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WCW sued Flair in an attempt to reclaim the championship belt, [39] but Flair claimed otherwise due to a loophole in NWA policy; at the time he first became champion, the NWA required all of the wrestlers that it selected to be world champion to put down a security deposit of $25,000, which, in effect, resulted in the belt being leased to any ...
Flair soon signed with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) and exhibited the Big Gold Belt there, proclaiming himself "The Real World's Heavyweight Champion" [1] until WCW sued, upon which Flair instead used a WWF World Tag Team title belt, digitized out on television, on the (kayfabe) orders of WWF President Jack Tunney [2] until ...
The feud with Flair took a new twist on September 25, 1987, when Garvin was able to defeat Flair for the title. [9] With the NWA holding the 1987 Starrcade the same day that the rival World Wrestling Federation (WWF) was holding its first Survivor Series, Crockett chose to face the strong WWF competition by having Flair win the title. Flair ...
NWA champ EC3 with NWA legend Ric Flair. EC3, with that NWA title, will be in his old stomping grounds - Florida - Jan. 11-14 for some electrifying mat action and more.
Ric Flair 1974–1988 [63] Paul Frederik † Paul Jones 1968 1971–1989 [64] John Frenkel III: John Tatum 1985 [65] Tatsumi Fujinami: Dr. Fujinami 1976–1977 [66] Harry Fujiwara † Mr. Fuji 1974–1975 1981–1982 [67] Dorrance Funk Jr. Dory Funk Jr. The Masked Outlaw 1969–1973 1977 1982–1985 1987 [68] Terrence Funk † Terry Funk 1971 ...
Ric Flair (c) vs. Kevin Von Erich for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship [16] 8. JCP: Great American Bash (Day 20) July 18, 1987: Charlotte, North Carolina: American Legion Memorial Stadium: 25,000 Ric Flair (c) vs. Road Warrior Hawk for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship [26] 9. WWC: Carlos Colón vs. Ric Flair October 16, 1982: San ...
Both WCW and the NWA recognized Ric Flair as their World Heavyweight Champion throughout most of the first half of 1991. [26] However, the recently installed WCW president Jim Herd, who was formerly the manager of the St. Louis TV station KPLR-TV and had also once been the regional manager of Pizza Hut, turned against Flair for various reasons.
Starrcade '89: Future Shock was the seventh annual Starrcade professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced under the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) banner. It was the second Starrcade event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and it took place on December 13, 1989, at The Omni in Atlanta, Georgia.