This had to be the week before Ric’s classic “spilt liquor” rant - one of the greatest promos of all time. Loved The Russians back then...their classic battles with the Road Warriors were epic. Heel vs. heel...awesome!
Koloff couldn't rip his shirt & he tried to bight it & he still couldn't....hahahahha....I actually go to see Flair vs Nikita n Greensboro at the 1st Grat American Bash...Flair's entrance was in a fucking helicopter...Was fucking cool....
I remember him saying many times that his suits were custom made,and he wore alligator shoes,a rolex,and so on...Back during the 80's I used to think he was making that all up,but later on i realized Flair really did live his gimmick outside of the ring.
Stating the obvious but if I lived another 1000 years, hell another 10,000 years, I would literally never experience this again. Lost in time….never to return.
In my opinion, that's like asking, "How many times will you ever see the Freebirds running in or 'charging the ring' to save the Von Erichs-or vice versa?"
Why is everyone green? Lol. I used to watch this stuff all the time. I’ll never forget when Magnum T.A. Was hurt in an accident. Then Dusty Rhodes and Nikita Kolof jioned up.
shutovada!,nikita,flair,classic nwa shit,starcade,86,nikita the man,hell,name my dog after him,good times,miss those days,oh my god god tony sh,whats going on
He was invited to witness Bruno's induction in 2013, but sadly he joined the scam concussion lawsuit a few months later so WWE decided to ignore him from now on. Real shame, he should have been inducted in that 2013 class with Sammartino, Backlund and Foley.
"Get over here and hold this" Then he proceeds to go on a rant. Classic Flair. So sad these days of wrestling are gone. Feuds seemed so organic rather than forced or staged for the next PPV event. NWA / WCW wrestling on Saturday night was the best.
I like the part where Nikita tries to rip the shirt in half and can’t so he tries biting it and gives up. Guess flair wasn’t lying about the quality of the clothes he wore.
If I remember correctly, this was right before their cage match - in which once again, The Koloffs beat him up and once again Dusty Rhodes showed up, but so did The Andersons, and they beat the shit out of Dusty and were hated from that day on
You are. Correct sir...man those were great times...I was in ft Gordon GA at the time all this happened...but we always managed to make it to the day room on Saturday afternoon and watch this
@@benjones9849 Basically he turned face for a while that summer to fight Nikita at the Bash, just to make the turn on Dusty more powerful and meaningful once it happened during the cage match. The short face turn was a strategy to boost tickets sales for the Bash and then Starrcade after the heel turn.
The whole breaking Dusty's ankle in the omni cage with the Andersons almost causing a riot (after Ivan & Nikita beat and blooded flair) was one of the best angles of the decade! Flair got over the top heat on him for that angle & it marked the genesis of the Four horsemen era.
Check out BRUNO...The very awesome Sammartinmo documentary..Ivan greets him at the HOF induction..Very cool moment!...He was the one who took the belt from Bruno in 71..
Man, nobody.....and I mean NOBODY did it like The Nature Boy!!!!! Not even to this day, The Rock was the closest thing, but not the later Rock. The 500 hundred dollar shirt wearing Rock!!
@@anthonyrankin5055 The Monday night War made him unlikable in the eyes of many, but in the 80's and early 90's he was definitely a damn good announcer. One of the best.
Such great times in 1985, Ric Flair and his Horsemen, Magnum T.A., Dusty Rhodes, The Freebirds, Ivan and Nikita Koloff(With Krusher Kruschev) as “The World 6 Man Tag Team Champions”, and let’s not forget Jim Cornette’s Midnight Express along with the The Rock and Roll Express. Back at a time in Los Angeles when I would be watching all of this Every Saturday Afternoon at 3 P.M. on Superstation WTBS - Atlanta as World Championship Wrestling. How I would love to turn the clock back again.
I recall that during this period, Flair was a full-on tweener. He had to be as NWA champion. He was taking on heels in some territories and faces in others. For example, in JCP he not only faced the Koloffs, but he also worked against Tully and Buddy Landell. The latter were managed by JJ Dillon.
Cornette tells a story about Flair ordering him some Sansabelt pants, and Flair sent him a pair in every color plus the bill for thousands in 1980s dollars. Cornette said he learned a valuable lesson -- never let Flair pick out your clothes lol
The Production Values might've been crap but in many instances it felt like you were watching a fight happen before your eyes and it felt like you WEREN'T supposed to see this ..or it wasn't supposed to happen..
Lord, I wish it was 1985 again.
#metoo
Me three
Let's do it. Hmm, wonder if they sell fanny packs on eBay
I wish it was ‘75!
