When your idol, the man you WANTED to be when you just started your career, is telling people that you did more than he EVER could. I meant who wouldn't cry?!
That is what is called "respect" toward your fellow colleagues, your champions...your friends for life. What Harley said, he meant every word of it, too. The greatest showman and the toughest man on that stage there. This is the part of wrestling that was real. The bumps, the blood, the glory, and the rarest part of wrestling - life long friendships.
Those tears came from a cold sober Ric Flair. I've never seen him this serious in any interview. What a privilege for that audience to be in that small hotel conference room with these two legends. Like coal miners, the wrestlers who came up during the age of the territories are a dying breed. The world will not see their kind again. I'm glad they're such good sports and give all of these interviews that you find here. They do not dismiss their fans. It's an oral history of an age that has passed. Dang this clip was good. I almost feel that these words would never have been spoken between these men if it wasn't for the audience. True performers: the audience gives them permission to be courageous.
In starrcade of 1983 Ric flair and Harley Race for the NWA worlds heavyweight championship, will go down as one of the greatest matches in wrestling history. A true classic wrestling match. Thank you Ric and Harley for the memories.😁👍👍❤️🤼♂️🤼♀️🤼😄😀
Can there be higher praise from a legend to another legend!!! Flair and Harley 2 of the best ever to lace up the boots.Harleys word's also tell you Flair is the GOAT.
Two men that really loved their profession and gave it everything they had. It’s wonderful to see them getting the love they deserve for entertaining so many people.
FUN FACT: Flair's wrestling career almost came to an end after he survived a plane crash in 1975 that broke his back. His perseverance and determination to rehabilitate himself after that shows the willpower that Flair has.
imagine having all those near death experiences and getting another chance at life and being able to hear all the stuff people usually say after your dead. this makes me so happy. i never was a big flair fan as a kid i always thought the giant wrestlers were more entertaining but the older i got the more i valued flairs personality and gimmick. when your 8 you think you need muscles to be a champ but flair proved hes eternal
What Harley said said at the end really does put "Walk That Aisle" into perspective! On a side note, WPP has been missed Big Time! Very Grateful for this post! Salute To The Loyal Riders Of The Workin' Punch Productions Posse out there!
It's one thing to get the applause and the accolades when you are being "The Nature Boy." When you get the applause and the accolades because you are being Mr. Ric Flair, it's another thing completely. In the ring, the fans applaud what you've done. Outside the ring, in a hotel conference room, the fans applaud who you are. Mad respect for Flair _and_ Race...
Ric Flair calls Harley Race the greatest and Harley Race calls Flair the best. U can definitely feel Flair energy when Harley said that about him. 2 of the greatest of all time in same room talking wrestling.
First off Harley is the toughest guy ever to step inside the squared circle. And Harley was a dear friend of mine. Harley was a great guy but don't piss him off or sit in the passenger seat of his car lol. Miss ya Harley, RIP sir
Damn who sat in the passenger seat of his car? Are you speaking from experience 😳 haha what a legend he was! He must of been a great friend as'well! 🙏🏾💯
❤🙏❤ ... Wow ... And yes Harley meant every single words he said - I truly believe if someone offered Harley $10,000 ca$h to say something on camera in front of a live audience that was a lie or that he sincerely did not believe he absolutely without any doubt would not say it . And what makes this even more special is that Harley is widely regarded as the greatest legitimate NWA champion of all time by many people around the world . Harley was " The toughest and greatest wrestler on God's green Earth " . This video is truly something special . Thank you for uploading this piece of history ❤🙏❤
JJ Dillon once said that if he was in a fox hole behind enemy lines he would take Haku. Well let me tell you I would take Harley. I don’t think there was a tougher son of a bitch alive! Legit as fuck! He would just tell the enemy “ let me tell you daddy “
That is one of the problems that happens when you get older, your tear ducts get a mind of their own, tears will start rolling down your cheeks over stuff that don't even concern you, and your dam why the hell is this happening?then something that maybe you should cry about happens, and your eyes are dry as a potato chip
@@michaelrose3101 No. You didn't think it was around that time. You knew, deep down, that it was around that time. Just before Michael Cole, the Bellas, and all the other subhumans erased pro wrestling from history.
Harley Was The Man The Man he Passed the Torch to The Next Man Such Greatness in Both.Massive Respect Ric i seen in Torontos Maple Leaf Gardens against Jack Brisco another Legend.
Harley Race was the greatest NWA champion of the 1970s and that's saying a lot when you think of all the great champions that reigned in that organization. Dory Funk, Terry Funk, Jack Brisco, and Dusty Rhodes.
say what you want about Ric, i get it, but his respect most of his fellow wrestlers is iconic.....Steamboat, Race, Sting , Undertaker is without exception
Flair would come to Texas in the 80's and one night would fight a Von Erich, then the next night fight a Freebird. The crowd never knew quite how to respond.
It doesnt take much to make Flair cry. He cries about 15 times per day. He is emotionally fragile and has been since Jim Herd gave him a nervous breakdown in the early 90s.
Rick flair vs randy savage was the best match i ever seen and i didnt think so as a kid but now i know and when u really know they were the best two ever as far as not being behemoths and there gimmick not being there size or there look but their wrestling abilities and ON THE MIC 🎤 THE TWO HARDEST PARTS
Remember when everyone made it a big deal when Undertaker said it was a tougher business back then and everyone now was soft compared to then? He was right.
