The RIC FLAIR thread!

[LChinoz]

This never gets old.

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[Valfar]

But, he looks bad ass.

 

[The Ween]

My favorite wrassler of all time was.......

 

[The Ween]

This was a wrestler that my mother remembered when she was a kid.

https://houseofdeception.com/Gorgeous_George.html

 

[tbay]

Would love a sculpt of Flair, it would be an easy custom, just need to put it on a suit.

 

[eighthsamurai]

Would love a sculpt of Flair, it would be an easy custom, just need to put it on a suit.

gotta be an intricate naitch robe if it's a flair figure.

 

[Maglor]

This was a wrestler that my mother remembered when she was a kid.

https://houseofdeception.com/Gorgeous_George.html

I love that the name of the website is "house of deception".

If you click on the "Professional Wrestling" tab, there is a quote from philosopher John Locke: "It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived."

 

[LChinoz]

My favorite wrassler of all time was.......

The first anti-hero of wrestling IMO. Great wrestler.

 

[tbay]

gotta be an intricate naitch robe if it's a flair figure.

That would be awesome! There's a guy on ebay that does wrestling figure clothes, I'm sure he could do a naitch robe. There's plenty of Flair fans on here, we should start a Ric Flair 1/6 project, who's with me

 

[Maglor]

Was watching ESPN Classic last night at my sister-in-law's house, and they were playing AWA Wrestling from 1988. I watched the end of one match and the beginning of another and both of them had the 'distract the ref while somebody does something illegal' schtick. The crowed was eating it up. They were yelling at the ref. Standing up, screaming and pointing. Why yell at someone playing a part that was predetermined? Do they really think that "getting his attention" matters?

Forgive the stereotype reference, but do you know Cletus the Slack-jawed Yokel and his wife on The Simpsons? I swear I saw them in the audience. And a lot of people like that.

Was that just in the 80's or is that audience pretty typical?

 

[eighthsamurai]

Was watching ESPN Classic last night at my sister-in-law's house, and they were playing AWA Wrestling from 1988. I watched the end of one match and the beginning of another and both of them had the 'distract the ref while somebody does something illegal' schtick. The crowed was eating it up. They were yelling at the ref. Standing up, screaming and pointing. Why yell at someone playing a part that was predetermined? Do they really think that "getting his attention" matters?

Forgive the stereotype reference, but do you know Cletus the Slack-jawed Yokel and his wife on The Simpsons? I swear I saw them in the audience. And a lot of people like that.

Was that just in the 80's or is that audience pretty typical?

i've read a few books where wrestlers mention that back in the day, people still weren't sure if it was real or not. nowadays with the internet, plenty of wrestling magazines and insider news everyone knows it's predetermined, but these avenues of knowledge didn't exist back then. the wrestling world was actually quite secretive, sometimes not even new wrestlers were let in on how the business worked until right before their 1st match (according to shawn michaels). a lot of them actually crave that more innocent era. i remember when i started watching in about 89, 90, and a lot of the people i knew couldn't decide if it was real or not, but that was down to the matches themselves. hogan's matches always seemed pre-decided and repetitive. but ricky steamboat and randy savage had some amazing athletic matches which made you believe much more that wrestling was real.

 

[Skiman]

 

[EVILFACE]

 

[Skiman]

 

[Skiman]

 

[LaMelnik]

Is this your site ski???

https://www.rfgolds.com/

 

[Nitro]

i've read a few books where wrestlers mention that back in the day, people still weren't sure if it was real or not. nowadays with the internet, plenty of wrestling magazines and insider news everyone knows it's predetermined, but these avenues of knowledge didn't exist back then. the wrestling world was actually quite secretive, sometimes not even new wrestlers were let in on how the business worked until right before their 1st match (according to shawn michaels). a lot of them actually crave that more innocent era. i remember when i started watching in about 89, 90, and a lot of the people i knew couldn't decide if it was real or not, but that was down to the matches themselves. hogan's matches always seemed pre-decided and repetitive. but ricky steamboat and randy savage had some amazing athletic matches which made you believe much more that wrestling was real.

 

[wHySoSeRiOuS203]

It's real to me!

 

[Nitro]

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[Maglor]

Epic. I will never understand.