Flair could have just cut a promo on Atlas, made him look and feel like a jabroni, and left it at that. No, he knew how to push The Hulk's buttons. His job was building Tony up, make him look like he was afraid to get in the ring with him, and build his own heel heat. They both played their parts beautifully. Brilliantly done.
Man, none of the promotions could generate heat like the TBS WCW show in the late 70's to mid 80's. That small but vociferous crowd really put a different dynamic to it.
There's something more intimate about studio wrestling that I love. I think it makes the talent rely on their actual talent to get over. Wish I could take a time machine back to the 80s.
Tony Atlas was like the George Foreman of pro wrestling. Smiling and polite old-school babyface. Not often you seen him in these types of promos. GCW was the gem of the territories back in the early 80's.
@@gianlukkAlthough it was called "World Championship Wrestling," it was the name of the airtime, until Ted Turner bought it and turned the name into a company. This was still pretty much GCW then.✌🏾😄
@@bobdole7292 650 to be exact. He could military press 500. He's why no one came near Brody after Brody was stabbed and the entire island of PR was terrified of him. This dude could toss a hotel refrigerator at someone as if it were a cardboard box..and he did once whn someone tried to rob him.....the fridge stuck in the hotel room door.... He was freakishly strong and also a championship boxer. Tony Atlas was a forreal legit badass in his prime.
@@treeherder2201 Tony Atlas was not a trained championship boxer he was a bodybuilder , Power lifter, look it up, no history of fighting professionally as a boxer.
Now that was what you called a sell! Those types of promos that Ric Flair and Tony Atlas displayed would put wrestling fans in the seats for upcoming events back in the day.
Tony's reaction is just priceless, as well as Naitch's promo. Ric was the best at putting himself and his opponents over at the same time while pissing 'em off. 😂😂
@@germainejohnson5010 STFU with your BS racist accusations. If Flair were racist, why would he have a scene in which he is slapped by a Black man? You do realize this is setup in advance and Flair agreed to it? Dumbass.
tony atlas wrestled all-over and he had a match in one of the local high schools in monroe, nj...he worked out in the high school gym just prior to his match that evening..i was there and have yet to meet a nicer, more humble person then MR. USA...he was a class act and still is to this day...all us kids sat around and watched him train a bit and couldn't believe our eyes as to how big he was and cool he was all at the same time :)
Legend has it Tony Atlas was getting it on with Miss Elizabeth and Randy Savage caught them in the act but Randy did nothing because he was afraid of getting his butt kicked by Atlas.
Gordon Solie was the best broadcaster ever. I can remember going to elementary school and talking about this the whole day and after school too lol lol
@1:31 the fact that flair got away with him calling him boy...could never be done today and yet, that was fantastic. I mean it wasn't ok then, but the fact that he did it to get Atlas (who wasn't all that great on the mic) to get him to look at him with THAT look was classic. It didn't help that instead of stepping up to Flair, he kept backing up made the boy comments even more hilarious. All that was done to build the heat to a Flair v Atlas match and you know what? I want to see the match. Now THAT is how you promo a match!
Lol they had such good respect for each other lol.. he slapped flair as soft and gentle as a woman...lol these guys were great.. so glad they are still alive and doing great interviews!...
Yep, and it was soo much fun !!! People didn't take themselves soo seriously and people could poke fun at themselves!! Things weren't a bed of roses but it was more fun and there was more freedom!!! These woke a-holes don't like anyone !!! This country is in real trouble!!! 😢
Please post more, this kind of stuff made me a wrestling fan! Nothing beats classic wrestling, and there's no better then Flair! WOOOO Thanks So much!!
two things that made me ROFL 1- tony's face when Flair "Said.. look at me boy I'm talking to you" 2- Tony's failed attempt to hit Flair throwing his shirt which hit the ropes
Ric Flair was truly one of the best ever in pro wrestling history when selling his heel promos. He was so good at generating heat with the fans and he was so good st making u hate him and his egotistic character. Loved Tony Atlas as well. Good ol days of rasslin!
@@tenfourproductionsllc Hogan also called Atlas,"this brown clown". Wow, even back then, Hogan was a racist.
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Flair is free to take his white ass back to Scotland or Germany or wherever his folks migrated here from... He always has that option to return home to be with his peoples. Atlas is Indigenous to this land.
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@Lewis 970 Let me analyze your statement. It's not a fair comparison because "Africa is a continent comprised of many countries but Germany is just one country in the Continent of Europe"? You just made me dizzy in thought..
