WPCQ-TV Ric Flair interview about Crockett quitting the NWA

[Srd1126]

just buy tickets next time I'm in town! Who can cut a better promo? Nobody! Woo!

[erickrassle]

Mid Atlantic is dope..But Memphis wrestling cannot be beat.

[adidaslou]

CORNDOG 0202. I agree with you wholeheartedly.

The NWA Jim Crockett promotions was the very best along with Mid South and Championship wrestling from Florida. I hate the WWF (WWE) and Vince Shithead Mc Mahon. Every one who had their roots in the NWA, AWA, WCCW and mid south who went with McMahon are a bunch of stupid dumbass sell outs with NO imagination of their own. I hate the WWE and prefer TNA Impact over mcmahon.

[T74G]

Damn Crocketts!!

MACW...the best of the territories!!

[Piledriver86]

Daaaamn, Ric was BUILT here

[JonathanVonErich]

Bob Caudle !!

[bukiyu]

he was already old here.....

[JohnDeb1985]

That was so awesome, classic Bob Caudle & Ric Flair...You heard it fans!

[mrknowitalllt1]

@sammys70 truer words were never spoken. i've always wondered why is the wwf still in business with that bs style of wrestling. when word came out that vince mcmahon took over nwa, it really was the worst thing that could happen to pro wrestling.

[quietriotfan1976]

@sammys70

Not all of us in the north liked WWF. I'd have rathered watched WCCW or matches from Japan.

[donn409]

Flair's still the man. Where's Crockett, Daddy? Sitting home eating spaghettios.

[bettydaw1970]

1:02

flaie was/is so quick witted!!!

dosent just rehearse a promo and repeat it!!!!

best ever

[NatureBoy1957]

Woooooooooooo All night long

[Warchief01]

@gt1kidd I didn't think triple H would make that much of a difference but since he's not been on it blows.

[Warchief01]

@gt1kidd May not be but i stopped watching it. The whole orton,cena and nxs is boring.

[onebigkahuna69]

I tell ya theres a toss up between Ric Flair and Dusty Rhodes in the shit talking Rights in professional wrestling...

[RS1963]

Heel or face you just have to love Flair.

[diesel021234]

FLAIR WAS THE BEST ON THE STICK.

[Chuloloc]

Awesome. A true wrestling promo. New school kiddies, learn something.

[mmangum4444]

@Chuloloc

yeah, no originality these days. Vince won't let the wrestlers be themselves, either wrestling or speaking.

[Chuloloc]

@mmangum4444 Yeah, try checking out a video on YouTube where Mondo Guererro is interviewed. He talks about wrestling today, especially promos and interviews where there is no real old school feeling. You're find it interesting. Yeah, today's wrestling interviews and promos are robotic.

[Wayneman117]

Whats funny...is back N the day,I use to think Ric Flair was in good shape...but now,looking back...Uhh,not so sure-LOL...Still,hes the best...Hes da MAN-Wooo!

[DeepSouthWrestling1]

@Wayneman117 : He was in fantastic shape, just didn't have a steroid user's physique... he could go an hour a night, unlike Nikita, Road Warriors, etc...

[thehalfhead]

This was when wrestling was wrestling.... the shit today sucks ass compared to the good old days... everything is sooo scripted now... they need to let the guys develope their own characters like they used to.

[draculascoffin]

NWA was the Shit back then, I grew up on this. Its great to see some of these old clips from the past. I can remember getting up on Saturdays and watching cartoons untill noon and than Wrestling .

[melbz1266]

mid. atlantic was way better than wwf. bruno or backlund or pedro.never wrestled on tv

[Koolazzmike]

In an interview somewhere here on youtube, Mean Gene Okerlund stated that if Wrestlemania failed, he probably would have went back crawling to Verne Gagne to get his job back. LOL I guess it is important to give a notice no matter what kind of opportunity you have.

[PGASpellissy]

Unprecedented

[Srd1126]

It was one of those things you loved looking back on (WOW--what matches!) but later realized it was a turning point that destroyed everything. Kind of like when "Moonlighting" became unquestionably searialized.

[Davidhgi]

That's how you cut a promo. He even put over Jim Crockett. Who does that?

