Posted May 30, 20169 yr comment_5755347 NWA World Heavyweight Title: "Nature Boy" Ric Flair © vs. "Russian Nightmare" Nikita Koloff (1/4/87)Flair is a complete chickenshit early stalling and hemming and hawwing around avoiding Nikita and then taking punishment when Nikita got to him. The match then became all about Flair working over Nikita's left arm with various spots in between of Nikita getting some hope spots. Nikita's selling was decent but far from good yet it was believable and then his comeback was good as he posted Flair which brought out the juice. Nikita would get the Figure-Four Leglock which popped the crowd big with Flair grabbing the ropes to survive. Nikita kept up the pressure though and hit a Russian Sickle bouncing out of the corner but he was spent from everything in the match and couldn't to Ric fast enough to win. He had Ric pinned but Ric got his foot under the bottom rope and Tommy Young told Nikita what happened. Flair would low bridge Nikita and he put his feet on the ropes to pin Nikita but Tommy Young caught that so he quit counting. Flair would then backdrop Nikita over the top rope to the floor causing a DQ which was a shitty finish. Nikita would give Flair a Russian Sickle for good measure after the match and walked off with the belt. I thought this was a pretty good match and I'm throwing it up as a low-end nomination.
March 5, 20178 yr comment_5790390 NWA World Heavyweight Title: "Nature Boy" Ric Flair © vs. "Russian Nightmare" Nikita Koloff (1/4/87) Koloff teasing the sickle early. Flair chops him in the corner and Nikita no sells them. Flair takes a powder. Koloff using his strength to control Flair. Flair kicks him, and suckers him in for no luck. Nikita bear hug. They work some nearfalls out of it. Nikita has an answer for all of Flair's moves. Finally, Flair rakes the eye. Flair is on fire. He's working Nikita over on the outside. Back in and Flair has got the arm. Nikita though is showing some life. Flair picks up the agression. Desperation sickle gets 2 . Nikita's arm work on top is rather ho-hum. Flair starts to work the leg. Their are very few better at this. We get some more of this. Nikita makes a comeback. A sickle gets an incredible near fall. Crowd thought it got a title change for a second. Cheap finish for such a long match. Low-end nomination. NWA HH 1/4/87
