I wanted to mention a memory I have of Ric. I lived in Idowild Farms in Charlotte, NC and Ric lived on powder horn or pepper hill, one street over from my street Red Carriage Lane. It was 1973 and was 7 years old and I walked over to his house and rang the doorbell. Ric answered the door and was as nice as he could be. He gave me his autograph and really made my day or month or year. I’m 56 now and remember that day well.
@@dougfredricks2017 - My sister went to independence high school. My other sisters went to Albermarle Road Junior high and I went to Albermarle elementary and then they shipped me to Druid hills elementary during the renovation of races in the school system. I’ve been down in Fort Lauderdale for the past 42 years.
That’s a good story. Didn’t even realize Flair was in Charlotte only one year into his career. Since he worked in the AWA then. And in 73 he wasn’t even the nature boy yet.
My bro is Jason Sensation. He's was sleeping in his room and I saw Bobby Heenan on TV with Ric Flair's belt. I ran as fast as I could to tell him and we ran back downstairs, both jumped over the coffee table and end table to sit up close in front of the TV, and watched in awe.. It was so important. Such an amazing memory :)
@@wickerman26 he is.. It was funny growing up with Him doing impressions all day in the house. Ludvig Borga and Paul Bearer for days & days.. Psycho Sid getting angry at a plate of spaghetti.. 😆😆
Heh, it always struck me as funny how Vince didn't mind using the NWA/WCW belt on his tv, then 5 or 6 years later, did what he did to Bret because he was apparently afraid of Bret going to WCW with the old winged eagle....
im so glad you mentioned that i am a bret fan and after montreal screwjob all i hear was vince was afraid eric would show the belt on wcw nitro and destroy vince and im like are you kidding vince did that with ric flair and the big gold belt people seem to forget so im glad you remembered
Flair going to the WWF in the early 90's was BIG!I mean that wouldve been like Stone Cold Steve Austin going to the WCW in the Attitude Era!But Flair to WWF that time was something nobody thought would ever happen.Not even Hogan to the WCW in the mid to late 90's had that impact.
They actually did in the late 70's. At MSG Cards Vince dumbass Jr. would not only state that AWA (Boring ass Verne) would appear, but promoted later that night, N.W.A. Champ Harley Race was defending the Belt against "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes!
With a career like Ric Flair's ... He's is the ONLY athlete EVER to have a belt, robe and a catch phrase (Wooo) symbolically tied to him FOREVER and that in and itself is legendary and immortal. 500 years from now people will be talking about Ric Flair before or after seeing the Big Gold Belt. God bless you Ric 🙏
I was the only NWA fan in my class. Everyone was a WWF fan and never watched the NWA. They laughed when I would tell them that Ric Flair was the real world champion because, I would say, "WWF is fake and NWA is real." I know this is unpopular to say, but I was disappointed when Flair's first WWF feud was with Piper. I wanted him to go straight to Hogan. Piper wasn't in the world title picture, so I felt it made Ric look less important.
I know it, was just thinking about that recently how they just missed each other. Kind of similar in 93 how when Luger came in Flair left right after. I thought they were going to form a stable at the time.
That NWA big gold belt is THE best World Championship Belt ever created. Every other belt looks cheap and fake, the other belts look like the merchandise they sell to kids.
DDP owns a cast replica. Rumor is that Scott Steiner had the original Big Gold for years until he sold it to Conrad. I don't know if that's true or not.
