[1993-06-05-WCW-Saturday Night] Interview: Ric Flair & Arn Anderson

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Ric Flair (in the days when he was still RIC FLAIR) and Arn Anderson are finally back in the swing of things. Flair does a great promo that you can tell he's been waiting to give for months. He vows revenge on the Blonds for their age cracks. For all the cracks on how Flair has aged, at 44, he looks way younger than your modern WWE headliner.

[El-P]

The first true Ric Flair promo since he came back. Way too late though, to me watching in context the damage had been done, and the exctiement of Flair coming back has been reduced a lot by months of nothingness and awful Flair for the Gold segments.

[Kevin Ridge]

Finally! Flair is returning to the ring with Anderson against the Blonds at Clash in 2 out of 3 falls match. Ric brings up stipulation as something the old timers did. He's pretty fired up and nice to see after all those goofy talk show segments.

[PeteF3]

Flair is SEETHING. He was content to be on the outside looking in, but two punks in jean jackets and stars stapled onto them have forced his hand. Flair is officially on his way back. Best Flair promo since coming back, of course--one of his best of the past 12 months.

[soup23]

Money promo by Flair being riled up and showing that the old guys have a lot of fight in them vs. the Blondes. I am looking forward to that match now.

[garretta]

Don't forget about Arn. I loved the line "I didn't just fall in a ditch and have someone hend me the belts because they felt sorry for me."

 

Flair's finally allowed to be Flair here, and the results are glorious. I'm not sure if the stuff about wanting to "take a new role" with ​AFFTG ​was the real intention of that segment or whether Ric was just exercising damage control, but I guess it doesn't matter now, since the show will apparently be gone by the end of June.

 

I like the idea of Flair and Arn asking for the two out of three fall match; Austin and Pillman think that they're old and decrepit, so what better way to disprove that than by demanding a match that's practically guaranteed to go long?

 

Another highlight was Arn talking about the Blonds resurrecting the Horsemen almost singlehandedly, making them earn their reputation all over again. Unfortunately, as I've said before, the group is still one member short as far as active wrestlers goes, so I'm not sure how much they can do with that part of the storyline.

 

I'll forgive Flair's screaming, since he's been holding himself back for months. Tony didn't seem nearly as excited as he should have been for the big news, however. He turns his excitement on and off at the oddest times these days.

 

Who was Arn's fourth World tag team championship partner? I have Tully, Larry, and Bobby Eaton. He and Ole never won the titles, and he and Flair hadn't yet either. Could he have been counting Tully twice, since they had two separate title reigns?

[Loss]

WCW used to often say Arn and Ole were world tag team champions, even though they weren't. They were national tag team champions, though.

[garretta]

I figured it was something like that. Thanks, Loss!