At the June 8 edition of Clash of the Champions, it was announced that Luger would challenge Flair for the NWA title at The Great American Bash on July 10 in Baltimore.

Flair broke his back in three places and, at age 26, was told by doctors that he would never wrestle again.

The crash did force Flair to change his wrestling technique away from the power brawling style he had used early on, which led him to adopt the " Nature Boy " style he would use throughout his career.

Over the years, there would be various incarnations of the group, with Flair and Arn Anderson as the two permanent members, while a number of different wrestlers, including Lex Luger, Barry Windham, Sting, Sid Vicious, Paul Roma, Brian Pillman, Chris Benoit, Jeff Jarrett, Steve McMichael, Curt Hennig, and Dean Malenko, have held the other two spots in the Horsemen.

In July 1992, as Savage prepared to defend the title against The Ultimate Warrior at SummerSlam, Flair and Mr. Perfect sowed distrust between the two by suggesting that they would back one or the other during their match.

At Starrcade in 1993, Flair was placed in a match, which was billed that if Flair lost, he would retire from wrestling.

Flair would return a month later to feud with Curt Hennig over the US title ( which Hennig won from Steve McMichael ).

Robinson would be nicknamed " Lil ' Naitch ", idolizing Flair and officiating all of Flair's matches in his favor.

Nevertheless, Flair has repeatedly stated in various interviews how happy he was when WCW finally closed down ; although, at the same time, the fact that many people would lose their jobs saddened him.

After HHH took time off following Vengeance and for the rest of the summer, Flair would become a fan favorite again by beginning a short feud with Kurt Angle.

Vince McMahon retaliated by announcing that the next match Flair lost would result in a forced retirement.

Flair announced that he would reform the Four Horsemen under the new name Fortune, comparing A. J.

The match was used to write Flair off television, as the following week he was scheduled to undergo surgery for his torn rotator cuff, however, Flair ultimately chose not to have the surgery as it would have required six months of rehab.

Flair would not appear again for three months, until making his return on August 9 at the tapings of the August 18 edition of Impact Wrestling, confronting old rival Sting and challenging him to one more match.

The event also featured The Rock and Sock Connection versus Batista, Randy Orton, and Ric Flair of Evolution where this 2-on-3 handicap match saw The Rock's last match for over seven years, as well as Steve Austin as the guest referee in an interpromotional singles match between the departing superstars Brock Lesnar ( who would return to the company eight years later ) and Bill Goldberg.

As a result of the procedure, it was announced that he was withdrawing from the Survivor Series match which would have pitted himself ( as a co-captain ), along with Flair, Anderson, Sgt.

One month later, on the March 16 episode of Raw, Piper would get his revenge when he, along with Ric Flair, Jimmy Snuka, and Ricky Steamboat, attacked Jericho.

However, when Flair was fired from WCW in 1991, the NWA would not return his deposit ( as he was technically no longer an NWA employee, since WCW was still affiliated with the NWA at that time ).

McDaniel and Flair would swap the title one more time before the final exchange of the Mid-Atlantic title between the two happened on December 27, 1976, when Wahoo defeated Flair for the belt in a " No Disqualification " match in the Richmond ( VA ) Coliseum.

and if Flair were to interfere, Styles would be stripped of the title and the title would be awarded to Angle.

Slaughter in this company won a large 25 man battle royal by eliminating Kamala, winning the right to challenge Ric Flair for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.

Flair then kicked Sting out of the Horsemen upon his challenge for the NWA Championship, resulting in a revived feud between the two which had to be delayed due to Sting injuring his knee, forcing WCW to slot Lex Luger as Flair's main challenger until Sting returned.

It had been planned to have Sid challenge then-World Heavyweight Champion Vader at that year's Starrcade, but Sid's departure removed him from this match and Ric Flair was elevated to be the challenger against Vader.

At the culmination of this feud the group returned to being heels, kicking Sting out for daring to challenge Ric Flair for the World Title.

Flair was unable to pin Mike in the 10 minutes and as a result, David won the challenge.

