If the last time we saw Flair in a WWE ring was the beating Khali gave him, then so be it (but I thought he was in tag action after that..? sorry, I can't recall correctly). With TNA rumored to have two hours of Spike TV, you know the oldschool salivating Jeff Jarrett would love for the man who he's been a wannabe version of his entire career to be on TNA's roster. The weird thing is, Flair being on TNA TV would actually make sense. Whether it was Flair in the WWF back in the early 1990s or it was the Ric Flair who was in the WWF/E in 2001 and up until now, he just always seemed out of place. Even if Flair has been in the WWE for the last six years, it just never seemed right. It's as if Joe Montana went from creating a legacy out of being with the San Francisco 49ers to switching jerseys and playing with the Kansas City Chiefs; the move just never seemed right and never looked right. The NWA/WCW was Flair's San Fran jersey - The WWF/E was Flair's Kansas City jersey, If Flair would have won his 17th World title anytime during his current tenure in the WWE, would New York fans have bought it? They didn't necessarily buy into it the first two times around back in 1992. Have World Wrestling Entertainment fans, new generation or old generation, even tried to care about the 'rasslin southern country rooted Ric Flair? Sure, WWE fans like myself may respect the man for being the absolute icon, but he never really 'belonged' to WWE fans, thus making it hard to care too much of how the 'Nature Boy' was ever handled.
Debate this viewpoint, ladies and gentlemen. I challenge you.
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