The Self-Destruction Of Ric Flair
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- čas přidán 15. 04. 2024
- Explore the turbulent and compelling journey of wrestling icon Ric Flair in this detailed documentary. Known as "The Nature Boy," Flair is celebrated for his flamboyant style, charisma, and incredible in-ring performances, but his career has also faced significant challenges and controversies. This video delves into the highs and lows of his professional life, including financial struggles, legal issues, and personal battles that have impacted his legacy. Through interviews with wrestling historians, peers, and analysis of key moments in his career, we uncover the complexities of fame and the pressures it brings. This in-depth look at Ric Flair's downfall provides a nuanced understanding of his impact on wrestling and the personal costs of living in the spotlight. Join us as we uncover the story behind the glittering robes and championship belts to reveal the human side of a wrestling legend.
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Ric Flair is still beloved to most of the wrestling world
Me included
Nah.
You can love someone's work and be repulsed by other degenerate aspects of their personality. Crazy, right?
drug dealer
@@WrestlePodclearly not if you made this video. So disrespectful.
Bret hart has talked about people becoming wrestling tragedies. More often than not it was because they didn't know when to stop being their on screen character and just be the every day person
In a case of soft irony it's funny Bret would say that because it kind of seemed he was being himself the entire time. And don't get me wrong, I love Bret Hart. But I suppose his bitter output about the business sometimes makes me think if he ought to make more of a distinction between his ideal version of wrestling and what is actually going on.
@@Yriel129 Bret has one of the most tragic stories in the history of the business. Gets screwed on live TV (and a lot of it was his fault, don't care what anyone says, not getting into it), Vince then kllls his brother on live TV, and then gets kicked in the head by Goldberg at the height of the Monday night wars and ends his career at 43, when a guy like Bret easily had another decade near the top. He then had a stroke and lost all contact with his brother's widow and has spent the last decade and a half bashing guys who deserve it like Goldberg, to petty backstage politics issues he should've let go long ago with guys like Hogan and Michaels.
@@crispycruiser4654As you've stated yourself, sir, Bret did bring nuch, not all of it of course, on himself💯
What was revealed in _Dark Side of the Ring: Plane Ride From Hell_ has heavily tarnished Ric Flair’s reputation.
and owing money to everyone
Hearing Teddy Long talk about his experiences with Ric Flair on multiple occasions tarnished his rep for me.
Always funny considering he’s been telling stories of the robe thing for years and years. People always laughed about it until there was public anger from this doc. Sure, the argument about the change will focus on how he cornere the flight attendant but would there really be argument that over years of exposing himself unsolicited like that didn’t include events like this occurring multiple times? Who he is and what he’s done has never been a secret culture and what is seen as accepted behavior has simply changed in the years since then.
@@Matt-cr4vvbro he was like 55 years old when that happened and he had kids the same age as that flight attendant. Dude knew better but was literally a sex offender
The gal making those claims in that episode had recently robbed a jewelry store with her partner and has a long criminal record of identity theft and fraud
I had the weirdest dream the other night that Ric came to my house to party but he was broke and kept trying to steal stuff LMAO
Don’t eat cheese before bed
Bro, I had that same freaking dream, except it was Little Tokyo. 😮
That was actually me and it wasn’t a dream
Rick Flair is his own man; the only thing he did wrong. is believe his PR. IT'S A WORK RICK..LOVE.U MAN
He's a wheelin and dealin, laptop stealin, son of a gun, WOOOO!
“Whoever made this video, I’ll meet you outside in the parking lot of the pizza parlor!” -Ric Flair
🤣🤣
RF: What's your name?
"Nicholas"
RF: Nicholas DICKHEAD!!
To me it seems quite simple, the wrestling character is more fun to them than their real life, so they just become that character 24/7 instead
"I needed the money"
-Ric Flair in every era of his career
And when he had he money he pissed it all away by spending beyond his means
@@derek-64 and now he donates to Trump.
the most ridiculous things about this is he did that all the time it wasn't just on that plane ride he did it every time he was on a plane watch old interviews before this happened they talk about it freely especially JJ Dillon
It’s all so gross
Actors , entertainers , wrestlers , singers ... They are also human beings . We tend to judge people , but we sometimes forget we too do make mistakes .
I don't make mistakes......I am one 😂
Rick does three things better than anyone on earth: alcoholism, crying and blowing money, woo!
The irony of at least the road rage incident alone, is we could have been deprived of one of Edge’s finest moments
Edge sucks.
