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Post by Bubba JD on Jun 10, 2009 21:38:10 GMT -6
while it's been awhile since anyone's ever discussed this, i figured i'd bring it up again. the Flair/Hogan rivalry has been a long running one, starting long before they even had a chance to wrestle. plus, while watching part of the Rocky Balboa movie earlier tonight (the latest installment), i got to thinking about stuff.
if you were to look at Flair & Hogan when they were at the peaks of their careers, who would've pulled off the win in a match? no "politics", no "favors"......none of the crap that tends to happen with wrestlers, especially those with egos or personal issues. how would a match like this realistically end, as far as you guys are concerned?
i'll add my vote & comments once we get a few people responding.
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Post by sh17 on Jun 11, 2009 9:55:12 GMT -6
Ric Flair without a doubt. When you look at just flat out wrestling titles, Flair's 16 to Hogan's 12 is a marker onto itself. However, going into actual impact upon the business. Ric Flair didn't spend his career wrestling in front of 10,000 people every single night. He carried Jim Crockett and the NWA on his back before Ted Turner bought them. Hogan, while his contributions are evident, always wrestled for WWF/E and WCW. Plus, Flair was a better wrestling. Hogan's biggest problem in my book, and it's my same problem with The Rock and Steve Austin and John Cena even though the first two I like, was that if you saw one of his matches you saw them all. Flair had epic cage matches, hour long matches, 2 out of 3 falls, matches that you just had to see. Plus, Hogan's bit just wasn't that great to me. He just ripped off "Superstar" Billy Graham. There's more than these reasons, but I'll post them later as others chime in on this.
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Post by Bubba JD on Jun 11, 2009 22:18:28 GMT -6
Flair's (during his prime) had great matches with just about everybody. he could wrestle a Lex Luger one night, Sting the next, a Ricky Morton the following night, a no-name the night after that.......and still manage to get great matches out of them.
Flair was great with psycology, IMO. he knew when to stall, how long to stall, when to pick up the pace, so on & so forth. of course, like any other wrestler, Flair used a certain formula for his matches.....ie, get certain things done during the match. Hogan, in his case, would do the "Hulking Up", a big boot, 1 or 2 "huge" elbows, some clotheslines, a bodyslam & a legdrop.....in no particular order.
Flair had his chops, failing at a top turnbuckle attack, falling on his face, etc. still, he could mix it up a bit. he could adjust to different styles.
plus, Flair had plenty of back-up with the Horsemen. in Flair's heyday, the Horsemen wore vicious. they'd seriously hurt someone before Flair would have to deal with them.
in the end, i give this to Flair. it would be a close match, IMO, as Hogan would give a hell of a fight...using size & strength to his fullest advantage. Flair would use his brains to outwit Hogan.
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