MITCHELL'S TAKE
MITCHELL: "Nature Boy" Ric Flair - The Echoes
Apr 8, 2008 - 8:54:29 PM |
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Early-release article from PWTorch Newsletter #1020...
"You know you've got a man right here. You've got Mr. Charisma, Mr. Excitement, Ric Flair…"
"To be the man you've got to beat the man."
"That robe costs more than your car."
"Too tall, too tan, too rich, and too much man to ever back down to a punk like you…"
"They're having a picnic and I'm the roast."
"Diamonds are forever."
"I specialize in big, tough guys."
"Now we go to school!"
"When I walk that aisle, looking as only I can look…"
"You're going to bleed and sweat and pay the price of a wrestling lifetime."
"Styling and Profiling..."
"Custom made from head to toe…"
"A limousine riding, jet flying, son of a gun, who kissed all the girls and made them cry…"
"You know, Gordon, I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Anything in life I wanted - I bought it, and if I couldn't buy it, I went out and got it. This is mine, the NWA World's Heavyweight championship…"
"I think if you'll search your soul, Bob Backlund, you'll admit to yourself and these people out here that you already know who the better man is."
"Yeah, the neck hurts, and I've paid the price, but I'm back and I'm going to stay. Orton, you and Slater will go to your grave because of me. Bob Caudle, line 'em up because it'll be a cold day in hell when someone can come out here and make fun of me and put me in the hospital, try to break my neck, try to end my career, and most of all try to take the greatest sport in the world from me; it's mine. And Race, before it's all over, I promise you, Race, for paying those guys $25,000 I’ll have a piece of you and it's going to be that gold belt! Slater, Orton, it's only just begun, NOW, you're going to face Ric Flair one more time! Whoooo!"
"Atlanta, Georgia; Greensboro, North Carolina; Charlotte, North Carolina: Chicago, Illinois, Miami, Florida; and on the fourth the big time comes to the Boston Gardens…"
"There goes the Champ, there goes Slick Ric!"
"Learn to love it, because it's the best thing going today."
"Very nice, Valentine, very nice, I threw her number away last year…"
"The bottom line is…"
"This is mine, the World's Heavyweight Championship…"
"I am championship material, I am the blood and guts of this great sport."
"The whole world knows, when Blackjack and I are right, there ain't nothing in this great sport to hold us back. Mulligan and I, we're going to walk that aisle just like we used to. I remembered back to when we ran things around here,. A lot of people didn't like it, but they understand an eye for an eye…"
"You keep your mouth shut, punk!""
"I'll tell you how it goes. Never one moment of my life goes by that I don't know I'm the very best at what I do…"
"The most prestigious trophy in our sport, ten pounds of gold, diamonds, and silver…"
"Wahoo, I used to be scared of you, but now when I think of you, I get goosebumps! Goosebumps!"
"Those shoes cost more than your house…"
"Fire me! You already fired me!"
"If you start getting those butterflies, don't worry, it's only natural…"
"Precious, remember, you'll be coming round the mountain when you come…"
"So proud to be with the NWA, so proud to be with Jim Crockett Promotions, so proud to be one of the Four Horsemen…"
"Like the little lady said last night, just before she closed her eyes and took that last deep breath, 'Nature Boy, you are the man, the myth and the legend all rolled up in one.'"
"Did I happen to hear the Fruitbirds out here? Are the Fruitbirds back in Atlanta? The boys are back in town? The Horsemen will take care of that."
"Never let it be said we don't monopolize the female population…"
"One of my big girls with big sweaters told me, "Tell Ricky Morton, if you may, to give this to one of his teeny-boppers." In other words I like the big girls and you like the teeny ones…"
"Wherever I go I don't care if they love me or hate me, I love myself and I know I'm the best there is."
"In the words of the infamous Arn Anderson, what's causing all this?"
"With a tear in my eye…"
"Hulk Hogan sucks!"
"A lot of people around the world are under the misconception that professional wrestling is made up of a bunch of clowns. This is the greatest sport in the world. No games, no Hollywood, no rock 'n' roll wrestling; the name on the marquee is professional wrestling, it's a man's world, and you've got to be a man to be a part of it. Nobody is going to claim to be the world's heavyweight champion until he goes through me."
"There goes the champ, there goes…. Slick Ric."
Bruce Mitchell writes monthly feature-length columns on current events and pro wrestling history in the Pro Wrestling Torch Newsletter. He has been pro wrestling's most respected, historically relevant columnist since 1990, taking on wrestling's most contorversial issues and confronting power with truth. He also participates in a 90-120 minute discussion of pro wrestling with PWTorch editor Wade Keller every weekend exclusively in the PWTorch VIP section. He also writes shorter newsletter-exclusive "Mitchell's Memos" and "Mojo Raw Commentaries" most weeks. He also interacts with PWTorch VIP members in the "Bruce Mitchell Zone" of the VIP Forum. He has covered some of the biggest wrestling events of the past 30 years in person from New Jersey to North Carolina to Los Angeles to Tijuana and has appeared on dozens of radio shows as a guest analyst and hosted his own radio show over the years. Email him at bmitchell51@triad.rr.com.
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