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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: LurkerNoMore on December 27, 2016, 06:34:31 AM
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All that money he made, he just squandered. The gyms, etc..
http://grantland.com/features/the-wrestler-real-life/
Ric Flair has been physically attacked by at least three of his four wives.
In a 2005 divorce case with Elizabeth Harrell — wife no. 2 — Flair’s lawyers detailed their accusations. “On more than one occasion,” they wrote, “Plaintiff (Beth) has assaulted the Defendant (Flair), striking him about the head and body in an effort to provoke him into a physical confrontation.”
In 2009, Flair filed a criminal complaint against Tiffany Vandemark — wife no. 3 — whom he accused of “hitting him in the face with a phone charger.”
And in 2010, Flair and his current wife, Jacqueline Beams, returned to their Charlotte, N.C., home after dinner at the Lodge Restaurant. There, for reasons never made explicit, Jacqueline punched him repeatedly in the face. She was arrested.
The story of Ric Flair was once about a college dropout who rose through the ranks of professional wrestling to become a legend. It was about his nickname, “The Nature Boy,” and his signature figure four leglock, both lifted from an older wrestler named Buddy Rogers. It was about his multiple championships, his bleach-blond hair, his fast-talking patter (by his own reckoning, Flair was a “stylin’, profilin’, limousine-riding, jet-flying, kiss-stealing, wheelin’-n’-dealin’ son of a gun!”), and his signature, trademarked cry: “WOOO!”
Today the story is about a man known in the court system as Richard Morgan Fliehr, 62, born in 1949 and adopted by parents who raised him in Minnesota. That’s what he was called this past April, when a judge ejected Fliehr from his Charlotte home because he couldn’t pay his rent. That’s what he was called in May, when he faced an arrest order for an unpaid $35,000 loan. That’s what he’s called on the paychecks from Total Nonstop Action, a second-tier outfit where he’s still compelled to perform despite suffering from alcoholic cardiomyopathy, and where almost everything he earns goes toward old debts: lawyers, ex-wives, the IRS, former business partners, and anyone who made the mistake of lending him money.
Richard Fliehr declined to comment on the legal matters discussed in this story.
The Mecklenburg County courthouse in Charlotte contains thousands of pages documenting Fliehr’s legal adventures. There, it’s possible to unearth the gory specifics of a lifetime: how he passed out after attacking his son Reid in a fit of anger after the boy broke his drunken mother’s arm by pushing her out of an elevator; how he lost a fistfight with his daughter’s boyfriend; how he exposed his genitalia to airline attendants.1 One can also read how Fliehr allegedly flew into steroid-induced rages against his wife and children; how he suffered anxiety attacks and at least one nervous breakdown, how he broke his back in a 1975 plane crash; how he was mistreated by powerful bosses such as Eric Bischoff; how he bought millions of dollars’ worth of jewelry for the women in his life; how he was cited for letting a drunk 20-year-old woman drive his car in North Carolina; how he used the same NWA title belt as collateral for two different loans.
Taken together, the information produces a rough timeline that illustrates Fliehr’s self-destructive impulses. It includes excesses that Hollywood screenwriters wouldn’t have the audacity to invent, and yet it follows its own logic — one bad decision comes after another, each magnifying the damage of the one to follow.
1990: Fliehr’s poor decision-making expressed itself from the beginning of his professional career, but the consequences began to emerge after his 40th birthday.
He had a lifelong enemy in the IRS. Throughout the ’80s, he did not pay his taxes. Finally, the state of North Carolina issued its reckoning: a 1990 notice that he owed more than $62,000 in back taxes from 1982, ’83, and ’88. Fliehr presumably paid without consequence. He wouldn’t always be so fortunate.
In November 1990, Fliehr was caught traveling 95 mph in a 65 mph zone in Beckley, W.Va. He was forced to apply for a restricted license so he could drive from airports to his wrestling events. The superior court granted his request almost a full year later.
The same year, a woman named DeAnn Siden began to stalk Fliehr. Siden spent the next eight years following him from city to city, getting kicked out of wrestling venues, and eventually threatening his life. She claimed the two had an affair.
During the time of the stalking, Fliehr had been married to his second wife, Elizabeth, for seven years. They would have two children, Ashley and Reid. His first marriage to Leslie Goodman lasted from 1971 to 1983 and produced two other children, David and Megan.