[coz109]

@Davidhgi Flair wrote the book on it. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, could cut a better promo than Ric Flair.

[13bears13]

I agree wit da warchief 110%

[Warchief01]

The Mid-Atlantic wrestling couldn't be beat.The wwf was joke wrestling.

[coz109]

@Warchief01 Amen, brother.

[bucball37]

@Warchief01 yooooooooo

[JuliusC1973]

@Warchief01 Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling had better storylines and better matches than the WWF ever had. If you like wrestling, then Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling is where you looked,

[kelbrew75]

@JuliusC1973 You said a mouthful there, Julius! Every Saturday night, I used to tune in to watch Mid-Atlantic Cahmpionship Wrestling and the stuff they have on nowadays can't hold a candle to what we used to watch back then!

[arkie74]

@Warchief01 yeah the wwf back then was capitolizing on any angle,or gimmick,(the red roster,george "the animal" steel, ) they could think up

[arkie74]

@Warchief01 yeah the wwf back then was capitolizing on any angle,or gimmick,(the red roster,george "the animal" steel,ect ) they could think up. and they are still doing it!

[Srd1126]

I see it this way. WWF would have been finished had WrestleMania been a flop--McMahon admits he mortgaged everything for it. McMahon could grow organically, adding talent as needed, Crockett had to buy out and integrate territories, harder to do. McMahon seems to have been 2 years or so ahead of Crockett in vision and that in the end was what burried the NWA.

[Corndog0202]

My older brother(who said he would watch the NWA over the WWF any day of the week) would always talk about how great Jim Crockett Promotions was and honestly I am starting to get mad that they had to sell out to Ted Turner, because it was the best ran and booked wrestling I have ever seen.

[Greenandscaly]

Did Flair always call Wahoo "McDaniels"?

[leandar]

Several people did, not just Flair, if memory serves. It's an easy mistake.

[skillyou1]

"just buy tickets next time im in town" =the G.O.A.T.

[jammerjmc]

Where Crockett messed up was, after purchasing Bill Watt's Texas based UWF promotion, Dusty Rhodes convinced Crockett that he should move his corporate headquarters to Texas in an attempt to compete with McMahon by venturing west rather than going north. The move financially stretched Crockett to his breaking point and lead to him selling the promotion to Ted Turner thus becoming WCW.

[crazyhorse161]

That not quite accurate. It was Crockett's idea to move the promotion. Crockett thought he would never be taken serious as a huge empire if he was operating out of little ol Charlotte N.C. He thought the move to the bigger city in Texas he would be taken more serious. This is know fact I promise. Everyone else Rhodes included thought it was a huge mistake. Which came to be true. He stretched himself way past his means. Which was a shame NWA was king.

[testicularfortitude1]

Fascinating bit of americana, thanks for the info...many who grew up watching nwa would agree that it was clearly the better product...interesting to note how the workings of the free market system (the best thing going in modern society) sometimes (oftentimes?) doesn't produce the best product (wwf?)...why is that? btw...they should teach the rise and fall of pro wrestling in the south in business school!

[Davidhgi]

Add to that he didn't have to buy UWF. It was already on it's last legs. He couldn't have let it die and cherry picked it's towns and talent. By buyin it, he had to fulfill their obligations with stations and buildings, which cost him money he needed.

[JuliusC1973]

If I recall Jim Crockett, Jr. bought several of the NWA Member Wrestlig Promotions and th eUniversal Wrestling Federation and stretched his resources to the limit and the WWF created The Survivor Series and decided to schedule it Thanksgiving Weekend, the same time as Starcade. WWF forced Cable Systems to choose one or the other and it forced crockett to sell the NWA to Ted Turner.

[talibanexpress]

POOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

[OnlyAPawn1970]

I miss NWA wrestling-these were the days

[murbro86]

alot of confusion with this because after jim crocket promotions left outa north carolina the "SOUTHERN MAN" ted turner from turner broadcasting took that over and killed that organization just to try and compete with the "GREAT" vince mcmahon...its a shame too cuz NWA was something special.

[wilbert916]

Your damn right. It's ironic that thru youtube and wwe 24/7, new wrestling fans are now knowing what we've known all along. NWA was light years beyond wwf(e). Wooooooo!

