Jerry Lawler vs Ric Flair (NWA Heavyweight Title Match) Part 2 - The Hustle
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- Part 2 of 4. The first and only appearance of Ric Flair in the Memphis studios leads to a NWA World Heavyweight title match versus Jerry Lawler to the delight of Memphis Wrestling fans.
"The Hustle"
Just as Ric Flair is about to begin a scheduled match with Rick McCord, Jerry Lawler calls the NWA champion back to the interview area for a quick and amiable greeting from the local King of Memphis Wrestling (as seen on TV).
But Lawler is masking his true intentions of course and, with a wink of an eye to the audience, he's doing exactly what we expect The King to do. Before we know it, Ric Flair is bamboozled by Lawler using a common pool hustler's trick. Flair's tremendous ego offers him little choice.
Date: August 14, 1982
Location: WMC TV5 Studio, Memphis
Interview: Lance Russell
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Announcer Lance Russell, Jerry Lawler AND Ric Flair.
Now, THIS is REAL wrestling.
Lawler was NEVER in the same class with Flair. Memphis wrestling was always a JOKE.
@@jaysantos536 no shut up
@@sanjaymanjarejar8176 Go bak to India!
Wooooooooooo
@@jasonclark6879 Well crafted build up over the microphone without the need for shouting to a match between two great wrestlers and Lance the host. True masterpiece of drama.
Ric said he could go in the ring and wrestle a broom ... The people just want to see him! Hilarious! LOL.
tyty274 it true though. 🤷♂️
He could for sure, he wrestled a book when offended by it. Mick Foley was in the ring when it happened.
@Roborav come on now he gave it an elbow before kicking it out of the ring lol. I admit he didn't have an impressive moveset and he was pretty repetitive but there is no denying the impact he was able to have. I think that his shortcomings are a testament to how good he was with how he was able to get over despite not being overly impressive. I like the nature boy but I see why people don't.
☠️☠️🤣🤣🤣 I died 😂😂😂
@@fattdamon1980 😒😒😒 shut up
Oh for the days when they wouldn't let a wrestler near a microphone unless he could do a 10-minute promo without a script.
Flair
Dusty Rhoads
Rowdy roddy
& lol
The weasel were the best at promos
With shout out to
Cornette & jimmy heart
and now we have NWA POWERRR baby!!
@@James-nw1oj way worse
@@allendoss1941 Think you may have missed the best Terry Funk.
Lol..this is false
This is EVERYTHING that was good about wrestling...Flair, Lawler and Lance Russell all play their parts to perfection, and make all of this look totally believable...I wish wrestling was still like this...
69
It's called nostalgia you fool people are saying the same crap about the wrestling there grew up on in the early 2000s! Use your skull not your heart!
Give me back this era Any day...
@@dougfredricks2017Sabés que, te la voy a traer con mi escuela. mis alumnos no serán los más fans del wrestling clásico, pero son muy buenos para mi
Love Jerry on the mic, but, “I could go in there and wrestle a broom” “there all here to see me”, hilarious quote!
That was the greatest "non screaming" Flair promo EVER. So refreshing.
You haven't seen many Flair promis have you...
@@Oh_I_Will Everyone has their own favorite.
You beat Ric Flair, then he unlocks the screaming
@@Oh_I_Will k know this is old but he did imply his favourite of his non screaming promos. For underrated non screaming flair promos I would say flair vs triple H in charolette north Carolina (i think). The one during that lose and retire storyline
🗣️WOOOO!!
"Who's the little guy with the dark hair?"
"Bill Dundee?"
Lol Ric pretending he doesn't know Lawler and Dundee! Awesome!
“You wouldn’t be putting a little of that country jive on me would you?” Lol
Jerry Lawler's got the original dad bod.
@Laoch you say that like it's a good thing.
@@thomass789 women prefer dad bods of gay guy body any day
He's not outta shape.
That's why he should of wrestled in a pair of tighty whities...
@@fishgod9039 dad bods looks bad,go to the gym boy.
rip Lance Russell true Memphis legend
Marcus Jones...Here,here.Lance Russell was true Memphis legend.
