Happy Birthday to the GOAT
 

Happy 71st Birthday to the GOAT....the Rolex wearing, Diamond ring wearing, kiss stealing, wheeling dealing, jet flying, limousine riding son of a gun...the Nature Boy.....Wooooooo! What y’all know about $600 custom
Made lizard shoes?

https://youtu.be/H8sif1BIeJA

No one, and I mean NO ONE, will match the impact on the wrestling business that Ric Flair had.

Not even close. The whole arena will yell ‘Woooo’ on every chest chop from now until forever.

“Would you ride down the road with that golden retriever you call a woman if you became champ?”

Savage.

Hogan >

As far as impact EtH is right imo.

Flair top 5 all time imo, one of the few people with GOAT claims.

You could argue Rock and Austin. Without them, WWF would have probably not stayed in business through 2003. Vince Russo, Eric Bishoff and Hull Hogan would have controlled a huge majority of pro wrestling which wouldn't have worked out.

Austin single handedly won that war, and Rock kept it going when Austin was out.

Jimmy Wang Yang > Ric Flair

Austin didn’t win the war single handed. Bischoff, Russo and Nash killing WCW with their booking and creative was probably just as instrumental.

The Flair/Steamboat trilogy changed wrestling. Besides slamming Andre, turning on WCW, and the finger poke of doom I don’t remember a damn thing Hogan did in the ring.