[thegoldenone2k9]

Crockett was forced to compete just as every other big regional territory was forced to compete because the man you call great was raiding and short changing promotions and promoters.Vince mcmahon forced the hand of other promoters which is why I laugh when he cries foul play over what bischoff did to him on a proffesional level

[wilbert916]

I agree.

[ABCMeEFG]

you have all spoken nothing but truths and facts.

[aaronnonaka]

This is great!! What year was this?

[supercoolguy88]

dude y do u keep posting the coolest vids! i love your posts!

[SaleGuy]

WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[travisrashawn216]

Ric Flair will always be a gold legend

[TrueGrits68]

roids gave ric  man tiitys

[MJH281]

I just had to say, because it seems there has been very spirited talk here about if NWA was better than WWF/E and talent-wise, NWA was better. Now Jim Crockett wanted to be like Vince, but he failed big. He bought UWF which was going to fold anyway, moved operations from Charlotte to Dallas, moved Starrcade from N.C. to Chicago, and tried to make characters. Flair said it himself, if Crockett would have kept it in the southeast, he would still be going today.

[xms32]

If it aint broke, don't fix it.

[dalrekantarah]

yep cuz it was the bigger and had the best at one point it seemed like wrestlers moved from the nwa to the wwf to retire

[viletantrum]

Putting asses in the seats!

[MrBanjo]

"Don't get excited, just buy a ticket next time I'm in town!"

They just don't cut promos like this anymore. It's all inane trash talk and dumbed down inuendos these days.

God, do I ever miss the old days.

[bigc1966]

Wow i remember watching this, NWA was the shit back then, would put WWE of today to shame IMO.

[thebadguychico]

aren't you too old to be watching youtube and saying things are "the shit"? and using IMO? shouldn't you be yelling at whipper snappers on your lawn right now, youngster.

[thebadguychico]

don't have a heart attack. i was just kidding with you. i was joking. i hope i don't lose my sense of humor when i get old, sourpuss.

[tedGEGI]

it's 2008,dimbo

[kyd973]

1982

[TheLizardKing1967]

Is this 1976 or 77 ????

[ewoldt]

I'm not sure, but I don't think he won the title for the first time until 1979. It says so much about his ability that he took over the title for the next two decades. Nobody EVER topped the Nature Boy.

[mplaza]

Flair beat Dusty Rhodes for his first NWA World Heavyweight Title on Sept. 17, 1981

[ewoldt]

"Don't get excited about this, just buy tickets next time I'm in town."

[cb4077]

I like that line, also.

[DiamondJoeQuimby]

classic Nature Boy speaking in the 3rd persons:

"Wahoo -- leave Flair alone..."

hilarious.

[VolumedMusicMan]

The irony about this interview, is that it was Jim Crockett who actually helped Ric Flair gain influence in winning the NWA World belt. Flair at his best kayfabing here.

[TheFnNatural]

WOOOOOOOOO!

[Chareb94]

Dude, I got 21 peeps in a clan that lap this shit up, I get paid each response you make in bets...So yea stupid, yer owned yer just too fuckin noobish online to get it...So keep replying fucktard, I LOVE IT!

[Chareb94]

Str8up...You are owned jr...If I were gay, I would post it there...You got something against Gays? Wow, that's hatespeech...Tsk Tsk...Now stop hating, and stay on track...Kid...My resume' owned you back in 1989...Remember that...Corky.

[Chareb94]

Facts are everything I have stated, you're are cute tho...Then you drag it on and start using my slams...That noobish..Could care less about a shrimpdick, you amuse us...Keep going. BTW, this is a contest on my end, you are making me MAD cash by this...TY!

[Chareb94]

You've melted down to ignoring anything, and resorted to name calling and gimmicks...TY! Now, when you can get your boyfriends dick outta yer ass long enough, go elsewhere....Stay here, I will own you each post...This is your freebie.

[Chareb94]

Self made, retired 1st time at 34yrolds...For shits n giggles and boredom, I've memorized the State of Michigan, State of Ohio, State of New Yorks Legal Codes, Codes of Conduct for Lawyers and Courtroom proceedures...At 36yrs old after just 3years into a 30yr Mortgage, I paid off my house. Um, I know 3 verbal languages from boredom were 2, 5 programming languages from Shits n Giggles, etc...LOL <---You make me...Keep talkin smack chuckles...You are a clown, right?