Holy shit yes
RIP to Uncle Ivan. By the time he passed, his entire body was busted up. He gave it all to wrestling.
How good is that shirt Ric Flair is wearing! Nikita Koloff couldn't rip it apart! That's quality.
Custom made from head to toe. Woooooo!!
He even try to bite it apart.
@@andyblack5687 hahahaha Woooooooo
I'm dead.😭😭😭😭
LOL Made in the USA baby!
"I'm looking for a chauffer , you're hired" lol Flair and his promos ☺
That shit was soon funny 🤣
For us gen exers living in the tail end of the Cold War the koloffs were a special kind of heel. Great times!
Nikita was ruthless....him and Krusher Krushev
This was something I remember that makes me feel great to be apart of NWA wrestling on TBS even though it took a crazy turn
And folks thinking they were actually from the Soviet Union
@@tomconstance2391 I was one of them people who thought they were
They were so much better than Nikolai Volkof
Nikita Koloff was the Proto-Goldberg & Proto-Stone Cold. The man was a freaking beast!
Man, oh man! I miss these days of Psycho Flair :) still one of the best to ever touch a mic and cut a promo :)
This was wrestling at its finest!!!!!!!
Think of how rarely you saw heel vs heel back then. Great stuff
Flair wasn't heel here. Dusty came out to help him and he was defending America.
Flair could go back and forth, but really only in JCP. Everywhere else he was a heel.
@@jaythor70 Even at his heel-iest, Flair was so over it didn't matter. Everyone loved him, even when they hated him.
Man this stuff is just gold!! The garbage these days doesn’t even compare. These guys could put anything over. Made you think it was real
This had to be the week before Ric’s classic “spilt liquor” rant - one of the greatest promos of all time. Loved The Russians back then...their classic battles with the Road Warriors were epic. Heel vs. heel...awesome!
"y'all just playing catch-up ball to the nature boy, WOOO!!!"
the under 30 crowd needs this so badly
Flair gets beaten up by 2 big Russians, gets up, dusts himself off (pun intended), and then talks sh*t like a boss. What a legend.
Actually he got beaten up by a Canadian and a Minnesotan
Dusty making the save is some really awesome foreshadowing of what eventually happens when he makes another save.
heels going at it..i love it
God, I loved David and Jim as commentators
Even thoo they always feuding I love when big dust saves Flair
The hue makes Ric look like the incredible mulk
David crockette - U got him from behind!
Ivan - didnt u learn anything from that last russian sickle?
they were teasing a flair face turn, so it was a surprise later when flair turned on dusty
Miss this wrestling!!
Love how the Nature Boy rips the mic out of Shavonni's hand, then 3 seconds later yells at him to hold it again.
Classic!!! Wrestling at its finest.
Koloff couldn't rip his shirt & he tried to bight it & he still couldn't....hahahahha....I actually go to see Flair vs Nikita n Greensboro at the 1st Grat American Bash...Flair's entrance was in a fucking helicopter...Was fucking cool....
MrCain667 Did you see the fan who got in the ring?
This is America! I thought this was America! This is America!
Back when Ric would use the flying forearm. Sweet. Both Minnesota guys.
This time Flair was the face. Later Nikita was the face.
WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF SOUTHERN PRO WRESTILING IN THE 1980'S KIDS. IT THE COLD WAR PLAYED OUT IN A WRESTLING RING.
Teasing a face turn...NOPE! Classic NWA
The Golden era!
Flair at his best, taking on heels and faces…
Ric Flair would get his ass kicked and still talking shit afterwards!!!
Nikita should've clothes line David Crockett again lol
Woooooooooo!!!! 😂😂😂
woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Crockett indeed was beyond dreadful. Schiavone and Solie were awesome.
Nikita supposed to be a strong man but couldn't tear flair's shirt... LMAO
I wonder if Crockett reimbursed Flair for all the expensive clothes that he had destroyed over the years by other wrestlers.
Ric bought his suits in KC from Michael's .He mentioned it when Magnum TA tore his gift from Ric,
I remember him saying many times that his suits were custom made,and he wore alligator shoes,a rolex,and so on...Back during the 80's I used to think he was making that all up,but later on i realized Flair really did live his gimmick outside of the ring.
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Not gonna lie: Nikita Koloff scared the shit out of me as a kid (as a HUGE Lex Luger mark). Honestly thought he could beat Luger at any time.
Nobody Clothes Line People From Behind Better Than Nikita .. 🤣😂
Was that Richard klukinsky at a wrestling show at 3:43 lol
That shirt was not cheap. 😆
Stating the obvious but if I lived another 1000 years, hell another 10,000 years, I would literally never experience this again. Lost in time….never to return.
woooooo
In my opinion, that's like asking, "How many times will you ever see the Freebirds running in or 'charging the ring' to save the Von Erichs-or vice versa?"
