Ric Flair is considered one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time. He has been in some incredible matches throughout his career. According to Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, there have been 8 five star Ric Flair matches. Below are all of the Flair matches that have received 5 stars.
Ric Flair Matches That Have Received 5 Stars
8) Ric Flair vs Barry Windham
Event: Battle Of The Belts II (1986) | Rating: 5 Stars
Ric Flair and Barry Windham faced off for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship at Battle of the Belts II. The match went for over 40 minutes and ended in a double count out.
This won the match of the year honors for 1986 from the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
7) Ric Flair vs Barry Windham
Event: NWA Crockett Cup – Day 2 (1987) | Rating: 5 Stars
Ric Flair and Barry Windham faced off for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship at the Crockett Cup event in 1987. Flair and Windham put on another really good match against one another.
Flair won the match and retained his Title.
6) Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Lex Luger, The War Machine and Tully Blanchard vs Animal, Hawk, Dusty Rhodes, Nikita Koloff and Paul Ellering
Event: NWA The Great American Bash (1987) | Rating: 5 Stars
Ric Flair took part in a lot of the War Games matches in the 1980’s. One that received 5 stars was at the Great American Bash on July 21st, 21987.
Flair’s team ended up losing the match.
5) Ric Flair vs Ricky Steamboat
Event: NWA Chi-Town Rumble (1989) | Rating: 5 Stars
The main event of the Chi-Town Rumble event in 1989 was between Ric Flair and Ricky Steamboat. This was for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.
Steamboat ended up pinning Flair to win the Title.
4) Ric Flair vs Ricky Steamboat
Event: NWA Clash of the Champions VI: Ragin’ Cajun (1989) | Rating: 5 Stars.
Ric Flair and Ricky Steamboat faced off in another classic at the Clash of Champions ‘Ragin’ Cajun’ event in 1989. This was a 2-out-of-3 falls match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. Steamboat beat Flair 2 falls to 1 after nearly an hour.
This won the match of the year honors for 1989 from the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
3) Ric Flair vs Ricky Steamboat
Event: NWA WrestleWar (1989) | Rating: 5 Stars
Flair and Steamboat put on a third 5-star match in 1989. This came at the WrestleWar event. This was for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.
Flair won the Title back from Steamboat after 30 minutes.
2) Ric Flair vs Terry Funk
Event: NWA Clash Of The Champions IX: New York Knockout (November 15th, 1989) | Rating: 5 Stars.
Ric Flair and Terry Funk faced off at the New York Knockout event in 1989. This was an ‘I Quit’ match.
Flair forced Funk to quit after locking him in the ‘Figure 4’.
1) Ric Flair, Barry Windham, Larry Zbyszko and Sid Vicious vs Brian Pillman, Rick Steiner, Scott Steiner, and Sting
Event: WCW WrestleWar (1991) | Rating: 5 Stars
Ric Flair took part in the WarGames match that main evented WrestleWar 1991.
The Four Horsemen ended up winning the match.
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