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.

American wrestler Ric Flair has had multiple world heavyweight championship reigns spanning over three decades.

* Ric Flair

* February 25 – Ric Flair, American professional wrestler

* September 17 – Ric Flair defeats Dusty Rhodes to win his first World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in Kansas City.

Ric Flair also noted Memphis as his birthplace.

Among the graduates from this campus are two former U. S. Vice Presidents, Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale, former NAACP president Roy Wilkins, several Nobel prize winners, several athletes such as Ric Flair, Kevin McHale, Dave Winfield, Patty Berg, Brock Lesnar, Curt Hennig, Shelton Benjamin, Bobby Jackson of the NBA, and composer Yanni.

In June 1997, he lost the Cruiserweight Title to Chris Jericho at a non-televised webcast house show in Los Angeles, California minutes after a successful defense against Rey Mysterio, Jr. Syxx then began a feud with Ric Flair, losing to Flair at Road Wild in August.

Syxx was then involved in a parody of the Four Horsemen stable, where he portrayed Ric Flair.

* the bodies of several professional wrestlers, including Bret Hart, Ric Flair, Curt Hennig, Rick Rude, Brian Adams, and Joe Laurinaitis, better known as Road Warrior Animal

One memorable episode of Nitro took place on October 19, 1998, where local sport legends John Randle and Kirby Puckett alongside Minnesota native Ric Flair chased WCW president Eric Bischoff out of the building.

On the March 22 Spring Breakout episode of Nitro, Mysterio got his first shot at the WCW World Heavyweight Championship against champion Ric Flair when the names of ( allegedly ) nearly everyone in the company were put into a hat and a lottery was held.

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.

Slaughter appeared on the October 23 Raw in the corner of Ric Flair as he faced Kenny of the Spirit Squad.

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 March 31, 2008, on an episode of Raw, Slaughter paid tribute to long time friend Ric Flair at the end of the show.

" Classy " Freddie Blassie also made a cameo appearance as himself, along with " Wrestling's Living Legend " Bruno Sammartino, and Ric Flair in the 1986 film " Body Slam " starring Dirk Benedict, " Captain " Lou Albano, and " Rowdy " Roddy Piper.

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.

Also, the presence of stars like Ric Flair on TV every week made their special appearances in each region less of a draw.

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.

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.

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

Laurie Anderson narrated Ric Burns's Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film, which was first televised in September 2006 as part of the PBS American Masters series.

Then he fired Mayorga, who had been trying to keep the band in punk territory, and was replaced briefly by No Mercy bassist Ric Clayton, who was replaced by Bob Heathcote.

Ric Olsen ( lead guitar ) was brought in during the final recording of Pleasure Victim.

Ric Olsen was brought in to complete tracks on Pleasure Victim.

In Spring 2008, the band was in talks with Sony about releasing " Leave The Memories Alone " as the third single from the album, due to notable rise in sales after its appearance in " The Nature Boy " Ric Flair's farewell video tribute in the March 31, 2008 episode of " Raw " in WWE programming, but that never came about.

Departing from Matador, this lineup ( without Farley ) worked with producer Ric Ocasek to create what was intended to be Guided by Voices ' major label debut.

A high school friend of Allen and Gates, Ric Weiland, was hired to convert the 8080 BASIC to the 6800 microprocessor.

On 20 September 2007, it was announced that the Head of Programmes, Ric Blaxill, had resigned.

He was first booked as an associate to Ric Flair's " Four Horsemen " stable until Ole Anderson was kicked out and he became an official member of the group.

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.

In second-place was another write-in candidate, professional wrestler Ric Flair, with 17, 145 votes.

The creative design of the show was concocted by a troupe of artists including Gary Panter ( the art director ), Craig Bartlett, Richard Goleszowski, Gregory Harrison, Ric Heitzman, Phil Trumbo, and Wayne White.

Richard " Ric " Berger ( 1894 – 1984 ) was a Swiss professor of design, decoration, and art history.

Richard Fleihr ( Ric Flair ) was born on February 25, 1949.

April 18, 2009 was declared " Ric Flair Day " in Charleston, West Virginia and he was presented with the key to the city by the mayor.

On October 19, 1998, it was declared " Ric Flair Day " in Minneapolis, Minnesota by Mayor Sharon Belton and on November 15, 2008, it was declared " Ric Flair Day " in Norfolk, Virginia.

On March 24, 2008, Mayor Bob Coble, of Columbia, South Carolina, declared March 24 to be Ric Flair Day in Columbia.

While standing in the ring, surrounded by Ric Flair and newest Horsemen members Steve McMichael and Benoit, Anderson declared that his last official act as the " Enforcer " for the Four Horsemen was to offer his " spot " in the group to Curt Hennig, as he was forced to retire due to extensive neck and upper back injuries.

** The match was declared a no contest after Kevin Nash, Billy Kidman, Vampiro, Chris Candido, Shane Douglas, Ric Flair, and Sting all interfered in the match.

The co-branding continued until the following Souled Out, when interim WCW President Ric Flair declared that WCW pay-per-views would no longer carry nWo branding.