I really feel like this deserves its own thread, because it is, perhaps, "the best thing going today".

 

Jay Lethal's Flair parody is frighteningly accurate.

 

It's a shame it's happening in TNA instead of somewhere where it could actually benefit Lethal.

 

Also, from watching a few You Tube clips, how sad is it that Ric Flair in 2010 is still the best interview in wrestling?

Damn. You're almost giving me the urge to watch some TNA. Almost.

It is just too bad AJ got the initial rub from Flair and not Jay.

 

Batista did some great work this year and Wade Barrett continues to impress me as someone who doesnt have major league experience.

So, I went and watched the clip of Lethal imitating Flair and the subsequent beatdown. Am I right that Lethal stole Flair's WWE Hall of Fame ring? If so, that's pretty bush league starting a feud based on your rival's hall of fame.

 

Also, Abyss is terrible. I don't think this can be said enough.

So Jay Lethal went from doing a Macho Man gimmick to a Ric Flair gimmick?

So Jay Lethal went from doing a Macho Man gimmick to a Ric Flair gimmick?

Yep, Hogan gave Jay Ric Flair's HOF ring which Abyss won in a match the previous week. Jay did a Flair impression and gave the ring back to Flair. But Flair didnt take the impression in good humour so Flair and his new Horsemen beat down Jay. Which kicked started the fued.

I also love that Ric Flair is getting to be a crazy old man again. I wish WWE would have let him elbow the mat, strip down to his underwear, hit himself, scream, tell random people in the audience to shut up, etc. It's embarrassing that he's still going at this age, and he needs to retire, and he looks like he's literally melting and his hair and teeth could fall out at any moment, but at least he's not being the subdued version of Ric Flair we saw in WWE. There is a train wreck appeal to it all.

I really feel like this deserves its own thread, because it is, perhaps, "the best thing going today".

 

Jay Lethal's Flair parody is frighteningly accurate.

 

It's a shame it's happening in TNA instead of somewhere where it could actually benefit Lethal.

 

Also, from watching a few You Tube clips, how sad is it that Ric Flair in 2010 is still the best interview in wrestling?

I'm not sure if you've seen more than just the recent Flair segments, but before last few weeks Flair has ranged from uninspired to abominable. There was a sit-down interview a month or two ago, where Ric looked like a decaying mummy; and he just sort of rambled on .. about something. It was so inarticulate that the interview was subtitled (and in true TNA fashion the subtitles were barely legible).

 

But yeah, the Lethal-Flair feud has been pretty great.

I haven't seen more than just the recent clips. It doesn't surprise me that Flair had some bad mixed in with the good.

So Jay Lethal went from doing a Macho Man gimmick to a Ric Flair gimmick?

Yep, Hogan gave Jay Ric Flair's HOF ring which Abyss won in a match the previous week. Jay did a Flair impression and gave the ring back to Flair. But Flair didnt take the impression in good humour so Flair and his new Horsemen beat down Jay. Which kicked started the fued.

 

I ask again because I'm really not believing this: Did TNA start a feud based on a WWE Hall of Fame ring?

TNA had multiple storylines going about two different HoF rings at once.

 

I hate the Lethal/Flair stuff and think Lethal sounds like a mentally disabled person impersonating Bill Cosby but I'm in the minority.

TNA had multiple storylines going about two different HoF rings at once.

 

I hate the Lethal/Flair stuff and think Lethal sounds like a mentally disabled person impersonating Bill Cosby but I'm in the minority.

 

Well Flair does sound like a Mentally disabled person now. The Lethal/Flair stuff reminds me of the Angle/Flair angle that one time on Raw.

I think I enjoy Flair's incredulous reaction more than the impersonation itself.

 

I thought Flair was going to faint when Jay Lethal called himself a 60-minute man.

 

"WOW. WOW."

I would also like to add that I loved 1999 when Flair was President of WCW and was being booked to be humiliated and actually made it great comedy. This seemed like an appropriate place to mention that.

 

"Sting, get down here, damnit. I'm the President. Don't be flying around without telling me!"

Lethal sounds like a mentally disabled person impersonating Bill Cosby

Or maybe Flair sounds like a mentally disabled person impersonating Bill Cosby.

I would also like to add that I loved 1999 when Flair was President of WCW and was being booked to be humiliated and actually made it great comedy. This seemed like an appropriate place to mention that.

 

"Sting, get down here, damnit. I'm the President. Don't be flying around without telling me!"

Agreed. 99 WCW was so full of entertaining bullshit like that. Stuff that wasn't supposed to get over but did (West Texas Redneck). Stuff that was thrown against the wall without any thought but worked (Hak's hardcore matches).

After beating Flair at the ppv and thinking that TNA might actually be making a star, Jay Lethal

 

 

jobs clean to Jeff Hardy on the next Impact.

 

 

This company is clueless.

It's funny because of how much Flair would go on after joining WWE about how they gave him his dignity back after what WCW was having him do in 1999 and how thankful he was to them.

At least this time Lethal is imitating a guy actually in the company so it's not like you're reminded every time you see him "oh yeah, I remember back when that other guy was actually good (many years ago) and he's not even here. Yeah this is a company going places."

 

Flair working for comedy is probably for the best at this point. I mean shit is there anyone sane that actually wants to see him do anything else in 2010? Good for him I guess.

There aren't many performers who make me worry about them like Flair does. Angle used to, but he doesn't anymore for some reason.