t1000
AC Slater
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Post by t1000 on Dec 10, 2007 13:15:57 GMT -5
So the "Nature Boy's" real name is Richard Morgan Fleihr. How is that pronounced? fl-EER? fl-ARR? Anyone?
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Post by joecro on Dec 10, 2007 13:18:04 GMT -5
Flair?
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Post by Mongo & Pepe: Back in Black on Dec 10, 2007 13:35:23 GMT -5
I've always pronounced it "Fleer", but I honestly don't know for sure if that's correct.
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kswolf
Bubba Ho-Tep
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Post by kswolf on Dec 10, 2007 14:14:39 GMT -5
His real name is pronounced just like his stage name.
When he first arrived in the Mid-Atlantic territory in the early seventies, he told Jim Crockett that he wanted to bill himself as "Ramblin'" Ricky Rhodes -- younger cousin of Dusty Rhodes. Crockett told him he was an idiot, because his real name was already the perfect ring name -- he just needed to change the spelling.
Rick Fleihr became Rick Flair (and later Ric Flair), and the rest is wrestling history.
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