10 Awesome Wrestling Insults That Nobody Ever Talks About
1. The One Woman Ric Flair Wouldn't Sleep With
Scott Steiner tried to kill Ric Flair in 2000 - but you cannot kill that which is immortal.
Ric Flair's promo game throughout the 1980s was just incredible. Untouchable. Never before or since has a pro wrestler presented himself as the coolest, funniest and most charismatic guy on the planet. Holding his ever-present World's Heavyweight Title, Flair unleashed a berserk torrent of quotable gold, and if he wasn't powered by pure Columbian, he did a d*mn good impression of it: The Man was the powdered essence of confidence, avarice and danger, and everybody watching, the horny women and the aspirational men, snorted it up.
Flair sold a luxury men's catalogue with the zeal of a preacher, only you couldn't afford it. He screamed of lizard shoes and Rolex watches as he sold you on his epic one-hour title fights. In this particular promo, he rinsed Ronnie Garvin's championship aptitude.
"What would happen, if Ronnie Garvin became World Champion? What would you do, Garvin? Would you ride down the road with that golden retriever you call a woman?"
Jesus Christ.
Ric Flair buried Ronnie Garvin as a dog n*nce because he was so apoplectic at the notion of a blue collar guy becoming The Man. This wasn't just seminal comedy: it reinforced the prestige of the belt, the Man that wore it, and antagonised Garvin into a brutal remonstration.
10 pounds of pro wrestling gold.