Me and my daddy off his right knee as an baby raised up watching that Memphis wrestling. Born and raised in Watervalley Mississippi with the turn dial channel t.v. Saturday morning Jerry Lawler putting on an show with Bill Dondee ....
I learned to love Ric Flair man that's man can talk some stuff.
Lance Russell "ole banana nose " and Dave Brown
Damn ric really is the world champion. Look at the way he carried himself. I've never seen a champion carried himself with so much confidence. You ain't never gonna find another ric flair. It sucks that the territory days are over. I wish I live through this age. My late father use to watch wrestling during the territorial days and I get excited just by listening to it.
Nick Bockwinkel!
It was glory days
Nick Bockwinke
You wouldn't put a little country jive to me ? Lol😂
I grew up during the territorial days. It was great, but the one thing that sucked about it was if we didn't live in and pick up the TV stations in a territory, then we very rarely got to see wrestling from those other territories. I grew up in the Northeast where WWWF ruled and we never got to see NWA and AWA wrestling. It wasn't until the 80s we started seeing wrestlers like Lawler.
That was one of the best segments ever. Flair always told it like it was.
I could go in there and wrestle a broom ~ Ric Flair😄 No truer words were ever spoken of Ric in his prime.
Yeah and Flair would still cheat in the match against the broom.
Ric flair is a legend I wish he could stay young forever!
"What is your name again ?" That is just classic.
Nikko
IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOUR NAME IS!!
@@sjdrifter72 sounds Rocky to me
You should know The Rock learned from Flair
the king
Jerry was just as cocky as Flair!
But he wasn't FLAIR
@@mrgallagher7072 Lawler was a legend in Memphis. Those people didn't give 2 craps about Ric Flair.
@@mrgallagher7072 You're right he's not Flair, he's Lawyer!!!
I remember watching this as a teenager and loved it. This is old school wrestling at its best.
I agree
Jerry calling Ric a young man. they are both the same age hahaha
how old here?
He was talking about Rick McCord
70 years old to be exact.
1949
@@RobWitchdoctor 33 here.
This is so good! Memphis promos had a way of building heat from a slow simmer. Ric getting really close to the mic, Jerry "acknowledging" Ric's superiority... the jobbers getting a name drop... then THE ACTION! If anything, Memphis reminds me a bit of Portland wrestling of the late 70s, although that still does a disservice to Memphis and its unique flavor.
I've been getting into watching territory TVs and I've always heard about Portland and how respected Don Owen was but I don'tknow anything about it. do you have any recommendations or highlights I could search TH-cam for?
When pro wrestling was really pro wrestling and not "sports entertainment," when promos weren't scripted to death, and before Lawler sold out to Vince and was turned into a fool. These were the days!
Yep. McMahon turned these wrestling legends into A1 assclowns.
@@godoflightning4977 Have an A1 day
saying Vince "turned" lawler into a fool is like saying he made Andre big. lawler created a fictional character the real jerry lawler couldnt hold up..take away his booking and 'creative control' and you have the industries most prestigious jobber.
All this talk they still acting drama.
Truth be told
This is what the WWE should pattern their in-ring talking after. The wit of Jerry Lawler against the mic skills of the Nature Boy is priceless. They could've tour the country and sold out many arenas with this promo!
WWE is Human waste
Ric Flair was awesome when he was young, as was Jerry Lawler. Wrestling was so entertaining, even before Vince McMahon took it to an entirely different level. This is back when heels were more polite to one another.
McMahon ruined rassling with his scripted promos and obviously fixed matches. Rassling was always fixed but why say so up front?
Vince Jr watched the Lawler-Kaufman program and took notes.
What year is this? Flair is mad funny
1982
Even in 1982 flair at 33 has white hair and looks old 😂
That's as calm as I've ever seen Ric Flair! Woooo
Sounds stoned😎
Ric Flair referred to Bill Dundee as "the little guy w/ dark hair" lol. Ric Flair was spot on by saying the World Champion never put the title on the line on TV (not all the time anyway) it made the World Title & World Champion special and prestigious in the 1970'-1990's.
