The Roid Rage
Getting Noticed By Management
Hello folks, giving you credit for being intelligent beings I am guessing that from the title of this thread you will know what I am about to talk about. Ric Flair.
We had all the signs, all the tells, we knew it would inevitably come. Last night on Monday Night Raw the "Nature Boy" Ric Flair got back in the ring in a full on match tag teaming with Batista against Randy Orton and his two impersonators Ted Dibiase Jr. and Cody Rhodes. Now, I don't know about you but I couldn't be more upset about this.
Why can't Old Yeller just take his shot in the head and die? Ric Flair received the most overdone, blubbery, flowery, drawn out "Retirement" ever. No one before him ever received such an orchestrated, organized, and glorious send off and no on else probably ever will which makes it all the more sickening. It's not like I do not like Ric Flair. I love Ric Flair, who doesn't? But his time has come and gone.After all the anticipation and emotion of his retirement to come back so soon or at all is like a slap in the face to those who gave so much to him in his not so final days as a professional wrestler.
When he inducted Ricky Steamboat into the hall of fame, and as soon as Steamboat came out, he and steamboat locked up I knew. It showed me for sure this guy still wants to wrestle, he obviously thinks he can still do it. Then his whole appearance during the Jericho-Legends feud was an even bigger tip off. Just knowing he was going to be involved with them also led me to the conclusion that somehow he is going to get in the ring again.
Then as we drew closer to Wrestlemania and we saw him basically have a match with Jericho I was yet again assured of his inevitable return. Even though he didn't have an actual match with Jericho, he just took an ass beating, it was match esque. I mean really, he even got busted open the hard way, his clothes ripped off of him, pummeled into the ground, and so on. It might as well have been a match.
All of that alone was like a damn Bat-Signal telling of Flair's impending return. I thought it was bad enough that he came back on T.V. at all. After your retired that generally means you are no longer apart of the show, so what the hell was he doing there?
Then, we get to wrestlemania itself. I knew there was no way he wasn't going to get in that ring and do something, attempt to take out Jericho, basically again, have a match. It was infuriating as you watched him seemingly seething with anger at Jericho's victory, obviously wanting apart of him, knowing what was to come in the next seconds. And what do you know? Sure enough there ran Flair into the ring to try and avenge the losses of his Legend friends. It was horrible, angering, humiliating, and disgusting. He had no business in there, or at Wrestlemania. But, Ric Flair always wants to be Ric Flair so of course he weaseled his way into yet another Wresltemania and had basically returned to the ring in less than a year after his big teary eyed retirement.
After all the blubbering, and all the crying, and respect given by the wrestlers, and thousands of adoring fans cheering for him in his retirement, and all the admiration he received otherwise he still had to indulge his ego and get back into the ring. I'm sorry but this is a joke, and an embarrassment. Where does anyone get off doing what has now done. What happened to the end of your career? What happened to the show being over? Shouldn't this guy be on the beach in Florida somewhere having one of those drinks out of a cup that looks like a coconut with the little umbrellas and curly straws? Ordering Lobster on the beach and getting even tanner?
What business does Ric Flair have anymore being in the ring? And better yet what does he have to offer the business in doing so? If anything it is a detriment to the business to have him in there. The argument has been made before, you can't put a 60 something year old guy in there over young talent and have them still be credible. It ruins them, and makes those guys trying to come up look weak and shows the fake in wrestling because only under the precepts in wrestling would a 60+ year old guy be beating up chiseled young athletes in their primes or heading into them. It devalues all of them. Am I really supposed to suspend my disbelief long enough to but into a geriatric Ric Flair taking it to two rising stars in the WWE?
This is nothing but Ric Flair boasting his arrogance once again. He is his own biggest fan, and obviously does not truly know when to call it quits. Another thing I want to know is what was so bad about retirement? What was wrong with going out in the fashion he did? He got more on the way out than anybody, Vince even bought him a fuckin' Rolex just to be nice, what was wrong with all that? Shawn Michaels gave him one of the best matches of his career, what was wrong with that? I'll tell you, it's not more. In his ego maniacal ways he always wants more. To make it worse he legitimately believes he's still "got it". Just because a greyhound can still walk on three legs doesn't mean he can win a dog race. What purpose other than a self fulfillment does this serve for him to be in the ring again, even if only for a night? None. And it defeats the purpose of ever retiring. If Flair wanted to keep wrestling he should have done just that on a relaxed schedule and I'm sure people would have been fine with that. But no, he had to have the big speeches, and moments of praise and cheer, and all the teary eyed goodbyes only to come back less than a year later, and wrestle again just over that. What a crock of shit, and as I said earlier what a slap in the face. If anyone knew you were going to be back a year from now, no one probably would have cared about the big send off, but instead we were lied to. It is my conclusion, or better yet my wish that Old Yeller just die. Not in the literal sense of course, but I wish this guy would just accept the fact that his time is over, there are a bunch of guys out there now who need Ric Flair as the last thing in their way, stealing their spotlight. Die Old Yeller!!!!! DIE!
