Ric Flair

Richard Morgan Fliehr, yang dikenal secara profesional sebagai Ric Flair, adalah pegulat profesional Amerika. Dianggap oleh banyak rekan dan jurnalis sebagai pegulat profesional terhebat sepanjang masa, Flair telah memiliki karir selama hampir 50 tahun. Dia terkenal karena masa jabatannya dengan Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP), Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling, The National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), WWE dan Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). Sebagian besar karirnya dihabiskan di JCP dan WCW, di mana ia memenangkan banyak gelar. Sejak pertengahan tahun 1970-an, dia menggunakan julukan "The Nature Boy" dan "Slick Ric". Flair juga merupakan anggota pendiri kandang asli Four Horsemen bersama Tully Blanchard dan The Andersons, yang dikelola oleh JJ Dillon. Sebuah atraksi bayar-per-tayang utama sepanjang karirnya, Flair menjadi headline acara tahunan utama NWA/WCW, Starrcade, sebanyak sepuluh kali, sekaligus menjadi co-headlining rekan WWE-nya, WrestleMania VIII (8), pada tahun 1992, setelah memenangkan Royal Rumble tahun itu. PWI memberinya penghargaan Wrestler of the Year sebanyak enam kali, sementara Wrestling Observer Newsletter menobatkannya sebagai Wrestler of the Year (penghargaan yang dinamai menurut namanya dan Lou Thesz) sebanyak delapan kali. Penerima Hall of Fame WWE dua kali pertama, pertama kali dilantik dengan angkatan 2008 untuk karir individunya dan sekali lagi dengan angkatan 2012 sebagai anggota The Four Horsemen, dia juga anggota NWA Hall of Fame, dan Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame. Flair secara resmi diakui oleh WWE sebagai juara dunia 16 kali (Juara Dunia Kelas Berat NWA 8 kali, Juara Kelas Berat Dunia WCW 6 kali, dan Juara WWE 2 kali), meskipun jumlah gelar juara dunianya bervariasi menurut sumber, mulai dari 16 hingga 25. Dia telah mengklaim sebagai juara 21 kali. Dia adalah pemegang pertama Kejuaraan Kelas Berat Dunia WCW dan Kejuaraan Kelas Berat Dunia Internasional WCW (yang terakhir dia pegang juga). Sebagai Juara Dunia Kelas Berat WCW perdana, ia menjadi orang pertama yang menyelesaikan Triple Crown WCW, setelah menyelenggarakan Kejuaraan Kelas Berat NWA\WCW Amerika Serikat dan NWA\WCW World Tag Team. Dia kemudian menyelesaikan Triple Crown versi WWE ketika dia memenangkan WWE Intercontinental Championship, setelah sebelumnya menyelenggarakan WWE Championship dan WWE World Tag Team Championship pada kesempatan sebelumnya.

Richard Morgan Fliehr, known professionally as Ric Flair, is an American professional wrestler. Regarded by multiple peers and journalists as the greatest professional wrestler of all time, Flair has had a career that has spanned almost 50 years. He is noted for his tenures with Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP), Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling, The National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), WWE and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). Much of his career was spent in JCP and WCW, where he won numerous titles. Since the mid-1970s, he has used the monikers "The Nature Boy" and "Slick Ric". Flair is also a founding member of the original Four Horsemen stable alongside Tully Blanchard and The Andersons, managed by JJ Dillon. A major pay-per-view attraction throughout his career, Flair headlined the premier annual NWA/WCW event, Starrcade, on ten occasions, while also co-headlining its WWE counterpart, WrestleMania VIII (8), in 1992, after winning that year's Royal Rumble. PWI awarded him their Wrestler of the Year award a record six times, while Wrestling Observer Newsletter named him the Wrestler of the Year (an award named after him and Lou Thesz) a record eight times. The first 2-time WWE Hall of Fame inductee, first inducted with the class of 2008 for his individual career and again with the class of 2012 as a member of The Four Horsemen, he is also a member of the NWA Hall of Fame, and the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame. Flair is officially recognized by WWE as a 16-time world champion (8-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion, 6-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion, and 2-time WWE 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 was the first holder of the WCW World Heavyweight Championship and the WCW International World Heavyweight Championship (which he also held last). As the inaugural WCW World Heavyweight Champion, he became the first person to complete WCW's Triple Crown, having already held the NWA\WCW United States Heavyweight and NWA\WCW World Tag Team Championships. He then completed WWE's version of the Triple Crown when he won the WWE Intercontinental Championship, after already holding the WWE Championship and the WWE World Tag Team Championship on previous occasions.