Jmare007
pico pal q lee
With age comes wisdom and being open to changing your point of view when new facts present themselves. Flair is one of the GOATs after all
Was RIC Flair a Good In-Ring Worker
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Waterproof
Warrior Lifestyle
Yes
Despite burning my Flair Stan Card due to his racism, he is easily Top 5 OAT bell to bell and the overall GOAT.
Breh the HitMang
Thank You Kobe
Bret Hart > Flair
At what?
Breh the HitMang
Thank You Kobe
at wrestling
No sir, and I love Bret.
Breh the HitMang
Thank You Kobe
put a best of Ric Flair and ill challenge u with a best of Bret Hart
Elim Garak
Veteran
Yes lmao
TheBigBopper
Banned
I don’t really get it. I was born in ‘89, so by the time I started watching wrestling, flair was way out of his prime. But I watch his old matches and feel underwhelmed. Dude does the same corny ass contrived spots every single match and wins by the skin of his teeth. He’s a hokey heel version of 1980s Hulk Hogan only with a wider move set. Flair is a 8 or 9 on the mic but I don’t understand the hype over his ring work.
threattonature
Veteran
The Flair formula was needed during his prime. I'm reading old observers from 84 and god damn I have no idea how Flair kept up his schedule. It seemed like 75% of the American territory updates would have a Flair title defense against the top wrestler in each territory. Long ass matches too and all of seeming good quality. He seemed to be the best at going in and putting over the top wrestler in each territory to the point they were even bigger after wrestling Flair cause he did such a great job of making his opponents look strong which makes him one of the GOATs.
TheBigBopper
Banned
Difference between these guys and flair is that his spots seem more like cut scenes from a video game than just the typical five moves of doom. Flair always does that begging on his knees shyt, then the low blow, the bump off the top rope after attempting a cross body, the flair flop and the flip over the rope. He does entire formulaic sequences—it’s not realistic—whereas the other guys just do moves that show up in every match.
Jmare007
pico pal q lee
Here we go again with blaming Flair with a "formula" 
Every damn wrestler worth a damn has a formula. You might not like the ones Naitch had (because yes, he had more than one) and that's cool but I don't think y'all realize how y'all sound when throwing that statement around. Your favorites also have a formula
I feel this is a very philosophical question when it comes to wrestling's tastes. Considering what I like in wrestling, Bret should be ahead in my book. But he isn't, it's not even close actually, I value Flair waay more than Bret.
Hart as always been like a perfect wrestling robot in my view, he just doesn't connect with me even though I recon how he excelled at basically everything he did inside the ring. Naitch was way "dumber" when it came to work, but the fukker is always compelling to watch.
I always struggle with this. A Flair match against Jumbo or Tenryu is fairly different than one against Brody or Wahoo McDahiel. And both of those matches are different than a match against Barry Windham
Every damn wrestler worth a damn has a formula. You might not like the ones Naitch had (because yes, he had more than one) and that's cool but I don't think y'all realize how y'all sound when throwing that statement around. Your favorites also have a formula
I feel this is a very philosophical question when it comes to wrestling's tastes. Considering what I like in wrestling, Bret should be ahead in my book. But he isn't, it's not even close actually, I value Flair waay more than Bret.
Hart as always been like a perfect wrestling robot in my view, he just doesn't connect with me even though I recon how he excelled at basically everything he did inside the ring. Naitch was way "dumber" when it came to work, but the fukker is always compelling to watch.
I always struggle with this. A Flair match against Jumbo or Tenryu is fairly different than one against Brody or Wahoo McDahiel. And both of those matches are different than a match against Barry Windham
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He was good but I personally didn't care that much for his matches outside of a few.