We’re Getting Two Claps and a Ric Flair on ESPN’s “30 for 30” Tonight

Chances are if at some point in your life you were put into the Scorpion Death Lock or the Figure 4, you were either the youngest sibling, backyard wrestling, or just a straight up wrasslin’ fan. There’s something about growing up loving wrestling that creates a bond between friends and family. My father and I don’t have a many shared interests (we’re two very different types of nerds) but we both enjoy wrestling, and I know straight up and down that his favorite wrestler is none of than The Nature Boy, Ric Flair. I’m talking if WCW was on he’d stop in his tracks to watch Flair. “Is that… Is that Nach’? Oh, Flair back on?” he’d say like he saw an old friend in the street, and as soon as Ric was done talking he’d go back about his business. When you’re so nice that folk gotta stop their lives to watch you get on the mic and talk that talk? Or to see you get in the squared circle and throw hands? That’s when you know you done made it. You made it, baby.

Ric Flair put wrestling on his back for years as one of the sport’s Olympic gods. Talk about Ric Flar to your parents and watch ya daddy swoon and ya momma give the “oh that man’s real” head nod. That’s muhfucking respect. You hear the name Ric Flair and immediately you pay homage to the strength of the name. If you’re in Flair county North Carolina they don’t give high fives as hellos, they say hi with knife-edge chops and a “Wooooo.” That being said, we’re going to be seeing the dirtiest player in the game get his due from …