If you haven’t heard yours truly is a die-hard WWE fan. Just check out my “I Wanna Be A WWE Diva” entry. I have been following the WWE since I was a kid, before they took the “F” out and it was the WWF. Now that I think about it, I was following the WWE back when it was the NWA and Vince McMahon’s father was running the show. Back then wrestling had a small following, it was really rare to know a female who kept up with it but there I was glued to the telly every Saturday.

If you didn’t know Wrestlemania XXIV was on March 30th which is like the Super Bowl of Wrestling. It will also be one of the most remembered days in wrestling history, not because The Big Show fought against professional boxer and Heavyweight Champion, Floyd “Money” Mayweather but because it was the day that Ric Flair had to retire from wrestling after losing his match to “The Heartbreak Kid”, Shawn Michaels. On Monday Night Raw, everyone said their farewells to The Nature Boy. There wasn’t a dry eye in the arena in Orlando, Florida that night nor was there a dry eye here in my house. I was bawling like a baby.

Of all the legends from back in the day, the most memorable(to me) had to be The Nature Boy Ric Flair. His charismatic way of “styling and profiling” had me hooked, I wanted to be one of those ladies he had on his arm every week walking him down to the ring. When I was young, I always wanted to take a ride on Ric Flair’s “Space Mountain” even though back then I had no idea what that really meant. And now that I am older, I still bet that would be one sweet ride!

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Other than “The Nature Boy”, Ric Flair is known by many names such as “The Naitch”, “The Dirtiest Player in the Game”, “The Man” and the ever popular, “Limousine Ridin, Jet Flying, Kiss Stealin, Wheelin Dealing, Son of a Gun”. And in my eyes, he earned everyone of them. Ric Flair gave the wrestling world thirty-five years of what it was to be the ultimate sports entertainer.

One of Flair’s favorite catch phrases was “In order to be the Man, you have to beat the Man”. Flair may have lost the match to Shawn Michaels and been a little tight-lipped in an interview with my fellow blogger, Shawn Decker but in my eyes, he will always be “The Man”.