The TSC "Ric Flair" FML Hall Of Fame Thread

[moochoman]

Is it in poor taste for a Scott Hall nomination?
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGlvIIZccMM[/ame]

 

[R=G]

In September, Fliehr got in a fight with the 22-year-old boyfriend of his daughter Ashley at an apartment in Chapel Hill, N.C. When officers responded, they found Fliehr bloodied and bruised, lying on a bed. They described him as "elusive," and said he "just wanted everything forgotten."

Now this is just fukking ridiculous

 

[havoc00]

Flair is still running tabs up at bars not paying shyt and naitching it up hes winning, and he has this

 

[Hoss]

I just want to know if he did the famous Ric Flair Faceplant when those wives of his were punching him in the face. The man could always sell.



But yeah, for me, back in the day, he pretty much defined professional wrestling with his over-the-top persona. It's too bad he's become kind of a joke. :arn:

 

[seanjohn21276]

I just want to know if he did the famous Ric Flair Faceplant when those wives of his were punching him in the face. The man could always sell.

Ric Flair Flops - YouTube

But yeah, for me, back in the day, he pretty much defined professional wrestling with his over-the-top persona. It's too bad he's become kind of a joke. :arn:

It would have been sad if he did.

 

[Bob Loblaw]

Flair is still running tabs up at bars not paying shyt and naitching it up hes winning, and he has this

Man, Ric Flair financial is the equivalent of Nick Hogan opening a driving school

 

[havoc00]

Man, Ric Flair financial is the equivalent of Nick Hogan opening a driving school

 

[havoc00]

Looks like a weak economy has put a headlock on Ric Flair’s foray into the finance business after less than a year.

The 16-time World Heavyweight Champion’s Internet-based company, Ric Flair Finance, is no more. When visiting ricflairfinance.com - ricflairfinance Resources and Information., the site that once boasted the “Figure-Four Process” of securing a loan now simply lists contact information for booking a Flair personal appearance.

A person who answered the phone at the contact, the Columbia, S.C.-based Gillespie Agency, confirmed that Ric Flair Finance is out of business. The person didn’t know how long the company had been offline but that the finance company had been trying to “wrap things up for awhile.” The company opened last September.

 

[Project Downtime]

Man, Ric Flair financial is the equivalent of Nick Hogan opening a driving school

Looks like a weak economy has put a headlock on Ric Flair’s foray into the finance business after less than a year.

The 16-time World Heavyweight Champion’s Internet-based company, Ric Flair Finance, is no more. When visiting ricflairfinance.com - ricflairfinance Resources and Information., the site that once boasted the “Figure-Four Process” of securing a loan now simply lists contact information for booking a Flair personal appearance.

A person who answered the phone at the contact, the Columbia, S.C.-based Gillespie Agency, confirmed that Ric Flair Finance is out of business. The person didn’t know how long the company had been offline but that the finance company had been trying to “wrap things up for awhile.” The company opened last September.

As in September 2011?

 

[THEREALBRAND]

You can't say the name Ric Flair without someone in the room yelling out a high-pitched "WOOOO!" It's impossible. Try it the next time you're at a funeral.

The man has been in the wrestling business (fukk your "sports entertainment," it's goddamn "wrestling" -- "wrasslin'" if you're nasty) for 40 years. The guy is in better shape at age 63 than most of us will ever be at our physical peak. But even he knew that he couldn't do this forever. Even though he basically has. So a few years back, he set his sights on a non-physical retirement plan in the form of a finance and loan company. Not a bad idea, right? You invest as a partner, let the professionals handle the loans and just sit back and collect the money.

So he partnered with a few people who used his name and image to help propel the company into the spotlight. And they held nothing back. The logo featured him in the full sequined robe with his classic slicked back albino-white hair. They referred to their model as "The Figure 4 Process." They scattered ads all over the Net, featuring him in the flamboyant neon pink feather boa, doing the "WOOOOO" face. This was Ric Flair's company, and by God, he'd slap the lips off of your financial worries.

That's a pretty solid plan if finance companies weren't some of the most difficult businesses to keep alive in a shytty economy. It sounds like the opposite should be true, doesn't it? The worse off the economy, the more people need to borrow money? But it turns out that when the shyt hits the fan, people keep a tighter leash on their spending. And when they do take out a loan, the number of defaults goes through the roof -- partly because the interest rates and fees at those places are virtually criminal, and people find it impossible to keep up with the payments. This isn't speculation. My fiancee manages one of these places, and she deals with the data on a daily basis.

Ric found that out less than a year later, when the business imploded. Now, don't think this was just a case of him investing in a bad opportunity. This was something he had been planning with his wife for two years prior to diving in. He wasn't going in uneducated. The biggest problem with Ric Flair, though, is Ric Flair, and here's where the ultimate irony comes in.

He's been in a near-homeless level of financial crisis for years. He's not only buried himself under multiple years of unpaid taxes, but he's defaulted on so many loans that he finds himself in a courtroom as often as the ring. He's been known to put up his title belts as collateral for loans on more than one occasion, and then skip the payments until he faces actual jail time. Want to know how bad it's gotten? Take a few minutes to read this. It's surreal.

On the upside, Ric did find a somewhat happy ending in the form of securing a commercial deal for an energy drink. See, as consumers, we're more comfortable with this. It's easier to trust in giving a few bucks for an energy shot that makes you scream "WOOOO" than putting your financial stability in the hands of a man who routinely whipped out his cock on passenger jets.

 

[Bob Loblaw]

Damn, I bet Ric sees his name in the headlines, gets on his knees and pleads for them not to talk shyt about him. I mean, they beat the fukk out of him. I'm sure he does the occasional Flair flop at his laptop.

 

[Bk's Mr Incredible]

off topic but...

 

[Scotch Hall]