Ric Flair is known to fans as the Nature Boy and one of the best technical wrestlers of all time – but it wasn’t always that way.
Looking at the picture – which was shared on Twitter over the weekend by AEW’s Dustin Rhodes – it’s hard to believe it’s the same Flair, with the 16-time world champion looking genuinely unrecognisable.
In 1974, a devastating plane crash resulted in doctors telling him he wouldn’t wrestle again after he broke his back in three places, but he worked hard on his rehabilitation and returned to the ring just three months later. The pilot died in the crash while Johnny Valentine was left paralysed, and Flair’s health meant he had to ditch his heavyweight style and focus more on his character and technical work.
Meanwhile, fans were blown away by Dustin’s post, with plenty of followers baffled and several admitting they mistook young Ric for Dustin’s late father Dusty Rhodes.
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