David Flair

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David Flair
Statistics
Ring name(s)	David Flair
Billed height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Billed weight	177 lb (80 kg)
Born	March 6, 1979 (1979-03-06) (age 29) Minneapolis, Minnesota
Resides	Shelby, North Carolina
Billed from	Charlotte, North Carolina
Trained by	Ric Flair
Debut	April 1999

David Richard Fliehr (born March 6, 1979 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) better known by his ring name David Flair, is the son of Ric Flair and is a professional wrestler.

1 Career
2 Personal life
3 In wrestling
4 Championships and accomplishments
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Career

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[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 his family appeared to offer greater emotion to the angle. In late 1998, David was back on WCW TV sitting front row and getting involved in some skirmishes with Eric Bischoff and the nWo.

[edit] World Championship Wrestling (1999-2000)

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 welps. On February 21 at SuperBrawl IX, David turned on his father and joined the nWo WolfPac. He used a taser on his father to help Hogan win their WCW World Title match. He didn't wrestle for a while but did appear in vignettes with Torrie Wilson while he was training at the WCW Power Plant.

David started to wrestle a regular schedule in May 1999. He made up with his father who then had the Four Horsemen help David 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, David defeated Dean Malenko - with the help of Ric and Arn Anderson - to keep the title in his first defense on pay-per-view.

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. 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 (kayfabe) injured Ric. In response, David went (kayfabe) insane 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 led to a storyline where David stalked Kimberly. She got one of her husband's teammates Bam Bam Bigelow to help her, but David used the crowbar on him too. 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.

David was joined by Daffney at StarrCade 1999. He was joined a little later by Crowbar. They formed a team called the New Hardcore Revolution and won 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 (Stacy Keibler) as his valet. He also turned on his father again which led to a match against him at The Great American Bash. David lost, but the next night, he won a match against his father to retire him and shave his father's head.

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 with Miss Hancock returning to T.V. with Shawn "The Star" Stasiak in the ring with a baby carriage. But instead of a baby it was revealed that there was 8x10s of Shawn in the carriage. After this angle David was no longer seen in WCW.

[edit] National Wrestling Alliance/World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (2001-2002)

David toured in the independent circuit for the first part of 2001. He teamed with Don Factor to win the NWA World Tag Team Championship on March 21. They lost them on March 23. He then teamed with Romeo Bliss to win the NWA Georgia Tag Team Championship 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 The Undertaker on March 4 and to wrestle the Undertaker on March 14.

[edit] Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2002-2003)

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.

[edit] Independents and beyond

After TNA, David 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 a tour for All Japan Pro Wrestling in 2004.

David was in a dark match before an episode of WWE Smackdown! in the spring of 2006, which he lost to William Regal. He also competes for the Hermie Sadler-owned organization, based primarily in the Carolinas and Virginia.

David was on hand when his father, Ric Flair was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame on March 29, 2008, when he had his final match against Shawn Michaels at Wrestlemania XXIV, and at Ric's Farewell Ceremony the following night on RAW.

[edit] Personal life

Flair previously dated Stacy Keibler during their time together in WCW. He has been married to his wife Robin Haskell Fliehr since 2004 and they have two children,a son, David Carter Fliehr, and a daughter, Pyper Merrin Fliehr.^[1]