Guy was living the life. We went to the Great American Bash in 86. Not sure if it was planned or not, but my friend’s mother got us a room in the hotel that all the wrestler’s were staying at that night. The R&R Express was 2 doors down from us. Anyway, we get back from the Bash and my buddy and I are hanging out in the hotel lobby and the wrestlers are all down there coming in from the event. Long story short, Flair comes out of the hotel bar yelling, “whooooo”! Had a chic under each arm. Lol! No joke.
to be honest, it is a standard that holds some merit. the guys who werent drinking and partying were usually the guys that happened to be bad for business, like lex lugar or ultimate warrior
What is limited in wrestling? Someone who does 3 moves? At the end of the day, as a wrestler, you want to have a good match, but what is a good match? A match with about 10,000 spots with a roll up finish that gets no reaction at the end because the crowd are exhausted? Or a match with an awesome story which had the crowd sitting on the edge of their seats and a massive reaction at the end, but maybe one or two high spots that makes sense? Flair was a master at getting the crowd to react.
I think Flair definitely has a 12-15 minute match in his back pocket whenever he wants, but there are the Steamboat matches, some work with Piper, Sting...that are different, and that he deserves credit for.
anyone who can wrestle and win a world championship with a broken back like flair did deserves respect, vidflesh....the man is a true hard worker in an era right now, where everyone is afraid of breaking a nail....so do everyone a favor and get a life
Wahoo had a gimmick that was well wore out- the cowboy with the boots and the bell. If he had a little more imagination it might have been" The Macho Man Mc Daniels!" Little things mean a lot.
Watch Flair vs Steamboat at Music City Showdown in Nashville from the late spring of 1989, watch Flair wrestle Harley Race at the first Starrcade from 1983, and watch Flair vs. Terry Funk from the fall of 1989 in Troy, New York on The Clash Of Champions where they had their "I Quit Match" and then tell me it's the same match all 3 times. BTW, he was famous for being a "60 minute man" but none of those three matches is a sixty minute match even though he wrestled many, many 60 minute matches.
Yeah I'm 5 years late on this one but Ric Flair is the 60 Minute Man. I seen him wrestle for 50 55 minutes and a whole show for that night that he did was for 60 minutes. You can say what you want but there is no wrestler today that can do with Ric Flair did so put that in your pipe and smoke it
Ric Flair is the greatest wrestler of all time. He had to work with a simple worf rame to make all the mediocre talent around him good. The matches with Rick Martel, Ricky Steamboat, Jack Veneno, Ron Garvin, and Carlos Colon, pure classics. The second best I saw, was Dory Funk Jr. Brett Heart was great as Tag team. Bruno Sammartino is on coach seat with Brett Heart.
Most of the "fans" like him, the main people who hate him are guys jealous because their girlfriends like him, and wannabe smarks who boo him because it was the cool thing to do 3 years ago.
He does bring up a very valid point, Cena is not the best worker but the guys a great performer. The same thing can be said of Hogan too. That's what just drives me nuts about most of us marks, most of us don't get that. lol
Flair talks very well about Wrestling, You can tell he really knows his stuff. Not sure I agree with him on Cena but he makes a fair point. Bearing in mind this was 2008 I'd add Jericho to that list as an old school heel who could also have great matches. And though he was in TNA at that point I think Angle deserves to be talked about in that league. Maybe Kane too. I think WWE or someone should do a a DVD release on Wahoo McDaniel. I've not seen much of his stuff but always hear good things. Cornette was a big fan too.
Ric Flair must of wanted to keep the wwe door open saying cena's unselfish. As a person cena seems nice but the guys never puts over anyone clean and you can be sure he playing politics to be at the top for as long as he has.
The Rock beat him clean Wm 28, Daniel bryan beat him clean at summer slam 2013 Brock lesnar has busted him open on multiple occasions in 2014 as clean as i have ever seen Brock made him look like a jobber.
Im currently watching Monday Nitro from the first episode im on Nitro 38 now. Hes 47, wrestling every monday and PPV's each month and putting on amazing matches. Its unbelievable the bumps he takes too.
