10 Wrestlers Who Always Followed The Money
7. Ric Flair
Ric Flair cared about his craft and for a long while was the opposite of a mercenary.
Equipped with inhuman stamina and unparalleled in-ring craftsmanship - in addition to charisma so off-the-charts that Flair was riled into a frenzy by the sheer force that was himself - Flair was super-worker, iron man and megastar. He wasn't just an iconic great but a composite of every iconic great. He was a piece of trash, but is revered for a reason. Every reason, in fact.
He loved the lifestyle so much that he spent all of his money. Everything he bragged about draping himself in was as expensive as he said it was, and the taxman was as interested in doing a job for him as Hulk Hogan was.
Flair spent much of the back half of his career mired in financial woes. He still cared - he was worried in 2002, for example, that he was showing himself up - but he was fated to follow the money and become the familiar ageing laughing stock in TNA because he needed the money.
He was irresponsible as a person, at best, and the bleak ending of his legacy is well deserved.