Flair was a tweeter about this time
A "tweeter?"
The commies fled from “The American Dream.”
Flair's shirt wouldn't sell for Nikita.
Took Nikita 12yrs to tare the coat off of ric flare.
Why is everyone green? Lol. I used to watch this stuff all the time. I’ll never forget when Magnum T.A. Was hurt in an accident. Then Dusty Rhodes and Nikita Kolof jioned up.
shutovada!,nikita,flair,classic nwa shit,starcade,86,nikita the man,hell,name my dog after him,good times,miss those days,oh my god god tony sh,whats going on
Why isn't koloff in WWE hof
Johnny Vasquez Fuck the WWF/WWE.
Because he was involved in a lawsuit vs. the WWF.
He was invited to witness Bruno's induction in 2013, but sadly he joined the scam concussion lawsuit a few months later so WWE decided to ignore him from now on. Real shame, he should have been inducted in that 2013 class with Sammartino, Backlund and Foley.
WWE SUCKS!!!
how many times have ric's suits been RIPPED off his body???
Rich flair with another tear away suit lol
Jerry Lawler I got a fire 🔥 ball for you that will really heat you up real good 🔥🔥🔥
Nikita was the Russian nightmare.
This is why I loved Flair! In his prime he could wrestle everybody, good, bad, it didn’t matter! He was what a real champ was!
I agree
The Storytelling of the NWA in the 80s was Unparalleled & Untouchable!
facts
"Get over here and hold this" Then he proceeds to go on a rant. Classic Flair. So sad these days of wrestling are gone. Feuds seemed so organic rather than forced or staged for the next PPV event. NWA / WCW wrestling on Saturday night was the best.
From the Russian Nightmare to a Pastor in North Carolina.
He was a heck of a beast in the ring!🤠🤗
We all have our personal journeys. What happens if the tithe plate is short? Evangelic Sickle to the bishop.
I always loved how the bad guys scattered like cockroaches when helped arrived outside of the ring.
He gets his ass beat and then after that, cuts a promo. Classic Ric Flair
I like the part where Nikita tries to rip the shirt in half and can’t so he tries biting it and gives up. Guess flair wasn’t lying about the quality of the clothes he wore.
Custom made
@@smyersfishingadventuresfrom head to toe! Woo!
😂 That's probably the best endorsement Michael's in Kansas City could have gotten!
If I remember correctly, this was right before their cage match - in which once again, The Koloffs beat him up and once again Dusty Rhodes showed up, but so did The Andersons, and they beat the shit out of Dusty and were hated from that day on
You are. Correct sir...man those were great times...I was in ft Gordon GA at the time all this happened...but we always managed to make it to the day room on Saturday afternoon and watch this
You mean to tell me that the whole thing was a giant trap? Whoever put that storyline together did an excellent job! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
Fantastic angle. From the video it looked like the crowd at the Omni wanted to kill Flair and the Andersons. Great memories.
This was the prelude to the 4 Horsemen
@ Ronald Shank that was all setup by Dusty
Nikita was a monster back then ...... love watching him give people the RUSSIAN SICKLE
The one he gave Crockett was epic.
Yeah, he couldn't even rip Flair's shirt.
Now he's a pastor
Fuck jbl and the clothesline from hell. Nikita had the sickle
JOKE!!!
DAMN I miss the good ole NWA wrestling days!
I always thought it was the WCW world championship wrestling
Im with u
@@unseen4047 In the opening, they always made sure to say that WCW was sanctioned by the NWA
DONT YOU TELL ME NOTHING THE SHOW AINT OVER YET!!!!!
Heel Vs. Heel in the 80s...
Best story lines out there.
Nikita was a beast beware of the Russian sickle
Here David, hold my Rolex while I turn my back so Nikita can hit me with the sickle.
Lol!!!
Classic! I miss the old TBS shows.
Flair, Koloff, Rhodes --- holy moly the talent level
Legendary.
One of the best Ric Flair clips ever. I like the one they used to show the Russians training and obsessing over beating Ric Flair.
So this has to be before Starrcade 1985 then. Maybe June-September 1985? Pro wrestling got damn hot and heavy around this time.
August 31, 1985
The set up for Flair's and the Anderson's attack on Dusty in the cage, which sat up the Starrcade '85 Main Event.
Could never tell whether Flair was a heel or face in '85'.