Don't get me wrong, i respect the hell out of Ric. I read his biography a few years back, very eventful life. I was just commenting on the black eye mainly.
Ric is so humble, who would have thought? I will always miss the coked out 80's interviews or more like rants. woooooooooooo!!!!!! Buy your N.C Ric Flair five dollar scratch offs!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
is there more deleted stuff?? I mean I have this shoot but I can't get enough! The dvds are like 3 hours each but I still feel like they barely scratched the surface. He must have so many stories.
he lives up to his name, hope he will hop by wwe someday to see the growth of the new gen, and oso mentor dem backstage hahas, WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Ten years ago I would've said you're so right, he's not getting the reaction he's supposed to get. But, welcome to the 21st century kiddos. We are LONG passed the days of "heel" or "face". You can blame Austin and other "tweeners" for that and I for one am grateful. We live in a world where MARKS mean money, but SMARKS mean improving the quality of the product, which means MORE money. Cena gets a reaction, that's all he needs to do. "BOO" or "CHEER", it's a reaction and a that means money.
Its the 4 disc one I have, but it's still not enough, Ha. yeah I agree he hols back about some things but there were so many subjects for him to talk about. Oh and what did he say about Owen?
I love Cena. I wish he'd actually sell a move once in a while but he's got a certain charisma to him you find hard to replicate, especially in this day and age. Though he's no Rock, he oozes charisma. As for Flair. I love the guy to bits and there's no denying what he's done for the business, but I wish he'd retire now. Its getting painful seeing him tear himself up in the ring and I worry he's going to push past his limit. Awesome interview
@Shoooooooo81 If Flair were still wrestling right now, then I would agree with you. The established, old, respected guys of the industry are still valuable to the product at 60 years old so long as they're used properly. There is no greater endorsement to a young wrestler(from a spectator's perspective) than to have one of the big dogs in the industry at his corner. That's what the old guys should be used for.
All Flair cares about is if guys go out and drink and party. If they don't do that, Flair doesn't think they care about the business. Cena is solid, I think the problem that most fans have with him is that his character has not changed one bit in like 5 years or so now. It needs to change.
Flair was a great wrestler. His problem was he didn't know when to let go and quit wrestling. He wrestled until he was 63 years. As he quit wrestling for WWE.com at age 62. And then wrestled for a few for TNA wrestling and then quit permantly from wrestling. I think we can all say Rick Flair was one of the best wrestlers around. And that there are others just as good as Rick Flair was including Bret Hart etc.
Ok bud we get the point. I personally believe Savage was a better performer than Hogan also, but Hogan is and always will be a legend in wrestling, like it or not. I've made my point, you've made yours.
@RSXemperor WWE now reminds me of the the WWF in the mid-90s where the talent pool was really low. Where the "big draws" back then would of been mid carders in any other era.
@MrWrestlingGuy2010 exactly, and alot of people loved cena when he came around in 02-05 when he had his rapper gimmick, he was cool and had great feuds with the undertaker and what not. now its the whole super human never give up gimmick for the kids that really sucks.
@SovereignStatesman A lot of wrestlers have had hard times, but there hasn't been anyone who has risen as high and then fallen as low as Flair. If anything, young wrestlers will see his story and start saving their money and making good business decisions.
If you're popular, you draw. Not like sting, muta, hbk, taker, etc. But when it came to hyped tag team matches. They were there with the best. Michigan letter men jackets, Rick's bark, and wrestling gear. Steiners savvy, and sick finisher. They were beyond memorable. I think it's a shame that not one day in the see able future will they be up for HOF. Ego's in the WWE will sadly overlook them. But, I could be wrong.
Good point. But its very speculative to say that even a popular mid-card talent ever draws money. To say that you draw money is to say people buy PPVs or tune in weekly specifically to see you. It doesn't mean that they just keep their TVs on when you are on, else a lot of people do. Few tag teams have ever been major draws outside of gimmick matches. Now, Steiners were big names, that's why they were paid money by promotions in Japan. But to say they ever really drew is, i think, wrong.
