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Richard Morgan Fliehr(Nature Boy; Flair, Ric)
Currently alive, at 59 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Athlete, Professional Wrestler
1949 - Richard Morgan Fliehr, born on the 25th of February in Memphis, Tennessee but was adopted by a couple from Minneapolis, Minnesota where he grew up and attended school.
1972 - He made his professional wrestling debut on the 10th of December, wrestling "Scrap Iron" George Gadaski (real name: John Kosti) to a ten minute draw in Rice Lake, Wisconsin.
1981 - He captured his first NWA World title (he would hold that belt officially nine other times). Later on, he would work for both World Championship Wrestling (a company formed by Ted Turner after buying the wrestling assets of JCP) and Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Entertainment.
1983 - He has been officially recognized as a World champion (an honor which generally signifies that a wrestler is the top attraction in any given company) 21 times, garnering recognition from the NWA, WWE, and WCW (as well as the WCW spin-off group WCWI, or World Championship Wrestling International). He is the only man in wrestling history to hold all four versions of the title.
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