NWA: Barry Windham vs Ric Flair: World Heavyweight Championship (1986)

Source:NWA- one of the best NWA matches ever.

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Barry Windham is one of the best all around pro wrestlers of all-time. With great size, strength, athletic ability and intelligence. 6'6 275 pounds, at least in his prime, 15-20 twenty pounds lighter than that when he was younger. But someone who could beat you up with all sorts of moves, but who could also wrestle. Could body slam you, suplex you, but could also hit you with great dropkicks and flying close lines. Just a nightmare to have to wrestle unless you were also a big strong wrestler who could wrestle. Because he had so many ways who could hurt you. 

Classic matchup of a the pure wrestler in Ric Flair, vs. the young, big, strong, stud. Who was a great power and finesse wrestler, Windham could wrestle you either way. Take on a Sting, Lex Lugar, Nikita Koloff, the Road Warriors, Dusty Rhoades, but could also and beat someone like Ric Flair or Ricky Steamboat. And if you want to call pro wrestlers the total package, for me that would be Lex Lugar as he called himself, but Barry Windham was certainly that as well. But even more athletic than Lex Lugar.

WWE: Ric Flair vs Terry Funk: Halloween Havoc (1989)

Source:WWE- Terry Funk getting his leg ripped off by Ric Flair. Or that's what the WCW wants you to think.

"Halloween Havoc 1989: Ric Flair & Sting vs. The Great Muta & Terry Funk" 

From WWE

I don't know if you can find four better pro wrestlers for a cage I Quit match than Ric Flair, Sting, Terry Funk and Mr. Muta. The amount of pain and even torture these four men were able to put themselves through because of their conditioning, physical strength and just character and courage was simply unmatched by almost anyone else who has ever been a pro wrester. Two other guys I would thrown into this group would be Hulk Hogan and The Undertaker for the same reasons as these four men.

Ric Flair was seen as a classical if not classy pure wrestler who made most of his living just wrestling in the ring and not getting into street fights like this and most of that is true. But he beat the great Harley Race for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, a match where he may of lost on points, but beat Race in it. He was in a lot of cage matches, including with The Horseman against The Road Warriors and The Koloffs and did very well in those matches. Sting could wrestle or fight anyone anywhere. It didn't matter to him and Terry Funk was a street fighter who could wrestle. Similar to Mr. Muta.

Vader Bomb: 'Ric Flair & The Koloffs'

Source:Vader Bomb- The Nature Boy Ric Flair.

"This is America!" 

From Vader Bomb

To paraphrase The Nature Boy Ric Flair: as God as my witness, Ric Flair was the man. To be the man, you have to beat the man and Nikita Koloff was never the man in the NWA or WCW. I believe the NWA and WCW only gave The Russian Nightmare 1 or 2 shots at their World Heavyweight Championship. Which gives you a pretty good idea what they thought about Nikita. 

Nikita was an excellent, big, strong, heavyweight pro wrestler. 6'5, 280 pounds or so of muscle and he was the NWA U.S. Heavyweight Champion in the mid 1980s, until Lex Luger came along and beat Nikita. And after that, the WCW and NWA had a hard time finding the right role and spot on their organization.

TBS: WCW 1989- Ric Flair vs Terry Funk: I Quit Match (1989)

Source:TBS- Ric Flair vs Terry Funk in 1989.

“Clash of the Champions IX 11 15 1989 Ric Flair vs Terry Funk I Quit match xvid” 

From TBS 

I don’t know if you can find four better pro wrestlers for a cage I Quit match than Ric Flair, Sting, Terry Funk and Mr. Muta. The amount of pain and even torture these four men were able to put themselves through because of their conditioning, physical strength and just character and courage was simply unmatched by almost anyone else who has ever been a pro wrestler. Two other guys I would thrown into this group would be Hulk Hogan and The Undertaker for the same reasons as these four men.

Ric Flair was seen as a classical if not classy pure wrestler who made most of his living just wrestling in the ring and not getting into street fights like this and most of that is true. But he beat the great Harley Race for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, a match where he may of lost on points, but beat Race in it. He was in a lot of cage matches, including with The Horseman against The Road Warriors and The Koloff’s and did very well in those matches. Sting could wrestle or fight anyone anywhere. It didn’t matter to him and Terry Funk was a street fighter who could wrestle. Similar to Mr. Muta.  

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