#1 Ric Flair’s matches aren’t very good
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While Flair did have good matches with the likes of Sting and Steamboat, the matches have not stood the test of time, and when paired with lesser opponents, his matches come across as slow, boring and un-coordinated.
Bret Hart once told the story:
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“I remember Flair worked with Randy Savage who, like me, was led to believe the same crap about how great Flair was when they had a Saturday Night’s Main Event TV match in Hershey on September 1, 1992.
[Flair] somehow became WWF champion and Vince McMahon carefully constructed an elaborate storyline for this very important match.
I was standing right next to Vince watching the match live on a backstage monitor when Vince blew his stack as he watched Ric do absolutely nothing he told him to do.
Ric has never been able to do anything but his one routine match, which consists of cartoon high spots borrowed from Jackie Fargo and midget wrestlers, along with an assortment of tired old ripped off Buddy Rogers’ high spots.
My dad always called Flair a ‘routine man’ – because he did the exact same routine every night and was forever stuck with it.
An angry Vince met Flair as he came through the curtain and he furiously ordered both Flair and an exasperated Randy to march right back out and redo the entire match the way he’d told them to do it!
Even then, as I remember it, Flair was still unable to impress Vince. Personally, I would have been shamed with embarrassment to ever put the promotion, myself, or my opponent through such a farce!
I recall telling Randy that I thought Flair was, ‘Thirty minutes of non-stop non-psychology,’ and Randy shook his head and laughed along with me at how true it was. I can tell you first hand that Ric Flair was not a great worker at all.”
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