Ric Flair

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 MidAtlantic 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 mid1970s 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 payperview attraction throughout his career Flair headlined the premier annual NWAWCW event Starrcade on ten occasions while also coheadlining its WWE counterpart WrestleMania VIII 8 in 1992 after winning that years 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 2time 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 16time world champion 8time NWA World Heavyweight Champion 6time WCW World Heavyweight Champion and 2time WWE Champion although the number of his world championship reigns varies by source ranging from 16 to 25 He has claimed to be a 21time 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 WCWs Triple Crown having already held the NWAWCW United States Heavyweight and NWAWCW World Tag Team Championships He then completed WWEs 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