History Wrestling / RicFlair

** Also, Fortune. He formed them specifically to be his future expy of the Horsemen [[DudeWheresMyRespect motivated by taking back prominence in the company they helped build]], but then as soon as that purpose turned them against Wrestling/HulkHogan's blatant new-generation nWo ripoff, he would show that for him it's all about the power.

* LikeASonToMe: In Wrestling/{{TNA}} he has Wrestling/AJStyles and Kazarian, who even got into a fight for Ric's love until he decided to make them a part of Fortune, where he was a TeamDad of sorts for about eight months.

* AlsoSprachZarathustra: Became his entrance music, and is pretty much universally associated with him in pro wrestling.

* {{Leitmotif}}: ''AlsoSprachZarathustra'', Flair's famous entrance theme.

* {{Leitmotif}}: ''Music/AlsoSprachZarathustra'', Flair's famous entrance theme.

* ArchEnemy: Quite a few, but his most memorable opponents were [[RickySteamboat Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat]], Wrestling/{{Sting}}, "The Franchise" Shane Douglas, MickFoley, Dusty Rhodes and, of course, HulkHogan.

* BittersweetEnding: Ric Flair vs. Sting closing out the final ''WCW Monday Nitro''.

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Flair turned on Sting more times than almost humanly ''possible.'' He turned on {{Vader}}, [[CurtHennig Mr. Perfect]], RandyOrton, {{Batista}}, and even turned on fellow Horsemen ChrisBenoit and Dean Malenko, in a way, with his David-centric behavior. Perhaps the most triumphant example of this trope, though, was during the 1992 Royal Rumble, when he gave The Barbarian a high-five, circled around in front of him and ''immediately'' gave him a knife-edge chop.
** Also, Fortune. He formed them specifically to be his future expy of the Horsemen [[DudeWheresMyRespect motivated by taking back prominence in the company they helped build]], but then as soon as that purpose turned them against HulkHogan's blatant new-generation nWo ripoff, he would show that for him it's all about the power.

* CueTheFlyingPigs: Flair and HulkHogan's characters being friends for the Immortal scam.

* IntergenerationalFriendship: With ShawnMichaels and TripleH, the former of which wrestled Flair in his WWE "retirement" match and the latter inducted him into the Hall of Fame.

* {{Leitmotif}}: ''AlsoSprachZarathustra'', Flair's famous entrance theme.

* LikeASonToMe: In Wrestling/{{TNA}} he has AJStyles and Kazarian, who even got into a fight for Ric's love until he decided to make them a part of Fortune, where he was a TeamDad of sorts for about eight months.

-->-- '''JimRoss''', ''Starrcade 1988''

* DemotedToExtra: Especially after HulkHogan joined WCW, and during the Monday Night Wars.
* DrivenByEnvy: The likely explanation as to why Dusty Rhodes, Wrestling/EricBischoff, Wrestling/VinceRusso, etc. would go out of their way to book Flair to look like an idiot as much as possible.

In the "[[{{Kayfabe}} sport]]" of ProfessionalWrestling, there are wrestlers, there are superstars, there are legends... and then there's Ric Flair (real name Richard Morgan Fliehr, born in 1949). With a career spanning four decades (starting in 1972), sixteen (at least) World Championships, legendary matches and feuds with some of the biggest names in the business, and a retirement sendoff that will likely never be duplicated in either scope or emotional impact on the fans, Flair is one of the most famous professional wrestlers who has ever lived, and is arguably one of the three biggest performers in the history of the industry (the other two being HulkHogan and StoneColdSteveAustin).

* ArchEnemy: Quite a few, but his most memorable opponents were [[RickySteamboat Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat]], Wrestler/{{Sting}}, "The Franchise" Shane Douglas, MickFoley, Dusty Rhodes and, of course, HulkHogan.

* {{Expy}}:Of Buddy Rogers.

* FlungClothing: Some of his promos towards the end of {{WCW}} would see him rip off his suit until he was down to his underwear... and to add salt to the would, he would drop elbows on his suit jacket.

* InsultBackfire: The widespread "Woo" after using one of Flair's moves used to be a TakeThat devised by [[{{ECW}} Shane Douglas]]. It later became an endearing ShoutOut.

* LikeASonToMe: In {{TNA}} he has AJStyles and Kazarian, who even got into a fight for Ric's love until he decided to make them a part of Fortune, where he was a TeamDad of sorts for about eight months.

** In {{TNA}}, he started Fourtune, basically a new-generation Four Horsemen of TNA Originals who for a while were the top heels in the company, delivering Horsemen-style beatdowns to everyone on the roster.

* RingOldies: Wrestled his first match in the [[AmericanWrestlingAssociation AWA]] in December of 1972. He retired from full-time competition from the Wrestling/{{WWE}} in a grandiose sendoff angle in March 2008 at the age of 59, but continued to wrestle part-time for {{TNA}} and other indie promotions until officially announcing his retirement in December 2012 at 63, almost exactly forty years after his debut.

** Has apparently retired for real as of late 2012, announcing that he had no plans to ever get back into the ring, citing the heart attack suffered by [[Wrestling/JerryLawler Jerry Lawler]] a few months earlier as driving home the dangers of even a physically fit man of his age continuing to subject himself to in-ring competition.

* ArchEnemy: Quite a few, but his most memorable opponents were [[RickySteamboat Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat]], Wrestler/{{Sting}}, "The Franchise" Shane Douglas, MickFoley, and, of course, HulkHogan.