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@Lewis 970 Dude, there are Negroid people (dark skin/woolly hair) all over this planet that are not African...For instance Vanuatu, Fiji. The Solomon Islands, Melanesia, Guatemala, South Carolina, Georgia, Massachusetts, Mexico, Chile, Hawaii, etc.etc.etc. Are you going to attribute our presence globally to European warfare, when these people's presence in these places go back , some 30,000 years and further? Also Europe is *NOT* a continent. It is actually the Subcontinent of EURASIA, which includes China and Russia...The separation of Europe and Asia is merely a false social construct....Due to false media propaganda, most people are tricked into believing that the recessive Caucasian species of human beast is the global majority when the truth is that this mutated being is only 9% of the total global population....The red headed stepchild of the planet and quickly losing the ability to reproduce...
Good old days I miss those classic wrestling moments where the Challenger and the chapel barking at each other you hear the people in the crowd cheering and Gordon Solie is right in the middle what a great feeling it was back in the day
I love the "fake mad as hell" overacting by Atlas, the bulging eyes, the clenched fists. LOL. But Thunderbolt Patterson was the master of the "Fake Mad" because he would add that element into his talking.... He would splutter and stammer and try to put sentences together, but he was SO MAD, the words just wouldn't come out.
I actually saw Ric flair and Tony Atlas wrestle at the Base gym at Seymour Johnson AFB must of been 79 or 80.I got to shake Tony Atlas's hand and he has some mits for hands.
Classic promos! Even in the act, you can see the respect both men had for each other! If a white guy even think about calling a black guy a boy today the show would've been cancelled! Sad day we live in, and I'm black btw!
Flair could have just cut a promo on Atlas, made him look and feel like a jabroni, and left it at that. No, he knew how to push The Hulk's buttons. His job was building Tony up, make him look like he was afraid to get in the ring with him, and build his own heel heat. They both played their parts beautifully. Brilliantly done.
Man, none of the promotions could generate heat like the TBS WCW show in the late 70's to mid 80's. That small but vociferous crowd really put a different dynamic to it.
Facts!
More emotion in this one segment than the past 20 years of wrestling combined.
And to think, wrestling was chuck full of stuff like this back then.
Flair saying honky shirt was priceless.
😭🤦♀️
Listen to me boy im talking to you lol HEAT
we know the real slur
I miss this era so much.... classic
There's something more intimate about studio wrestling that I love. I think it makes the talent rely on their actual talent to get over. Wish I could take a time machine back to the 80s.
bLuDcLoT06 Take a lap fuckface.
Oliver Reynolds go watch TNA live its filmed in a studio weekly
Wrestlers were allowed to invent themselves back in those days. Now they read from a script, that some Back office..."scholar" typed up. It's a joke
Me too bro.It always felt like a family squabble being hashed out each week.Thank you guys
It's 2020... Be careful what you wish for... wow, who would have thought that we'd be in this mess.
Tony Atlas was like the George Foreman of pro wrestling. Smiling and polite old-school babyface. Not often you seen him in these types of promos. GCW was the gem of the territories back in the early 80's.
it's wcw
@@gianlukkAlthough it was called "World Championship Wrestling," it was the name of the airtime, until Ted Turner bought it and turned the name into a company.
This was still pretty much GCW then.✌🏾😄
I agree with you. Tony atlas wasn't afraid of no one he would take the person to the limit
Tony Atlas knew how to sell the drama. I actually forgot how intense he was in promos.
@@bobdole7292 650 to be exact. He could military press 500. He's why no one came near Brody after Brody was stabbed and the entire island of PR was terrified of him. This dude could toss a hotel refrigerator at someone as if it were a cardboard box..and he did once whn someone tried to rob him.....the fridge stuck in the hotel room door.... He was freakishly strong and also a championship boxer. Tony Atlas was a forreal legit badass in his prime.
@@treeherder2201 All that and he controls his emotions, no fear, no anger.
Atlas looked great, but he totally sucked on the mic.
hair grease
@@treeherder2201 Tony Atlas was not a trained championship boxer he was a bodybuilder , Power lifter, look it up, no history of fighting professionally as a boxer.
Ric Flair is one of the absolute greatest ever when it comes to work behind a microphone. Dusty Rhodes was also great.
And Tony Atlas’,physique...wow.
Arn Anderson was superior on the mic
1:46 tony's face after flair says "Listen to me I'm talking to you boy" LOL
Tony in real life had a bad temper..when he got truly angry other wrestlers would head for the hills. That's a fact.
These days were so cheezy! It was classic! I'm 52 now..I remember these days!
Nicky Depaola Yup, back then wrestling was the joint. Now it's too much cupcaking going on.