1991: In August, Fliehr switched from WCW to the WWF. The NWA filed a lawsuit against him, angry that he was using his NWA title belt from 1990 in televised WWF promotions. Fliehr refused to return the belt, but a judge ruled that he could not use it for any commercial purpose. Additionally, he was barred from referring to himself as the NWA champion.
1992: DeAnn Siden, the stalker, gave birth to a girl named Tiffany. She claimed the child was Fliehr’s.
1996: Macrolease International, a New York company, sued Fliehr for failure to pay $66,000 in gym equipment and fees for his Gold’s Gym in Hickory, N.C. They earned a default judgment, meaning that Fliehr chose not to plead or defend himself in any way. This is the first documented sign of Fliehr’s inability or refusal to repay his debts.
In March, Fliehr was arrested for letting a 20-year-old woman named Colleen McCune drive his car with a blood alcohol content almost twice the legal limit.
1997: A Charlotte painter named John Henighen received a $1,500 judgment for work on the Fliehr home. “We painted their large house inside and out,” he wrote. “Had one day’s work left for one painter and they would not let us complete the work and have not paid a red penny towards all the painting we did, which took 3 weeks or more and she Mrs. Fliehr treated us badly. Rude.”
1998: Fliehr, unhappy with a proposed three-year contract with WCW, missed several appearances and was sued as a result. He countersued soon thereafter, complaining of mistreatment, especially by executive producer Eric Bischoff. While his appearances were being reduced, wrestlers like Hulk Hogan were promoted. Fliehr and his lawyers alleged that Bischoff treated him “in an increasingly hostile, rude, threatening and degrading manner. … [Bischoff’s] language is crude, rude and ‘socially unacceptable’ even in the world of professional wrestling. He has threatened to bankrupt Plaintiff, put Plaintiff out of work, banish him to some foreign country and has referred to him as ‘garbage.'”
They settled, and Fliehr stayed with WCW until 2001.
On January 3, DeAnn Siden phoned Fliehr and threatened to kill him and her own daughter if he didn’t meet with her. She later phoned Elizabeth multiple times, voicing threats such as, “You will be sorry, you bitch!” and “You bitch, you are not going to get away with this!” Over the next month, Fliehr and Elizabeth identified several of her calls coming from the McDonald’s restaurants where she worked.
After these calls and years of confrontations, Fliehr finally had his lawyers pursue criminal warrants for Siden’s arrest.
In response, Siden made the bizarre move to file a domestic violence complaint against Fliehr. In the complaint, she said he had threatened to kidnap her if she didn’t bring her daughter to visit from Houston, and “would tie me up, beat me up, and rearrange my face.” She contacted Fliehr and told him she would drop her suit if he dropped his. Instead, a judge issued an injunction preventing her from having any contact with the family.
That seemed to end the drama, at least as far as Fliehr was concerned. In 2003, Siden was arrested for stalking another wrestler, Kurt Angle, and threatening to kill his wife.
Bad Money: The Early Signs of Trouble
2000: A judgment against Fliehr showed $15,000 in back taxes, interest, and late penalties to the state of North Carolina from 1989.
Branch Banking and Trust (BB&T) received a default judgment in March for the more than $20,000 Fliehr and Elizabeth owed on a loan. Again, Fliehr chose not to make any plea or defense after the suit was filed. Matters would soon become more critical, and he could no longer afford to stay above the legal fray.
2001: Back in 1999, Fliehr and Elizabeth purchased $19,871.21 worth of furniture and financed it through Household Bank, operating in North Carolina. Fliehr left the repayment to his wife, as he did with most financial matters, and the family suffered the consequences. Elizabeth was tricked by the bank into paying more than $26,000 on the principle, and they didn’t sue until it became clear that Household still showed a balance of $7,921.07 plus interest accruing on the account. In September, bank representatives called Fliehr at 1:30 a.m., threatening his wrestling earnings. The bank asked if Fliehr thought he deserved special treatment. In a different phone call, Elizabeth heard a voice in the background say, “Tell him you’re Steve Austin.” Austin was a popular wrestler at the time.
