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Hey Scott,
long-time reader, first-time e-mailer. I was reading JD Dunn's review of the Great American Bash '91, and he says this about the Jim Herd/Ric Flair situation: "Jim Herd wanted Ric Flair to get an ear ring or dress up like a gladiator. Ric Flair wanted dignity. The two simply couldn't co-exist, so Herd demanded Flair drop the title to Lex Luger. Flair refused because he thought Luger wasn't good enough to carry the company, so Herd stripped Flair of the title and sent him packing up to Titanland." If I remember correctly, wasn't Flair one of the people who was very critical of Bret Hart for not laying down for Michaels in Montreal because Bret was asked to do the job and thus should have done it? Maybe I'm not getting/understanding the whole story here, as I hadn't know about this earlier Flair stuff before, but after reading JD's summary of Herd/Flair, it seems Flair is a hypocrite to call anybody out after that, stupid as the earring/gladiator thing and the request to job to Luger may have been. Your thoughts?

 

The 1991 situation was a bit more complicated than that, as Flair's contract was expiring and Herd was going to lowball him and turn him into a midcarder.  And the belt was going to move to Windham, not Luger, so technically Flair never refused to put Luger over.  Back in the glory years of 88-90, though, Flair absolutely refused to put Luger over several times.  I haven't heard anything from him specifically about Bret (it's usually Bret talking about Flair) but absolutely I'd call him a hypocrite if he said that Bret should have dropped the belt when asked. 

The funny thing thinking about this stuff these days is that the current belts are pretty much worthless anyway.  Could you imagine someone leaving the WWE today because they were asked to drop one of the 14 versions of the World title out there?  MARK HENRY won a damn World title!