[1982-02-28-GCW] Ric Flair vs Harley Race

[Superstar Sleeze]

NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair vs Harley Race - Georgia Championship Wrestling 2/28/82

 

Over the course of watching all this 80s footage, Harley Race has become my second least favorite wrestler (don't worry pretty little head, Don Muraco, you always be my number one). He is all bumps (they usually look atrocious) and highspots. People levy nonstop no-psychology at the feet of Flair when that is a boldface lie while Harley Race is screaming look at me, I am that wrestler! Shockingly, I actually wish we had this in full. I really dug it. I have seen '83 MACW match, Starrcade '83 and the Central States '84 match, gotta say this looked like the best Flair/Race match, but we only have 10 minutes of it. The beginning is the usual Race BS, but since he is face it is all offense, which is great because he is way better at that and it climaxes with a piledriver. Flair proves why he is the better world champion because watch how he sets everything he will fire off shots and then take the bump. He is not just some ragdoll, you have to overcome Flair. After the cut, the match gets really good. Flair is on the outside ramming Harley's head into very hard object that he cane find. Then he driving the point of his elbow into Harley's face and nice punches. Flair is way more sadistic than Harley ever was. Clip to a SICK Harley flying headbutt to a standing Ric Flair. Really cool move! Harley punches Flair in the nose and then selling is so damn good from Flair! Diving headbutt and Flair blades off that for double juice. Both men are bleeding like madmen. The match breaks down into a wild brawl that is super heated. The ref takes punches from both men. Harley smashes the ref into the post. The ref has to throw the whole thing out. What we saw was really good stuff. The finish stretch was good, Flair looked like he was on fire and Harley's offense was great. Looked like it would be at least **** if not higher. At ten minutes, just did not good enough flavor of the action. Still worth watching.