We had all the signs, all the tells, we knew it would inevitably come. Last night on Monday Night Raw the "Nature Boy" Ric Flair got back in the ring in a full on match tag teaming with Batista against Randy Orton and his two impersonators Ted Dibiase Jr. and Cody Rhodes. Now, I don't know about you but I couldn't be more upset about this.
Why can't Old Yeller just take his shot in the head and die? Ric Flair received the most overdone, blubbery, flowery, drawn out "Retirement" ever. No one before him ever received such an orchestrated, organized, and glorious send off and no on else probably ever will which makes it all the more sickening. It's not like I do not like Ric Flair. I love Ric Flair, who doesn't? But his time has come and gone.After all the anticipation and emotion of his retirement to come back so soon or at all is like a slap in the face to those who gave so much to him in his not so final days as a professional wrestler.
When he inducted Ricky Steamboat into the hall of fame, and as soon as Steamboat came out, he and steamboat locked up I knew. It showed me for sure this guy still wants to wrestle, he obviously thinks he can still do it. Then his whole appearance during the Jericho-Legends feud was an even bigger tip off. Just knowing he was going to be involved with them also led me to the conclusion that somehow he is going to get in the ring again.
Then as we drew closer to Wrestlemania and we saw him basically have a match with Jericho I was yet again assured of his inevitable return. Even though he didn't have an actual match with Jericho, he just took an ass beating, it was match esque. I mean really, he even got busted open the hard way, his clothes ripped off of him, pummeled into the ground, and so on. It might as well have been a match.
All of that alone was like a damn Bat-Signal telling of Flair's impending return. I thought it was bad enough that he came back on T.V. at all. After your retired that generally means you are no longer apart of the show, so what the hell was he doing there?
Then, we get to wrestlemania itself. I knew there was no way he wasn't going to get in that ring and do something, attempt to take out Jericho, basically again, have a match. It was infuriating as you watched him seemingly seething with anger at Jericho's victory, obviously wanting apart of him, knowing what was to come in the next seconds. And what do you know? Sure enough there ran Flair into the ring to try and avenge the losses of his Legend friends. It was horrible, angering, humiliating, and disgusting. He had no business in there, or at Wrestlemania. But, Ric Flair always wants to be Ric Flair so of course he weaseled his way into yet another Wresltemania and had basically returned to the ring in less than a year after his big teary eyed retirement.
After all the blubbering, and all the crying, and respect given by the wrestlers, and thousands of adoring fans cheering for him in his retirement, and all the admiration he received otherwise he still had to indulge his ego and get back into the ring. I'm sorry but this is a joke, and an embarrassment. Where does anyone get off doing what has now done. What happened to the end of your career? What happened to the show being over? Shouldn't this guy be on the beach in Florida somewhere having one of those drinks out of a cup that looks like a coconut with the little umbrellas and curly straws? Ordering Lobster on the beach and getting even tanner?
What business does Ric Flair have anymore being in the ring? And better yet what does he have to offer the business in doing so? If anything it is a detriment to the business to have him in there. The argument has been made before, you can't put a 60 something year old guy in there over young talent and have them still be credible. It ruins them, and makes those guys trying to come up look weak and shows the fake in wrestling because only under the precepts in wrestling would a 60+ year old guy be beating up chiseled young athletes in their primes or heading into them. It devalues all of them. Am I really supposed to suspend my disbelief long enough to but into a geriatric Ric Flair taking it to two rising stars in the WWE?
This is nothing but Ric Flair boasting his arrogance once again. He is his own biggest fan, and obviously does not truly know when to call it quits. Another thing I want to know is what was so bad about retirement? What was wrong with going out in the fashion he did? He got more on the way out than anybody, Vince even bought him a fuckin' Rolex just to be nice, what was wrong with all that? Shawn Michaels gave him one of the best matches of his career, what was wrong with that? I'll tell you, it's not more. In his ego maniacal ways he always wants more. To make it worse he legitimately believes he's still "got it". Just because a greyhound can still walk on three legs doesn't mean he can win a dog race. What purpose other than a self fulfillment does this serve for him to be in the ring again, even if only for a night? None. And it defeats the purpose of ever retiring. If Flair wanted to keep wrestling he should have done just that on a relaxed schedule and I'm sure people would have been fine with that. But no, he had to have the big speeches, and moments of praise and cheer, and all the teary eyed goodbyes only to come back less than a year later, and wrestle again just over that. What a crock of shit, and as I said earlier what a slap in the face. If anyone knew you were going to be back a year from now, no one probably would have cared about the big send off, but instead we were lied to. It is my conclusion, or better yet my wish that Old Yeller just die. Not in the literal sense of course, but I wish this guy would just accept the fact that his time is over, there are a bunch of guys out there now who need Ric Flair as the last thing in their way, stealing their spotlight. Die Old Yeller!!!!! DIE!
