Posted March 21, 201312 yr comment_5539623 NWA World Heavyweight Title: "Nature Boy" Ric Flair © vs. Kevin Von Erich (5/12/85) This is from St. Louis. Kevin starts with a flurry but Flair would take over very quickly and worked over Kevin with the normal Flair offense such as a nice butterfly suplex and abdominal stretch. Flair would get a sleeper and Kevin would ram him head first into the corner which gave him the chance to lock on the iron claw but he would release it and went for a jumping claw off the second rope. Flair would counter with a backdrop suplex but Kevin kept the claw on fiercely as the crowd goes nuts. Flair fights like crazy to break free and this section lasted like 5 minutes. One of the most epic claw exchanges I've seen. Flair is juicing from the claw and finally breaks free by jumping off the middle rope on Kevin and the referee. Kevin would hit a big cross body block for a pin but the ref is still down. Kevin would then hit the backslide which his brother used to win the title for a 2 3/4 count. There would be a double collision with Flair falling on Kevin to pin him but Kevin's feet were on the ropes. The problem was the referee didn't see it and counted Kevin out. This was an all-action sprint and I dug this a lot. This moves forward fairly easily.
