10 Wrestlers Who Left And Returned More Badass
3. Ric Flair
Ric Flair cites $25,000 and one Jim Herd as the two reasons he departed WCW in 1991.
Herd felt Flair, near enough in his prime as the greatest to ever do it, required a reboot to get over under his drastically misjudged, sports entertainment-inspired vision for the company. Flair removed the projected earring and Gladiator loincloth to make the shock jump to the WWF, in which his brilliance proved itself the rule-proving exception to Vince McMahon's fatal tinkering. That the promoter of the WWF had a more faithful idea of how to present an inbound WCW talent than WCW itself remains the over-powering example of Herd's legendary idiocy.
Flair had a choice WWF run - his storyline with Randy Savage restored him to more or less his extravagantly d*ckheaded, shag-happy best - but, before they botched him twice, Flair was always a 'WCW guy', and when he returned, he had no choice but to do so as a badass. He was set for a date with Vader ar Starrcade '93.
That match was a stunning war, pitting the wily, master technician opposite his most formidable ever threat in the form of a massive, destructive colossus. Flair overcame this philosophical battle in a spirited, emotional - and badass - performance