evilclown Posted July 20, 2013 Report Share Posted July 20, 2013 Any good stories of him picking up tabs at the bar and such? Even personal stories welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artDDP Posted July 21, 2013 Report Share Posted July 21, 2013 Tony Schiavone penned an article in the old WCW Magazine about spending a night out with Flair where he did buy rounds for everyone in the bar. I couldn't believe it back then and was still skeptical until recently reading the Grantland article and seeing his behavior on Wife Swap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JazeUSA Posted July 21, 2013 Report Share Posted July 21, 2013 Tony Schiavone penned an article in the old WCW Magazine about spending a night out with Flair where he did buy rounds for everyone in the bar. I couldn't believe it back then and was still skeptical until recently reading the Grantland article and seeing his behavior on Wife Swap.that show is a bigger work than the wrestling business Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Staples Posted July 21, 2013 Report Share Posted July 21, 2013 Wasn't there that blow up in Ireland about Flair announcing drinks on the house for the roster, but getting his credit card declined and forcing the wrestlers to pay for it themselves? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted July 21, 2013 Report Share Posted July 21, 2013 John McAdam under a pseudonym Re: Halloween Havoc '90: As an aside, I don't know why but later that night the guys had the wildest post-show party I've ever seen, complete with multiple examples of "Why Ric Flair will someday be broke". No pictures. This was 1990, back when people could actually have fun and not worry about people recording things on their cell phones and posting them on the internet. Flair got the mic from the DJ and did a five minute Black Scorpion impersonation. There's no way to make it funny in print, but it was hilarious. What was scary was that Flair when asked the guy for the mic, the DJ said he couldn't let him do it- it might get him fired. After a bit of bantering Flair pulled out his wallet, piling $50 and $100 bills until the guy finally agreed to let Flair have the mic for only five minutes, all under the guise that Flair grabbed the mic without permission*. All told, I'd say Flair spent about $600 of 1990 money for that five minutes of fun. On top of that, he was buying drinks for everyone in sight. While I'm gossiping, Flair was AMAZING. He'd meet a girl, walk out with her, and come back about an hour later, looking a bit messier than he did when he left. I only saw him do it twice on this night, but I've seen him do it three times. *At which point Arn Anderson menacingly barked out "that's what the fuck you should have done in the first place and kept your goddamned money". Speaking of Arn, when I asked how he was doing he got straight to the point. "I need to get laid TONIGHT- no bullshit. I've got enough cum built up to shampoo a moose". I was dying laughing and he looked at me and said "what, you've never heard that one before?". No, I hadn't. Good times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfman Posted July 21, 2013 Report Share Posted July 21, 2013 Back at some point in the early 90's, I went to visit my cousin in Atlanta and he took me out to a local sports bar. He told me three weeks before that that Flair and Arn came in and Ric bought the whole bar a drink. I kept looking at the front door hoping it would happen again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrisZ Posted July 21, 2013 Report Share Posted July 21, 2013 Flair ruled the roost at the Marriott Marquis in the ATL back in the day. It's a shame that the local Atlanta version of the JCP TBS shows aren't on tape because they did specific promos for Omni shows at ringside with an empty studio. Flair would namecheck many local bars saying what time he was going to be there and who he wanted to be there specifically females 18-30. He would show up at times wearing his robe and nothing else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdw Posted July 22, 2013 Report Share Posted July 22, 2013 For a boozing story, go with the Flight From Hell, where even Dave finally had to go public about The Flair Show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted July 22, 2013 Report Share Posted July 22, 2013 I like (well not LIKE, you know what I mean) the idea that Flair was trying hard to turn Cena into a boozer so he could be a proper main eventer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted July 22, 2013 Report Share Posted July 22, 2013 Also pressured Shawn Michaels into drinking years after he had given up alcohol, supposedly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artDDP Posted July 26, 2013 Report Share Posted July 26, 2013 I remember in Ted DiBiase's first book he said a similar thing about Flair during his 1992 WWF run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvd356 Posted July 26, 2013 Report Share Posted July 26, 2013 I love Flair. Who cares if he likes to go out and have some fun. Its funny how many people online(Youtube commenters) take such a moral stand against Flair. Wow he partied and banged 1000 hot chicks in his prime, what a terrible guy. Most of these same posters still blow Chris Benoit and mourn his death like he was some kind of victim. