitch compared to The Dream!
OldSkaterGuy 9 months ago
This video reminds me of the video of WrestleMania VIII after he lost the WWE Championship to Macho Man Randy Savage. Classic
lighting2008 10 months ago
The Man. Enough said.
mmmikeyxx 10 months ago
Classic Flair. The sweat, the blood, the eyes bugging, the voice cracking. Even the poor acoustics somehow work to enhance the monolog. I was lucky enough to see Flair, Wahoo, Ricky Steamboat and may of the Mid-Atlantic legends live and in their prime back in the 70's. Wrestling only got bigger. It has never been better.
XamIIamX 10 months ago 2
de niro brando day lewis
watch learn and weep
passingpoor 11 months ago
This has to be one of Ric Flair's most intense promos he has done.
TheMasterOE 11 months ago 2
That's how you cut a wrestling promo! Promos nowadays don' t have a fraction of the passion and realism of the classic stuff...and don't even get me started on the actual in-ring action. That's why I can't even watch the current day stuff anymore.
ebbowman 11 months ago 4
I think Wahoo was making faces behind the camera, 2:50.
jonnywood09 1 year ago
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danteras23 1 year ago
It's awesome how Flair puts over Wahoo in this interview. That's the way he was.
WillHear432 1 year ago
wooo
ricflair 1 year ago
Academy award!
talon115 1 year ago 3
had to be between June of 84 and March of 85 that is when the late great Wahoo held the US Title
pointman913 1 year ago
nobody, and I mean nobody, could cut a promo like Flair.
mabood1212 1 year ago
love flair as a face... he is better as a heel, but super great as a face. only he could pull that off
dare2727 1 year ago
he look likes a tarzan he shulld not cut hair not nature boy rick flair rick tarzan fair,
lovham89 1 year ago
this may be flair's greatest interview of all time
eslubin 1 year ago
IS THAT BROCK LESNAR!
miamimagicians 1 year ago
intense!
tsoe2001 1 year ago
the. greatest.
youmeddlingkids 1 year ago
He looks like Pacino in Scarface just about to get blown away with a shotgun from behind at the very end of the movie... The world ain't yours.
thewatcherfromwithin 1 year ago
I miss the interviews in the locker room with the echo's when he Flair yells!
stevenj8810 1 year ago
Diamonds are forever and so is Ric Flair.
Warchief01 1 year ago
Never ever saw Ric Flair that intense in a interview before!
smashupdriver 1 year ago
That's how to do an interview.
steburton 2 years ago 4
In this clip, Ric Flair looks like Roger Daltrey. Ric Flair, the 'American Tommy'
SheriffTankStoner 2 years ago
I miss that strap!
t3rr3nc388 2 years ago 15
Still used by the NWA today.
kevindwb 2 years ago
The current NWA uses a replica. Flair has physical possession of the real belt.
Davidhgi 2 years ago 2
@Davidhgi Not anymore. Flair put that up as collateral when he was supposed to be doing a series of shoot interviews. However, when he reneged on those, the video company took control of the belt.
Sargebri 1 year ago
@Sargebri
Oh I know that now but not when I first made the post. He actually put it up for collateral with another company before he put it up for Highspots.
Davidhgi 1 year ago
Flair = G.O.A.T
ER1CKSON 2 years ago 4
Flair was a underrated face.
RSXemperor 2 years ago 4
Wow great stuff. Can you please post more. Do you have the video of Wahoo attacking Flair. Thanks so much.
ed2kou1 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
rick was in shape back then but he lost it , hogan stayed in better shape as he got older
ad1997 2 years ago
Great promo.
JasonHi 2 years ago
This is simply incredible.
If I recall, this took place sometime in 1985, right before the formation of the Horsemen.
philaman1972 2 years ago
Now this is my favorite Ric Flair. The biggest face in the Mid Atlantic. Before the Horseman when he would just go out and beat every opponent they put in front of him down. The best in the game bar none. Not Hogan, not Backlund, not Steamboat, not Bockwinkel, not Inoki, not ever Race. Ric Flair whoooo!
Darkchyld702 2 years ago 35
@Darkchyld702 not Virgil?
watanabehefuml 11 months ago
@Darkchyld702 No Shit! Flair is the best ever, period! I would like to talk some wrestling with you at some point because you obviously know what you are talking about! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
danielria 7 months ago
@Darkchyld702 danielria@yahoo.com is my email address.........
danielria 7 months ago
@Darkchyld702 Bruno Sammartino would clean the floor with Ric Flair
domamania 5 months ago
@domamania Bruno Sammartino would have gotten schooled if he ever got in the ring with a technician like Space Mountain! Bruno wasn't shit when he left the East Coast. Over in the NWA you had to know how to wrestle. There were guys like Jack Brisco, Dory Funk, Lou Thesz, Ray Stevens and many more. Sammartino was a mid card guy in the NWA and that's how it is! Learn to live with it, learn to love it! Diamonds are forever and so is Ric Flair! Whoooooo!