Not even three weeks and it's already out of date to Ric making his legacy worse.
Brutal
Was never able to buy the Ric Flair Character.
Ric might've paid the price? But his character pays the ultimate price for wanting to hang on. Ric? I'll say it honestly man. Retire. And moderate your former life. You're paying the extreme results of your extreme lies you're trying to hold onto brother. We still love you. And there's no shame in letting it go. Love you Ric.
I love how some of these comments are people like picking you apart for just stating facts about a person. You weren’t excuse me you are never hurtful derogatory nasty in any of these videos. Were you talking about destruction of wrestlers or how you feel about this or the other I mean, you’re just giving us information that’s already out into the world. Thank you for what you do. Keep it up.
This is very kind. It is hard to not let my personal opinions natural seep into these videos but I do try to present facts
@@WrestlePod well keep it up obviously all of your videos are gonna have a little a self opinion in them and I think that’s why we love you because even if you feel this way or that way about you still present fax and anyone can appreciate that!
Very true
Except the title is "The Self Destruction of Ric Flair" which is alluding that his life is in shambles and nobody cares about him, which isn't accurate.
@@karlepaul6632 No, that's not at all what it alludes to.
What it alludes to is that as his career has moved forward, he reached a peak and then his reputation and career has declined over his own decisions.
Never put another man on a pedestal. Idc what they do. Especially these entertainers. They are not to be idolized.
Ric flair has endured hardship in his life, nearly died and he triumphed. He was an example of what you could accomplish if you pushed yourself to make it. His reputation in and out of the ring is well known. Ric flair the wrestler is one of the greatest in ring performers of all time, a pop culture icon. Even if you didnt watch wrestling you knew
" wooooo!" Was ric flair. I even got to meet flair in 2018. He was a class act. I hope he gets his life together before its really too late.
He has to get right with God. His earthly time is running out.
The truth is, many - if not a majority - go through as much or more hardship than did flair, and with a tiny fraction of the resources and opportunities. Ric made bad, silly, selfish, immature choices - daily - for decades. Fanboys can romanticize it all they like - but that is the truth.
After what happened last week, this video aged so perfectly 👌 well... 😅😅😅 The Nature Boy is a Legend Amongst Us All, but his personal life.... 😔
We will be seated.
An obviously talented, high strung, large ego boy that never grew up. A staple of the alcoholic. Love the man but it’s tough to watch.
Love Ric Flair. Always will.
My list of 5 Star Flair Matches
1. Chi town Rumble vs Steamboat
2. Two out of Three falls match vs steamboat Clash of the Champions
3. Wreslewar 89 vs steamboat
4. Flair vs Funk Troy NY 89
5. Flair vs Vader Starrcade
6. Flair vs Vader battledome
7. 92 Royal Rumble
8. Flair vs HBK Wrestlemania
9 Flair vs Ronnie Garvin Detroit MI 87
10. Flair vs Taker Wrestlemania
Those are the ones off the top of my head. I am sure there are more. I am not sure if Flair vs Savage at WM8 is a 5 star or not, I can see both sides of the argument.
Flair vs Funk I QUIT MATCH Pittsburgh Pa 1989
Flair vs funk they went Broadway can't remember 89 I think
There is no downfall of Ric flair. He helped make wrestling what it is today and is a beloved icon. Does that mean he's a great person? Nah... But his character will live on forever
Did you see his last match
Do you huff on helium regularly?
A guy with this voice could never be ric flair or understand a guy like ric flair
@@usernameluis305 what a drunk old man who used to be a pretend fighter
You seem crazy dumb
@@usernameluis305 Its AI
One thing I know for sure is that dutch mantell is a real one 💯
Just an FYI, that portion at about 9:00 where you were reading off the locations he went through, for L.A. you said Louisiana. I am pretty sure he was referencing Los Angeles. Simply based off the fact everything else in that list was also a city and not a state.
Love your narrations on these wrestling videos.
Very well orchestrated and brings back so much nostalgia.
Thank you for your uploads.
Glad you like them!
At least Ric Flair doesn't tell grandiose lies on an epic scale like Terry Bollea
The sad part is there's another video this week you could include in this.
So sad
I've watched since I was a kid in the late 80s, and even then people talked about guys who just couldn't let go. He lived his life 24/7 in character. Then he never wanted to let go. Now you can do social media, but constantly being that person leads to alot of the things wrestlers go through.
