When Harley left home at 18 he told his father "you're the man of the house now."

@davaedein

25 күн бұрын

😂

"Harley Race went to the school that burned down before they built the old school.." - Mick Foley

@Byzantine41

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@mondocjenson-dy8zd

4 жыл бұрын

I love that. Coughed up my Koolaid LOL

@thisislaflaretv5250

3 жыл бұрын

@12thManInTokyo you haven't figured it out yet

@davidemays7862

3 жыл бұрын

I've got to use that one! 😂

@heavyearly9924

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidemays7862 Hey it's only fair, I stole it from Mick 😂

Harley saw something in Ric and said let's make some money.!!!

Harley race was a legitimate tough guy

@GetBenched2010

11 ай бұрын

Internet smarks would despise him today for it.

One of the baddest men to wear the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. Rest in Peace Harley Race.

@dougfredricks2017

Жыл бұрын

Pro Wrestling era of Real men.

@joecalhoun5303

Жыл бұрын

Yep

@MrSmitty1074

10 ай бұрын

@@dougfredricks2017 FACTS!

If Harley was a used car salesman. He could sale a lot with the way he could talk about how cool the car is.and how it handles.people would have no choice but to buy the car or get beaten up by him,their choice.

Promo lessons for all current and future wrestlers.

Harley Race was so tough and so respected,when he was a Private in the army...all of the generals called HIM Sir!

Rest in peace Harley Race.

TWO BEST FRIENDS WHO COULD REALLY WORK THE WRESTLING FANS ! HARLEY RACE AND RIC FLAIR .

One thing about Flair there were few wreslters he ever gave their just due respect and Harley Race was one of them... RIP...

A legitimate wrestling legend, "Mr." Harley Race!

Harley Race one of the greatest wrestler of his era.There will be another.RIP

Grand old days of wrestling folks, right here! Rest in peace Mr. Harley Race. The King is dead, long live the King.

You knew you were in for a historic match when Ric says “you’re going to be mine!”

Man we lost the toughest guy every in wrestling today..Thanks for the memories Harley!

@angelvalle9963

Жыл бұрын

Gone but never forgotten.

@SuperSirwanksalot

Жыл бұрын

@@angelvalle9963 Harleyb was a true tough guy but the toughest was haku for sure

@richardmorris6365

Жыл бұрын

Greatest Wrestler on God's Green earth.

@johnny5805

10 ай бұрын

What you mean ? Haku is still alive.

@tonypastor705

10 ай бұрын

@@richardmorris6365sorry, but no. He lost many times- but Goldberg, Bruno Sammartino and Andre among others hardly ever lost!

Race's attempts to "whoo'' are hilarious. Great Pro Wrestlers, both He and Flair.

@franksullivan7110

5 жыл бұрын

You said it boss

RACE+FLAIR=PURE SOLID GOLD🏆💰👑

What.a match the two best greatest wrestlers of the area.Harely Race &Rick Flair A match like Lawler and Bill Dundee at The Mid South Coluisme.

Great feud between 2 legends.

Rip Mr race he was one of the best that ever step in the Ring

Harley Race was the man before the word was invented

R.I.P THE toughest man in Pro Wrestling Harley Race

Harley was a legitimate tough guy even Andre The Giant feared him.

@GETole

2 жыл бұрын

Legend has it. Andre would have destroyed Race in a shoot.

@user-yx9bs8zo5q

Жыл бұрын

@@GETole Andre was a tub of goo who couldn't move.

@GETole

Жыл бұрын

@M98 LMAo. The old Andre was. He was stronger than an ox. Race would not have lasted 1 minute with Andre in a shoot.

@TheOneAndOnlyZelenkaGuru

2 ай бұрын

@@GETole By "legend" you mean yourself.. ignorance

@GETole

2 ай бұрын

@@TheOneAndOnlyZelenkaGuru LMAO. Bless your wittle heart. See a doctor about your severe cranial-rectal insertion.

Flair called Harley "sweetheart" lol

The Greatest Wrestler on God's Green Earth.

Harley Race "The greatest wrestler on God's green earth " R.I.P Harley Race

I always liked Harley for his hair if nothing else.

Okay, that was a sight to see. Harley Race so animated and excited at the start, but then he calms down and starts that dead serious style of promo we all know and then at the very end to go right back to the animated stuff. That is some damn good promo work.

Harley's funny whoo wee!

