[1990-08-19-NWA-Main Event] Danger Zone: Ric Flair & Sting

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Both Sting and Ric Flair are guests on The Danger Zone. I used to hate it when WCW would say they've signed rematches without saying when and where. Sting does mention The Meadowlands at the end, but it's an afterthought. Flair is still going through a hair crisis, and this is one of his weaker promos. He seems a little off. Sid and Arn show up at the very end for no real reason.

[PeteF3]

I guess they wanted to take this match around the horn and cut a generic hype promo to fit all the markets? Flair and Sting talk trash at one another with each mentioning their own personal posses. Flair's posse shows up in the form of Sid and Arn, and Sting walks off. Way to bitch out the World Champion and the Dudes with Attitudes as a whole.

[shoe]

I dug this at 1st. Then you make Sting look stupid and a pussy all at the same time . No wonder he's not in the Observer HOF. That's a joke FYI.

[soup23]

Sting does again look really weak as they insist on talking about Flair as the GOAT. How many hair styles has Flair blown through in 1990?

[Kevin Ridge]

Sting will defend his title in a rematch against Flair. Ric tells Sting of the Horsemen and they want the tile back. Sting reminds us about the Dudes with Attitudes. Sting backs off when Sid and Arn show up. That was strange.

[ajtroma]

Flair is sporting platinum Thundarr the Barbarian hair. Pretty hideous.

 

I liked Paul E's reaction to the mention of Jim Herd's name.

[garretta]

Are they trying to babyface Flair again or what? This should have gone the exact opposite way; Orndorff and Luger or some combination of the DWA should have shown up and run Flair off, not the other way around. It's almost like they're conditioning the fans not to accept Sting as champion so the inevitable switch back to Flair will seem like a welcome relief.

 

It almost makes me wonder if Ole really wanted the belt on Sting at all; remember, it was Flair who was booking at the time it was determined that Sting would not only win the belt from Flair, but "receive the torch" from him. It was well known that Flair promised the belt to Sting once he returned from injury, and Ole might have felt trapped into honoring that promise against his will and/or better judgement. If that's really the case, it's one of the biggest shames in WCW history, because anyone can tell that Sting has what it takes to be a great champion, albeit not quite on Flair's level.

 

By the way, the Meadowlands rematch Sting referenced at the end of the segment took place on 8/24. Sting pinned Flair in 26:07 despite interference from Arn and Windham (according to Graham Cawthon's site).

[drew wardlaw]

Ric Flair sports a Little Lord Fauntleroy hair cut. I really wish they would have done a rematch series on PPV instead of the Black Scorpion stuff. I guess you couldn't have Sting beat Flair 3 matches straight but I really think that could have been a great trilogy if the planets aligned.

[GSR]

Paul E. makes it clear that if there is any trouble on the Danger Zone today, the person who initiates it will be fined and suspended by the NWA. His first guest is the NWA champion, Sting, and he says that he is going to defend the title against anyone who is worthy enough, otherwise he would be a so called ‘true champion’. The rematch has been signed and his first defence is going to be against Ric Flair. Heyman then introduces ‘the greatest Heavyweight champion this sport has ever seen, Ric Flair’. The ‘Nature Boy’ tells him to put a cap on the accolades as he knows who he is! Flair says that Jim Herd is monitoring this so they both have to be gentlemen, they are in their own right, the difference being that Sting is the World Heavyweight champion, he’s Ric Flair, he’s history, and he doesn’t like that! Flair tells him that the next time they meet he’s making history and he’s taking that title back. He’s a thinking man’s champion, he’s got a bunch of friends called the Horsemen and they don’t like Sting being the champion, they like Ric Flair being the champion, and wherever he goes, they go! Sting tells him that he’s going to give him the opportunity of his life because he gave him one once, but he’s got pals of his own, the ‘Dudes with Attitude’, who will be hanging out backstage to make sure the Horsemen don’t get involved. Arn Anderson and Sid Vicious join Flair and he wonders where Lex Luger, the Junkyard Dog and Paul Orndorff are now? Stings just walks off and Flair says how he’s been outsmarted again and he better learn that the Horsemen call the shots!

 

Looks like they’ve ditched the Luger/Flair programme to go back to Sting/Flair instead. Sting didn’t look strong at all in this segment, playing second fiddle to the Horsemen and then just walking off when Arn and Sid joined them. Heyman had already said that if there was any trouble the person who instigated it would be suspended and Flair had said how Jim Herd is watching. Sting was fully aware that they weren’t going to touch him because of the consequences, yet still he skulks off. Just front it out and stand tall to them Stinger!