Ric Flair
The "Nature Boy"
Ric Flair (born
Richard Morgan Fliehr on
February 25,
1949 in
Minneapolis, Minnesota) has dominated the
professional wrestling scene for four decades starting in the
AWA in 1972. After three years with AWA Flair left for the
NWA where he held the NWA Championship nine times. Flair left
WCW (a group run by Ted Turner which had just abdicated from the NWA "alliance") in 1991 and had his first run in the
WWF including winning the WWF Title in a 30-man Royal Rumble. Flair returned to WCW in 1993 where he stayed until the company was bought out by
Vince McMahon's WWF. Flair lost the company's final match on March 26, 2001 to his longtime rival Sting. After a brief hiatus from pro-wrestling Flair returned to the WWF in late 2001 as the "co-owner" of the company. Flair still wrestles in the
WWE (the WWF's new name) and has joined forces with multi-time WWE Champion
Triple H.
Late in 2003, WWE released a three-DVD retrospective of Flair's career, The Ultimate Ric Flair Collection. It became WWE's fastest-selling video package to date.