And yet, he did here...
Word has it Rick McCord is still waiting his turn at ringside.
Lol
Lmao
😂🤣😂🤣
pinoi78 word also has it Rick McCord is still waiting for his $150 pay check as well.
He was the broom
rip Lance Russell true Memphis legend
Marcus Jones for sure he had that voice good at commentary
The greatest wrestler ever -- Ric Flair!
Wrestled the same match for 40 years. Best ever on the mic.
@@rgood1204 Vs Brodie vs Funk vs Vader vs Race vs Wahoo all different matches. He wrestled the same match when he was older not in his prime.
@@rgood1204
Could say the same for 90% of wrestlers.
Wooooooooooo!
The greatest cheater ever, more like it.
" I couldn't of said that better myself"
Lol Rics promos are unreal extreme talent!!!
Man, this was before the golden era of wrestling. Crazy how far wrestling has come.
In my opinion...wrestling has fallen FAR from this.
This WAS the golden era of pro wrestling. Once the cartoon known as the WWF (now WWE) went mainstream and killed off the territories, it was downhill from there. All we have now is the joke known as sports entertainment.
This WAS the Golden era of wrestling
CLASSIC Flair. I love how he's all calm
Rick McCord could've been champ! LOL
you can hear lawler's southern accent distinctly in this video
Justin R I think it’s because he being serious and speaking in his normal tone opposed to him acting silly in WWE
Yeah he seems to have gotten rid of it these days
The accent would be totally unacceptable in Vince's Empire...
i noticed that
This is better than anything that's been on a wrestling television show in the last 10 years.
Jerry Lawler is still the king of Memphis
He’s still The King, period.
I thought that titled belonged to yo gotti??
@@joshuawhite8247 A Lawler vs Yo Gotti match for the King of Memphis title would make money.
You wouldn’t be putting a little of that country jive on me would you lol Rick Flair was cool funny
Oh for the days when they wouldn't let a wrestler near a microphone unless he could do a 10-minute promo without a script.
Ric was so cocky and confident.
Of course, because it's RIC FREAKING FLAIR!
That's how he got to be up there in the world of pro wrestling.
@Shock
Yes n no
Scripted yes
But there personality has ALOT to do with it.
Flair payed his dues in the buisness by carrying dusty rhoads & dick murdock bags.
2 of the cockiest wrestlers there was.
I was fan back in those days
Early 90s I grew out of it
Almost every wrestler has said flair's stamina was legendary
And he was all over the place
On the floor
In middle ring
In every corner, on top ropes lol
Entertaining then
Bishoff & Vince ruined it
Vince put final nail in
Randy ortan is a cool wrestler tho
Best there is today
Yeah, and 99.9% of the time he would cheat.
Great chemistry these two have selling this promo!
I would love to be able to go back in time and watch these matches live and in person!
Flair was Flair… Lawler was perfect in playing the humble “country bumpkin” part… This is why the territories were the best! McMahon ruined that forever!
Who's the little guy with the dark?......LOL
TNA...BRING BACK THE SOUTHRTN HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE.......ITS TIME
no matter where ric goes, he is still the man!
You want 10 mins of MY time?
I'll pull you thru your hoop daddy! Absolutely classic 😅🤣😂🤣
This really WAS a big deal back then. The only purpose for tv matches between Top Carders and Bottom Carders was to have run ins and stuff to create buzz between the faces and heels so people would pay their money to see the Top Carders wrestle each other when they came to their town. Lawler vs. Flair was like a FREE PPV back then !
Thats TV Taping 101...not including the Monday Night Wars and/or i guess to certain degree today...
Super facts
Right, I remember TBS would advertise the upcoming events at small venues such as convention centers and fairgrounds in random cities between commercial breaks.
Ric Flair:
"Whats your name again? Whats his name again?" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Knowledge Seeker btw, who tf are u?
Tom Brady ain't my world champion, Whhhhhoooooo!!!
