Name: How Ric Flair Developed His Persona
Uploaded: 2023-04-22T17:41:50.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How Ric Flair Developed His Persona' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-04-22. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How Ric Flair Developed His Persona' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-04-22. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan experience this guy is a gigantic fan of yours. I mean like
beyond
So he's if he like seems like a little awestruck right now. That's what's going
on. Yeah, it's very polite
Thank you
I was raised on raised on pro wrestling and I didn't know what a Rolex or a jet
or anything was until you came out
When I was eight years old and I'm like, what the hell is this guy?
Beating the good guys when I literally just preposterous
Well, it's you took the art of the promo like the interview to a completely
different level
You really did you made it so fun
Yeah, thank you. I was having fun making them. How did you develop that sort of
style?
Like was that something you always had is it something you cultivated for pro
wrestling like
No, I love pro wrestling as a kid. I watched it all the time and then my dad
would take me to a match on
my birthday or something like that, right and then
I was gonna play football University of Minnesota and academically ineligible
after a semester
Stayed in the fraternity house for two years told my parents. I was still in
school
And then Ken Pateria came to town and I got a chance to break in with Vern and
I just kind of grew up on Joe Namath
You know going back to where I got that when I saw Joe Namath
I saw Joe Namath in Miami in the men coat with the chicken and the lounge chair
I said that's me
And then
That he had
That he had slept with 300 women
At Alabama. I said that's mine. That's my game. I gotta figure out how to get
there
There's a video I'm sure you've seen it of these football players. You know
what the team was?
The Colts, Sergio Brown
Yes, and they're all
See Jamie, see if you can find it because it's one of my absolute favorite
clips on the internet
And these guys are reciting your lines word for word
Yeah, Sergio Brown. God bless him
Let's hear this, let's hear this, Sergio
Diamond Ring Worms
Kiss Dillon
Wheelie Dillon
Limousine Ride
Jeff Flyers
Son of a gun
And I'm having a hard time
Holding these out of Gators out
He's got them on for ya
He's got Gators on right now
Come on man
I couldn't show up on your show without the Gators
You know I've done this at a show before
Where you could just say Ric Flair
And you point the microphone out and the whole crowd goes
Whoo!
Thank God
It's amazing
I mean that's an amazing thing
You're like literally the only human being that's connected to a sound
Yeah
You go Ric Flair
And they go
Whoo!
How did that
Was that something that just came out one day, one promo?
I'm telling you
We used to drive, you know, three miles
3,000, 3500 miles a week
Sometimes four
I mean at night
You're just listening to music
And drinking beer
And throwing cans at those signs
You know in the old days
And driving 100 miles an hour
And I heard Jerry Lewis go
Goodness gracious, great balls of fire
Whoo!
Wow!
But the emphasis wasn't on the Whoo as much as the thing
And I went shit
The next day on TV I said
Da da da da da
Whoo!
And that's how it all started
Wow!
Wow!
1974
Jerry Lee Lewis
The killer
The racers
The good balls of fire
Oh my god
Wow!
That's amazing
I have a question
You once cut a promo
When you were back in WCW
When NWO and all that was happening
And you start taking off your Rolex
And your clothes
And you're threatening Eric Bischoff
And at one point
You take off
He's tearing up $100 bills
He's trying to get the owner of the WCW out
You're gonna come out of here
He handcuffs himself
To the thing
Another
I mean it is so funny
It's epic
For some reason
You do an elbow drop on nothing at one point
Which is
My goodness
I'm starting to
This is how I tremble you jackass
I'm custom made
From head to toe
Have been
And always will be
You jackass
Taking all of his clothes here
Shirts
Suits
Ties
That's me
I've lived the life of a king
Because the people have allowed me to
To
It gets better and better
Deep
At one point
Forever
I will sign
My house
My cars
Whatever money I have
I'll sign it
Over to you
I will give you
The satisfaction
Of saying
You raped
The Nature Boy
If you
Have
The
You know what
To
Walk
The Isle
Here
Tonight
One
More time
He called him out
Oh wait
You gotta see him
He drops an elbow for no reason
Watch
Watch
Watch
Watch
The one stipulation
I think it's
I think it's back
Actually
It's right here
It's right here
Whoop
I ain't going home
He's handcuffed himself to the rim
That's for you
Get your ass out here
Come on
Okay
I've been told we're gonna look right back
Don't go away
Please
Bischoff
You turn the camera off
And I'll be naked
When you come back
Oh my god
He'll do it
He hiccups himself to the fucking rope
And at one point you're ripping up hundred dollar bills
And you take off Gucci shoes
And you throw them into the crowd
Yeah
Did you ever get those back?
No
I always wondered
After I grew up older
And learned about like production and stuff
I'm like
Oh there must have been an assistant over there
That he threw it at
Cause there's no way
He just throw it
Launches it into the
Jesus Christ
Two thousand dollar shoe
Here he goes
This is it
Watch this
He's just
He's about to drop an elbow
There's nobody there
I'm not leaving Baltimore
Till you and I
Get something straight
There's something wrong with me
When you were out there doing this
Did you have any plan?
No
Nothing
No
Just free ball and the whole thing
Yeah
Did you know you were gonna take your clothes off?
Oh I had a plan
But I wasn't sure
I didn't run it by anybody
Cause
I knew he'd never go for it
Where
How do you do
What was your
Method of madness to that
Like that part
The cutting promo part
Of Ric Flair
You'd have a loose plan
And you just let it rip
Or did you have any practice
Or anything
Like what would you
No I just
I just thought of it
We had been in that legitimate lawsuit
Legitimately don't like each other to this day
I mean we've
We've agreed to agree
But
I was
Pushed down
So far
In the company
That like the NWO
Was a featured act
Which I
Didn't have a problem with
But
Don't abuse me
Right?
So I was taking my son
To the AU Nationals
In Detroit
I'd ask the lawyer
For the time off
Not missing Nitro
Missing Thunder
The secondary show
Nobody went to
Right?
Right
And they sued me
And they walked in front of
About 85 people
And said he was going to break me
Now he's an executive vice president of Turner
Going to break me
Ruined my family
Destroy me
And all that
And so
I could have sued
I would have been a multi-millionaire
But then I wouldn't have been able to wrestle again
Right
So after I waited
I sat home for a year
Costing a million dollars
And I said fuck it
I'll go back
And then
Cause they wouldn't
They wouldn't give me a release
And they gave me my check each week
But the minute I cashed a check
Then I would be
Admitting that I'd work for him again
So
Just another screw job
And then he ended up bankrupting the company anyway
Right
Or not he
The combination of things
Right
Exactly
He's going up against Vince McMahon
Well
They thought they were going to put Vince out of business
That's where they made the biggest mistake
Right
Vince is a very smart guy
Hence the Attitude Era
Yeah
They had 83 weeks
That's it
Thank you.