10 Wrestlers Reveal The Worst Matches Of Their Career

4. Ric Flair

Flair is considered one of the greatest wrestlers and world champions of all time, competing all over America with all manner of opponents. He would travel to an array of territories and promotions and defend the NWA World title against whomever. He had the technical capability to put on entertaining matches with quality work-rate against anybody. Or so you would think.

On an episode of The Ric Flair Show podcast, The Nature Boy was asked about the worst match he wrestled in, revealing it was against a fellow Hall of Famer, the late Ultimate Warrior. Warrior was never a technical wonder in the ring and a pair of house shows with Warrior confirmed this for Flair. Ric says Warrior was troublesome physically:

“I’m wrestling the Warrior in Winnipeg, right? I’m the champion. And the match, probably, the second worst match I ever had in my life. The first being when I wrestled The Warrior in Phoenix and he dropped me on my head. Okay? So I come back from the ring. I knew the match just was absolutely brutal. And Pat Patterson goes to me, ‘that was the worst !*$% match I’ve ever seen in my life’. And I said, ‘you’re telling me, motherfucker? I was in it!' It was absolutely terrible. I just couldn’t have a match with him.”

Ric went on to say he believes the match where he dropped the WWF Championship to Bret Hart at a house show didn’t live up to his personal expectations, all because he was still feeling terrible physically after his matches with Warrior. You could speculate on how legendary that Hart and Flair match could have been if Flair didn’t get the hell beat out of him trying to have a decent match with Warrior.