Lil Naitch made his presence known on The Plane Ride From Hell, too😂😂hehe
Ironically his biggest addiction that he refuses to quit is the wrestling
“The guy would eat 6 New York strip steaks a day” no wonder hunter has heart issues
I love this channel buddy. Really do. I watch and look forward to all your videos. I hope this channel never changes 🤞🏻🤞🏻
I appreciate that!
Let's see what Teddy Long has to say about Ric.
Self-destruction of Ric Flair, huh?
You can say whatever you want about the man and what he's done, god knows he's screwed up and done some terrible things, but personally I've always been really uncomfortable with people using his son's death as content for videos. I feel like you could have been a little more tasteful about the subject, starting from not adding in the 911 call. As a man who's been in a similar situation, hearing a father distraught and in immense pain from seeing his son dying in front of him doesn't fucking track for me. You've done amazing documentaries before and I've watched a bunch of em but I can't help but draw the line here. I'm not about to tell you what to do with your content, it's your thing and you'll do it in whichever way you want and I pray you don't take such criticism at face value.
Please explain how you make a documentary about Ric Flair's downfall without bringing up his son. And I didn't hear any 911 call
@@bajorekjonits in the first minute of the video
Yeah idk I thought u were kinda over reacting a bit but I rewatched the intro and transitioning Ric Flairs phone call for his dead son to the opening title is pretty gross man
@@jeus_cnt i have to agree with you actually. I didn't think I would but after rewatching it, yeah, I have to agree with you
As someone who has lost a child, I wouldn't wish that pain on my worst enemy and I only knew the child I lost for about 30 minutes. She passed away shortly after birth, and it wrecked me. I can't imagine what Ric went through. It was no secret that he absolutely adored Reid and saw him as a chance at redemption for his failings as a father to his older children. And Ric was Reids idol. By no means am I saying that Reid should not have been included in this video. But I do agree with the original commenter, this is an absolutely phenomenal video, but playing the 911 call was, in my opinion a bit too much.
"ahead of his time"
Mike Tyson has CTE
Flair doesn't need to be on tv anymore he is passed his prime
@@Rowdy_2469he was passed his prime in 1999. He could have retired after his run in the WWE in the early 90’s and that would have probably been better.
@@brian_b_musicI been telling everyone that. WCW was his final frontier and even then he shouldn't of been there doin what he was doin. Love flairs character but it was hard watching him cut promos. I thought he for real was going to have a heart attack
@@NoelCo-yd1gu Oh yeah you compare his work in the late 90’s to his work in the 80’s and early 90’s. He hurt his own legacy, it was embarrassing to watch. Even as a young kid I could see he needed to hang it up.
@@NoelCo-yd1gu I need all the attention - WOOOO!
Meanwhile, Jesse Ventura has been married for FORTY-NINE years.
I stopped buying tickets to wrestling matches when the AWA fell apart in the mid-80s. I couldn't take the looney-tooney crap of the WWE. It sounds like the wrestlers weren't just acting like cartoon characters.
For some reason I read that all caps part in Jesse Ventura's voice like he was talking about being in the Navy Seals
Jesse is the most unique person in wrestling history. So different from everyone else outside the ring
I watch wrestling to be entertained. Flair was always entertaining, particularly his mic work. When I look for saints I don't think I'll start looking for them in professional wrestling.....🤔
No matter what is said about Ric, the fact remains that he is custom made from head to toe and he's having a hard time keeping his alligators down.
I started watching wrestling in 1983 when we got cable for a very first time where I lived in Ohio. It was on the superstation WTBS by first saw Ric Flair. The character drew me in to Wrestling along with the American Dream Dusty Rhodes, then in 1985 with Jim Cornett. Growing up as a teenager I always wanted to be these three characters rolled up in the one. Mind you I was in my early teens. I looked up to these people. I think everybody that watch Pro Wrestling at my age, back then, wanted to be a pro wrestler. Larger than life. Decades later, as I grew up and started the pill back the layers of the onion that’s Ric Flair. I saw a man that was desperately seeking this still be relevant in a changing age of professional wrestling. The exploits that he did on the “ Plane ride from Hell “ Now in our set of values in this generation is repulsive. But when it happened in the early 2000s it was just “ Ric being Ric” none of us thinking about how the other people on the plane and the crew felt about it. I feel sorry for him and honor him in the same sentence. His achievements in professional wrestling and pulp culture is iconic. I hope now in 2024. He has learned lessons of his past and his leaving a productive life. He has a Storage career and he has touched a lot of professional wrestling fans and the general public. I want him to be remembered for the man he was and is, instead of all the exploits he has done in the past. As long as he’s learned his lessons and he can share his stories with other professional wrestlers, and people in life in general then he is great in my book. We all make mistakes. Sometimes costly mistakes that hurt people but nonetheless, we are only human.