True, Flair always holds back, and I think it's because no matter how good or bad things go, he protects the business. But when he shuts off the Nature Boy persona, he gets erratic. His wildly stupid attacks on Hart and Foley come both from loyalty to the psychopath McMahon and professional jealousy. You'd think he'd be secure enough in his own legend, but no way. Company man.
Bret was great but let's stop pretending he had all these different matches and Flair didn't. Ric, Bret and every other wrestler had moves and spots they liked and used in nearly every match. It's not a coincidence that the same people who make that criticism never were in the same position as Flair but the ones who were (Race, Steamboat) are his biggest fans.
just curious, because of the untimely incident that Ric was in where he recieved the black eye, was it ever considered to rescedual the shoot date of this interview, untill the eye cleared up?
@SovereignStatesman Absolutely. I think that even the different wrestling organizations are trying to help their wrestlers by telling them to not go out and buy four cars and to save the majority of their money instead.
MRobert 21. I agree with you only on the aspect that, if this were the 70's or 80's, Cena might fair well. However, wrestling is not only a joke today, but Cena doesn't even try to wrestle. As long as kids buy his junk, that's all he cares. In the old days, he would have to perform much better.
I've met Flair several times. Always gracious to the fans.
Guy was living the life.
We went to the Great American Bash in 86. Not sure if it was planned or not, but my friend’s mother got us a room in the hotel that all the wrestler’s were staying at that night. The R&R Express was 2 doors down from us.
Anyway, we get back from the Bash and my buddy and I are hanging out in the hotel lobby and the wrestlers are all down there coming in from the event. Long story short, Flair comes out of the hotel bar yelling, “whooooo”!
Had a chic under each arm. Lol! No joke.
It's facinating listening to flair a guy who wrestled for 38 years. Flair got over by putting guys over, best there was at wrestling psychology
Flair's measure of a good guy is someone who can drink and party.
to be honest, it is a standard that holds some merit. the guys who werent drinking and partying were usually the guys that happened to be bad for business, like lex lugar or ultimate warrior
@@captainthrall But not all Jerry Lawler, Sting, etc.
he puts over luger saying he was the physique guy; luger did party just didn't start that way. it was the way the business was then but it changed.
Lol I picked up on that too
captainthrall true. Henmig,rude a lot of top top greats ran the bars. Harley Race sure did so did Dusty
I love Ric Flair, he's one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all-time. For those of you that don't know, this is Ric's first shoot interview.
What is limited in wrestling? Someone who does 3 moves?
At the end of the day, as a wrestler, you want to have a good match, but what is a good match? A match with about 10,000 spots with a roll up finish that gets no reaction at the end because the crowd are exhausted?
Or a match with an awesome story which had the crowd sitting on the edge of their seats and a massive reaction at the end, but maybe one or two high spots that makes sense?
Flair was a master at getting the crowd to react.
It makes me so happy to know that there are wrestling fans like you out there who actually understand and love wrestling to see that.
You don't have to second-guess yourself Ric even in the 90s you were still the man..... Woooooo
I think Flair definitely has a 12-15 minute match in his back pocket whenever he wants, but there are the Steamboat matches, some work with Piper, Sting...that are different, and that he deserves credit for.
anyone who can wrestle and win a world championship with a broken back like flair did deserves respect, vidflesh....the man is a true hard worker in an era right now, where everyone is afraid of breaking a nail....so do everyone a favor and get a life
Angle too!
It's nice to see a good, positive interview. Thanks.
Royal Rumble 92.. when Flair won.. we celebrated for weeks!! We were so high.. 12 year old kids we were.. that was epic!! Flair is the best!!
Guess Who? Wahoo! Wahoo McDaniel. Thanks, Ric - he was one helluva football player
Respect guys, Flair made a career out of making other wrestlers look good.
You might want to hear what the “other guys” say about that.
Wahoo was an incredible person /athlete. Would run a marathon at the drop of a hat to win a bet. A legit tough guy who did so much for wrestling.
