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In the "sport" of [[Professional Wrestling]], there are wrestlers, there are superstars, there are legends... and then there's [[Ric Flair]] (real name Richard Morgan Fliehr, born in 1949). With a career spanning four decades (starting in 1972), sixteen (at least) World Championships, legendary matches and feuds with some of the biggest names in the business, and a retirement sendoff that will likely never be duplicated in either scope or emotional impact on the fans, Flair is one of the most famous professional wrestlers who has ever lived, and is arguably one of the three biggest performers in the history of the industry (the other two being [[Hulk Hogan]] and [[Stone Cold Steve Austin]]).
For an in-depth look at his career, go check the article on him at [
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=== '''Tropes associated with THE NATURE BOY, RIC FLAIR ARE, WOOOOOOOOOOO:''' ===
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* [[Cool Old Guy]]
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Especially after [[Hulk Hogan]] joined WCW, and during the Monday Night Wars.
* [[Easily
* [[Eye Poke]]: One of his signature moves.
* [[Face Fault]]: The "Flair Flop", in which Flair would get hit a few times, stagger forward, then fall flat on his face.
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** According to pretty much everyone, Flair was fond of doing this while partying too.
{{quote| '''[[Triple H]]''': "Ric, I know I've told you this a thousand times but for God's sake, man, put your pants on!"}}
* [[Game
* ''[[God]]'' [[A God Am I|Am I]]: In TNA, he literally thinks that he is the wrestling form of ''God''. Not ''a'' god. '''God.'''
* [[Good Is Dumb]]: Inverted, as Flair would famously lure Sting (aka "[[Fan Nickname|the dumbest man in wrestling]]") into the Four Horsemen and then turn on him, kicking him out of the group. And he did it '''twice.'''
* [[Groin Attack]]: Pretty much every heel during Flair's heyday used the Low Blow. Flair [[Trope Codifier|turned it into an art form.]]
* [[Hijacked By Ganon]]: Flair was shoehorned into the infamous Black Scorpion angle in 1990.
* [[Insult Backfire]]: The widespread "Woo" after using one of Flair's moves used to be a [[Take That]] devised by [[ECW|Shane Douglas]]. It later became an endearing [[Shout
* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: With [[Shawn Michaels]] and [[Triple H]], the former of which wrestled Flair in his WWE "retirement" match and the latter inducted him into the Hall of Fame.
* [[Large Ham]]
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** [[Friendship Moment|Like the matching Rolexes he and ShawnMichaels bought to commemorate his last WWE match]].
* [[Not Cheating Unless You Get Caught]]: Again, he wasn't called "The Dirtiest Player in the Game" for no reason.
* [[Out
* [[Pixellation]]: When Flair brought the NWA Title to the WWF, it was pixellated due to legal reasons, and it was explained that Flair's NWA Title was not sanctioned by the WWF.
** The full story here is that Flair, like every NWA champion, had put down a $25,000 deposit on the belt. Since he kept winning, his deposit was never returned. When he was fired/resigned from WCW (without having been made to drop the title), the deposit was never returned so Ric kept the belt and took it with him to WWF. WCW filed a lawsuit which led to Ric wearing a WWF tag title at house shows and the Pixellation but the court still wasn't happy. In the end, WWF decided "hell with it" and put the world title on him. If it hadn't been for the lawsuit, the Hogan-Flair feud would have been far longer.
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