I am a little disappointed in this new Ric Flair storyline that the WWE is doing in the run-up to his retirement which should take place at Wrestlemania.
The concept is a good one. Vince McMahon has ordered that Flair must retire from the sport once he loses his next match. It was an idea pitched by Steve Austin earlier last year and was started in the latter part of 2007.
On Monday night we saw Flair put his career on the line against Triple H in the Greensboro Coliseum. A building that could be regarded as Flair's home ground.
Flair won the match via disqualification. Another cheap victory.
The Nature Boy has now wrestled three of these career threatening bouts and all of them have seen ridiculous finishes. He overcame Randy Orton after interference by Chris Jericho at the start of the angle, a few weeks later he beat Umaga via count-out and then this week his match ended in victory after William Regal got involved prompting Triple H to be disqualified.
Where are the pins and submission wins? Flair has made a career out of decisive victories. A high number of them have been via his figure four leg-lock submission move.
Why hasn't the WWE allowed him to look strong? It is his last year in the business after all. I guess the WWE are afraid of a sixty year old out-performing their younger wrestlers. If they felt that way they shouldn't have even entertained Steve Austin's idea for Flair's last run in the first place.
One of Ric Flair's catchphrases is 'to be the man, you have to beat the man.' How can he be the man if he's not beating anyone properly
You speak a lot of truth when you discuss the cheap victories, they need to make finishes in the WWE a lot more clean, because at the moment a large amount of matches are non-clean finishes. I'll probably blog about this in my wrestling blog as I have a lot to say on this matter.
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