Wahoo had a gimmick that was well wore out- the cowboy with the boots and the bell. If he had a little more imagination it might have been" The Macho Man Mc Daniels!" Little things mean a lot.
Flair is one of the very few wrestlers I've seen actually tell the truth about Cena's "abilities".
You got that right. I got a chance to meet him back in the late 70's...
Flair definitely has a lot of class
Watch Flair vs Steamboat at Music City Showdown in Nashville from the late spring of 1989, watch Flair wrestle Harley Race at the first Starrcade from 1983, and watch Flair vs. Terry Funk from the fall of 1989 in Troy, New York on The Clash Of Champions where they had their "I Quit Match" and then tell me it's the same match all 3 times. BTW, he was famous for being a "60 minute man" but none of those three matches is a sixty minute match even though he wrestled many, many 60 minute matches.
Yeah I'm 5 years late on this one but Ric Flair is the 60 Minute Man. I seen him wrestle for 50 55 minutes and a whole show for that night that he did was for 60 minutes. You can say what you want but there is no wrestler today that can do with Ric Flair did so put that in your pipe and smoke it
Fantastic. I will be buying this no questions asked.
You can hear Cena loudly calling spots in the ring lol
he lost me at Texas Titans
@frank bonini they were actually the Dallas Texans. The Jets used to be the New York Titans.
Awesome interview we love you nature boy God bless you, still climbing space mountain wooo
Ric Flair a Wrestling God; I'm such a mark for this dude....
What a legend! Love this guy
Ric Flair is the greatest wrestler of all time. He had to work with a simple worf rame to make all the mediocre talent around him good. The matches with Rick Martel, Ricky Steamboat, Jack Veneno, Ron Garvin, and Carlos Colon, pure classics. The second best I saw, was Dory Funk Jr. Brett Heart was great as Tag team. Bruno Sammartino is on coach seat with Brett Heart.
hiram garcia ... simple worf rame...”
What does that even mean?
It's clearly not dead. Is it as big as it was in the late 90s?! No. But obviously the business is still going, and will continue to go.
When Flair talks i listen.
wow i cant believe he has done a sit down interview awesome
THE NATURE BOY WOOO HE'S ON FIRE LOL
Yes he is LOL
Cena could never be a technical wrestler even if he wanted to be... he is nothing special at all.
If there were a Mt. Rushmore of wrestling, the Nature Boy Rick Flair would sit front and center.
Actually this footage will not be on any of the four DVDs. We got that much great footage.
Wahoo McDaniel was a specimen of a man!
Most of the "fans" like him, the main people who hate him are guys jealous because their girlfriends like him, and wannabe smarks who boo him because it was the cool thing to do 3 years ago.
He does bring up a very valid point, Cena is not the best worker but the guys a great performer. The same thing can be said of Hogan too. That's what just drives me nuts about most of us marks, most of us don't get that. lol
@mrslash11 - My Ric Flair had an awesome match in the tokyo dome with Tatsumi Fujinami !
Yup. Flair knew how to build a match. Flair and Dusty fights were the fights of legend.
I already pre ordered this. I can't wait
This has to be the biggest shoot interview ever
Shawn was in the AWA long before WWE, the Undertaker was Mean Mark in the NWA, Triple H was in the Pacific Coast for a bit.
John cena's matches with Shawn are phenomenal
Flair talks very well about Wrestling, You can tell he really knows his stuff. Not sure I agree with him on Cena but he makes a fair point. Bearing in mind this was 2008 I'd add Jericho to that list as an old school heel who could also have great matches. And though he was in TNA at that point I think Angle deserves to be talked about in that league. Maybe Kane too.
I think WWE or someone should do a a DVD release on Wahoo McDaniel. I've not seen much of his stuff but always hear good things. Cornette was a big fan too.
Yea it was Highspots
Ric Flair must of wanted to keep the wwe door open saying cena's unselfish. As a person cena seems nice but the guys never puts over anyone clean and you can be sure he playing politics to be at the top for as long as he has.
Well if they put daniel bryan in his position he would smash cena in merchandise etc..