WOOOOOOOOOO!
I was so thrilled to see you take on this heavy task. Your writing and info digging is too tier stuff. You have the moxie to take on some controversial topics and i love it.
Soon as i seen the length of this, i stopped and got a drink, my vape pen and watched this. Great job. I really mean that. Keep them coming.
So nice to have someone who likes my content so much! Appreciate it
The saddest thing about Flair now is that he could use his fame and promo abilities to do a lot of good for so many charities and groups that do good in communities etc. But the only thing he cares about is where his next drink is coming from, and who is buying it. And yes, when l worked in an airport I saw him plop down at a bar at 6:00:01 am when alcohol sales could start and begin hammering Sam Adams before he went through security. Then he stopped off in the terminal to slam shots. How he was not hammered drunk getting on the plane I have no idea. And honestly, he looked terrible. It would be nice to see him realize that The Nature Boy is long gone, and Richard Fleihr needs to face reality.
The Ric Flair that we knew and loved died after his 2008 retirement match against Shawn Michaels
And what an ending that would have been!!!
@@WrestlePod I choose to believe that the Ric Flair we have left is the result of CTE, senility, and decades of alcoholism catching up to him. I'm pretending it's not even the same guy.
It's a shame he never managed to get off his character.
I got a Ric Flair Tshirt it says Nature Boy in Gold and Black T-shirt.
Classic
I don't care what he did or didn't he is the fukin goat he gets a pass for entertaining me and millions of others
the t-nuc that runs this channel, what tf has he ever accomplished? survive a plane crash? wrestle after the doctors said "never again"? wrestle over 1,000 "broadways"? (which are 60min time limit draws) conquer japan? travel over 250,000 miles by car across the u.s over a 15yr period? make 30,000$ over 4 days in 1980's texas?
Flair was just the guy from the 70's party that never grew up. It's not a good look when youre older.
I did the living like there's no tomorrow, just like Fast Freddie Filllups (@ Billups) but tomorrow always came bebopping along
Great quote
Could never come near Bruno. A True Champion 🏆
You should do one like this for Ted DiBiasse. You know, hit job tho like hiw the character and the man are indistinguishable? I mean everyone, including brett favre, has a price for the Mi$$i$$ippi $cam. Good video, you sir get a like.
The GOAT. The real worlds Hw champ isn’t in the gutters . Ric Flair has most definitely had a rough career
He wrestled the same match over and over and over
I guess I had to be alive in the 70s and 80s cause what I saw 95-09 almost the same thing constantly
Every mark says the same shit. "He wrestled the same match all the time". Get a life Jabroni.
As a wrestler. Great. AS a person 😢
I agree
Ric likes to party, you gotta tell him no.
Ric Flair - the Hulk Hogan of wrestling.
Ric Flair is a 1,000 times better than that steroid using bigot Hogan
Tony the Snowman will pay you Ric!
I knew there was something special about Flair back in 1975 when I was 6 years old. I watched wrestling and then I'd put a white t-shirt over my head like it was blond hair and act like him screaming WOOOO! This was before he had ever played a good guy.
NOBODYS PERFECT INCLUDING RIC FLAIR,GOD BLESS YOU # HE IS A LEGEND!YALL OVER USE THAT WORD BUT THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF A LEGEND💯💯💯💯
No addiction problems just drinking.wow gonna end in a horrible way
He didnt change. Everything and everyone around him did. Rick Flair stayed true to himself. And we all loved that man before society wanted a change.
Ric Flair was the Duane The Rock Johnson of the 80's he was
great on the microphone and he sold a lot of seats
A much better wrestler.
Funny this came out shortly before his recent drunken incident at a restaurant.
Should have waited
More people love Ric Flair than hate him... that's just a FACT!
His Name is Rick Blair,Wrestled in Aus years ago and that was the name they announced
Ric Flair !
A Living Legend over 40 Years he dominated the Wrestling World !
Nature Boy Thank You and our deepest Respect to You !!!
Flair financial problem
Flair acc balance : $2millions
My financial problem
My acc Balance : $0.16
Ric Flair wont do what old guys do. Go home. Just let it go. U go out get drunk and embarrass yourself and your family. The kill tony comedy show was so cringe.