@@benjones9849 Basically he turned face for a while that summer to fight Nikita at the Bash, just to make the turn on Dusty more powerful and meaningful once it happened during the cage match. The short face turn was a strategy to boost tickets sales for the Bash and then Starrcade after the heel turn.
The whole breaking Dusty's ankle in the omni cage with the Andersons almost causing a riot (after Ivan & Nikita beat and blooded flair) was one of the best angles of the decade! Flair got over the top heat on him for that angle & it marked the genesis of the Four horsemen era.
Flair is the greatest there ever was, the greatest there's ever been, the greatest there ever will be. WHOOOOOO!
Tommy Glick whooooooo
How many suits did they rip off flair
@@jonburrows2684 It doesn't matter. He had a closet full of them. He was custom made from head to toe. The Nature Boy doesn't buy off the rack.
When it comes to wrestling, i really enjoy living in the past!
Those huge juiced up muscles and he couldn't even rip Rics shirt!
Flair doing a promo before and after. Greatness
Rhoades and Flair had such a heated rivalry it’s hard to remember Dusty saving him.
R.I.P. Ivan Koloff... Real name Oreal Perras. This was one of my favorite episodes from back in the day watching NWA wrestling on Saturday afternoons.
Check out BRUNO...The very awesome Sammartinmo documentary..Ivan greets him at the HOF induction..Very cool moment!...He was the one who took the belt from Bruno in 71..
I was there watching to.
Boy does this bring back good memories - thanks for posting!!!
Nice heads up Tony.
Man, nobody.....and I mean NOBODY did it like The Nature Boy!!!!! Not even to this day, The Rock was the closest thing, but not the later Rock. The 500 hundred dollar shirt wearing Rock!!
Flair is the best
WayneP117 WWWHHOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
THE COMENTATOR HAS A HARD TIME KEEPING A STRAIGHT FACE WHEN FLAIR GOES CRAZY. THE NATURE BOY AT HIS BEST.
TEARIN UP MY SUITS DON'T MEAN NOTHIN!!(LOL)
I did not miss none of this on Saturday afternoons back in the 80s when I was a kid 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽😅😅😅😅
No sure didn’t
Hitting Schiavone with that jacket was so freaking hilarious! Nobody entertained like Flair, NO ONE!
All of you who whined about Tony Schivone, He's Marv Albert compared to David Crockett.
Schivone is the man!
I never understood why people shat on Tony . I thought he was good at his job .
I always wanted to see Vader power bomb Shiavobe or Stan Hansen take his head off with the Lariant.
@@anthonyrankin5055 The Monday night War made him unlikable in the eyes of many, but in the 80's and early 90's he was definitely a damn good announcer. One of the best.
And not just for the "Mick Foley/that'll put some butts in the seats" comment.....Tony at that time was nothing more than a paid shill
In a great Flair promo after this, he tells Dusty to mind his own business and that he still doesn't like Dusty.
As he should have Dusty always capping on others heat.
If I recall correctly, he even broke Dusty's arm shortly thereafter just for having the gall to stick his nose in Naitch business.
@@joeblough261 he broke his ankle in the Omni
Such great times in 1985, Ric Flair and his Horsemen, Magnum T.A., Dusty Rhodes, The Freebirds, Ivan and Nikita Koloff(With Krusher Kruschev) as “The World 6 Man Tag Team Champions”, and let’s not forget Jim Cornette’s Midnight Express along with the The Rock and Roll Express. Back at a time in Los Angeles when I would be watching all of this Every Saturday Afternoon at 3 P.M. on Superstation WTBS - Atlanta as World Championship Wrestling.
How I would love to turn the clock back again.
This is great heal vs. Heel. I wish wrestling
could still be like this
I recall that during this period, Flair was a full-on tweener. He had to be as NWA champion. He was taking on heels in some territories and faces in others. For example, in JCP he not only faced the Koloffs, but he also worked against Tully and Buddy Landell. The latter were managed by JJ Dillon.
Flair could wrestle a broom stick and the venue would still sell out...😂😂😂
Love seeing Tony Schiavone making sure he takes care of The Champ's shades. Probably $80 a pair.
WOOOOOOOOO!!!
Foster Grant's no doubt.
And his watch
Ric musta had some kind of clothing budget cuz his suits always got destroyed lol.
Cornette tells a story about Flair ordering him some Sansabelt pants, and Flair sent him a pair in every color plus the bill for thousands in 1980s dollars. Cornette said he learned a valuable lesson -- never let Flair pick out your clothes lol
No blood vessels were blown during this recording
"Get over here and hold this!!" :)
The Production Values might've been crap but in many instances it felt like you were watching a fight happen before your eyes and it felt like you WEREN'T supposed to see this ..or it wasn't supposed to happen..