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Old 08-05-2006, 02:10 PM   #1
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Just something for you all to read...
Hey, someone named "PM" (he isn't listed as an actual member ) sent me this in a...uh...PM. Anyway it was a good read and pretty well sums up my feelings, so I thought I would share it with you all...

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The Nature Boy in all his splendor... what's left of it. Ric Flair should retire. There, I finally said it out loud after being in a state of self-denial for years. And before I'm inundated with a string of irate PM's, allow me to explain. Simply put, Ric Flair is the greatest wrestler ever to lace up a pair of wrestling boots. As NWA World Champion, Flair dominated pro wrestling in the 1980s and best exemplified the standard of excellence in this sport. Flair remained the cornerstone of the wrestling world in the 1990s after Ted Turner bought out Jim Crockett Promotions and renamed the promotion WCW.

In his hey-day between 1979-1987, Flair wrestled over 320 nights a year, jetting around the globe and facing the very best wrestlers in every territory imaginable. Logging hundreds of thousands of miles on airplanes, Flair made regular stops in Toronto, St Louis, Puerto Rico, Atlanta and Dallas, on top of doing several tours a year in Japan, all the while maintaining a full-time schedule for Crockett's Mid Atlantic office based out of the Carolinas.

If wrestling can be considered an art form, then Ric Flair is a Rembrandt or Picasso, a master with fine, expensive oil paints, while his contemporaries were using cheap watercolors. The wrestling ring was Flair's canvas, using his vast palette of unique brush strokes and a kaleidoscope of brilliant colors in the form of unmatched athleticism and creativity, to create collages and compositions the likes of which the refined wrestling fan had never seen before.

Sadly, those days are long gone. Today, Flair has been reduced to an aging comedy figure in an organization that has systematically and deliberately sabotaged his career over the past five years. Hell, ever since rolling over and playing dead for Hulk Hogan when he entered WCW in 1994, Flair has been buried in a series of embarrassing programs and several laugh-out-loud angles (being placed in a mental hospital a few months ago quickly comes to mind).

The 50-or-so-year old Flair is a no longer the worker he once was. For most of his career, Flair was the measuring stick in this industry by which all other wrestlers were judged. Combining an unquestionable work ethic with an unquenchable thirst for competition, Flair had some of the greatest matches in the history of pro wrestling with the likes of Terry Funk, Barry Windham, Bruiser Brody, Harley Race and Roddy Piper. His feud with Ricky Steamboat in 1989 produced what many consider the greatest series of matches in the sport's history.

And aside from having legendary matches with the greats of this sport, Flair also had classics with the not-so greats. He was able to have four star matches with such doorstops as Dusty Rhodes, Ron Garvin, Nikita Koloff, Kerry von Erich, Lex Luger and the Junkyard Dog. Even more unconceivable is that Flair was able to carry these stiffs to a great match on a regular basis. You could have thrown Flair out in the ring with a broomstick and he would have put on a 45-minute match that no one would forget. He was that good.

The same can not be said today. Today, it is Flair that has to be carried. Once called the 60-minute man for his uncanny ability to wrestle three or four one-hour matches in a seven day span, today Flair runs out of gas at the 12-minute mark.

The recent fued (and more importantly promos) with Foley has been an insult to the intelligence of longtime Ric Flair followers. They have gone a long way to besmirch the reputation that Flair has created for himself and with the exception of his matches with Hulk Hogan, stand as the low point of his professional career.

No other wrestler in the business commands the worldwide respect that Flair does. He is the heart pulse of pro wrestling, which only seems fitting, considering no other wrestler has captured the hearts of so many wrestling fans like he has.

But Flair's legacy of greatness is in jeopardy. The sad truth of it is that if he were to retire tomorrow, Flair will likely be remembered for his last few years in WCW and his current run WWE, a washed up shell, a robotic whoo machine, the chop master, and not as the single, greatest performer in wrestling history. The image that he constructed over the past 25 years with immeasurable amounts of blood, sweat and toil in the ring, will have been all for nothing.

A greater tragedy, I can't imagine. Please retire, Ric! My heart has been ripped in twain.
Some of it has a bit of hyperbolt, but none the less he more or less said what I have been thinking and feeling more and more over the past decade.

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I would have no problem with HBK getting a farewell run with the title before he retires.

With that said though, there is no belt in the industry that HBK could win that would add to his career. HBK's career is built around him being HBK, not winning a bunch of titles.
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Old 08-05-2006, 02:23 PM   #2
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So...basically the reasons Flair should retire from wrestling is everything that was said in the HHH Flair fued earlier this year?
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Old 08-05-2006, 02:26 PM   #3
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So basically he has a grasp on the obvious?
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Old 08-05-2006, 02:51 PM   #4
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Old 08-05-2006, 05:47 PM   #5
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Old 08-05-2006, 08:04 PM   #6
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He ripped the first half of that off of a book published by the Wrestling Observer that I own.
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Old 08-05-2006, 09:07 PM   #7
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Old 08-06-2006, 07:20 PM   #8
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It's an interesting gimmick at the very least. PM also sent me a PM regarding the identity of Vermaat.

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Its Sadistic, note the affinity to CZW
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Old 08-06-2006, 07:57 PM   #9
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This isn't the first time we've seen the "Just Joe" gimick on here.

Incidentally, I doubt VErmaat liked CZW before posting this.
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Old 08-07-2006, 03:51 AM   #10
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Old 08-07-2006, 03:59 AM   #11
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