Review of Flair's book

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

Flair is probably in a lot of pain himself.

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

The McMahons helped give Flair back his faith in himself so he can continue-on wrestling?

 

Reason #69840 to hate the McMahons.

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

There is no review that could ever properly convey the greatness of this book. It’s like the greatness that is Ric Flair the performer. You either understand why he’s great or you’ll never get it at all.

 

Flair explains the differences between being good and being a great performer. He discusses who was great, who could be, and who would have been if not for mitigating circumstances. He explains why someone like Kurt Angle could be great, while someone like Bruno Sammartino in his opinion, wasn’t. It’s fascinating reading from someone 99% of fans believe to be the best of all time.

 

Classic.

 

Oops, I mean...

 

Classic

[NYU 0]

Does Flair reminisce about that hilarious time when he was sitting in a bar and overheard a drunk man talking about "heels" and "faces"?

 

Twenty-six men were checked into a hospital that night with gruesome injuries, they were.

[The Buzz 0]

I can't ever remember a time when Flair had a lot of offense. He's usually been a guy who uses a few old school submissions, snapmares, figure four leg lock, and cheating tactics. So the argument about him having a non-existant offense is really not that good. He's simply doing what he always has done best...and that is getting his ass kicked and cheating. But the fact does remain that he was past his prime years ago, and hopefully will retire before the year is up.

[Your Paragon of Virtue 0]

Foley>Flair

[Detox 0]

Flair is one of the bst and from the review it looks like like a great read hopefully on par with Foley's books and at the worse Positively Page lol

[cawthon777 0]

The only thing stopping me from running out and getting this book right now is the $40.00 price tag. I only have $35 on me right now.

Amazon.com has it for $17 and change.

 

Try this link.

 

The book looks like quality but the cover is pretty amateur in appearance.

[The Mandarin 0]

The only thing stopping me from running out and getting this book right now is the $40.00 price tag. I only have $35 on me right now.

Amazon.com has it for $17 and change.

 

Try this link.

 

The book looks like quality but the cover is pretty amateur in appearance.

I ended up scrambling money together and I'm already halfway through the book.

[Guest Trivia247]

I wonder what the next book is.

[Lil' Bitch 0]

Can't wait for the wave of "Fuck you, Flair" responses from wrestlers Flair trashes in his book.

[SamoaRowe 0]

I can't wait for the paperback to come out. 'Nuff said.

[1234-5678 0]

Foley>Flair

Agreed. Flair hasn't had a memorable match since 1998 that wasn't nostalgia based. Foley tore it up about 2 months ago at Backlash.

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

I wonder what a Jake the Snake Roberts book would be like? Is there one already? If there ever was one I'd want him to write it himself just to see what he'd say.

[UseTheSledgehammerUh 0]

Well I'm sure Flair could tear it up with Orton, too...if by "tear it up" you mean get thrown off a stage through some tables and get hit by objects.

 

It's an unfair comparison. Flair's much, much older than Foley, as well.

 

In their primes, Foley's best work could never, and has never, touched Flair's best work.

[Jobber of the Week 0]

I'm only taking Flair to task on his tasteless comments about Bret Hart.  He doesn't know anything about the situation, and his assumptions of it all are hurtfull, damaging, and more than likely, grossly untrue.

Flair might be bitter, but Bret has been bitter for YEARS, and has been very public about it.

 

Advantage: Flair.

 

I like Foley more though, both as a guy and as a character.

[Scroby 0]

I wonder what a Jake the Snake Roberts book would be like? Is there one already? If there ever was one I'd want him to write it himself just to see what he'd say.

 

Roberts wanted to write one but that was a few years ago. I doubt he'll write one with his current state of mind, maybe in the future I'd also love to read a book from him.

 

So since Flair's book got bumped up a month which I just found out about 5 minutes ago. I'm gonna get his first, finish it then I'm gonna get Harley Race's book which set to release this November.

[Use Your Illusion 0]

Foley>Flair

Agreed. Flair hasn't had a memorable match since 1998 that wasn't nostalgia based. Foley tore it up about 2 months ago at Backlash.

Flair is also *a lot* older than Mick Foley. When Flair was 38 (Foley's age now?), he was putting on CLASSICS everytime he wore tights.

 

UYI

[haVoc 0]

The only thing stopping me from running out and getting this book right now is the $40.00 price tag. I only have $35 on me right now.

Amazon.com has it for $17 and change.

 

Try this link.

 

The book looks like quality but the cover is pretty amateur in appearance.

I ended up scrambling money together and I'm already halfway through the book.

The Hell? I asked if this book was out yet on the first page and some one said not yet. Is it in stores?

[Guest Dynamite Kido]

Foley>Flair

Agreed. Flair hasn't had a memorable match since 1998 that wasn't nostalgia based. Foley tore it up about 2 months ago at Backlash.

Flair is also *a lot* older than Mick Foley. When Flair was 38 (Foley's age now?), he was putting on CLASSICS everytime he wore tights.

 

UYI

I'm soooooooooooooo glad someone said this.

[Guest Monday Night Jericho]

Nah, Flair in his prime brought more moves than he does today. Back then he used some suplexs (he probably doesn't use anything other than the vertical now, if he ever uses it), did more holds and added in other moves occasionally like a piledriver etc. He also knew how to execute them back then, now he can't execute worth shit. Also when he bumped he did it well, now he can't bump *at all*. There is really no comparison to the Flair of today and the Flair of the 80s.

