Yeah, like the 1992 Royal Rumble. A classic!

Why is it so damn great?

Because it had Flair as a heel, and yet for the hour-plus hes in the ring, he fights, strategizes, backstabs, and by luck to the point that even if you hated him severly as a wrestling mark, you must admit: He's DAMN good.

Remember when Heels were hated because not only were they jerks/scumbags, but because they were DAMN good too?

Its like why the Dean Malenko/Chris Jericho WCW feud was money. Jericho was an arrogant jackass who wouldn't shut up, humiliated and submitted every wrestler to his "Liontamer" hold. He beats up on the poor "Iceman" and he leaves....

Until Slamboree 1998, where a Cruiserweight Battle Royale is held. Last man standing gets a title shot THAT night. Cruiserweights duke it out, but a masked man is the last man standing....and its DEAN MALENKO.

Malenko and Jericho have their long-awaited rematch, and the arena just goes apeshit when Malenko forces Jericho to finally submit, and goes off into the locker room as the hero that toppled the tyrant, and with the WCW Cruiserweight belt.

Then the next night, Jericho did his best to reverse that decision with legal loopholes...but that is another story.

Jericho was one of the best heels ever when he was in WCW. The shit he used to do to Malenko was unbelivable.

Of course Flair in his prime, as a heel, was the best. One of the best lines he ever used was when he told Lex Luger he had "a million dollar body, and a 10 cent brain."

Basically represents WCW's treatment of what was an amazing set of mid-carders back in their hey days.

My personal favorite Flair-ism:

He takes his shoe off and waves at the crowd: "My shoes cost more than YOUR house!"

No shit. Look at all those mid-cards screwed over by Hogan/Klique/Bishoff of WCW and eventually became world champions in the dying days of WCW and the surviving WWF:

Chris Jericho
Chris Benoit
Booker T
Rey Mysterio Jr.
Eddie Guerrero

Nevermind other guys that were incredibly over with fans but buried like "The Iceman" Dean Malenko, Raven, the other Luchadores, etc.

Ric Flair to Vince McMahon: "When you were trying to be an announcer, your dad was on the board that voted for me to be world champion!"

ZING!