[1992-11-23-WWF-Primetime Wrestling] Interview: Ric Flair & Razor Ramon

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

This was great. A shame it took until the end of Flair's return for him to start resembling the real Flair.

[Matt D]

This was great. A shame it took until the end of Flair's return for him to start resembling the real Flair.

They FINALLY put him in the suit. Part of that was the whole "Live from Charlotte's TV studio." thing they had going with PTW at that time. But he got to keep wearing the suit for the rest of his run at least. His event center promos for Bret shortly thereafter had him in it.

[PeteF3]

Razor says that Perfect is just like that americano, Arnold Benedict! It's unbelievable how quickly Hall adapted to this role--whether it was with great coaching or just the right gimmick. Flair follows with a tremendously intense promo.

[WingedEagle]

Razor certainly held up his end of the bargain with his promo here. Great fire fire from Flair, to go with the right look in a suit as we get some vintage NWA Flair here.

[garretta]

I'll never get why it's so important to some of you that WWF Flair had to look and talk like JCP Flair. They were two different takes on the same character from two different companies with two completely different visions. Unchanged JCP Flair doesn't last ten minutes in the ring with either Hogan or Savage, and certainly doesn't get two WWF title reigns. In fact, Vince would have had the time of his life making JCP Flair look like total dogcrap just to prove his own genius. It's only because Flair was willing to get out of the suits and into the sweaters and robes, and stop talking about bright lights, big cities and pretty ladies and all the rest of the JCP stuff that his old fans loved, that he was able to survive in the WWF at all, kind of like Dusty and his polka dots. Once he established that he was a viable WWF character, he was allowed to be more of the Flair that those old fans of his loved, again kind of like Dusty.

 

At any rate, I could have done without the Arnold Benedict stuff, which ruined Hall's whole promo for me. Way to stereotype the ignorant Latino, Vince.

 

I really thought Flair spoke from the heart; he probably despised the way he was positioned in this whole deal, as solely a product of Curt and Heenan's combined genius. I loved the football analogy, which you don't hear often in the WWF, where other sports only exist for Vince to make fun of for the most part. But of course we have to shoehorn the word "survive" into a Survivor Series promo, whether it really fits or not. Flair pulled it off about as well as could be expected, but that whole conceit continues to bug the hell out of me, even though I know it's coming every single year.