Ric Flair says the most outlandish things part deuce:

**McLegend** · 04-02-2005, 05:33 PM

Bret Hart kept the WWF alive when Hogan and everyone left.

Of course he was a draw

**Zen v.W.o.** · 04-02-2005, 05:39 PM

Well somebody had to draw man, otherwise then the wwf would have seriously gone down at some point, no?? And the guys on top drew well enough for that to be maintained.

As for Flair drawing, yeah, he drew in arenas that had seating capacities of 2,000 or so, maybe less. Wow, what a draw. Dont kid yourself, anyone worth a dime could draw in those conditions, with a credible name.

Bret usurped Flair, did the best business of anyone else they had in their company..this is a fact.

**PureHatred** · 04-02-2005, 06:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Zen v.W.o.

Well somebody had to draw man, otherwise then the wwf would have seriously gone down at some point, no?? And the guys on top drew well enough for that to be maintained.

That's just stupid. The WWF DID go down. By the end of the 90's they were on the verge of bankruptcy. Are you forgetting that entire period between 'Rock N Wrestling' and the Attitude Era? They held Wrestlemania at Caesar's palace for a reason; they weren't drawing shit.

HBK, Diesel, and Bret Hart did not draw as champions as as well as the guys who preceded them (Hogan, Savage, Warrior, etc) or who came after (Austin, Rock, etc..). You can blame this on the business being cyclical or whatever. But they didn't.

Of course, at the same time this was going on, WCW was losing upwards of $6 million a year and doing things like having a midget blow-up Sting's yacht and RoboCop headline a PPV.

Hart is a draw. Foley is a huge draw. That whole time period was an embarassment for wrestling ann blaming any one person for the state of the business as a whole is totally out of hand.

As for the article, Flair is just your average bitter old athlete. His bias makes it impossible to take him seriously. As was mentioned, he never gives credit to Foley for his charisma, but somehow manages to tell us that cutting the exact same 20 minute promo over and over makes Triple H one of the four best 'talkers' in the WWE.

Of course, if he'd heard someone actually use the term 'cut a promo' he'd have bitch-slapped them for using an insider term.

04-02-2005, 05:33 PM	#1
McLegend Temporary Posts: 15,601	Bret Hart kept the WWF alive when Hogan and everyone left. Of course he was a draw

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Zen v.W.o. GO HABS GO! Posts: 4,018	Well somebody had to draw man, otherwise then the wwf would have seriously gone down at some point, no?? And the guys on top drew well enough for that to be maintained. As for Flair drawing, yeah, he drew in arenas that had seating capacities of 2,000 or so, maybe less. Wow, what a draw. Dont kid yourself, anyone worth a dime could draw in those conditions, with a credible name. Bret usurped Flair, did the best business of anyone else they had in their company..this is a fact.