This hour-long WCW tribute to Ric Flair is actually a decent highlight package of "The Nature Boy," despite it’s short length.
Plenty of vintage footage shown in extremely brief highlights while during interview with Flair, Sting, Dusty Rhodes, the late Gordon Solie, Arn Anderson and others.
A Four Horsemen throughout the years is also featured ... showing footage of every incarnation of the Horsemen, except for, of course, "The Mongo" period.
Hard-core Flair fans will enjoy the childhood pictures of real "Nature Boy."
Matches shown (yet still edited)...
Flair vs Harley Race (steel cage; NWA heavyweight championship): Flair wins with (surprisingly) a high cross body off the top rope. If you don’t believe me, watch the tape!
Flair (escorted to the ring by about a thousand women) vs. Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat (accompanied by his wife, their son and a horse ... yet again, if you don’t believe me, watch the tape!): Flair wins with an inside cradle and becomes champ for the 6th time.
Flair vs. Vader: This was back when WCW had two heavyweight title belts ... the NWA Title later changed to the International Heavyweight title then just "the gold belt." Vader was the official WCW champ and this match with Flair is unquestionably one of the best for both men.
(Just a Flair-related question ... why is it that when Flair went back to WCW, his two WWF title reigns were never added to the number of times Flair held world titles; however when Hogan jumped to WCW, The Hulkster’s WWF title reigns were always acknowledged. Hmmm ... just something to think about.)
Flair-Vader was a an amazing match ... Vader was still a force and Flair was still in his prime. Some very stiff action here with Flair getting a bloody mouth in the process. Harley Race, obviously still mad over that whole cross-body-thing discussed earlier, tries to interfere and shortly thereafter, a bloody Flair scores the win after a roll-up.
Despite the highlight format and the interviews (some of which should had been edited instead of the matches), this is still a decent tape for Flair fans wanting to re-live the "glory days" long before there was a referee called "Little Natch," back when the Horsemen were threatening and Flair rarely lost a match.
Something else to think about ... whatever happened to "Fifi?"
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