I'm only quoting this part because the rest of your post is basically just repeating this same sentiment. You talk about Batista only having two decisive losses. What the fuck does that mean? A loss is a loss. I don't care what type of interference there is or what circumstances occurred to make the loss happen.
You're about to let me prove myself right. Just wait.
The fact is Batista has lost a lot more then you're saying he has. The one guy that has beaten Batista the most over the last few years is Edge. Edge, like Flair, is known as a guy who always finds a way to win. Whether it's a cheap victory, a win with a ton of interference, or just exploiting a weakness the fact is he found a way to constantly beat Batista.
Edge's wins over Batista: A History
Judgement Day 2007: Via roll-up after exploiting a leg injury Batista won't have in this match.
Odds of Flair replicating that kind of victory in a Last Man Standing match: Non-existent.
One Night Stand 2007: Escape from the cage.
Odds of Flair replicating that kind of victory in a Last Man Standing match: Non-existent.
Vengeance 2007: Count-out.
Odds of Flair replicating that kind of victory in a Last Man Standing match: Non-existent.
Night of Champions 2008: Referee replacement and rule bending made possible by power-figure Edge was banging.
Odds of Flair replicating that kind of victory in a Last Man Standing match: Non-existent.
Every time Batista's beaten Edge, it was decisive destruction.
Can Batista replicate that kind of destruction on what you claim to be an Edge-like figure? ABSOLUTELY. Will that win him the match? YES.
So, as you can see, a loss isn't a loss.
Flair just happens to be about 100X better then Edge and he would certainly find a way to beat Batista even with the odds stacked against him. The same way he beat Funk in an "I Quit" match and the same way he beat Vader in a steel cage.
Batista can submit Flair all he wants. It won't win him the match. So I have no idea why you continue to bring these matches up.
Rey Mysterio kept rolling him up,
Once because Batista was merciful. At his peak, which we're assuming is when this match takes place, he isn't merciful. When he's not merciful, he destorys people.
Try asking Rey about Survivor Series. You know, the one where he didn't roll Batista up when Batista found an bit of kindness in his heart. The event where Mysterio had to be taken away on a stretcher.
Jericho spent about a week taking a picece of the cage off to hit him with,
Let me know when this becomes a cage match.
and John Cena sellotaped his legs together,
A move Cena only had the composure to do because he was able to stand toe-to-toe with Dave.
Something Flair
CAN'T DO.
Clearly, in a last man standing match, those things may not have worked, but people tend to find a way of beating people more powerful than them in that match.
Generalizing much?
Triple H over Jericho sure wasn't someone finding a way to beat a more powerful man.
Big Show beat Triple H in one on SmackDown last year.
Kane beat Shane McMahon in a LMS match in 2003.
Batista, a stronger man than Kane, beat him in a LMS match in 2007.
Your generalizations mean nothing examples that dispute them spring to mind so easily.
If everyone can just see past Batista's size and realize that technical/intelligent wrestlers will always defeat power wrestlers
I'll stop you there.
You're entire argument is based on a false premise.
Good day, sir.
Either way, while it might seem logical to vote for Batista due to his brutality, I still think Ric Flair is gonna be able to pull out a trick or two, Batista seems to rely on brutality, where as Ric Flair is quite a clever wrestler, he'll find a way to keep Batista down, just like he did with Vader.
Ferb, can't say this enough:
FLAIR CAN'T WIN WITH A QUICK ROLL-UP OR A SUBMISSION
These Vader examples mean nothing.
So how exactly is Flair at home?
Flair fights dirty. That's an automatic win, isn't it? Worked for Edge last year.
Might as well make that argument the WZ Tournament's first official cheat code.
Ric Flair beat TERRY FUNK in an I Quit match.
That still doesn't matter.
Flair blades for fun...when was the last time that you saw Batista bleed?
Batista dominates. He doesn't need to bleed.
Are you trying to help Batista win or something?
Batista wasn't the headliner at WM 21.
Now you're just lying through your (internet equivalent for teeth).
Of course you were probably so busy weeping by candlelight while longing for the past and staring at your faded Starrcade '85 program to notice anything that happened in the last ten years.
And by being 'showcased properly', you must mean have someone who can draw money wrestle with him.
No, I mean having booking put together a feud that generates interest. Batista can carry it from there.
If you're trying to imply that Flair drew in every shitty creative circumstance he's ever been in, you're sadly mistaken. Flair needed proper booking to draw, just like everybody else.
Why is matters in a Last Man Standing match is beyond me.
Batista's tapped out before. He's not above being submitted. Especially by someone who is far, FAR more experienced at weakening your opponent.
Submitting won't help.
Also, Cena averages more wins with the STF than Flair did with the Figure Four. Cena's stronger in submissions.
Ric Flair, at his peak, won EVERY big match he was in.
No. He didn't. He lost his title many a time, at many a big event, to many men.
True. However, can you name any wrestlers that got the best of Ric Flair on a consistent basis? Exactly, because no wrestler ever got the best of him consistently. Steamboat beats him once, Flair comes back, motivated to win, and beats Steamboat clean. Harley Race has a bounty put on Flair, Flair gets hurt, becomes motivated, comes back with a vengeance and wins his World Title on what was the biggest wrestling stage in the United States at the time. Against Harley Race. Vader dominated everyone in sight... until Flair came along... and beat Vader NOT once... but twice and even in a Steel Cage. Sometimes, a wrestler beats Flair. It happens to the best of them... but as Flair says, "FOOL ME ONCE... SHAME ON YOU... FOOL ME TWICE... SHAME ... ON ME!" Good wrestlers beat great wrestlers once... great wrestlers can beat the greats consistently. And Batista is nowhere near the level of Flair in his prime.
Batista's gotten the last or highest profile laugh in every feud he's been in except for one. All of those laughs were decisive.
That is with Cena, who on average looks stronger than Flair.
As usual, you're plugging your ears and pretending things that happened this decade didn't or didn't matter.
Cena's 'dominant' because he's billed that way. He's marketed to be Superman.
So Flair's just God and anyone you don't like is just billed a certain way or pushed hard?
Could you look any stupider right now?
Blah, blah, what happened in this decade doesn't really matter, Cena sux, Batista sux, body type, Wooo!
Okay then.
VOTE BATISTA.