Can Steamboat Wrestle

[Reverend BTY]

I was thinking and I really don't remember him getting a terrible career ending injury and it was more that he just wanted to retire. I just think it'd be really cool to have him back at Wrestlemania to face a retiring Ric Flair. I may be grasping at straws but damn would that be cool.

[Hiroshi Hase]

A lot of people on here have mentioned that scenario, but his back was injured in WCW in 1994 so he retired and plus I don't know if a lot of the younger fans would be willing to watch Steamboat wrestle Flair.

[Kash Flagg]

It'd be a disappointing match for those who saw their best of three series.

[Spankymac is sick of the swiss]

He could probably come back for a VERY short series of matches, because I remember an interview from a couple of years ago where he said he's in the gym most days and that he's in pretty good shape for his age, but I don't know if I'd want him to, honestly. Maybe to put a young guy over big-time, but not against Flair. It would ruin the legacy of their matches.

[h]

...or maybe Flair should be forced into retirement as well.

Just think...13 years ago, Vince billed the promotion as the "new generation" of wrestlers.

[Hiroshi Hase]

h said:

...or maybe Flair should be forced into retirement as well.

Just think...13 years ago, Vince billed the promotion as the "new generation" of wrestlers.

I do recall that and it is ironic he did all that and still he tends to rely more on the old-timers than the new guys he has.

[thesunbeast]

I've heard that Steamboat has actually pitched to management the idea of him wrestling Flair at a Wrestlemania for their last match.

[Mr Captain Falcon]

If he wanted to he could wrestle, but he'd have to find someone who would let him wrestle.

I know i'm a prick.

[Reverend BTY]

Thanks for the answers, guys. To Kash, I do realize this wouldn't be the best of their matches together. But I think it's would be more of a nostalgia thing than anything else. Like the various runs Hogan has had. As for the younger fans not knowing about him, I think it could be made important through video recaps. I think with the WWE production crew, they could get a feud over a decade old seem important once again.

[Adam Pacman Khan (akkilla)]

yjc1019 said:

h said:

...or maybe Flair should be forced into retirement as well.

Just think...13 years ago, Vince billed the promotion as the "new generation" of wrestlers.

I do recall that and it is ironic he did all that and still he tends to rely more on the old-timers than the new guys he has.

on top of the hill...not over it....

[seano]

There was talk back in early '04 of Flair/Steamboat at WM20. It didn't happen. I doubt it ever will.

[MolotovMocktail]

I had an idea back in 03-04 where he would feud with Evolution, including a World Title Match with HHH and an IC match with Orton (then at the height of his Legend Killer gimmick) to tease a nostalgia run. Unfortunately, it wasn't to be.

[Citizen Snips]

Show a Steamboat match from his prime to a great deal of wrestling fans today, and watch it be met with silence. His style is about the complete opposite of post-Attitude era wrestling.

[molson5]

Steamboat is WAY past the point of being relevant anymore. Flair v. Steamboat would be a cute special attraction match for ROH or something, but it ain't happening at Wrestlemania.

[Stotty]

i dunno about making it his final retirement match at werstlemania, but certainly it should happen on a heavily hyped raw on the road to WM

[Mozenrath]

He should just do what he did in ROH: chop the f--- out of people, but not wrestle a match.

How about this: cocky heel interrupts a video package highlighting the Flair and Steamobat classics, gets into an argument with Flair and Steamboat, and they take turns chopping him?

[bubbles]

^ That would be funny as f***

[tarheelfan]

Steamboat and Flair have wrestled literally a thousand times over. There is no need IMHO to give the WWE the satisfaction or platform to have them wrestle their last match against each other especially when it would fail to live up to the standards of their previous thousand or so matches. I am an old school NWA fan and I immensely enjoyed the great chemistry and ring psychology these two wrestling greats had in their matches. But IMHO I think the Steamboat/Flair matches legacy would rather be better left alone. Even if it would be supposedly Flairs last match.

[Red 'n' Black Reggie]

nah, there'd be too much risk that it wouldn't live up to what they'd created in the past. also, the majority of the new fans wouldn't get it.