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10. Counting Is A Problem

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Pop Quiz: How many world championships has Ric Flair won?

That answer – 16 – has been repeated nearly every time Flair has shown up on WWE programming for the past 18 years. And yet, some crack graphic designer managed to screw up Monday night when Flair showed up on Miz TV. His new entrance graphic proclaimed him a “17-time champion,” giving him an extra reign out of nowhere.

Now, there are a few title reigns that actually happened but weren’t acknowledged in NWA canon, but it’s highly unlikely that one of them was suddenly recognized. That means someone screwed up the most basic of wrestling trivia – in 4-foot-high numbers.

Someone’s losing their job.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.