It’s Too Late For Ric Flair To Come Out Of Retirement
«The Nature Boy» Ric Flair is a popular choice for greatest professional wrestler ever, but it's far too late for him to come back to in-ring competition. Making his professional debut in 1972, Flair famously suffered a broken back in a plane crash early in his career, yet still managed to continue wrestling for several more decades. Not only that, Flair occupies a class of performer that's very exclusive in the industry, with both fans and his colleagues often holding him up as the greatest of all time.
On his path of greatness, Flair managed to rack up a whopping 16 recognized world championship reigns, although Flair is actually a 21-time world champion if reigns WWE's history ignores are still counted. That's a record that may never be broken, and indeed most likely would rather it not be. While many wrestling stars are either excellent on the mic and average or below in the ring, or great in the ring but lacking mic skills, Flair excelled at both in a way few have before or since.
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For most of his career, Flair occupied a top spot in the NWA/WCW, briefly stopping over in WWE in the early 1990s long enough to win two world titles and have an excellent feud with «Macho Man» Randy Savage. Flair lost a retirement match to Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania 24, then got an amazing send-off on Raw the next night, with peers past and present — including wrestlers like The Undertaker paying tribute. Sadly, Flair was unable to resist getting back in the ring a few times later outside of WWE. Now, reports suggest Ric Flair is coming out of retirement once again. This is a questionable idea for many reasons, not least of which is that Flair is currently
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