| Date: | June 1 1985 |
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| Location: | New Orleans, LA |
| Arena: | |
| Match: | vs. Terry Taylor |
| Comments: |
Terry Taylor remembers: " In June of 1985 I had my first main event at the Superdome and it was with Ric Flair. I was working for Bill Watts and Flair and I had a couple of matches before it. I was so excited I got there five hours early, did pushups, showered got dressed and ready because it was Ric Flair. I was a huge Flair fan and knew what was going to happen. I thought it would define my career. 6pm he�s not there, 7pm he�s not there the show begins at 730pm. He rolls in about 745pm, so hung over he can�t walk straight. He smells of booze and still hammered, no sleep. He falls on the couch and says wake me in an hour. Biggest match of my life and he�s wanting me to wake him in an hour. The Superdome is so huge that you would be on opposite sides and then get a golf cart to take you around. An hour later I wake him up and he wants coffee. They get him coffee as he gets his boots laced and he looks like crap, hair matted all over the place. I am thinking this is so unfair and this is going to be wasted. He goes through the curtain looking like a million bucks. I think ok he got that far. 40 minutes later I am begging him to pin me I am so blown up, meaning I am out of breath and exhausted. I am asking him to pin me and he says this is where you earn your money brother, let�s go. Eight minutes later we are still going because I don�t know the finish. I thought we would go 15 minutes, 40 minutes and going. I made an eight minute comeback and was in an iron lung. I have no idea how he did it. Because of that I have more respect for him than anyone I have worked with. How he takes the bumps I have no idea. He is Shawn Michaels� size with the same work ethic only over 35 years. He�s gotten great matches out of crappy guys. If Sting ever thanks anyone for elevating him it�s Ric Flair. They had that 45 minute match at Clash I and he created Sting. I will never forget what he did for me that night. The finish was a double roll up. I know it was over because he said stay here brother. I said thank god. I had tried to hold him on top of me on cross body blocks and he was pushing away from me." |
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| Source(s): | Wojick, Alan. "Alan Wojick Talks to Terry Taylor about FXE & TNA." 14 Feb 2007. oklafan.com 3 June 2008 [ http://www.oklafan.com/interviews/576/article.html ]. |
