Richard Morgan Fliehr, better known as Ric Flair, is an American professional wrestling manager and retired professional wrestler. His birth name is widely believed to be Fred Phillips, although on different documents he is also credited as Fred Demaree or Stewart. He is the first two-time WWE Hall of Fame inductee, first inducted with the class of 2008 for his individual career and again with theclass of 2012 as a member of The Four Horsemen.
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Richard Morgan Fliehr, better known as Ric Flair, is an American professional wrestling manager and retired professional wrestler signed to WWE on a legend’s contract. Ranked by multiple peers and journalists as the greatest professional wrestler of all time, Flair had a career that spanned almost 40 years. Flair is officially recognized by WWE as a 16-time world champion, although the number of his world championship reigns varies by source, ranging from 16 to 25. He has claimed to be a 21-time champion. He is the first two-time WWE Hall of Fame inductee, first inducted with the class of 2008 for his individual career and again with theclass of 2012 as a member of The Four Horsemen. His birth name is widely believed to be Fred Phillips, although on different documents he is also credited as Fred Demaree or Stewart, while his biological parents were Luther and Olive Phillips. He was adopted by a couple in Detroit, Michigan. He attended Verne Gagne’s first wrestling camp with Jim Brunzell, The Iron Sheik and Ken Patera in the winter of 1971. On December 10, 1972, he made his debut in Rice Lake, Wisconsin, battling George \”Scrap Iron\” Gadaski to a 10-minute draw while adopting the ring name Ric Flairs. On October 21, 1985, he wrestled double, Rick Martel in a match where he defended the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and challenged for the AWA World Championship, but the match ended in a double count out. On March 21, 1991, he was wrestling under The Great Muta gimmick, in the United States for WCW for the first time.
In the late 1980s, he began a working agreement with New Japan Pro Wrestling, the working agreement led to a feud between Flair and Mutoh Mutoh, who was known as Muta the Great. In 1989, he challenged Tumi Fujinami for the IGP World Heavyweights Championship and lost. He was the first holder of the WCW World. Heavyweight. Championship and theWCW International World Heavy Weight Championship. He became the first person to complete WCW’s Triple Crown, having already held the United. States Heavyweight and World Tag Team Championships. He then completed WWE’s version of the Triple Crown when he won the Intercontinental Championship, after already holding the WWF Championship, and the World Tag team Championship. In 1992, he co-headlined its WWF counterpart, WrestleMania, in 1992, after winning that year’s Royal Rumble. He won the Wrestler of the Year award a record six times, while Wrestling Observer Newsletter named him the wrestler of the year a record eight times. He also won the World Wrestling Federation’s Wrestler Of The Year award in 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, and 2008. He first competed in Japan in 1973 for International Wrestling Enterprise, due to a working. agreement between AWA promoter Verne. Gagne and the IWE. After Flair left AWA for Jim Crockett Jr.’s Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling in 1974, he started working tours for All Japan Prorestling.
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