8 Wrestlers Who DESTROYED Their Own Aura
6. Ric Flair
Ric Flair was good. He was great, actually. His claims of being the greatest wrestler in the world rang true, as wherever he went, the punters followed. 'To be the man, you got to beat the man' used to mean something: it fed families, as the kids would say. He retired in classically story-driven Flair fashion, Superkicked into next week by a sorrowful Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania 24, and he rode his horse into the sunset...
...for a little over a year.
Flair returned to active competition, untelevised, during the Hulkamania tour of Australia, losing to Hulk Hogan four times in what can only be described as a series of self-indulging masturbatory sludge between two escaped care home residents. The matches weren't intended to be special - Flair and Hogan were cognizant they couldn't devise a Match of the Year contender, even on a continent as wrestling-starved as Oceania - but the actual extent of the muck on display would have you changing the channel to watch Giant Gonzalez and Bastion Booger go full ham on one another.
Ric Flair, officially, was aura-less.
Almost dying in his 2022 return to the ring was the nail in the coffin.
Literally.