[1997-07-22-WCW-Tuesday Nitro] Ric Flair and Syxx

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Flair's shirt is a rare faux pas from a guy who's normally immaculately dressed. Flair is ready to announce the fourth Horseman, but Syxx comes out. Syxx tells him there is no fourth Horseman and that the whole idea is a thing of the past. Flair cuts him off and teases walking away before punching Syxx in the face. Chris Benoit is also out to back Flair up, and Syxx says this wouldn't happen if Hall and Nash were here, setting up the main event for the night.

[Kevin Ridge]

Flair's shirt is awful. 101 dalmatians bad. This sets up the tag match later in show.

[soup23]

I knew Charles would comment on this shirt. it is awful. Syxx making fun of Flair never gets old and he claims Flair came back because he spent all his money. Some things never change. Flair goes to walk away but sucker punches him to a big pop and we get the main event set up.

[El-P]

Flair vs Syxx could have been a super feud for Flair, who was seriously getting dated at this point. And yeah, that shirt, really ?

Also, the whole "introducing the next member of the Horsemen" deal was really getting old at this point, especially with a Flair looking like an old parody of himself. Hogan was just on another level (promo, work and drawing power), and in retrospect I don't see what the issue was with not using Flair at the top anymore.

[PeteF3]

I'm not sure what the thing with the "newest Horseman" was supposed to be about, but it kind of makes Flair look dumb...again. Syxx comes out instead and gloats over Arn being gone and Flair's previous shoulder injury, and mentions that he only came back because he spent all of his money--holy shit. Flair backing off and then sucker-punching Syxx was a glorious moment, which worked precisely *because* it was so predictable, and because Syxx sold it so great. All in all a fun segment.