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

8. WCW World Championship (2nd WCW, 11th Overall) December 27, 1993 - July 17, 1994

Ric Flair 1993 This was the last time Flair would hold a company's top championship for more than 200 days and quite possibly the last meaningful World Championship reign in Flair's career and was his longest reign of the '90s. After winning and losing the NWA/WCW International World Heavyweight Championship earlier in the year, there were grumblings that Flair was past his prime in wrestling and at the seemingly advanced age of 44 years old should retire from wrestling, the loudest naysayers perhaps being longtime rival and seven-time World Champion Harley Race and his protégé current champion the 400-plus pound Big Van Vader. Flair would challenge the kingpin to a match for the championship at Starrcade in his adopted hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina, a match Vader quickly accepted and even looked past the challenge presented by Flair. Until Flair said he would retire from wrestling if he lost the match to The Mastodon. Despite Race's efforts on multiple attempts, Flair was able to weaken Vader's injured knee and take advantage of a chop block to Vader's knee for a small package and the victory claiming his eleventh World Championship and extending his career. This period was almost a renaissance for Flair and a reminder to fans why he was one of the all-time greats in the industry. During his time with the title, Flair renewed his enmity with Ricky Steamboat which saw the title awarded to The Dragon only to be held up and then won back by Flair in a title change that was only recognized by WCW during the time it was transpiring and never recognized by WWE or PWI. Flair also deflected other challenges during that time maintaining his status as the WCW World Champion. Flair was able to unify the WCW World Championship and WCW International World Heavyweight Championship when he defeated Sting in June 1994 at a Clash of the Champions in Charleston, South Carolina. This was not the only significant moment for WCW in June 1994 as the company also signed Hulk Hogan to a contract and announced that Hogan would be challenging Flair for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship at the Bash at the Beach the following month in Orlando.
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JV Vernola has been a wrestling fan since he was three (around the same time Hogan was bodyslamming Andre) and has been able to write almost as long. He lives in the scorched earth that is the Arizona desert while trying to maintain awesomeness.