[Chareb94]

Nah you prefer nothing cuz yer stupid and ignant...You lost about 3 days ago but are too low on the food chain to admit it, so you bring up wording...Not my fault you're a net Virgin...Notice the cap??? Guess what that means?

Last word.

[Chareb94]

Still wondering why you babble about replying, yet keep replying...Hmmm...

Then complain about name calling, and keep name calling....I talked to your family, they said "dumbass er detchuck is what we like to call special. but with his helmet and leash on, he's our little go-getter!"

[Chareb94]

And you are doing WHAT? Kid, I can type 101WPM with mistakes and about 88 with ZERO mistakes...It takes me less time to reply to you fucktard, than you to find your dick to pee...Got a life, it's owning nerds like you online who are too stupid to realize this is being watched by others and you are being baited...Course, had you been a VET online, you would have known that as well and who I am...Have a nice day, K? LOL jackass...

[Chareb94]

Yer is a word online stupid, if you weren't such a noob at it, you'd know that. Aren't you leaving? Didn't you complain about responding to everything? WHTF are you still replying? Move on douchebag...

[joepod]

Was this interview before his match with Jack Brisco that appeared on Flair's latest DVD?

[Chareb94]

Yer right, that's why you keep responding...I'm in my 30's...OWned lil faggots like you since the 1980's online...You noobs that came onboard for the web, are jokes...You don't know shit about peeps like me and obviously you can't argue shit without other noobs in agreement...Notice: You ignored my prior post...TY

[Chareb94]

I'm used to kids like you that start verbal shit and backup when owned, which is why i have 4 redundant logging programs for anything I type...Neat huh? You tossed out the Crack ref, and I just shoved it in your ass...So STFU, and move on...You're pissed off cuz yer lil tirade of bs didn't work...You evade everything with rambling, not me...Ok like it in the asshole? You have the choice to stop typing, as much as you are claiming anything...Yet you don't, now you threaten...That's cute. OWNED!

[Chareb94]

No it's netspeak stupid...So tell your crack ho GF/wife to keep blowin for 10 a pop...As stated b4, 1 more time WITH FEELING:

Like it in the asshole, RIP...

[Chareb94]

LOL! Retard it's TiC<---Ask friends what the acro is...Owned via personal loss of braincells due to lack of knowledge...

RIP "Like it in the asshole" you wont be missed.

[Chareb94]

And yet you knew stuff...Hmmm..

[Chareb94]

Know more? WTF are you dumb on purpose or is it abject? I quoted 1 source and your too fuckin ill to get it? Gayest? Your name is detchuck...That's like Latin for "Like it in the asshole" isn't it?

[Chareb94]

No because I don't watch wrestling a lot anymore, but apparently you do...Hahahah, funny since you hate WWE.

[Chareb94]

Jim Ross works WHERE right now? Ty...Moolah still works for WHO? TY....Yes, Vince is so evil the Funks still work there, Slaughter, etc...Yes, because of some anti-WWE/F bitches cry about Vince, that makes it sooooooo...LOL!

[Maestrohbill]

Since the WWF has a monopoly and there's no WCW, NWA, or AWA anymore - please tell me where else Jim Ross would work?

[Chareb94]

Apparently according to the slow and retarded, he was fucked over by the WWF/WWE and the McMahons...Logically stupid, who would work for an employer that fucked them over? You?

[Chareb94]

He had an IPO that instantly made him a Billionaire....Hmmm, yes ok.

[Chareb94]

TY, owned....You know more than Flair, Crockett, and EVERYONE associated with WCW/NWA that backs what I have posted ad litem, from their lips...Yea ok back to your cage..

[Chareb94]

No douchebag, I simply bought Flairs new 3 DVD set and watched it, you queef...And if you half a wrestling brain or heart, you'd have bought the fuckin thing and we wouldn't be here with you lookin like a dumb ass corky...Would we? Now go rent it you welfare ass fag and come back when you are done...K? JR?

