10 WWE Stars That Should Have Won The World Title Sooner

4. Ric Flair

Here’s a man that needs no introduction, but for the sake of this slide’s structure, I’ll give him one anyway.

Ric Flair is widely regarded as the last, true World Champion, touring around the territories and defending his belt everywhere he went and against any and all challengers. Unfortunately, though, his tour wouldn’t get around to the WWE until late 1991.

Admittedly, he didn’t waste any time in making a statement once he finally got there; it took him just 113 days to win the belt at the 1992 Royal Rumble. But my point is that I feel that his arrival to the company itself—and with it the subsequent title coronation—should have taken place rather sooner than it did.

Obviously the Flair we saw in 1992 was still an excellent performer, but he wasn’t quite in his absolute prime. Those years were saved for the previous decade, when he’d been stylin’, profilin’, and generally taking the world by storm.

I’m not sure when exactly an earlier arrival would have been feasible, given that he was contracted to WCW from 1986 onwards. But it just seems like a man of his stature deserved a WWE title run during his absolute peak years, rather than ever-so-slightly after.