7 Legendary WWE superstars with amusing secrets

#2 Ric Flair’s real name

Ric Flair is unsure what his real name is

Almost all wrestlers in WWE today fight under a "ring name" which is either picked by themselves or the WWE creative. Only a handful of wrestlers today fight under their own name, with Brock Lesnar, Kurt Angle and Ronda Rousey leading the list.

WWE’s ‘Nature Boy’ Ric Flair too got his name once he decided to take to the ring. But what is surprising is that Richard Fliehr isn't his given name either. His adopted parents gave him the name of Richard Flieher.

Flair was adopted by the Tennessee Children's Home Society, a notorious orphanage run by Georgia Tann. It was a front for a black-market adoption ring, and the owner destroyed paperwork related to child placement. Hence, there was no authenticity to the records it had of Flair.

This led to Flair’s adopted parents choosing a new name for him without any knowledge of his birth name. Flair said that he never really bothered knowing about his birth parents because he never felt anything but love from his adopted parents and they treated him as their only child

His birth name is believed to be Fred Phillips, even though the names on different records suggest that his name could also be Fred Demaree or Stewart, while his biological parents could be Luther and Olive Phillips. He believes his birth-mother thought he was stillborn and hence left him at the hospital.

Flair went on to become a sixteen-time world champion and one of the greatest WWE wrestlers of all time.