I miss the 80's everyday :(
I was about 18 or 19 years old when this occurred. Truly the glory days of wrestling 👍👍
Sure Was I completely agree
WWE could never create this kind of heat today. Amazing. . .
Jerry Lay II so true.
No one could. That blatant racism wouldn’t fly.
Facts @Brian
Never ever!!!
@@brianezell5790 Heels are supposed to be evil. Seeing a racist get beat up wouldn't be entertaining?
"I'll take these sunglasses off and I'll drop you like a bad habit!"
You are right
Building heat, a simple concept but a lost art today
Roman Reigns could never turn it up like that.
These new guys don't know what heat is.
rite..you. could be as racist as you wanted.
@@mangamegs Totally diff time and era.
@@joehackel8087 yeah
Ric never even paused once. He's the best ever.
One of the best
Flair gets slapped but then goes back & continues 2 talk 😅😅😅
Fucking crazy!🤣🤣🤣
Flair knew how to push all wrestlers buttons.
Classic...and we loved every minute of it!
Now that was what you called a sell! Those types of promos that Ric Flair and Tony Atlas displayed would put wrestling fans in the seats for upcoming events back in the day.
Tony's reaction is just priceless, as well as Naitch's promo. Ric was the best at putting himself and his opponents over at the same time while pissing 'em off. 😂😂
Ric was about to take his shirt off but it would inspire laughter after Tony had his off. Instead he just fidgeted with his tie.
I love these Flair confrontation promos. hiliarious
And then afterwards they went out and had a steak dinner together
Ric was racist piece of shit
Tony Atlas is an Uncle Tom in and outside of the ring
@@germainejohnson5010 STFU with your BS racist accusations. If Flair were racist, why would he have a scene in which he is slapped by a Black man? You do realize this is setup in advance and Flair agreed to it? Dumbass.
@@MikeDunn Ric Flair is a RACIST bigot just like HULK HOGAN
Behind closed DOORS they both hate blacks and MINORITIES
Solomon Allen Hulk and Ric were cool to me and I'm a middle aged Black dude
tony atlas wrestled all-over and he had a match in one of the local high schools in monroe, nj...he worked out in the high school gym just prior to his match that evening..i was there and have yet to meet a nicer, more humble person then MR. USA...he was a class act and still is to this day...all us kids sat around and watched him train a bit and couldn't believe our eyes as to how big he was and cool he was all at the same time :)
Flair always one sharp dress man...
"Stylin' and Profilin' Whoooooooooo!!!!!!!
best decade in wrestling ever
Legend has it Tony Atlas was getting it on with Miss Elizabeth and Randy Savage caught them in the act but Randy did nothing because he was afraid of getting his butt kicked by Atlas.
I'm a big atlas and never heard that
I've never heard this.
@@jeffelkins1905
I've never heard it neither and I thought I've heard just about all of the wild Macho Man stories.
Lol Saba simba was that mandingo
I see Tony around sometimes I'm gonna ask him that next time I see him.
When tony atlas slaps the shit out of you....... It's time to reassess your life choices😏
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D James Morgan 😩🤣
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Ric Flair could put anyone over as credible.
That's what he was paid to do, and nobody did it better!!! The guy could put over a mop!
@@devonledford8734 he could never put David flair over though
That slap looked like it came from the heart lmao
It was hard!
"Please, Mr Flair, uh-uh, let's not have any more of that!" LOL!
LOL
Priceless. Entertainment. They had to be friends and getting paid.Big fan of both.
Tonys' expressions each time Flair touches him are phucking hilarious
You're right he was pissed!🤣🤣🤣
Gordon Solie was the best broadcaster ever. I can remember going to elementary school and talking about this the whole day and after school too lol lol
Same here
I hated Rick Flair as a kid but the older i got i learned to appreciate what he did for wrestling BEST VILLAIN EVER.
That slap almost turned Ric head into a mop stick 😂😂
He went light on that slap, could have broke Ricks jaw, or even neck.
Truth be told... Rick can talk and cause situations.... like him or not, he's a tough guy!
No one cuts a promo like Ric Flair
Kenneth Wright 500 lizard shoes!
Kenneth Wright The Rock was pretty good too!
Macho man randy savage nr1
Macho Man
Kenneth Wright Muhammad Ali copy cat. That’s Ali is considered the Greatest
@1:31 the fact that flair got away with him calling him boy...could never be done today and yet, that was fantastic. I mean it wasn't ok then, but the fact that he did it to get Atlas (who wasn't all that great on the mic) to get him to look at him with THAT look was classic. It didn't help that instead of stepping up to Flair, he kept backing up made the boy comments even more hilarious. All that was done to build the heat to a Flair v Atlas match and you know what? I want to see the match.
