11:46 AM EST

A fantastic article on the impending retirement of Ric Flair has been posted by Mike Mooneyham of THE CHARLESTON POST AND COURIER, which you can read at this link: http://www.charleston.net/news/2008/mar/02/wrestling_sunday/.
 
Here are just a few choice excerpts:
 
There’s not much to say about Ric Flair that hasn’t already been said. The Nature Boy. The dirtiest player in the game. The Man. The greatest of all time. The respect for Flair, who turned 59 last week, is boundless, and his legend grows every time he enters an arena...

“He’s my favorite pro wrestler ever in the history of the business,” says “Stone Cold” Steve Austin. “He was the greatest traveling world champion of all time ... Ric Flair was the man. He still is" ...

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson patterned his image after that of the Nature Boy. His meteoric rise to fame began shortly after going to WWE boss Vince McMahon and telling him that he saw the character of The Rock as “the ‘90s going into the new millennium version of Ric Flair." “He’s an icon in this business,” says Johnson. “Nowadays the word icon is thrown around like an egg-white omelet is thrown around. But he definitely is an icon" ...

Jeff Hardy: "He’s led the way for everybody in the wrestling business. He’s impressed me so much by still doing it today.You can never forget that guy. He’ll leave a mark that will never be replaced" ...

“When you’re comparing someone to the best, you’re comparing him to Ric Flair. Ric Flair is the best,” agrees TNA champion Kurt Angle. “A lot of people say Kurt Angle is comparable to Ric Flair, but you can’t compare yourself to Ric Flair. He’s amazing.”

 

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