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Originally Posted by .isolated
I haven't listened to it all yet but this may very well be the best LF yet. I'm only through the first 50 minutes of Starrcade 84 and the entire show thus far has been about Vince buying Georgia Championship Wrestling, Black Saturday, selling it back, and a bunch of comments from Dusty, Ole, etc...even a story about Vince owning people and a first hand account of him getting high at a dinner with his new employees after the purchase. Incredibly interesting.
Thanks. Started listening to it, then realized I should start with Starrcade 83 instead.
One thing they mentioned in the beginning was how Flair changed. He wasn't the Ric Flair we all know and love in 83.
I had always attributed that to the fact that Flair was working babyface in 83 and his most famous 80s work is as a heel. But the podcast hosts were theorizing that Flair hadn't found his voice in 83, something he did find in 84.
To me, that's surprising. Flair was champ from 81 to 83. During the late 70s early 80s, the NWA seemed to prefer having a heel as their traveling champ. And I knew that Flair was a heel in the late 70s.
So wasn't Flair already an established character in 83? He was just working face, which he wasn't as good at doing.