The more I watch wrestling the more I see all other federations were derived from Mid South and Mid Atlantic wrestling!!!
JERRY LAWYER SIGNED AUTOGRAPHS FOR THE COOKS BEHIND THE LINE. HE WAS VERY FRIENDLY TO US! 💪✝️
I remember as a kid watching this with my family. Old school Memphis right here. Gd memories of the 80s. Was reading this from 82. I remember the Mid and late 80s Memphis Wrestling 🔥
Me too Jer Me Too Jer
rick mccord really got screwed.
Ric Flair... born in Memphis!!
seeing this ric flair, its hard to compare anyone to him.
RIP lance Russell
The people came to see Ric Flair. I could wrestle a broom. Too funny
an ironic line considering you had to write in and request the tickets in advance (at one point there was a six-month waiting list)
@Sub or you are against Trump in 2020
One cool thing Vince McMahon
Did do was put everything on wwe network
Memphis wrestling
Florida Championship
NWA
AWA
Western Pacific wrestling
Of corse classic WWWF /WWF
Came to curse & throw popcorn at that time
Me personally I care less if he was at the event
As long as road warriors, RnR express were there lol
Maybe dusty to
But most time they were up against the four horseman & midnight express lol
I remember when big boss man
Was big bubba Rogers
Cornette's body guard lol
I also saw life cornette falling off the scaffle shattering his knee
Road warrior hawk was wrestling with a broken femur bone in that match Lol
Good ol days
@Sub or you are against Trump in 2020 that's pretty sweet
And great memory
Unfortunately I never got meet any wrestler
@Sub or you are against Trump in 2020
In a since Vince owns it
But also dosent
By the time Vince was buying all the territories it dissolved into Memphis then into Florida
It didn't exist at the time of the great buy outs
But he did buy Florida Championship wrestling
I assume own all the classic tape of the time.
He later rebirthed Florida wrestling
Really used it for training camp
wow Rick McCord got treated like a first class jabroni
SouthOx Big Time!
A first class Jabroni 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
JOBBER
Mullins and the
Treated like a pure dosser!
" Country Jive" said Ric. This is flippin sweet. I liked Lawler a bunch. I didn't get into wrestling until I was a freshman in HS in 1984 here in Cincinnati . Saw a couple matches at Cincinnati Gardens and Riverfront Coliseum. Miss those days. I love Ohio, Tennessee, NC and SC I also love Jerry for smacking Andy Kaufman like a freak that he was on duchey Letterman show. I wish I coulda been there to see Lawler and Ric Flair
I'm so glad this stuff has been preserved and released. For us that love pure wrestling, this is it. Miss these days, 2 legends in the ring. To us this is amazing, to them it was just another show.
People probably dont realize
it but Ric Flair was actually born in Memphis.
"Country jive" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣I have to borrow it. Legendary Ric Flair
Lawler VS Flair Legend vs Legend
Flair a legend as wrestler, Lawler as a me, too commentator.
Saw Flair defend the NWA title against Lawler at Rupp arena in Lexington KY where the wildcats play. In 87 I think. Lawler won by DQ. Lasted around 30 minutes
Bet that was awesome
Flair vs McCord....are you serious???
I know right
When Jerry was young he resembled AJ Styles to me
Brandon McCullen Exactly
I was wondering who he looked like today because his face seemed similar. Aj styles !!! Lol
Your so right
Very true... LMAO
Lawler can talk tho
Um aj resembles jerry ya mean 😂
A promo like this makes you invest emotion. When you have emotion, you want to buy a ticket to see the face shut the heel up. Scripted promos don't allow that to happen any more...
Perfectly stated.
LMAO 😂 LMAO Ric flair was talking that shit at the king in 1982
I hope somewhere Ric McCord got a good gig after getting his ass beat by so many bad guys he deserves a push of some kind
This his job: to go to the different territories, and pump em up, by wrestling the top guy in each promotion......he carried the NWA literally on his back......😏
"You wouldn't be puttin a little of that country jive on me, now would you?"
No kidding. Imagine that, a realistically booked wrestling angle, I love it
Poor Rick McCord, how much can one take.
Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Actually both of theses jabronies sounded different
I love how in the movie man on the moon with Andy Kaufman played by Jim Carrey, they made the king look pretty much like he looked here.
this has to be the calmest, most coherent promo i've ever heard ric cut. It feels wrong. Immoral.
It's not cartoonish and it's not stale, you didn't get fatigued seeing the same people 5 days a week. There was genuine heat that you could feel especially since it wasn't scripted.
Jerry was great shame he’s known more for puppies
"The Nature Boy" staying classy! Cocky-- but CLASSY! He makes Lawler look lame by comparison.
He's The Champ and for him to volunteer to come to Memphis spoke volumes...he should be put over and treated as The World Champion should be...not to come in and put over a 2nd rate outfit
If you wanna be the man you gotta beat the man.
@@rodneywilkerson9854
The Stylin', profilin', limousine riding, jet flying, kiss -stealing, wheelin' n' dealin' son of a gun!
THE NATURE BOY
Rick Flair 👋
WOOOOOOO
Two wrestling gods going at it
Flair has one Heck of an ego
Damn I miss unscripted interviews! William Corgans NWA is bringing it back though! And it's awesome!
So much is wrong with today's product...we could make a long long long list of what WWE did to the biz to make it nearly unwatchable
just say billy lol
SMASHIINGG PUMPKINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@fanaticrekted5310 lol
so this is flair on sedatives
LOL. Thanks for putting a date on this, places it a few days short of my 12th birthday -- pretty well a huge mark at the time. Grew up a couple of blocks from Lawler's mom's house.Love how sedated Ric seems, possibly 11:00 am on Saturday is too early if he had been out at Beale Street all night.
Competition is all secondary to Ric Flair.... they came to see Ric. He could wrestle a broom. Yep. About right.
i'm 35, got into pro wrestling in 1981, age 6. i know, just a child, right? a year later, i had 60 year olds in awe of my knowledge. i studied the shit. when ytube came around with all these classics, i nearly shit my pants. therefore, i've watched as much as possible.... it's the first time i see this one...ABSOLUTELY FUCKIN 24 KARAT GOLD!!!!!! PRICELESS!!!! THANK YOU!!!! hey, kiddies, this is pro wrestling(& it's psychology) at it's apex.
jdbankshot Bravo. I'm 32 and it's cool to see another long-term fan. These days I can't watch because the modern product sucks. but I don't think I'll ever stop following it online.
Long term fan also I'm 45 been a fan since 80 my stepdad got me hooked on Superstar Bill Dundee and Jerry The King Lawler
+Kendrick Henderson 62years old watching 60 years been to over 50 matches MSG
Lmao..there's a lot of women here , that are dying for me to slide out of this 7,000 robe... hahaha pricelesss
The Naitch vs. The King!
"Who's that little guy with dark hair?" LMAOI!
Jerry Lawler era invencible...hasta a Roman reighs y the shield les hubiera dado una paliza...
to be the man....you gotta beat the man!!! whoooooooo!!!!!
This is probably one of the best promos, I've ever seen.
0:14 - "..whose got that belt around that waist."
No. No he doesn't.
FLAIR Is a wrestling God!!!!! Best Ever!!!!
This is when wrestling was more real than you would ever experience in your lifetime opposed to the comical world of sports entertainment that we see today! Blood was something that was guaranteed that you will see it almost every match and there were a was no one hiding under the ring (except when Lawler got posted and lost his hair) because you could clearly see up under it so everything was in clear view including when they were busted open with a chain or a 2 by 4! As far as promos were concern I think they did more going off the wham (meaning it was real and some of them really hated each other) opposed to something that was scripted and studied
Man these guys knew how to make it entertaining!
The Ladies What Too See Me Slide Out Of This 7,000 Dollar Robe Only Slick Ric Can Say THAT WOOOOOOOO
Woooooo!!!!!!
Wrestling was so awesome. Bigger than life personalities. Jerry "The King" Lawler doing "Stone Cold" before "Stone Cold".