Posted November 9, 200816 yr comment_5435644 Talk about your unorthodox matches. Flair is in World Class without the NWA Title, with Missing Link providing backup against Buddy Roberts in Hayes' corner, and he's ostensibly the babyface in this match. Meanwhile, alleged bad worker Hayes looks like the superior wrestler in this match, really laying in a beating on the ex-champ. Not to mention the whole "Flair can only wrestle one type of match" thing gets thrown right out the window, as Hayes spends most of the match beating on Flair, and Flair spends most of the match selling. Plus Flair busts out a Hotshot variant. Pretty much every heel in World Class does some kind of Hotshot, but never seen Flair do one. Anyway, this is a bit short and has a screwy finish, but fuck it, it was a lot of fun, and certainly a unique match in the canons of both men. I'll toss it up as a low-level nomination and see where it goes.
April 21, 200916 yr comment_5438667 Ric Flair vs Michael Hayes - 5/7/1984 This was an interesting match up. With that said I wasn't digging it. Hayes isn't the type of worker Flair is going to mesh well with. It was neat to see Flair bring Link in as back up. I wonder if this lead to a tag bout between the 4. The fighting just seemed repetetive to me. I dug the post match brawl. WCCW Digest: 5/84
August 5, 200916 yr comment_5442535 “Nature Boy” Ric Flair vs. Michael Hayes (5/7/84) This is the second time that Flair worked against Hayes in a singles match but the first time in Texas. Flair brings out Missing Link to be his backup against Buddy which is funny since Flair used Link as backup not too long earlier against Harley Race in Kansas City. Flair is the babyface here which is interesting because the Freebirds were getting cheered against Devastation Inc. Both men threw some really good punches here and Hayes were really aggressive working over Flair who juices from an old cut. Flair makes a comeback and it’s great watching him to his babyface schtick in Texas with Hayes selling his ass off. After some good hard hitting action, Link & Buddy would jump in the ring causing David Manning to call for the DDQ, which had to be expected. The fans were going apeshit for this though as Flair was eating it up. This was a lot of fun and even with the screwy finish I think this deserves to be on the block.
