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Ric Flair

Ric Flair appears in seven storylines documented on WrestlingFeuds, as a principal in four, spanning 1982–1996 in WCCW, NWA (Jim Crockett Promotions), NWA, NWA/WCW, WWF and WCW.

Feuds and rivalries

Golden Era·NWA (Jim Crockett Promotions)·1985–1987

Nature Boy Ric Flair and The Four Horsemen vs. The American Dream Dusty Rhodes (Sep 1985 – Jul 1987)

Ric Flair broke Dusty Rhodes' ankle at the Omni in September 1985, Rhodes answered with the Hard Times promo, and the two years that followed produced the Four Horsemen, a fourteen-day world title reign, a baseball bat in a parking lot, and the first WarGames match.

Ric Flair · Dusty Rhodes · Arn Anderson · Ole Anderson · Tully Blanchard · J.J. Dillon · Nikita Koloff · Magnum T.A. · Lex Luger

Golden Era·NWA·1989

Nature Boy Ric Flair vs. Ricky The Dragon Steamboat (Jan 1989 – May 1989)

Steamboat's surprise return from a year away sparked a three-match series for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, at Chi-Town Rumble, Clash of the Champions VI, and WrestleWar, that Dave Meltzer rated five stars three times over and is still routinely called the best in-ring trilogy in wrestling history.

Ric Flair · Ricky Steamboat · Terry Funk · Eddie Gilbert

Golden Era·NWA/WCW·1989

Nature Boy Ric Flair vs. Terry Funk (May 1989 – Nov 1989)

Minutes after Ric Flair closed out his trilogy with Ricky Steamboat, ringside judge Terry Funk asked for a title shot, got turned down, and piledrove Flair through a table, opening a six-month war that ran through a plastic bag over Flair's head and closed with an I Quit match the Wrestling Observer named 1989's Feud of the Year.

Ric Flair · Terry Funk · Gary Hart · Sting · The Great Muta

Golden Era·WWF·1992

Macho Man Randy Savage vs. Nature Boy Ric Flair (Jan 1992 – Nov 1992)

Ric Flair walked into the WWF with the NWA's real world title belt under his arm and, months later, doctored photographs claiming he'd had Miss Elizabeth before Randy Savage ever did. Savage's real marriage was already collapsing off camera, and the WWF built its WrestleMania VIII main event on top of it anyway.

Randy Savage · Ric Flair · Miss Elizabeth · Mr. Perfect · Bobby Heenan · Razor Ramon

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Territory Era·WCCW·1982–1988

The Fabulous Freebirds vs. The Von Erichs (Oct 1982 – May 1988)

Michael Hayes, Terry Gordy, and Buddy Roberts arrived in Dallas as the Von Erich family's friends and allies, until a Christmas night cage door slam turned them into the biggest villains in Texas. The six-year war that followed ran alongside the real tragedies overtaking the Von Erich family and became one of professional wrestling's most legendary regional rivalries.

Michael Hayes · Terry Gordy · Buddy Roberts · Kevin Von Erich · David Von Erich · Kerry Von Erich · Mike Von Erich

Territory Era·NWA (Jim Crockett Promotions)·1983

Rowdy Roddy Piper vs. Greg The Hammer Valentine (Apr 1983 – Nov 1983)

Greg Valentine cracked Roddy Piper's ear open with the NWA United States title belt on a Greensboro TV taping, then spent the summer calling it the Year of the Ear. The two of them settled it at the first Starrcade, chained together by dog collars for sixteen minutes of real blood, and Piper came out of it with permanent hearing loss he carried for the rest of his life.

Roddy Piper · Greg Valentine

Attitude Era·WCW·1996

The New World Order vs. WCW (May 1996 – Dec 1996)

Scott Hall's shock walk-in from the crowd on Nitro, Kevin Nash's arrival two weeks later, and Hulk Hogan's heel turn at Bash at the Beach launched an invasion angle built on real WWF contract jumps, turning WCW's Monday night ratings around and igniting the New World Order's first chaotic year against the promotion it claimed to be taking over.

Hulk Hogan · Kevin Nash · Scott Hall · Randy Savage · Sting · Lex Luger

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