The Rock beat him clean Wm 28, Daniel bryan beat him clean at summer slam 2013 Brock lesnar has busted him open on multiple occasions in 2014 as clean as i have ever seen Brock made him look like a jobber.
Rick Flair was the greatest wrestler of all time. Really respected among his peers
Im currently watching Monday Nitro from the first episode im on Nitro 38 now. Hes 47, wrestling every monday and PPV's each month and putting on amazing matches. Its unbelievable the bumps he takes too.
CREEPOFREEK *Ric
Ric one of the best ever.
Recently I've been looking for segments where Ric talks about the von erichs, WCCW, Texas. Can't seem to find anything about his times there
He, wasen't beaten up he got in a fight. He, gave as good as he got. WOOOO
Flair was beaten up a week before the interview.
Don't get me wrong, i respect the hell out of Ric. I read his biography a few years back, very eventful life. I was just commenting on the black eye mainly.
Woooo!!! enough said
Ric is so humble, who would have thought? I will always miss the coked out 80's interviews or more like rants. woooooooooooo!!!!!! Buy your N.C Ric Flair five dollar scratch offs!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
is there more deleted stuff?? I mean I have this shoot but I can't get enough! The dvds are like 3 hours each but I still feel like they barely scratched the surface. He must have so many stories.
@DoctorDelaware
Lucky! I've only met him once, but I felt very fortunate for that opportunity.
he lives up to his name, hope he will hop by wwe someday to see the growth of the new gen, and oso mentor dem backstage hahas, WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Ten years ago I would've said you're so right, he's not getting the reaction he's supposed to get. But, welcome to the 21st century kiddos. We are LONG passed the days of "heel" or "face". You can blame Austin and other "tweeners" for that and I for one am grateful. We live in a world where MARKS mean money, but SMARKS mean improving the quality of the product, which means MORE money. Cena gets a reaction, that's all he needs to do. "BOO" or "CHEER", it's a reaction and a that means money.
Its the 4 disc one I have, but it's still not enough, Ha. yeah I agree he hols back about some things but there were so many subjects for him to talk about.
Oh and what did he say about Owen?
Sure there were other good wrestlers but hogan and flair took it to a different level!!
Austin was a fantastic technical wrestler before he had the pile driver incident with Owen Hart.
Sorry, I meant successful "work", not shoot.
To promote this video if you change the title to include Wahoo Cena you would have way more views....
I love Cena. I wish he'd actually sell a move once in a while but he's got a certain charisma to him you find hard to replicate, especially in this day and age. Though he's no Rock, he oozes charisma.
As for Flair. I love the guy to bits and there's no denying what he's done for the business, but I wish he'd retire now. Its getting painful seeing him tear himself up in the ring and I worry he's going to push past his limit.
Awesome interview
Ric Flair FTW WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
I don't think it will be cut, it will be under special features or soemthing like that.
@Shoooooooo81 If Flair were still wrestling right now, then I would agree with you. The established, old, respected guys of the industry are still valuable to the product at 60 years old so long as they're used properly. There is no greater endorsement to a young wrestler(from a spectator's perspective) than to have one of the big dogs in the industry at his corner. That's what the old guys should be used for.
Flair Aged Horribly.
All Flair cares about is if guys go out and drink and party. If they don't do that, Flair doesn't think they care about the business. Cena is solid, I think the problem that most fans have with him is that his character has not changed one bit in like 5 years or so now. It needs to change.
Flair seems to always find the best in other wrestlers... even when he criticizes them, he's still sure to point out their strengths as well.
Flair was a great wrestler. His problem was he didn't know when to let go and quit wrestling. He wrestled until he was 63 years. As he quit wrestling for WWE.com at age 62. And then wrestled for a few for TNA wrestling and then quit permantly from wrestling. I think we can all say Rick Flair was one of the best wrestlers around. And that there are others just as good as Rick Flair was including Bret Hart etc.
Ok bud we get the point. I personally believe Savage was a better performer than Hogan also, but Hogan is and always will be a legend in wrestling, like it or not. I've made my point, you've made yours.
