There are very few heroes I claim, but this is certainly one of them. As I wrote in my tribute following his final match at Wrestlemania 24:
“A Southern icon, by way of Minnesota; a national treasure, who became such practicing a trade that gets little respect; and a personal hero, in ways he’ll never know. Diamonds are forever – so are life-shaping memories – and so is Ric Flair.”
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