Dream Casting The Rock's Ric Flair Movie

11. Verne Gagne

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You can't map out the early days of Ric Flair's career and his rise to glory without acknowledging the man who trained him - former NFL player and multi-Hall Of Famer Verne Gagne.

Given what Flair (and Ricky Steamboat) said about the infamously brutal training regimes, it stands to reason that you'd need someone formidable behind the character.

Step forward Breaking Bad's Dean Norris - a man equipped both with the necessary bald head and the fearsome physical energy that could convincingly show the time Gagne literally punched Flair to convince him not to quiet as a trainee.

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