Bad example Playboy. You cannot compare Ric Flair to anyone. I never watched Race until he came up North. By then he was a fat old man. He didn't appeal to a 14 year old Chef to be Timmy. Without I don't know anything about his past career. Just about his federation days. I don't think he did too bad in the WWE. He had Bobby as a manager and he was the King which was kinda prestigious during that time period. So what if he had a pie fight with Duggan.
Harley worked all over the place in the 70’s and early 80’s.
HUGE runs in NWA and Japan.
He had a great deal of respect from a lot of the boys – also had a reputation for drinking…a lot…even before TV tapings.
He was drunk at the ‘87 Slammy’s when he crashed into Hillbilly Jim's farm animal set and started chasing after some of the chickens.
And during his crowning ceremony he tripped and fell, catapulting Lord Littlebrook – the midget holding the end of his robe – out of the ring. He bent his crown and was bleeding from the head, but got up and tried to carry on all serious.
He was a lot of fun, but very respected.
I don’t know what kind of promoter he was, but I know he caused some problems for WWF when they came to the KC area for shows. Race would try to sabotage the venue, etc.
So there’s always been some speculation that Vince later put Harley in some stupid programs as sort of an act of revenge.