The case was settled out of court. It’s tempting to see this incident as an innocuous case with a relatively small penalty (especially by Fliehr’s standards), but it gives the first hint of Elizabeth’s method of dealing with money.
In November, Fliehr returned to the WWF.
2002: In May, Fliehr and a group of other wrestlers, including Scott Hall (“Razor Ramon”) and Virgil Runnels III (“Dustin Rhodes a.k.a. Goldust”) were on a chartered flight back to the United States after a series of shows in Europe. They began drinking, and the situation quickly deteriorated. Two flight attendants, Taralyn Cappellano and Heidi Doyle, would compile their allegations into a 2004 lawsuit. Chief among the chronicled misdeeds was Fliehr’s sexual aggression. He wore nothing but a jeweled cape, the flight attendants said, and “flashed his nakedness, spinning his penis around.” He separately grabbed each woman’s hand and placed it on his crotch, and then “forcibly detained and restrained” Doyle “from leaving the back of the galley of the airplane while he sexually assaulted her.” Other wrestlers on the flight passed out syringes to the flight attendants with instructions to dispose of them. The specifics of the assault aren’t clear. At other points during the flight, Hall licked Doyle’s face, told her he wanted to “lick her pussy,” and asked Cappellano to “suck his dick.” Runnels advised Cappellano that, “You and me are gonna fuck.”
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more at the link above... too much to cut and paste here.
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:o some life,some claims.
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post him a links to some of shizzos posts, he will feel a lot better about himself.
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What does this have to do with George Michael?
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Woooo!
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The single greatest American.
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How old is this article?
ESPN pulled the plug on Grantland a while ago.
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I like Flair. Oozing charisma.
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Years ago I was reading stories about Flair. He is insane ;D ;D ;D
They should make movie about him . Mel Gibson as Flair ?
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not gonna read all that but i take it it is the women who ruins him
he need to stay away from women
maybe go live in the desert
just some advice in case he reads this
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Years ago I was reading stories about Flair. He is insane ;D ;D ;D
They should make movie about him . Mel Gibson as Flair ?
damn,..that is one hell of a good call
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i would be happy with gary busey playing him
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Will Ferrell
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Article is at least 5 years old. His daughter is now the top female in the sport.
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Years ago I was reading stories about Flair. He is insane ;D ;D ;D
They should make movie about him . Mel Gibson as Flair ?
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Article is at least 5 years old. His daughter is now the top female in the sport.
Yeah, he's 67 years old now.
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:o Still love the Nature Boy. Anyone ever see the wife swap with Flair? It's great Reality T.V.
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:o Still love the Nature Boy. Anyone ever see the wife swap with Flair? It's great Reality T.V.
ha I was just about to post that
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It's the bitches that'll get yas
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That's some damn fine acting. Sir Lawrence Olivier has nothing on the Nature Boy.
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That's some damn fine acting. Sir Lawrence Olivier has nothing on the Nature Boy.
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ha I was just about to post that
:)
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That's some damn fine acting. Sir Lawrence Olivier has nothing on the Nature Boy.
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I loved when he would get super worked up in an interview and just drop an elbow on the mat for no reason at all. Or start taking his clothes off and throwing stuff into the crowd.
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I loved when he would get super worked up in an interview and just drop an elbow on the mat for no reason at all. Or start taking his clothes off and throwing stuff into the crowd.
LMAO
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I loved when he would get super worked up in an interview and just drop an elbow on the mat for no reason at all. Or start taking his clothes off and throwing stuff into the crowd.
X2,,,I TRIED TO GET A GILF CLIP OF HIM DOING THE OTHER THING HE MASTERED EVERY MATCH ,WHEN WOULD GET THROWN INTO CORNER HE WOULD FLIP UPSIDE DOWN AND STILL LEAP OVER CORNER POST ONTO CORNER APRON THEN GET CLOTHESLINED ONTO FLOOR..
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wouldnt want it any other way
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I like Flair. Oozing charisma.
I met him briefly when working out in a Gold's gym around Charlotte NC about 30 years ago.
Spotted him on a few sets when he asked and was happy to do it.
Didn't say too much, ask for a pic or bug him while training.
I guess he preferred that. On the way out, I was stopped by the guy at the desk.
He left me a couple of passes for the wrasslin' that night in Charlotte. 100% serious.