* RingOldies: Wrestled his first match in the [[AmericanWrestlingAssociation AWA]] in December of 1972. He retired from full-time competition from the {{WWE}} in a grandiose sendoff angle in March 2008 at the age of 59, but continued to wrestle part-time for {{TNA}} and other indie promotions until officially announcing his retirement in December 2012 at 63, almost exactly forty years after his debut.

* ButYouScrewOneGoat: On one episode of TNA iMPACT!, Ric Flair claimed to have engaged in carnal relations with Zenyatta. Zenyatta is a race-horse.

* LikeASonToMe: In {{TNA}} he has AJStyles and Kazarian, who even got into a fight for Ric's love.

In the "sport" of ProfessionalWrestling, there are wrestlers, there are superstars, there are legends... and then there's Ric Flair (real name Richard Morgan Fliehr, born in 1949). With a career spanning four decades (starting in 1972), sixteen (at least) World Championships, legendary matches and feuds with some of the biggest names in the business, and a retirement sendoff that will likely never be duplicated in either scope or emotional impact on the fans, Flair is one of the most famous professional wrestlers who has ever lived, and is arguably one of the three biggest performers in the history of the industry (the other two being HulkHogan and StoneColdSteveAustin).

** "Time to ride Space Mountain!"

* ArchEnemy: Quite a few, but his most memorable opponents were Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat, Wrestler/{{Sting}}, "The Franchise" Shane Douglas, MickFoley, and, of course, HulkHogan.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Flair [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hunVTAbsUg dismantles]] Carlito in one of the greatest examples in professional wrestling history.

"The Nature Boy" '''Ric Flair''': the sixteen-time World Heavyweight Champion -- and a [[RhymingList limousine-riding, jet-flying, wheelin' dealin' kiss-stealin']] - '''''WOOOOO!''''' - '''son - of - a - gun!'''

* ArchEnemy: Quite a few, but his most memorable opponents were Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat, {{Wrestler/Sting}}, "The Franchise" Shane Douglas, MickFoley, and, of course, HulkHogan.

* BittersweetEnding: Ric Flair vs. Sting closing out the final ''WCW Monday Nitro''.
** Flair's ''{{WrestleMania}} 24'' "retirement" match. [[ShawnMichaels "I'm sorry. I love you."]]

** According to pretty much everyone, Flair was fond of doing this while partying too.

** SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Sometimes invoked whenever the rights to "ASZ" could not be attained, such as the first ''[[SmackdownVsRaw Smackdown Vs. Raw]]'' video game.

* [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Spell my catchphrase without an H]] His catchphrase is often misspelled as "Whooooo!"
* TenMinuteRetirement: Played straight a few times, and ''sort-of'' averted after his retirement following ''[=WrestleMania=] 24''; while he has yet to wrestle another match in America, he wrestled against HulkHogan during Hogan's 2009 tour of Australia. He has also wrestled on Impact! now and while this, especially coupled with his absolute TearJerker of a sendoff at {{WWE}}, naturally created a BrokenBase, he definitely showed everyone that he's still got what it takes to work the match and the crowd.

** TheJimmyHartVersion: Sometimes invoked whenever the rights to "ASZ" could not be attained, such as the first ''[[SmackdownVsRaw Smackdown Vs. Raw]]'' video game.

"The Nature Boy" '''RicFlair''': the sixteen-time World Heavyweight Champion -- and a [[RhymingList limousine-riding, jet-flying, wheelin' dealin' kiss-stealin']] - '''''WOOOOO!''''' - '''son - of - a - gun!'''

In the "sport" of ProfessionalWrestling, there are wrestlers, there are superstars, there are legends... and then there's RicFlair (real name Richard Morgan Fliehr, born in 1949). With a career spanning four decades (starting in 1972), sixteen (at least) World Championships, legendary matches and feuds with some of the biggest names in the business, and a retirement sendoff that will likely never be duplicated in either scope or emotional impact on the fans, Flair is one of the most famous professional wrestlers who has ever lived, and is arguably one of the three biggest performers in the history of the industry (the other two being HulkHogan and StoneColdSteveAustin).

* BittersweetEnding: RicFlair vs. Sting closing out the final ''WCW Monday Nitro''.

* BloodIsTheNewBlack: Whole hospital refrigerators could be filled with the bags of blood RicFlair has bled over the course of his career. One of the most common images of him is with his hair dyed solid red and his face a red mask.

* ButYouScrewOneGoat: On one episode of TNA iMPACT!, RicFlair claimed to have engaged in carnal relations with Zenyatta. Zenyatta is a race-horse.

* ThePlan / MassiveMultiplayerScam: Let's just say it was the Perfect Plan. In the weeks leading up to the RandySavage-UltimateWarrior WWF Championship match at Summerslam 92, RicFlair and Mr. Perfect teased being in one of their corners. During the match, the two liberally attacked Savage and the Warrior, leaving more doubt into their (and the fans') heads. Warrior won the match by count out, but not the title. A few weeks later, Flair beat a weakened Macho Man for his second WWF Championship.

* GoodIsDumb: Inverted, as Flair would famously lure Sting (aka "[[FanNickname the dumbest man in wrestling]]") into the Four Horsemen and then turn on him, kicking him out of the group. And he did it '''twice.'''

* HijackedByGanon: Flair was shoehorned into the infamous Black Scorpion angle in 1991.

* ChekhovsGun: For years RicFlair would climb up to the top turnbuckle only for his opponent to grab him and throw him down. JerryLawler even {{Lampshaded}} it by pointing out it never worked out well for him. Then one night while facing Carlito he climbed to the top rope and for the first time in god knows how long actually jumped from it '''and''' hit his opponent.

* LetsGetDangerous: [[TheSpoonyExperiment When Ric Flair whips his jacket off, that's when shit gets real]].