Now THAT is how you promo a match!
Why wouldn't he get away with it today?
I just almost cried thinking how I was around 10 years old back then. I'm so depressed now!!
Now This is Real Wrestling Promos
Cant believe wwe gave cena 16 championship and put him next to this great legend that is RIC Flair
Lol they had such good respect for each other lol.. he slapped flair as soft and gentle as a woman...lol these guys were great.. so glad they are still alive and doing great interviews!...
Man Im so glad I was born in the right generation. Wwe ain't got nothing on this
This shit is like eating generic cookies from dollar store. It's really primitive and bland.
@@voldemort4932 more like fine wine .
Me too 🫶🏽💝
Yep, and it was soo much fun !!! People didn't take themselves soo seriously and people could poke fun at themselves!! Things weren't a bed of roses but it was more fun and there was more freedom!!! These woke a-holes don't like anyone !!! This country is in real trouble!!! 😢
This is the goofiest time in wrestling hsitory.
And they were good friends in real life- and they even shared a wrestling groupie backstage after this was filmed.
Wtf 😂
I love the look on Gordon Solie's face at 1:28! Lol. It's like he's saying "Shit is about to hit the fan!" with that expression.
I like this promo. At first I thought Flair went too far, but that slap, and the following reaction plus the promo ric cut right after was amazing.
he said hair all greased up. lol
How is that funny? 🤔
Gucci
Damn I miss the good ole days of "wrasslin"....this is how it should be always
When I watch this, I cannot help but to think about Triple H 20 years later telling Booker T to "get me a towel".
Tony was one of the early great's of the golden era and it's great to see this again decade's later rollin with the champ Ric Flair.
"I'm talking to you BOY" Wooooo!!
Now im taking to you boy.. daaamn called him boy and all 😂🤣😂
When I was a kid back in the days when Houston Wrestling was going strong Tony Atlas, Junk Yard Dog and Hacksaw Jim Duggan were my favorites.
Mine too. And also Magnum TA and Terry Taylor.
Ric Flair could always put on a good show space , Always loves his promos
WOOOO, they knew how to build up a match or challenge. That was they're liveihood they knew what they were doing.
Flair was always my favorite champ. And I'm black.
NATURE BOY!! wooooooooo!!!
Mines too bro!!!😂🤣
Please post more, this kind of stuff made me a wrestling fan! Nothing beats classic wrestling, and there's no better then Flair! WOOOO Thanks So much!!
Gordon Solie was the best. Grew up watching him on the sunshine state with the likes of Jack Briscoe my favorite wrestler
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that, when this was broadcast, political correctness had not yet taken hold of the American zeitgeist.
And thank God it hadn't
HHH did stuff worse than this with Booker T like 10-12 years ago.
Benn Lyon But the only that saved his bitch azz was the fact that he is married to the bosses daughter other than that Paul Levesque knows his place
juicer67 -lol!!!
Benn Lyon Booker should've won against HHH
Rick flair one of the best heel ! Ever 🙌🏽🙌🏽
two things that made me ROFL
1- tony's face when Flair "Said.. look at me boy I'm talking to you"
2- Tony's failed attempt to hit Flair throwing his shirt which hit the ropes
AHHH...THIS IS WHEN I WAS SO HAPPY IN LIFE
Me too!
Damn Tony Atlas was ripped
Jacked to the gills. He looks like huge.
ya him and lex luger best jacked wrestlers ever
Gordon Soulie and JR... The 2 best announcers ever!!
The best Flair promo... period!!!
Getting others over in the business with just words Best on the mic
Woooooo!!!!!!!
YEA.......SURE
Flair was going to get killed if he got in that ring 😂😂😂😂😂😂
He ain't stupid
That's why he was champion 16x 100
Ric Flair was truly one of the best ever in pro wrestling history when selling his heel promos. He was so good at generating heat with the fans and he was so good st making u hate him and his egotistic character. Loved Tony Atlas as well. Good ol days of rasslin!
Damn, you would have thought Flair was starting a race riot calling Atlas "boy".
Hogan, Piper and many others also cut the "boy" promo against Atlas, Hogan going as far as "shine my shoes boy"...
@@tenfourproductionsllc Hogan also called Atlas,"this brown clown". Wow, even back then, Hogan was a racist.
Flair is free to take his white ass back to Scotland or Germany or wherever his folks migrated here from...
He always has that option to return home to be with his peoples.