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smack2k Posted July 26, 2013 Report Share Posted July 26, 2013 I love Flair. Who cares if he likes to go out and have some fun. Its funny how many people online(Youtube commenters) take such a moral stand against Flair. Wow he partied and banged 1000 hot chicks in his prime, what a terrible guy. Most of these same posters still blow Chris Benoit and mourn his death like he was some kind of victim. OK then.... When WCW was in State College in 1999, Flair bought out the local hotel bar that some of my fraternity brothers had gone up to after Thunder..they said he was ruling the roost in that place.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradhindsight Posted July 26, 2013 Report Share Posted July 26, 2013 Also pressured Shawn Michaels into drinking years after he had given up alcohol, supposedly. I have no issue with him living it up - but that's just being an asshole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnival Posted July 26, 2013 Report Share Posted July 26, 2013 I love Flair. Who cares if he likes to go out and have some fun. Its funny how many people online(Youtube commenters) take such a moral stand against Flair. Wow he partied and banged 1000 hot chicks in his prime, what a terrible guy. Most of these same posters still blow Chris Benoit and mourn his death like he was some kind of victim. I agree with this for the most part. But as a big fan of the guy, I'd like to know he saved enough to not have to kill himself in the ring at the age of 70. Then again, there's something to be said for the old "you can't take it with you" philosophy, which Ric seems to subscribe to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ditch Posted July 26, 2013 Report Share Posted July 26, 2013 He didn't just spend it all, he spent it all and racked up huge debt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryvonKramer Posted July 26, 2013 Report Share Posted July 26, 2013 What's debt to a man who is dead? Flair's strategy to life has worked for him thus far, and will be justified by its own terms unless he ends up in jail Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted July 26, 2013 Report Share Posted July 26, 2013 Flair's strategy to life has worked for him thus far Hum... Really ? You'd qualify Flair's personnal life as something that has "worked well" ? Seriously ? I'd rather be Barry Horowitz, Mike Rotundo or Lance Storm today rather than Ric Flair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryvonKramer Posted July 26, 2013 Report Share Posted July 26, 2013 Worked well insomuch as he's still living the sort of life he thinks he wants (flash lifestyle, bars etc.) Once you start applying different measures from that, then naturally it's less successful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Log Posted July 27, 2013 Report Share Posted July 27, 2013 Broke or not, I would never rather be Lance Storm than Ric Flair. Live fast, die young and leave a good-looking corpse, man. Er...I guess it's a little late for that last part if you're Flair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvd356 Posted July 30, 2013 Report Share Posted July 30, 2013 Broke or not, I would never rather be Lance Storm than Ric Flair. Live fast, die young and leave a good-looking corpse, man. Er...I guess it's a little late for that last part if you're Flair. Yeah he's the greatest of all time. Hell if he's flat broke I'd let him live in my spare room. Flair's done so much for us as fans he deserves to live it up as an old man. Back to the morality police, what's he supposed to be saving for? His poor boy lost his battle woth the "Dragon" & I don't mean Ricky. I hope Flair's having a good time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrickHithouse Posted July 30, 2013 Report Share Posted July 30, 2013 Broke or not, I would never rather be Lance Storm than Ric Flair. Live fast, die young and leave a good-looking corpse, man. Er...I guess it's a little late for that last part if you're Flair. Love this quote. I pretty much lived by this creed in the last half of the 90's and first half of the 00's. After almost dying in 2004 and dramatically cleaning up my act after that, found I like being Lance Storm a hell of a lot more than I did being Ric Flair. That said, more power to Flair to live his life however the hell he wants to live it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyonthewall2983 Posted August 18, 2013 Report Share Posted August 18, 2013 Broke or not, I would never rather be Lance Storm than Ric Flair. It's a dated joke, but this reminded me of Bill Maher's line about how he'd rather have 64 good Sammy Davis Jr. years than 1,000 Ken Starr years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidebottom Posted August 18, 2013 Report Share Posted August 18, 2013 Love Flair's quote about having more money than time! Whoooo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr. David Rubio Posted August 19, 2013 Report Share Posted August 19, 2013 Watch the 2K14 symposium, and you'll get a couple of new drinking stories. Actually, it seems all of Ric's stories involve drinking. Here's the thing though--isn't fun anymore. Ric drinking and partying, flirting and spending, banging around behind his wife's back and not giving a fuck about anyone other than himself seemed more acceptable, in a weird way, when he was still working and stable. Now, it's clear that his life has gone further to shit without the rigid stability of being a wrestler. His hall of fame comment about his wife asking him when he was going to grow up wasn't nearly as sad as his reaction to the comment was. And especially now with the death of his son, you can tell he is drinking himself into oblivion, just waiting/hoping to get a call from WWE to come back and wrestle again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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