[Maestrohbill]

You mean the set put out by the WWE itself? Sure. A guy is going to rip his company on a DVD put out about himself?

Yep, makes sense to me!!

[Chareb94]

Must be a kid for being retarded enough to take it as a compliment or cocky enough...I'm going by insiders like oh let's see, Ric Flair, Crocketts brother, Jim Cornett...You are going by your own opinion...Hmmm...Who's the mark, dumbfuck? That would be you...Kid..

[Chareb94]

Kid, I've watched wrestling since the 1970's, so stick your lame ass attempts..I couldn't stand the WWF during the Hogan days...Georgia Championship Wrestling was the bomb. I listened to Ric Flair for my info, not McMahon...Another other wrestlers from the day...They assert the same damn thing I do, which makes you a mark, not me. Lamer, I remember the damn day Tommy Rich losto DeBiase' and "had to retire" so piss off noob.

[Maestrohbill]

Uh, I've watched wrestling since the 1970s, too. Should say I stopped when the Montreal Screwjob happened (good way to treat the employees, Vince!). Crockett got outplayed in part because of a bad business deal with Watts. But let's face it - most of Vinnie's good ideas were STOLEN ones.

[Chareb94]

Yet monumental figures in old school wrestling say the EXACT opposite about the WWF/WWE and Vince McMahon...I'm going with site and sound and experience...When Flair was royally fucked by WCW, he finally went to Vince and said this: Imma tell ya, this is how much I was paid there...Vince looked him right in the damn eye and laughed with a reply: Oh, Imma make you a lot more money than that...AND DID until Flair retired...

[Maestrohbill]

Of course they do. Where else are they gonna go?

And btw it ain't unanimous. Bruno Sammartino has no use for Vince at all. But Bruno was probably just a prelim bum who blames Vinnie for his lack of greatness, right?

[Chareb94]

Who? Ahhh you mean the drunkard Bruno...Welp, perhaps if Mr. Bruno was not a lush, washed up and a hasbeen, he'd be...Actually, he'd still be a bum. See, this may be hard to grasp, but "pro wrestling" is a business...And as such,(corporation) they have to answer to investors...If a fool isn't selling lunchboxes, shirts, etc...They get the boot...Get it? Watch an IWGP match from the early 90's, you will grasp what I am talkin about..If not, then have a nice day, no need to reply.

[Maestrohbill]

Crockett ran the second best cards I've ever seen - behind Bill Watts' UWF that Crockett bought.

[Chareb94]

Point: Crockett didn't like to interact in a scripted way that made him look bad, so he sold out to Turner who then fucked NWA/WCW...

Bret Hart wasn't fucked, he was pissed off having to lose the title in his home town. Jim Ross STILL works for McMahon, so how was he fucked? Richter is a chick, so? Dude are you blown? Vince got his god damned head shaved for the sport, his familed raked, etc...WTF are you blind? Rivalry?!?! Please, don't talk anymore...It's embarassing.

[Maestrohbill]

In 1986, Vince McMahon dismissed Crockett as 'a small regional promoter' on Larry King. The next year, he intentionally scheduled his Survivor Series on the same day as Starrcade and blackmailed cable companies into not carrying Crockett's card. Translation: McMahon feared Crockett enough to play such juvenile cards. He destroyed the AWA through a pipeline and the NWA through tough guy tactics. In short, he destroyed wrestling as a viable commodity. Nobody cares today.

[Chareb94]

Had Crockett not allowed his ego to usurp business savvy and smarts, he would've CRUSHED McMahon, who obviously knew business BETTER which is why he is still around. Get it? In the words of Ric Flair: Had Crockett stayed to the East of Chicago, NWA would still be alive today...Let me guess JR, you know more about wrestling business than Ric Flair????

[Maestrohbill]

And McMahon now runs a monopoly that nobody watches.

[54spiritedwill54]

Crockett didn't destroy wrestling, it was still good when he was in charge of the NWA. Turner & Vince destroyed wrestling.

[Chareb94]

Turner did, Vince didn't...Ergo the WWE..Get it?

[Chareb94]

Crockett DID destroy it, because he didn't listen to his regionals he listened to his ego...He got eaten by a shark in business and sold out....THAT is on him, nobody else.

