September 10, 201411 yr Author comment_5623760 Everyone knows about this, probably the best segment in Nitro history. I think the Ric Flair pop is in contention for the loudest in wrestling history. Flair is so into the moment that he bites his tongue and draws blood. Moments like this just don't exist in wrestling anymore, and I don't even mean that as a huge negative. I simply don't know that they are possible.
September 10, 201411 yr comment_5623769 CM Punk winning in Chicago? Bryan doing the Yes! Chants on the top of the cage.
September 11, 201411 yr comment_5623790 This is pro wrestling's version of Cal Ripken's 2131 game. An atmosphere, emotion, and intensity that will most likely never be topped
September 11, 201411 yr Author comment_5623797 CM Punk winning in Chicago? Bryan doing the Yes! Chants on the top of the cage. Neither were close.
September 11, 201411 yr comment_5623798 I was in Boston the next week for Nitro right before my 17th birthday. That was fun, but it was also Boston. Not quite the same.
September 12, 201411 yr comment_5624091 Ric Flair returns after a world class Arn Anderson promo and proceeds to cut the greatest promo I have seen in wrestling. Meanwhile, the crowd is just losing their minds the entire segment. This is wrestling’s version of baseball’s Cal Ripken Jr. 2131 game, which has unreal emotion, intensity, and aura. The height of WCW and one of the biggest blunders in terms of not being able to capitalize on what they had with Flair and the reinvented Four Horsemen. This quarter hour did a 5.44, leading WCW to a 4.54 rating, which beat the 3.99 rating RAW did.
October 4, 201410 yr comment_5631083 This was absolutely electric. You'd have thought Flair had been gone for five years rather than five months by the response. Arn and Ric were both incredible here. With all the BS going on in WCW this year it made this stand out even more for being real and meaningful.
October 25, 201410 yr comment_5635391 Everyone knows what this is about. This has a level of class and professionalism that is usually unparalleled with wrestling. Flair shows raw emotion and Bischoff is able to show ass. Top 3 promo of the entire 1990's for me.
February 2, 20169 yr comment_5724941 Hadn't seen that in a long time and wow - Flair is just on fire here. The pop is electric in a way that you do rarely see now (although I do think the Bryan and Punk moments are in the same league, even if they don't match it).
February 2, 20169 yr comment_5724989 This is obviously Flair's moment, but Anderson's promo was pretty damn good too. "We don't wear white hats. We're not nice guys!"
May 31, 20169 yr comment_5755473 The thing for me about this, brilliance of everything that happened, is how WCW immediately went about destroying any kind of gains they might have made. I mean, of course Hogan and Nash need to be the focal points of the promotion. Not as if anybody else could ever be over enough to be in that spot.
August 9, 20169 yr comment_5762140 Is this the Last Great WCW moment? I suspect so--and what a moment indeed. Probably a top-5 segment for Nitro, that's not only a complete chill scene (my favorite spot among many is Ric instantly switching gears, turning off the waterworks, and re-emerging as the Nature Boy once he talks about a party in town) but works as a wrestling angle as well, making you want to keep watching and see just where this is going.
September 12, 20169 yr comment_5767766 I will never forget this one. I still get the goosebumps watching it. And Oh, to have seen Hogan's face watching this...
December 11, 20204 yr comment_5933794 Whenever I do something slightly wrong at work I always think to myself "FIRE ME! I'M ALREADY FIRED!"
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