Imagine riding in Harley's car between shows going 95+ and handing the King his beers and listening to his advice,stories and critiques on everything 😂👍

He reminds me of evel kneval cutting a promo

The epic was when Harley race put a bounty on flair for $25,000

@fatdaddyeddiejr

3 жыл бұрын

I always thought it would have been a nice twist to the story had David Von Erich claimed the bounty Race put on Ric Flair. After all, Von Erich had history with both of them. And David's star was on the rise.

When wrestling was good-great

I remember him as King Harley Race with the crown and septor after he joined the WWF and won the King of the Ring tournament,

@johngallagher72

4 жыл бұрын

So ..he arrives about three or four months earlier on the house show circuit as just plain Harley Race with the standard blue robe that he was known for . My mouth dropped open because I began to salivate and think ..does this mean eventually we will get Race Hogan

@trewsdetroit5

4 жыл бұрын

Nobody messed with this guy outside of their personas in wresting. Race was the real deal

@respectedlocalgentleman7108

2 жыл бұрын

@@johngallagher72 Hogan wouldn't have entered a ring with Harley with an armed escort and a billion dollar insurance policy from Lloyd's of London.

@Az-dc4nu

Жыл бұрын

AKA Handsome Harley Race

One of Race's classic names for his opponents, loved how he said it; lol 0:33

Rip gordon solie

Harley the champ of champions

@junkman8702

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😭

Woo wee. I’m dying lol

@trewsdetroit5

5 жыл бұрын

Not sure what’s funnier the “woo wee” or his throwing his arm in the air

The legendary OMNI..

Harley was the best

Yeah RIC Flair and Harley Race classic Interviews & Great Matches ! today's Stuff? need I say more

Now this is Wrestling 🤼‍♀️! Ric Flair vs Harley Race

@jefferyrandall8030

3 жыл бұрын

Throw in Dusty Rhodes and you got the best era in the sport.

I saw Dusty Rhodes beat Harley Race in 1981 in the old Jacksonville, Florida Coliseum, baby!!!

I want buy a ticket right now

Harley Race even Andrea the Giant feared him

@areguapiri

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha

I remember when this aired i said to myself, Flair must be a bad man for threatening Harley Race while having a broken finger.

I know this match is probably not on youtube but I'm going to check.

Brilliant

......................Kabuki!

@franksullivan7110

5 жыл бұрын

Did Kabuki and Muta ever tag would have been cool against the Road Warriors back in the day.

Why does flair look like spagoli from fast time at ridgemont high 🤔😆

There's NOT a wrestler today that could match Harley Race as a in ring performer. Listen to Flairs interview , where the NWA sent Harley to Japan with RIC Flair because they were trying to screw with Flair and the NWA knew that they would screw with Race .

great

I’m happy to be a 90s baby and to have witnessed wrestling in its biggest boom period but I really would love to experience this era of wrestling. I respect what Vince did but there’s something so magical about the old territory days of wrestling. It just felt like ppl seemed to have more respect for what it was than they do now. I kinda wish wrestling wasn’t widely known as “entertainment” and was still seen as a real sport cause in my opinion it is. No matter what ppl might say, if wrestling was easy and just play fighting, then everyone would do it. Guys like Harley Race would be the ones who would love to show you how “fake” it is if you challenged them. Men’s men.

@respectedlocalgentleman7108

2 жыл бұрын

The 90s were lame. Yes, the Attitude Era and the Monday Night Wars got great ratings, but they came at the expense of the legacy men like Race left behind. McMahon killed professional wrestling when he broke his father's word not to expand into the territories. It's the yanks and their cartoon kayfabe that killed the sport. What you miss (without knowing it) is the NWA. That was a real sport. Everything from "the birth of Hulkamania" and after is pure cancer.

@anthonyware7116

Жыл бұрын

@@respectedlocalgentleman7108 Agreed pro wrestling is missing National Wrestling Alliance. It had an authenticity all its own.

@areguapiri

Жыл бұрын

Wrestling died in 1985. Vince turned it into a cartoon for the next decades. He made a lot of money taking wrestling international, but caused a slow death of wrestling and lost many fans with oversaturation and cartoonish, soap opera storyline.

Awesome

God I need that NWA belt.

@deankenny7686

5 жыл бұрын

I love both of them they should have been a tag team

@paulsalazar858

3 жыл бұрын

Have always liked the NWA belt. Best looking one.

Such badasses

Harley looks like he was already 60 years old here. and he was still in his 30s. god damn.

@Sparrow9612

4 жыл бұрын

I would describe him as 'grizzled.' A beast of a man.

@VolumedMusicMan

4 жыл бұрын

Drinking beer, smoking cigarettes and one hour draws does a body good.

