The Definitive Ric Flair Collection 3-Disc set arrived here yesterday and I spent the evening watching the documentary portion of the collection.It was good, not great.
The trouble with having a two hour documentary about Ric Flair is you cannot fill a thirty-six year career into one hundred and twenty minutes. It's impossible.
Instead, the viewer is swiftly told of key moments in Flair's career and life. This makes the piece seem rushed.
I was letdown with segments of the Ric Flair & the Four Horsemen DVD being filled into the chapter about the group. It would have been better to have had different material from what we saw in last year's release.
Another thing I didn't like was how Flair's off-air feud with Eric Bischoff was portrayed.
In 1998, the WCW chief executive and Flair had an argument over a scheduled appearance. Flair was meant to have shown up for a WCW Thunder taping but he had already informed the company that he would be unable to attend due to having to see his son in an amateur wrestling tournament.
Bischoff called a talent meeting when Flair no-showed the television taping and vowed to sue him and force him into bankruptcy. This was no work, he meant what he said.
The DVD viewer, unaware that this was a real-life situation, is shown a clip from a Starrcade event where Bischoff cuts a promo on Flair before one of their matches vowing to make him broke.
The line between reality and fiction is blurred. Those fans at home could actually think this was a worked storyline the way this portion was put together.
I haven't seen the rest of the DVD but it includes promos and matches from Flair's career. I am one hundred percent sure that the rest will make up for the average documentary that was a part of the set.
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