WWE: Ranking Ric Flair's 16 World Title Runs - From Worst To Best

15. WCW World Championship (7th WCW, 15th Overall) May 15, 2000 - May 22, 2000

Flair's seventh reign wasn't anything very memorable either, though this one did last a week, and never saw Flair actually lose the title in a match. On the May 15 edition of Nitro from Biloxi, Miss., Flair pinned reigning champion Jeff Jarrett for the championship, but had collapsed while walking up the entrance ramp after receiving a brutal beating from Russo, Jarrett and their cohorts to close Thursday Thunder three days later. The next week, Nitro opened with Vince Russo holding Flair's title, Jeff Jarrett and Ric's son David walking out of a hearse and promising a funeral for Ric Flair's career according to play-by-play commentator Tony Schiavone. The farce continued through the night with several unfunny vignettes of Russo and various others grieving over a casket containing one of Flair's trademark robes and a ridiculously oversized plastic nose amongst other insults to the career of Flair ending with an in-ring funeral that saw Russo award the title back to Jeff Jarrett using the excuse that Flair was unfit to defend the championship after the collapse on Thunder as WCW was running stories at the time that Flair was undergoing tests to determine if he had suffered an aneurysm (Spoiler Alert: He didn't). Another laugher of a reign, this and number 16 are almost interchangeable, though Flair did at least earn this reign by pinning Jarrett's shoulders to the mat.