[1994-01-22-WCW-Saturday Night] Interview: Ric Flair

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Flair is still riding a wave from Starrcade. This is your typical good fall-out-of-bed Flair interview, but it does raise an interesting point. He conquered the odds in such a big way at Starrcade that it's hard to really use it to propel him to anything bigger. He's proven everything he can prove, so why keep wrestling? I'll just say Flair had a few more good matches in him, but wow, he would have saved himself quite a bit of humiliation and heartache if that had been his swan song.

[Kevin Ridge]

Sting and the Nature Boy live nature wide! Vader! Rude! Take you to school. Side by side. Four to start. One to finish.

[shoe]

Typical Flair interview. He puts over the promotion, his partner, and his opponents, and makes the Clash the happening place whoooooooo!!!!!

[Exposer]

Another typical great Flair promo. I always think Flair should have hung up the boots around 93-94 also. I can't watch him nowadays.

[soup23]

This is a real good fired up Flair promo which is a nice contrast to the low key one from after Starrcade where he still is shell shocked.

[PeteF3]

Ah, a WCW tradition is underway...Gene Okerlund plugging hot rumors on the hotline. Flair comes out to gloat over Vader's demise and hype an elimination tag match at the Clash. "Carolina Flair" is back.

[garretta]

Well. he couldn't stay low-key forever, right? It's back to the trenches and back to the cockiness that makes Flair who he is, for better or worse. There's nothing here that we haven't heard a thousand times about other opponents; the only new ground broken was that he acknowledged his five year-old son (Reid?) for the first time in a typical interview setting. I highly doubt tthat Reid was actually allowed to take the belt to school, but it was a nice line for his old man.

 

I'm a lot more interested in the hot rumors Mean Gene promised us on the hotline. I think I'll start keeping track of the teases he gave from time to time and try to guess what he was trying to spread besides a bunch of fertilizer. If anyone cares to join me, feel free.