[Maestrohbill]

What sunk Crockett was Dusty Rhodes.

[Chareb94]

If I gather from Ric's 3 DVD set in his talking, Crockett took everything too personally(See Vince and family getting slapped round to sell tickets, etc...) and it was his BROTHER who said it, and so he sold out to Turner...Which fucked it to oblivion.

ANYONE that likes wrestling, go buy

WWE: Nature Boy Ric Flair - The Definitive Collection (2008)...You get extreme history of wrestling AND how eventually Flair got fucked by WCW and helped by WWF...

[Maestrohbill]

I see. You get the 'true' story about the WWF from, uh, the WWF? I'm guessing using that logic we could get the truth about Monica Lewinsky by asking Bill Clinton, right?

[Evilution316]

Wooooooooooo!!! When he gets serious and real for a few moments no one can Touch the Nature Boy on the Stick.. Wooooooooooooo!!!

[Kenedamick]

Ric Flair is the quite simply the greatest athlete of all time.

[Dfuq1]

I got something 2 say.WCW is my all time favorite.WCW was the better in the 80's.When Ted Turner took over as owner the shit went bad.They had the stars but didn't know how to use them.Plus they used same old story lines .WCW had the stars first like Austin,Triple H,Jerrico,Booker T,Eddie Gurrero,Benoit,and ect. Those guy were the ones that headlined the company.The NWO angle about killed the WWE.I wished it would had just kept the war going and both companies still had the Monday night war!

[Maestrohbill]

The Crockett NWA of the 1980s was the best wrestling I ever saw - well, except for Bill Watts' UWF, and it didn't last. Crockett put good matches on TV while Vince had jobber matches.

That said - Vince is a great marketer. Flair is right in noting that Vince created characters and not wrestlers. I always felt the WWF was little more than a cartoon with a flimsy champ who was a good talker, Hogan. Flair could actually make you think Jim Powers could win the title.

[boneplayer032003]

yeah will wcw didn't do that either with the young guys your taking santana,rhodes and piper themselves your heard from there own words they didn't need a title they too popular at least they made they mark and they already in the hall of fame you need to be a wwe champion to be a big star i just have wrestle the best and big feuds. as the WWE being punked to me who cares about the WOrld Wildlife fund WWE is entertainment anyway i don't why you hate WWE so much.

[boneplayer032003]

screw what you say i rather be with WWE then WCW who cares if Vince Mcmahon had his favorites he made everyone past or present a WWE champion i name all if have to Hogan,Warrior,Savage,HBK,Hart,­Austin,Rock,Triple H,Angle,Jericho,Benoit,Guerrer­o,Sid,Taker,Flair,RVD,Edge,Cen­a,Orton,Batista,JBL,Yokozuna,S­How,Foley,Lesnar,Slaugher, and now CM punk. your take those words of EMbarrasment and shave it WCW Kiss ass.

[boneplayer032003]

circus your ass WCW was like jungle total out of control no direction and don't know how to produce a wrestling show even bobby heenan said once his six worst years there were terrible. WCW known world crybaby Wrestlers.

[boneplayer032003]

that's politcs because NWA was always On Dusty, Flair and the horsemen along with Sting. in WWE it was all about opporunitys you the know in WCW they give it the ones were WWE champions and were main eventers. WCW young guys came to WWE and became big stars from Austin,Triple H,Foley,Jericho,Guerrero,Myste­rio,Benoit,

[boneplayer032003]

it does need to be NWA was nothing more no brianer Wrestling Assholes. WWE do need to be NWA WWE it's to be WWE what they ever at least there direction better because of VINCe Mcmahon. Look NWA to WCW they so many president and they all be fired,Jim Herd,kay allen Fried,Bill Watts,Ole Anderson,Eric Bichoff,and Vince Russo. WWE was only run by VInce Mcmahon Mcmahon was one man ship all by himself against one company with lots of millions dollars defeat them.

[MJH281]

You can call WWE all the names you want. But it had something the NWA never had -- A guy in charge who knew the business and didn't make any big mistakes. Also, how does a company actually make wrestlers feel terrible about wrestling?? Because that is all I have heard from any wrestler who worked there.