[Guest nikowwf]

is the book out? i heard TWO WEEKS when i asked in the store on monday.

 

please confirm...me needs book

[cawthon777 0]

Amazon has it for pre-order at the moment (listed release date is July 7) ... so if anyone already has it ... I'd be interested to know how.

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

I heard they are on sale in Toronto.

[KTID 0]

I hate Ric Flair.

[Guest whitemilesdavis]

I hate Ric Flair.

 

Let me guess...You're a Bret mark.

[1234-5678 0]

Foley>Flair

Agreed. Flair hasn't had a memorable match since 1998 that wasn't nostalgia based. Foley tore it up about 2 months ago at Backlash.

Flair is also *a lot* older than Mick Foley. When Flair was 38 (Foley's age now?), he was putting on CLASSICS everytime he wore tights.

 

UYI

I'm soooooooooooooo glad someone said this.

It's my fault for saying that to begin with, because comparing the two is somewhat ridiculous. Let's just say that Flair is a dick for talking shit on Foley, and an idiot for not recognizing his marketability when he was in WCW, and leave it at that.

[Guest Dynamite Kido]

Foley>Flair

Agreed. Flair hasn't had a memorable match since 1998 that wasn't nostalgia based. Foley tore it up about 2 months ago at Backlash.

Flair is also *a lot* older than Mick Foley. When Flair was 38 (Foley's age now?), he was putting on CLASSICS everytime he wore tights.

 

UYI

I'm soooooooooooooo glad someone said this.

It's my fault for saying that to begin with, because comparing the two is somewhat ridiculous. Let's just say that Flair is a dick for talking shit on Foley, and an idiot for not recognizing his marketability when he was in WCW, and leave it at that.

In all honesty.....you couldn't have put that better JAxl.

[1234-5678 0]

Taken directly from RAW magazine,

 

This is the kind of **** I was putting up with - despite the fact that I was on the booking committee. That’s why it pissed me off when Mick Foley blamed me for not recognizing his full potential during that period. In his book, Have A Nice Day, Foley wrote, “Ric Flair was every bit as bad on the booking side of things as he was great on the wrestling side of it.”

 

First of all, I’ll never call myself a great booker, because wrestling always came first. But Foley took a shot at me. Here’s his receipt - I’m taking a shot at him.

 

When I first started on the booking committee, Foley was working as Cactus Jack and doing an angle where he was living in a homeless shelter. I admit it - I didn’t know what to do with a 300-pound guy living in a homeless shelter. It took P.T. Barnum, in the form of Vince McMahon, to take a guy whose claim to fame was his willingness to get thrown off a cage, to turn him into Mankind, and make him into a champion.

 

Foley has a cult following because of his contribution to hardcore wrestling. But hardcore is such a small part of the history of this business. When I was training, falling off a ladder was not a prerequisite to making it as a professional wrestler. Being fundamentally sound was. Occasionally seeing the inside of a gym was. When I trained under Verne Gagne, we started with 500 free squats, 250 push-ups, 250 sit-ups and a two-mile run over farm terrain in zero-degree weather. Then we came back to the barn to be wrestled into submission, cross-faced into submission, stretched into submission - and if Verne didn’t like the way things were going, we’d start all over. He would have looked at Mick Foley on day one - after Mick failed to do even one thing Verne required - and said, “Mick, I don’t think so.”

 

I don’t care how many thumbtacks Mick Foley has fallen on, how many ladders he’s fallen off of, how many continents he’s supposedly bled on, he’ll always be known as a glorified stuntman.

 

Verne Gagne didn’t fall off a ladder. Dory Funk, Jr. didn’t fall off a ladder. Neither did Wahoo, Steamboat, or Steve Austin. Terry Funk was a great worker before he started doing that. Kurt Angle, Shawn Michaels, and Chris Jericho can do it and maintain their reputations because they’re already respected as athletes. And what about people who never did anything else, like the Sandman? He’s no wrestler. Hardcore became a niche for a lot of guys who couldn’t do **** -all in the ring.

 

I’m not saying that Mick Foley wasn’t a star, that he wasn’t a great attraction. But in my estimation, Mick Foley was not a great worker. He couldn’t punch. He couldn’t kick. In the World Wrestling Federation, he’d spend half the day before television broadcasts sucking up to the writers - because he’s such a fan of himself.

 

There’s a difference between being a great performer and being a guy - like Brutus Beefcake or the Ultimate Warrior - who became famous because he happened to be working for Vince. It’s the same with Foley. When he hasn’t been working for Vince, there’s been no demand for him whatsoever. He’s just another guy.

 

Mick Foley doesn’t understand what it was like to be on that booking committee. Jim Herd humiliated me and made me cut my hair - after I’d won the NWA championship six times. How much power did I have? When I was going through all that, how should I have been able to look at Mick Foley, push everything else aside, and mold him into a superstar?

 

Sting, on the other hand, was worthy of becoming the champion.

 

Foley>Sting

 

And by taking potshots at Foley's training, he is taking shots at WWE Legend Dominic Denucci. At this point, I wish Mick would've stiffed the old bastard in the ring at Mania.

 

Although this pisses me off severely, I am going to enjoy the hell out of the verbal ass raping Flair gives to Shane Douglas.

 

And, while I am thinking of it, Cactus Clothesline>Flair Flip

[Guest whitemilesdavis]

That was a great frigging rant. I can totally see where Flair is coming from. I don't have to hate one and love the other, I enjoy them both. But, there is truth in both of their statements toward each other.