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X2,,,I TRIED TO GET A GILF CLIP OF HIM DOING THE OTHER THING HE MASTERED EVERY MATCH ,WHEN WOULD GET THROWN INTO CORNER HE WOULD FLIP UPSIDE DOWN AND STILL LEAP OVER CORNER POST ONTO CORNER APRON THEN GET CLOTHESLINED ONTO FLOOR..
Then get into back the ring and, still staggering, blindly throw a punch into the open air before face planting.
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X2,,,I TRIED TO GET A GILF CLIP OF HIM DOING THE OTHER THING HE MASTERED EVERY MATCH ,WHEN WOULD GET THROWN INTO CORNER HE WOULD FLIP UPSIDE DOWN AND STILL LEAP OVER CORNER POST ONTO CORNER APRON THEN GET CLOTHESLINED ONTO FLOOR..
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That's some damn fine acting. Sir Lawrence Olivier has nothing on the Nature Boy.
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The Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Science approves.
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The Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Science approves.
Is that Kerry Von Erich slugging him? Ahh, sad memories
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That's some damn fine acting. Sir Lawrence Olivier has nothing on the Nature Boy.
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Might have the best pec-tits in wrestling history.
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lol,,,that too...
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Used to train at his various Golds around Charlotte
Nice guy
Remember manager who was stealing $ for months , he actually had shut off the cooling element on the water fountains - warm water after squats
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Is that Kerry Von Erich slugging him? Ahh, sad memories
Yeh, the Tejas Tornado
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I loved when he would always climb to the top turnbuckle and pause for a minute... then get thrown off. As young as I was, I kept thinking "why does he pause up there, why not just jump"
As I got older, I realized that he paused up there because he never completed the move before and didn't know what came next. :D
Right after he became a face, I was at the Omni as he finally made it to the top and jumped off to deliver a double axe handle. The place came unglued. Not because it hurt Funk, but because HE FINALLY GOT TO PULL OFF A TOP ROPE MOVE!!!
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:) Even the Macho Man just stood by in wonderment.
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I stopped watching pro wrasslin' on a regular basis by age 14. WTF, things change over time.
It still amazes me that Pro Wrasslin' is 1000x more popular then pro bodybuilding.
Crazier still, is "Dancing with the D-list celebs" is 100x more popular to watch then the WWE.
I rarely share the average person's interests. No idea why I'm so f'n odd?
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if Ric's life is considered to be a mess, what does that make some of our favorite GetBiggers' predicaments?
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I stopped watching pro wrasslin' on a regular basis by age 14. WTF, things change over time.
It still amazes me that Pro Wrasslin' is 1000x more popular then pro bodybuilding.
Crazier still, is "Dancing with the D-list celebs" is 100x more popular to watch then the WWE.
I rarely share the average person's interests. No idea why I'm so f'n odd?
Shitty as it is, pro wrestling still has a story line. Until someone runs from the back and clotheslines Heath at the Olympia and then sprays NWO on his back, it will be status quo.
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The single greatest American.
Should have never married an American. Older white men fair much better with some docile young Thai woman.
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Yea wrestling is as fake as any tv series we watch, it's acting but mostly physical acting, it has its heros and bad guys and as you say a storyline.
I grew out of it a long time ago but did tune in for goldbergs return and am still impressed with the physicality involved.
Shitty as it is, pro wrestling still has a story line. Until someone runs from the back and clotheslines Heath at the Olympia and then sprays NWO on his back, it will be status quo.
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as I kid I wasnt really a fan of his (i think his antics were over my head at the time) but watching old clips of his, I am a fan for sure
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Shitty as it is, pro wrestling still has a story line. Until someone runs from the back and clotheslines Heath at the Olympia and then sprays NWO on his back, it will be status quo.
they usually get something sprayed on their backs but it is not during the show per se ;)
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they usually get something sprayed on their backs but it is not during the show per se ;)
* golf clap *
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Shitty as it is, pro wrestling still has a story line. Until someone runs from the back and clotheslines Heath at the Olympia and then sprays NWO on his back, it will be status quo.
Maybe they should show a bodybuilder "paying his dues" in order to garner some interest.
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they usually get something sprayed on their backs but it is not during the show per se ;)
Softball.
Homerun.
Well done.