Ric Flair and The Miz

[Jack Newport]

you are correct Playboy with Hardy/RVD and a lot of other wrestlers not being in Hogans and Flairs league. During their active wrestling careers there is a reason they always held the belt, or wrestled for the belts. They connected with the fans, markertability, they were worrkhorses(flair more so). Were they the best wrestlers ever? Hell no, but they sold out arenas, brought in the ratings(hogan more so). And today about the only one out there that is in their league-(actively wrestling)-Cena. And as with Flair and Hogan, there are a lot of wrestlers much better than Cena) Flair in TNA did not bother me until they had him wrestling, it was disrespectful and tarnished his legacy a bit. His role now should be mentoring or managing. MIZ doesn't need him though but there is a very deep roster of talent, up and coming that they could stick him with- Richie Steamboat, Joe Henning, Bo Rotundo etc.

Agreed. I never had a problem with Ric Flair showing up in TNA until he started to lace up the boots. He should've just been the manager of Fortune and that have been the end of it.

As long as WWE keeps Flair in a non-wrestling role and he's not the center of attention, I have no problem with him mentoring The Miz or anybody else WWE pairs him with.

[HCollins-TNA1]

How long before Miz start calling him Nature Boy??? actually this could be a good thing Flair manage Miz, Ziggler and 2 more guys, could be a Horsemen type group????

[KingWade]

Yeah everyone was rooting for Flair to manage a superstar and get them over so i don't get all the bitching. I guess it's cause it isn't Ziggler.

[jonod]

The hardcore smarks and indy geeks are going to bitch about The Miz no matter what he does.

Screw 'em. Bring on Miz n' Naitch.

YES! its bloody brilliant. pass the torch

[AssassinBlade]

The Miz does not belong with Ric Flair. I disagree with Ric Flair passing down the figure four to the Miz. Flair should be with a weakened mid carder to elevate them. What creative should do is pair Flair with a tag team like the prime time players. Ric flair would also be good with the Shield; maybe elevate them to main event superstars.

[Ozzy Mandias]

The only bad thing about this new Miz/Flair relationship is that it's about two years too late. Miz should have got him when he was doing nothing as a heel. Much better fit. Still excited about the two of them together though.

[Jack Newport]

Yeah everyone was rooting for Flair to manage a superstar and get them over so i don't get all the bitching. I guess it's cause it isn't Ziggler.

After looking on other sites, I realized this myself, lol.

Talk about butthurt. Enough of this "deserves" shit. They come out and say they're pissed Miz got the Flair rub over Ziggler.

[claud3]

it was nice to see and to pass a finisher to another, proves respect is still alive

[Robstar]

After looking on other sites, I realized this myself, lol.

Talk about butthurt. Enough of this "deserves" shit. They come out and say they're pissed Miz got the Flair rub over Ziggler.

But what if I'm not upset that Flair didn't go with Ziggler? What if I'm simply upset that Flair got saddled with someone who I believe is beneath him in the Miz? Am I just lying about that? Or is it just easier for you guys to lump everyone who posts on wrestling world wide into the same category, just because a group of people was very vocal about what they'd like to see?
I'm not sure how much life experience you fellas have got, but not every reaction is borne out of jealousy. If you want to view the world as black and white, that's up to you, but why thrust those views onto others as well?
You don't seem to be employing any consequential thinking in this matter. Are you considering what this may do to Flair in the long term for this WWE run of his? It devalues him. Miz is a competent enough performer who shouldn't need this anyway. If WWE wanted to handle Flair right, he'd be seen to be spending time with upper echelon guys like HHH. That would instantly raise his stock in the eyes of fans, especially after the damage it's taken in recent years. However, it's quite clear you can't see that for yourself. Instead, you want to cast aspersions on the "IWC" as a whole, as if it's some collective brain or something. That's such lazy thinking. And it's a lazy argument. Not to mention 100% wrong.

[thedag]

But what if I'm not upset that Flair didn't go with Ziggler? What if I'm simply upset that Flair got saddled with someone who I believe is beneath him in the Miz? Am I just lying about that? Or is it just easier for you guys to lump everyone who posts on wrestling world wide into the same category, just because a group of people was very vocal about what they'd like to see?
I'm not sure how much life experience you fellas have got, but not every reaction is borne out of jealousy. If you want to view the world as black and white, that's up to you, but why thrust those views onto others as well?
You don't seem to be employing any consequential thinking in this matter. Are you considering what this may do to Flair in the long term for this WWE run of his? It devalues him. Miz is a competent enough performer who shouldn't need this anyway. If WWE wanted to handle Flair right, he'd be seen to be spending time with upper echelon guys like HHH. That would instantly raise his stock in the eyes of fans, especially after the damage it's taken in recent years. However, it's quite clear you can't see that for yourself. Instead, you want to cast aspersions on the "IWC" as a whole, as if it's some collective brain or something. That's such lazy thinking. And it's a lazy argument. Not to mention 100% wrong.

^^^^^this^^^^