Poor David Flair. Bless his heart. He seems like a good guy, and a hard worker, but he just wasn't cut out for the wrestling business. If it weren't for his famous father, there's no way he would have ever made it into WCW. He wouldn't have lasted the first day at the Power Plant. But wrestling is a business that gives chances to a lot of people who don't really deserve it. Some dads give their kids a car when they reach a certain age, Ric gave his son the US Title. On July 5, 1999 Scott Steiner was stripped of the gold, and David became a champ because daddy said so and he was the commissioner at the time. While it was a heel maneuver, it was one that put heat in all the wrong places, mainly on the company itself. David just couldn't go in the ring, and he flat out was awkward on the mic. For every thing that made Ric magic, David was the opposite. The reign only lasted a little over a month before Chris Benoit tried to teach him what it's like to be a real wrestler...a lesson he sadly never learned.
As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at."
Sadly, I can't solve a murder like Rust...or change a tire, or even tie a tie. But I do know all the lyrics to Hulk Hogan's "Real American" theme song and can easily name every Natural Born Thriller from the dying days of WCW. I was once ranked 21st in the United States in Tetris...on the Playstation 3 version...for about a week.
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