[mkl62]

Well, I believe another thing concerning Dusty was that the fans were tiring of seeing him against Flair all the time. Even though he didn't invent it, he fell in love with what is known as the Dusty finish. That diminished Flair's worth as champion in a lot of people's eyes. I remember it being used for the first time at Starcade 85. I also saw it in a match between Sting and Lex Luger in Jan. 1990 when Dusty was in WWE. So Herd used it himself some, too.

[mkl62]

In 1991, Dusty came back to Atlanta at the behest of Jim Herd. He came up with The Desperado's & also turned Kevin Nash into Oz. He wanted Flair to cut his hair & turn face. He wouldn't, so Dusty paired him with El Gigante. Afterwards, a disgusted Flair left for WWE, along with the WCW World's belt. Needless to say, Jim Herd was gone not long after.

[mankind2112]

Yeah, I like to refer to it as Worlds Worst Entertainment - either or will work for me.

[mkl62]

Dusty Rhodes messed Jim Crockett up. He had to keep pulling a John Wayne, always coming back from the dead. The #1 example: The 1987 Bunkhouse Stampede. He did not win any until the final wild card. Then, he penciled himself in as the winner at the pay-per-view in Long Island, N.Y. The other wrestlers (like Tully Blanchard) were getting fed up with Dusty for doing things like that. I hold him responsible for the NWA's demise, not so much Eric Bischoff or Ted Turner.

[yourfansy]

the greatest champion in the world the nature boy wooooooo ric fourhorsemen flair

[T74G]

DOES ANYONE HAVE FOOTAGE OF JIM CROCKETT'S PRESENTATION OF THE "BIG GOLD"...AFTER WCW TOOK OVER THE PROMOTION?? HE PRESENTED IT TO RIC FLAIR, AND TOOK BACK THE "10LBS OF GOLD"..I REMEMBER SEEING IT WHEN I WAS YOUNG IN THE 80's AND HAVE'NT FOUND FOOTAGE OF IT YET!!

ANYONE GOT ANY FOOTAGE...PLEASE POST!!!

[Sener]

Flair always had the tits.

[miggy25]

Flair had to be the best interview EVER (sorry Hulk)...this is why the NWA was the best in my book...and I agree the WWF/E now is nothing more than a circus filled with terrible dialogue and wannabe daytime drama

[SpaceMtFlair]

Bishoff's piss poor booking was the downfall of wcw. He started winning in the ratings and he just got lazy. If the booking would have stayed strong they would have put the wwf out of buisness. AOL would have had no choice but to keep them going. Their revenues would have been through the roof. Instead the power drunk, lazy bish allowed himslef to be dazzeled by Hogan and the rest is history.

[kuksoolwon]

Vince or Turner didn't kill NWa.Wcw it was Aol Time Warner.Vince or Bischoff had no control over storylines or anything.If you read his book or interviews.

[Crusader7077]

Ah, the good ol' days. Here's the part that I don't get. Considering that there's a loyal old school wrestling fan following that subscribes to WWE 24/7 to see the old stuff, it's beyond me why an effort hasn't been made to develop a wrestling product nowadays that is similar in style (either by Big Vinnie or anyone else).

[widwag]

i just suscribed to wwe 24/7 for the old school matches. . . mainly because of how retro they are. u can't relive those days. the 80's hair is the best LOL

[rudedog4b]

Well said. New Japan and All-Japan are awesome. None of the back stage story-crap that is the norm of today.

[rudedog4b]

Right on!

[fearlessdave72]

King of trash talk

[CadillacL]

I agree Vince, Turner & Bichoff killed wrestling

[chaldodon]

RIC FLAIR PRO WRESTLING LEGEND

[ctw95]

this was broadcast on august 7, 1982. this is so cool.

[rudedog4b]

Thank you.

[speedbuggy]

Crockett didn't destroy wrestling, it was still good when he was in charge of the NWA. Turner & Vince destroyed wrestling.

[ed2kou1]

Damm this is crazy, Flair bad mouthing Crockett, in the late 80's he had the Nwa! Flair and everyone was there! Crockett and Turner, destroyed wrestling, along with Bitchoff, and Vince!!