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Ric Flair

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Also known as Richard Morgan Fliehr, Richard Fliehr, Fred Phillips, Fred Demaree, Fred Stewart

American retired professional wrestler

OverviewAI-generated

Ric Flair is an American professional wrestler, writer, podcaster, and manager. Born in Memphis on February 25, 1949, he began his work period in 1972. He has been employed by WWE and World Championship Wrestling. Flair is a member of the Republican Party and resides in Edina. He was educated at the University of Minnesota.

His professional affiliations include the groups Evolution and The Four Horsemen. Flair has received the WWE Hall of Fame and the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame awards. He is the father of Charlotte Flair, Reid Flair, and David Flair. His head coaches were danny maya and Hiro Matsuda.

As an author, Flair has published works including *Second nature* and *Ric Flair*. He also has an acting department credit.

Synthesized by Vinony from 38 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1949
Works
2

Top works

  • Second nature
  • Ric Flair

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Acting · Memphis, Tennessee, USA

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…

Known for

  • I demoni dello sport — Self2025
  • AEW Revolution 2024 — Ric Flair2024
  • Bray Wyatt: Becoming Immortal — Self2024
  • Mr. McMahon — Self (archive footage)2024
  • WWE Hall of Fame 2023 — Ric Flair2023
  • American Nightmare: Becoming Cody Rhodes — Self2023
  • Angle — Self2023
  • AEW Full Gear 2023 — Ric Flair2023
  • All Elite Wrestling: Collision — Ric Flair2023
  • Jim Crockett Promotions: Ric Flair's Last Match — Ric Flair2022

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Origin
Netherlands

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
754
Total plays
3,543

Tags

looks good smells good

The Stylin', profilin', limousine riding, jet flying, kiss-stealing, wheelin' n' dealin' son of a gun! WOO! <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ric+Flair">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Ric Flair

Key facts

Born
( 1949-02-25 ) February 25, 1949 (age 77) , Memphis, Tennessee , U.S.
Other name
Richard Morgan Fliehr
Occupations
Professional wrestling manager professional wrestler author
Years active
1972–present
Partner
Wendy Barlow (2011–2024)
Children
4, including David , Ashley , and Reid
Relatives
Conrad Thompson (son-in-law)
Ring name s
The Black Scorpion , Nature Boy , Ric Flair
Billed height
6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Billed weight
243 lb (110 kg)
Billed from
Charlotte, North Carolina , U.S.
Trained by
Verne Gagne
Debut
December 10, 1972
Retired
July 31, 2022

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

Richard Morgan Fliehr (born February 25, 1949), known professionally as Ric Flair, is an American retired professional wrestler. As of November 2023, he is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) in a legends role for special appearances. Regarded by multiple peers and journalists as the greatest professional wrestler of all time, Flair's career spanned fifty years.

Flair is noted for his tenures with Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP) under the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, later WWE), and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). Much of his career was spent in JCP and WCW, in which he won numerous titles. Since the mid-1970s, he has used the moniker "the Nature Boy". A major pay-per-view attraction throughout his career, Flair headlined the premier annual NWA/WCW event, Starrcade, on 10 occasions, while also co-headlining its WWF counterpart, WrestleMania, in 1992, after winning that year's Royal Rumble. Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) awarded him their PWI 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 two-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, the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame, and the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame.

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