Atlas is Indigenous to this land.
@Lewis 970
Let me analyze your statement.
It's not a fair comparison because "Africa is a continent comprised of many countries but Germany is just one country in the Continent of Europe"?
You just made me dizzy in thought..
@Lewis 970
Dude, there are Negroid people (dark skin/woolly hair) all over this planet that are not African...For instance Vanuatu, Fiji. The Solomon Islands, Melanesia, Guatemala, South Carolina, Georgia, Massachusetts, Mexico, Chile, Hawaii, etc.etc.etc.
Are you going to attribute our presence globally to European warfare, when these people's presence in these places go back , some 30,000 years and further?
Also Europe is *NOT* a continent.
It is actually the Subcontinent of EURASIA, which includes China and Russia...The separation of Europe and Asia is merely a false social construct....Due to false media propaganda, most people are tricked into believing that the recessive Caucasian species of human beast is the global majority when the truth is that this mutated being is only 9% of the total global population....The red headed stepchild of the planet and quickly losing the ability to reproduce...
Now I'm talking to you Boy! now listen to me!Lmao....Classic shit!
Fuck that, Slick Ric does what he want's.
Flairs the best of all time!
The Infamous Vicious Phenom 74 😂😂 Classic flair shit right there.
Ryan L. Williams fuck what you're talking about. 👎👎👎 Flair is the fucking man.
No, that slap to the face was some classic shit!
Now that was CLASSIC! 😂😂
Ric Flair was one of the best entertainment in the business, what a show man
Good old days I miss those classic wrestling moments where the Challenger and the chapel barking at each other you hear the people in the crowd cheering and Gordon Solie is right in the middle what a great feeling it was back in the day
That slap tho lol ric aint really want that no smoke💨💨
Ric Flair is the greatest promo man in the business
pogosucks Ernie Ladd!!
no! 1st rock, 2nd stone cold, 3rd sting
Hogan, Flair, The Rock and Steve Austin. This guy's are the most charisma and move mass.
Nah, Jake the Snake.
I love the "fake mad as hell" overacting by Atlas, the bulging eyes, the clenched fists. LOL. But Thunderbolt Patterson was the master of the "Fake Mad" because he would add that element into his talking.... He would splutter and stammer and try to put sentences together, but he was SO MAD, the words just wouldn't come out.
I used to watch this every Saturday night
I actually saw Ric flair and Tony Atlas wrestle at the Base gym at Seymour Johnson AFB must of been 79 or 80.I got to shake Tony Atlas's hand and he has some mits for hands.
I'm about 15 minutes from Seymour
Flair is/was absolutely the BEST...... at doing promos!
markissable Yes he made wrestling as popular as it was. His job was to go to each division and make the star look like a hero. He was great.
The best part is Gordon Solie’s expression. Totally sells it.
I missed those days
Ric Flair always plays the race card
When tony slapped flair, he was fired immediately😃
When i was a child in Tampa i use to go to these taping brought back memories
This is how you sell advance tickets.
Is this gonna take a long time.....lmao
That Championship Belt looks like something you would tear off a cereal box.
I was thinking the same thing. it looks kinda puny compared to other Championship belts.
@ 3:14 - "When we get together, and you know what I'm talking about...you're gonna deal with Ric Flair on a very personal level!"
Wait, WHAT?!?!
Lol damn lol
jvinson and notice when he says that Tony Atlas started to tear up,wtf?
It seems Rick Flair rather walk in the middle of a Panzer Division than meet Tony Atlas head on.
This was a promo old school this is what leads to the money that's what built a match back in the day brought enormous crowds
Ric Flair said look at me boy. And got slapped into next week. That's what real heat looks like. 😄
don't start shaking for me brother!. i'll take off these sun glasses and drop you like a bad habit. classic.
I'm a straight up nigga but I had to laugh when RIC Flair said look at me boy. lol
Flair is legendary! This was RASSLIN!!
Thank you Tony, love those looks ,....
Classic promos! Even in the act, you can see the respect both men had for each other! If a white guy even think about calling a black guy a boy today the show would've been cancelled! Sad day we live in, and I'm black btw!
Guess you never heard Hulk's heel promos on Atlas in WWF.
Tony atlas couldn't speak a sentence straight. The guy was ignorant.
If you can't insult someone without going that route, then you are sad and low brow. Step your game up. Scripted or not.
Tim Smith k
I agree i don't think Sanford and son would make it Rickles wouldn't. I think the word is snowflakes. snowflakes
"Look at me when I'm talking to you boy". Hilarious!
This is an outstanding video.