Ric's black eye is the result of losing a fight to his daughter's boyfriend.
+jakethemuss3 legit?
Bale4Bond Yep, totally.
jakethemuss3 how would U know ???
David Lishin the news paper, the mark sheets, do a search.
I think I'll will too. I just hate when he puts his hand in the air and goes " you can't see me!".
@RSXemperor WWE now reminds me of the the WWF in the mid-90s where the talent pool was really low. Where the "big draws" back then would of been mid carders in any other era.
@MrWrestlingGuy2010 exactly, and alot of people loved cena when he came around in 02-05 when he had his rapper gimmick, he was cool and had great feuds with the undertaker and what not. now its the whole super human never give up gimmick for the kids that really sucks.
@SovereignStatesman A lot of wrestlers have had hard times, but there hasn't been anyone who has risen as high and then fallen as low as Flair. If anything, young wrestlers will see his story and start saving their money and making good business decisions.
Give this man a gold metal....he gets it.
James R *medal
What about Raven?!
I love ric flair
If you're popular, you draw. Not like sting, muta, hbk, taker, etc. But when it came to hyped tag team matches. They were there with the best. Michigan letter men jackets, Rick's bark, and wrestling gear. Steiners savvy, and sick finisher. They were beyond memorable. I think it's a shame that not one day in the see able future will they be up for HOF. Ego's in the WWE will sadly overlook them. But, I could be wrong.
Good point. But its very speculative to say that even a popular mid-card talent ever draws money. To say that you draw money is to say people buy PPVs or tune in weekly specifically to see you. It doesn't mean that they just keep their TVs on when you are on, else a lot of people do. Few tag teams have ever been major draws outside of gimmick matches. Now, Steiners were big names, that's why they were paid money by promotions in Japan. But to say they ever really drew is, i think, wrong.
he's well,,,uh uh uh,,,he's very well spoken
@RSXemperor
Flair is right about Cena.Honestly WWE doesn't have that "star" that can draw big like the guys back in 70's,80's& 90's
True, Flair always holds back, and I think it's because no matter how good or bad things go, he protects the business. But when he shuts off the Nature Boy persona, he gets erratic. His wildly stupid attacks on Hart and Foley come both from loyalty to the psychopath McMahon and professional jealousy. You'd think he'd be secure enough in his own legend, but no way. Company man.
@ShaneSites LOL! You called me a scrub! Oh man,THAT was funny. Hey,if you are a Cena mark that's your thing. I didn't mean to upset you.
Got to love Rick Flair! Just an Awesome Person!
If I am not mistaken I think he was referring to his wife at the time.
Bret was great but let's stop pretending he had all these different matches and Flair didn't. Ric, Bret and every other wrestler had moves and spots they liked and used in nearly every match.
It's not a coincidence that the same people who make that criticism never were in the same position as Flair but the ones who were (Race, Steamboat) are his biggest fans.
just curious, because of the untimely incident that Ric was in where he recieved the black eye, was it ever considered to rescedual the shoot date of this interview, untill the eye cleared up?
Good to see Dusty Roads again.
Luger paid his dues unlike some
I agree but I think flair is a much better showman and no one can cut a promo like ric flair!!
EVEN Flair respects Cena.That shows the difference of FANS and wrestlers opinions of themselves
RIC FLAIR WOOOOOOOOOOOOO
@SovereignStatesman Absolutely. I think that even the different wrestling organizations are trying to help their wrestlers by telling them to not go out and buy four cars and to save the majority of their money instead.
whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo from el paso!
coachrickross *woooooooooooooooooo
MRobert 21. I agree with you only on the aspect that, if this were the 70's or 80's, Cena might fair well. However, wrestling is not only a joke today, but Cena doesn't even try to wrestle. As long as kids buy his junk, that's all he cares. In the old days, he would have to perform much better.
did he slip up around the 7:25 mark and refer to 'Taker by his real name? :)
u r right
Yep, because Chi Town Rumble is exactly like his I Quit with Funk.
6:50 xD!!!!!
I can only imagine the 1970s
When flair was at his peak !!!