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#8 - Ric Flair Nominated by: Inviso

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There will almost certainly be another C.M. Punk. There may be another Rock. There may be another Stone Cold Steve Austin. There may even be another Lou Theisz (another candidate). But there will never again be another Ric Flair because theres no place to do what he was so good at. And I doubt any other main event talent in history has either got more four star matches out of mediocre talent in their first ever meeting or put more mediocre talent over than Ric Flair.

Ric Flair was a great wrestler with more than his share of five star matches with both a lot of skill and ring psychology and he was damn good on the mic all supported by a very good gimmick - but so is literally every first rate wrestler in history. Ric Flair had to regularly fight against people hed never met before, making them look good no matter how good they really were - and frequently leaving the local audience able to at least tell themselves the local champion had been cheated of the title.

He didnt just pull five star matches out against great wrestlers - he pulled four star matches out against mediocre wrestlers who used literally any style seen anywhere in America or Japan. He could brawl with the brawlers, he could grapple the grapplers, and he could handle the high flyers. And on top of that, he was one of the most outlandish, ridiculous characters in history. In the best way possible.
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