NWO Twenty Years Later: Where Are They Now?

It's tough enough for a wrestler to follow in the footsteps of an esteemed father. But just imagine if that father is Ric Flair.

Although Charlotte is making a pretty good stab at it, it's almost an impossible task to live up to a name and career as revered as Flair's. If anything, all that extra pressure to succeed, and the constant contrasts between the younger talent and the father make it all the more difficult. So it proved for Ric's eldest son David.

David never wanted to become a wrestler like his dad, but he must have had a sudden change of heart because in 1999 he was parachuted straight into the middle of an angle between Hulk Hogan and The Nature Boy - despite almost no prior wrestling experience.

The elder Flair was one WCW's few big stars to never don the black and white of the nWo, but in tediously predictable fashion, offspring turned on father as David was lured in by Hollywood Hogan.

For a man who had little desire even to be in the industry, Flair Jr., had a relatively involved spell in WCW, even claiming two championships along the way. When the company folded, he stayed within the business, allying with TNA before joining the independent circuit.

But his heart was never in it, and in 2008 he wrestled one of his final matches against brother Reid. There's little doubt Reid's tragic and untimely death at the age of just 25 from a heroin overdose soured David on the wrestling industry for good, and today he has no involvement with the business besides cheerleading his sister from the sidelines.

Now running a North Carolina based wiring company with his wife, Flair is said to be, in the words of his own father, "happier now than he ever was when he was part of [wrestling]".