Darkchyld702 4 months ago in playlist Darkchyld702's favorites 2
@Darkchyld702 o really, apprently you know jack shit about bruno. Bruno had sold out tours in South America, Canada, Australia, Europe, AND Japan. Also in every major News Paper and magazine of that time. Wow mid carder, that why NWA and WWF was about to make a deal that would unify the title and give it to sammartino , that to me is no mid carder. Flair lost the title16 times But bruno only 2 times. Bruno Samatino THE LIVING LEGEND AND LONGEST CHAMPION IN WWF WWE HISTORY.
domamania 4 months ago
@domamania Give the belt to Bruno? Lol, that's quite a claim. And I'm not dissing Bruno he's one of the strongest wrestlers ever but Flair was the WORLD champion and defended the belt around the globe on a daily basis. Bruno defended in the North East every month or so. And Flair was very strong himself just ask his former training partner and room mate Ken Patera. And the WWF was still a part of the NWA at the time and considered it's champion the world champion. They left in the mid 80's.
Darkchyld702 4 months ago in playlist Darkchyld702's favorites
@Darkchyld702 well i am not making that claim, i am just REstating what Bruno said in one of his interviews. Bruno Sammartino, was WORLD chapion in Canada with the wrestling organization from Toronto and WORLD chaMpion in the USA by the WWF. Your worng, Bruno defended the title in North America, South America, Asia, Europe, and Australia. With all to respect but NWA and WWF was two sperate companies one did not belong to the other. the WWF was known as capital wrestling owned by Jessy Mcmahon
domamania 4 months ago
Part 2) --- and Jessy Mcmahon gave the company to his son Vince Mcmahon Sr in 1956, then Mcmahon sr made it to WWWF in 1961 with Buddy Rogers as first Champion, then with bruno holding the title pretty much of the time of the 60s and 70s. Then in 1984 Vince sr Sold the company to Vince Jr and then on in until 2002 it was known as WWF.
domamania 4 months ago
@domamania I never said they were the same company. I just stated, accurately, that the WWF (Titan Sports) was a part of the NWA until the 80's. This is fact. Even the promotional flyers in the late 70's / early 80's would list Bob Backlund as WWF Champion and Ric Flair as NWA WORLD Champion. The NWA champion always got top billing. Titan considered NWA champion Lou Thesz it's champion until a dispute and then gave their belt to the man Thesz defeated for the title "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers.
Darkchyld702 3 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
@Darkchyld702 but the nwa and wwe were different comanies period, plus its depended on where the bill bord sign were. if it were in the noth then they would put wwf, but in the south nwa.
domamania 3 months ago
@domamania You like beating a dead horse I see. No one said they were the same company. And it made no difference where they were, if you were an NWA promotion you listed your promotions champion underneath the NWA champion. These were WWF billboards. The WWF was part of the NWA and listed it's champion as the world champion just as every other territory in the NWA did.
Darkchyld702 3 months ago
@Darkchyld702 show me a shread of real evidence that wwf was officially part of the nwa.
domamania 3 months ago
@Darkchyld702 What you say is the truth. The WWF title wasn't recognized as a world title until Hulk Hogan beat the Iron Sheik. Hogan was so huge that he singlehandedly made the WWF title a recognized world title.
donn409 1 day ago
thanks for the promo
Th3DrunkGuy 2 years ago
this is just amazing! Talent.
yurbuddy 2 years ago
I think it was in 85
KabookiX 2 years ago
Early 85 or late 84 cause the Blanchard/Wahoo connection started in late 1984 a bit before Starcade
willjarmon 2 years ago
Actually, the Blanchard/Wahoo team got together early in 1984. In fact, when Wahoo won the tournament for the US title after it had been held up it was in June of 84; five months before Starrcade.
Sargebri 2 years ago
@KabookiX Actually, I think it was '84, right after Wahoo turned heel.
Sargebri 1 year ago
Is this about late 1982?
NWAfan 2 years ago
heck ya, keep em coming KABOOKI you are the man brother!!
BukkakeCapiton 2 years ago
thanks for these classic promos!
donrio35 2 years ago