David Flair

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David Flair
Statistics
Ring name(s)	David Flair
Billed height	6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Billed weight	204 lb (93 kg)
Born	March 6, 1979 Minneapolis, Minnesota
Resides	Minneapolis, Minnesota
Trained by	Ric Flair
Debut	1999
Retired	2006

David Flair (born March 6, 1979 in Minneapolis, Minnesota), is the son of Ric Flair and is a former professional wrestler.

1 Career
2 Previous Managers
3 In wrestling
- 3.1 Finishing and signature moves
4 Championships and accomplishments
5 Trivia
6 External links

[edit] Career

[edit] Early days

David Flair never wanted to become a wrestler. He always wanted to be a State Trooper. He first appeared on camera backstage with his father at StarrCade '93 in WCW. His father was going to have to retire if he lost his match so they had the family appear to give it more emotion.

In late 1998, David was back on WCW TV sitting front row and getting involved in some skirmishes with Eric Bischoff and the nWo. He eventually decided to become a wrestler and teamed with his father in his debut match at WCW/nWo Souled Out in Charleston, West Virginia on January 17, 1999. They wrestled Curt Hennig and Barry Windham and won the match. After the match, the entire nWo came out and Hulk Hogan lashed David with his belt until David's back was full of welts.

[edit] Heel turn

On February 21, 1999 at WCW's SuperBrawl, David turned on his father and joined the nWo WolfPac. He had Torrie Wilson by his side and used a taser on his father to help Hogan win their WCW World Title Match. He did not wrestle for a while but did appear in vignettes with Torrie while he was training at the WCW Power Plant.

He started to wrestle a regular schedule in May 1999. He made up with his father and Ric had the Four Horsemen help David to win matches. Ric, being the (onscreen) WCW President, stripped WCW United States Champion Scott Steiner of his title and awarded it to David. On July 11, 1999, David defeated Dean Malenko (with the help of Ric and Arn Anderson) to keep the title in his first defense on PPV.

[edit] David goes insane

In August, Ric had problems with Eric Bischoff backstage and was removed from TV along with Arn Anderson. David was left on his own and lost his US Title to Chris Benoit on August 9, 1999. In September, Torrie left David for Billy Kidman. Ric and Arn returned to TV and tried to help David. In October, Diamond Dallas Page and his wife Kimberly started a feud with the Flairs. Kimberly kept David distracted while Page "injured" Ric. David went nuts after seeing his injured father.

David injured DDP in the WCW World Title Tournament that was being held on WCW Monday Nitro. He used the crowbar and only stopped when Kimberly got in between him and her husband. This lead to David stalking Kimberly. She got one of her husband's teammates, Bam Bam Bigelow to help her but David used the crowbar on him too. He was a madman now.

Vince Russo finally scheduled a match between David and Kimberly for WCW Mayhem on November 21. Kimberly tried to seduce David and then "hit him low" but he had a cup on. DDP and his friend Chris Kanyon came to her rescue and laid David out. Arn arrived again but got laid out by David, who ran off into the fans.

[edit] David and Crowbar

David was joined by Daffney at StarrCade '99. He was joined a little later by Crowbar. They formed a team called the New Hardcore Revolution and ended up winning the vacant WCW World Tag Team Titles in a tournament final on January 3, 2000 over Kevin Nash and Scott Steiner with Arn as the special referee. They lost the titles to Big Vito and Johnny the Bull, "The Mamalukes", on January 19.

David soon split with Crowbar and in May 2000, joined Vince Russo's New Blood. He dumped Daffney and took Miss Hancock as his valet. He also turned on his father again which led to a match against him at The Great American Bash PPV. David lost but the next night, he won a match against his father to retire him and shave his father's head.

[edit] David and Stacy's baby

Near the end of 2000, David and Stacy were going to have an on-air wedding. Before that could happen though, it was revealed that Stacy was pregnant and that David was not the father. This led to David trying to figure out who the father was with the help of Ric, whom he had made up with, and Arn. He even had a match with Buff Bagwell to get Bagwell's DNA. This storyline ended abruptly and David left WCW without it ever being revealed who the father was. Years later, Vince Russo admitted in an interview that -- had the storyline played out as originally planned -- it would have been revealed that Jerry "The King" Lawler (who was trying to get into WCW between the time of his WWE release and WCW's death) was the father.

[edit] NWA and WWE

David toured in the independent circuit for the first part of 2001. He teamed with Don Factor to win the NWA Tag Team Titles on March 21, 2001. They lost them on March 23. He then teamed with Romeo Bliss to win the NWA-Georgia Tag Team Titles on March 24. They lost them on April 21.

In May 2001, the WWF picked up David's WCW contract and sent him to Ohio Valley Wrestling. He stayed there and feuded with Val Venis and had a brief tag team with Mark Jindrak until late 2002, when they dropped his development contract. He did make two appearances on WWE TV as he was beat up by Undertaker on March 4, 2002 and to wrestle Undertaker on March 14, 2002. He also appeared at Royal Rumble 2002 along with the rest of his family when Ric Flair had his first WWF return match against Vince McMahon in a match that Flair won.

[edit] TNA and beyond

Flair joined Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in December 2002. He joined Vince Russo's S.E.X. group. He had a brief feud with Curt Hennig and then left S.E.X. to form Next Generation with Brian Lawler and Erik Watts. Together, they feuded with Dusty Rhodes and mocked him with an old NWA World Title belt.

David left TNA in early 2003 and toured the independent circuit, winning the IWA Intercontinental Title from Ray Gonzalez on November 28, 2003. He lost it back to Gonzalez two days later. David Flair quit IWA after problems with IWA promoter Victor Quinones.

David became semi-retired after that to work for a medical supplies company. He occasionally returns to the ring for independent shows on weekends. He did do a tour for AJPW in 2004.

David was in a dark match before an episode of WWE Smackdown! in the spring of 2006, in which he lost to William Regal.

David officially retired from the wrestling business on December 2, 2006. His last match took place against Joey Morton at the Brushfork Armory in Bluefield, WV.