He was adopted, it makes you wonder if alcoholism runs in his family. Obviously he was an unplanned pregnancy.
Yeah no. He was stolen. Then sold for adoption
At least he would never make fun of someone's time
It’s a wonder his entire forehead isn’t scarred from all those slices.
L.A. is for Los Angeles. Not Louisiana. FYI.
I definitely worry that Ric is going to be make headlines soon for bad reasons. Doesn't seem like he's on a very good path and he's seems to be quite erratic and unfortunately there's a line of people ready to put a microphone and video camera in front of him to record his struggles. Some might say that's karma but I still don't enjoy watching anyone suffer with mental health and addiction issues. I hope he gets help before it's too late.
One thing about ric flair is, he can never be part away from wrestling and clearly he seeking "death doing what his loved" but by risking ruining his images on fans and other wrestlers work with him at this time. He's still stuck in his past glory. and clearly shown he still pushed to have last match that nobody want to see/do anymore especially after we witness how scary the last match he does. His will is amazing but his body can't do it anymore.
I just wish he know when to stop before he hurt himself, really he has more glory than most golden age wrestlers and have nothing left to proof. Time to be the wise one than the reckless one.
The man survived a plane crash, became a superstar. Lived the life that some would dream about. And we expect him to be a saint this is a man that has lived on the razor's Edge his entire life there is no shame in his game but he has had that run.
No, but we *do* expect him to fucking grow up at some point. Sexually assaulting women when you're over 50 is something else. Come on man, be better
Way to turn your head. Lucky he's not in jail. Just ask Shane Douglas.
Kinda weird to just wave off a dude committing sexual assault.
@@epicwinnington8602 if you look at what all those guys did back in the day they're pretty horrendous people but at the same time he's one of the few Lucky Ones Still Alive to actually remember some of it.
Father time is undefeated
Hard to feel sorry for him he was born with big advantages
You mean after he was stolen and sold for adoption. You think it's easy to grow up like that
Which advantages are you talking about? I tried to research it
Flair hangin with Charlie Sheen and Tyson, peas in a pod,
Nobody's perfect. But Ric Flair is or was the blueprint of dudes like Rock and Roman. Downfall? What downfall? He had his ups and downs😮 like all the rest of us.
I'm confused. So was it an allegation that on the plane he made a woman touch him or was that proven?
Look everybody in this world makes mistakes we are all human beings we all make mistakes every day of the week when your son dies it will take you down Road you never want to go down believe me I know I lost the sun to drugs too Ric Flair's done mighty good for herself over the years every person in this world has regrets
Great points, I totally agree
Not that my opinion matters in the least, but I will always love what Flair did in the ring. I don't think I'd have any use for the man outside of it. That's why it's usually not a good thing to meet those you admire in the entertainment field. Most aren't particularly good people.
The gal making those claims in that episode had recently robbed a jewelry store with her partner and has a long criminal record of identity theft and fraud
so that automatically means what ric did was okay??????????
@@qwertyiuwg4uwtwthn No, that automatically calls anything she claims into question. Keep up, it's not difficult.
What do money problems have to do with someone's greatness???
Look at his time at Kill Tony, this guy is a shell of himself
Wouldn't exactly expect civil behavior from the avg wrestler. Dont deserve a free pass but imagine from the physicality to mental strain
The Raper Boy Ric Flair who cant even have a convo anymore without crying
there's no suggestion of rape. Get a grip.
People love to talk bad about people, shit is Sad!WOOOOOOOO THE NATURE BOY RIC FLAIR"REAL LEGEND "
My Grandma Called Him "Parrot-Tongue", Back In The80's.😜
Pric Flair as it turns out
Lol
Flair is Flair. love the man!
Ric Flair is the Hugh Hefner of Professional Wrestling. Wooo!!
Heres a fresh story. Its beaten to death. Pivot to Jericho
7:07 WWWWOOOOOIIINGGTTTHHHZZZ!!
😂
THE BELT THEY SHOW DOES NOT EVEN HAVE FLAIRS NAME ON IT.
I like and enjoy your videos and I think your research is on point but you have just spent the first seven minutes of this video repeating yourself over and over and over again and it’s annoying
I've been a Flair fan for decades, but that whole Becky Lynch thing was just god awful.
We all make mistakes, I guess
@@WrestlePod True, but it went on for a year and even Ashley was getting upset and begged him to stop.
The video should be titled, 'Ric Flair has persevered and thrived despite his demons.' He's made it to the ripe old age of 75 in a profession where dying young is an all too frequent occurrence.