Five years later, Mr. T reappeared as a special referee for a Hogan-Ric Flair match, in October 1994, at WCW's Halloween Havoc, and then went on to wrestle again, defeating Kevin Sullivan at that year's Starrcade.

Despite this, some wrestlers, such as Chris Jericho, Ric Flair, Bret Hart, Kurt Angle, Ken Shamrock, The Undertaker, Dean Malenko, and Chris Benoit, became famous for winning matches via submission.

Turner recorded for many of the key R & B record labels of the 1950s and 1960s, including Chess, Modern, Trumpet, Flair and Sue.

During the 1950s he recorded for the Bihari brothers ' Flair Records, Meteor Records and Modern Records labels, as well as for Chess Records and Mel London's Chief Records ( his " It Hurts Me Too " was later a hit when he re-recorded it for Enjoy Records ).

The match ended with a disqualification win for Flair, even though Arn Anderson's interference on Flair's behalf should have theoretically disqualified Flair.

Slaughter was one of three options between himself, Roddy Piper, and Dusty Rhodes that fans could vote for as a tag partner for Ric Flair at Cyber Sunday, but did not win the vote.

On September 1, 1986, he fought NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair for the title at a show Battle of the Belts, which resulted in a 60-minute draw.

He began hunting their leader Ric Flair for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.

The Luger / Flair feud came to an end after December's Starrcade 1988: True Gritt where Flair pinned Luger in a rematch main event for the NWA title by illegally using the ropes.

The following night he defeated The Undertaker for the Undisputed Championship but authority figure Ric Flair restarted the match, which Van Dam then lost negating the title win.

Edge and Ric Flair formally met at the New Year's Revolution event in 2006 in a match for Flair's Intercontinental Championship, which resulted in Flair retaining, after Edge was disqualified.

Guerrero and Benoit feuded with Ric Flair for a while and Guerrero even lost a match to Flair at King of the Ring.

As Miss Hancock she was known for doing table dances, her relationship with David Flair, and a pregnancy angle.

In 2012, Flair became the first ever double inductee in the WWE Hall of Fame, first inducted in 2008 for his individual career, and for a second time in 2012 as a member of the Four Horsemen.

Flair dropped out of college before receiving his degree, and he then worked as a bouncer at a nearby club, where he met Olympic weightlifter Ken Patera, who was preparing for a ring career at Verne Gagne's wrestling school.

As a result, Flair retained the title.

Luger faced Flair in many rematches across the country, never winning the title.

In January 1991, WCW officially began to recognize a WCW World champion, with Ric Flair, who had just defeated Sting to regain the NWA World championship, as the first title holder.

Ric Flair was simultaneously recognized as the World champion of both the NWA and WCW until he left WCW over a dispute with WCW president Jim Herd ( with the actual title belt in his possession ) to join the WWF.

Upon leaving, Flair was stripped of the WCW World title causing the separation of the WCW and NWA titles, but continued to be recognized as the NWA World champion until his arrival in the WWF a few months later when he was officially stripped of the NWA World title as well.

Van Dam lost the Intercontinental title to Orton at Armageddon after interference from Ric Flair.

Flair was the first WCW World Champion, having been awarded the title following WCW's secession from the NWA in 1991.

In 1974, Flair left the AWA for Jim Crockett's Mid-Atlantic region in the National Wrestling Alliance ( NWA ); and he soon captured his first singles title when, on February 8, 1975, he beat Paul Jones for the Mid-Atlantic TV Championship.

Harley Race won the title from Flair in 1983, but Flair regained the title at Starrcade in Greensboro, North Carolina in a steel cage match ; afterward, Race and Flair fought in many different matches in early 1984.

Flair won the NWA title, officially, eight more times.

Flair lost the title to Race and won it back in the span of three days in New Zealand in March 1984.

Flair regained the title eighteen days later in Japan.

He then reigned for two years, two months, and two days, losing his title to Dusty Rhodes on July 26, 1986 at The Great American Bash ; Rhodes had been an ever-present foe in Flair's career after Flair helped break Rhodes's ankle on September 29, 1985.

Flair regained the title two weeks later.