Wooooo

1 word classic.

AMEN John Doe

Niceeeeee

Nature Boy looks just like Mick Ronson.

@VolumedMusicMan

5 жыл бұрын

Harley Race looks like Bob Ross just walking out of a saloon fight.

Woo

Woooo....weee lol

Do wrestlers cut promos like this anymore? I miss this era of wrestling 🤼‍♀️

@NicholasGerr

5 жыл бұрын

Keith Kerns much more real

@user-pg4ij1vj3x

5 жыл бұрын

@@NicholasGerr Because wwe has stupid interviews, it sucks. This is better

@areguapiri

Жыл бұрын

Vince McMahon destroyed wrestling by creating cartoonish, soap opera storylines and characters.

who was the heel? Or was both heels in 1982?

@Sparrow9612

4 жыл бұрын

Flair was the heel.

1:21 also

He's 39 here. 😮

Is it me are did they used to put the belt that on guys that could handle themselves in case of a double cross are shoot ...... race, backlund,thez the funks and briscos.

Was Flair the baby face in most of these matches? I only found one video of a Race promo out of Missouri where he was the baby face. I remember Race being the heel for the most part.

@VolumedMusicMan

4 жыл бұрын

Flair was the heel in his Atlanta feud with Race. Proof: Japan pro wrestling filmed the house show. kzread.info/dash/bejne/oJ6KqK6RqKTJmsY.html

@bigdickdudley9119

4 жыл бұрын

Harley was big face in st louis and kansas city also like brody was a lot but heel most other places brody also loved in world class

@MrNWA4Life

2 жыл бұрын

The NWA World Champion was always a heel but a babyface in their home territory.

@respectedlocalgentleman7108

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrNWA4Life Precisely. Not to mention that McMahon made the whole face/heel thing corny and extreme.

At least Ric told the truth about one thing, he "is" egotistical! LOL.

Who won the match?

Did Harley beat Flair for the title at the Omni for #7 ?

@MrNWA4Life

2 жыл бұрын

Nope. Got it in S. Louis in 1983. Then got #8 in Wellington, New Zealand in 1984.

😅😅😅

In ring talent wise Harley Race was way WAY better then Flair.

when wrestling was real, before wwsoapopera

Bart Gunn would've broken Harley Race's jaw in under 20 seconds in a real fight. Butterbean would've done it in under 10 seconds.

Dick Slater was tougher than rugged farm boy Harley Race !!!!

Race was a better world champion than Ric Flair had ever dreamed of being . Race's eight reigns is a greater achievement than Ric Flaies 16 reigns . I never thought it helped elevate the NWA to have a blatant coward as a champion . No wonder the NWA crumbled with Ric as their go to guy . Its not completely Rics fault though , there were not many young guys with the proper work ethic to be NWA champion who wanted that schedule for any amount of money . Flair just happened to be both ethical enough and stupid enough to want that schedule . The promoters used to think it was a win for them to have their top guy become the consensus NWA approved champion but then the schedule kept him from coming back to the territory often enough to keep gates up . Had they used their influence to create TWO strong babyfaces in their teritories they would be set to have one of them become champion and the other bridge the gap , keeping sales up . None of the promoters were doing that . Most were long in the tooth and were looking to get out of wrestling anyhow . Ric Flair benefitted from Jim Crocketts youth and ambition whereas someone out of StLouis would not have been so lucky , nor many other promotions . FRITZ had 3 stars but none of them had the proper business mentality to bear the banner of NWA champion . They were partiers all addicted to pills and no shows . Bill Watts was young and ambitious but realized rightlly that the NWA was dying so he focused more on his own brand than seeking the prestige of the NWA champion . Wrestling was set to boom in popularity just as most NWA promoters were looking to retire .Ric Flair greatly benefitted from that .

@pooddescrewch8718

Жыл бұрын

I like to imagine what the wrestling world would have looked like had cable not made crossing territorial lines far less risky a thing to do .Unfortunately The NWA was dying in the eighties , of old age and from fighting of an United States Antitrust suit brought against them for which they had little hope of ever fully defeating .

Harley Race > Flair

@indiasupportstrumpwwg1wga927

5 жыл бұрын

well aren't you cool.....

@jbellflower83

4 жыл бұрын

Love em both but for different reasons. Harley was a tough sob who u knew nobody fucked with. Flair had some of the most entertaining promos of all time. 2 legends.

Ric Flair lost by DQ when all Japan recorded the match for Japan TV. Flair pinned him cleanly in the rematch at the Omni when Japan cameras weren't there. Go figure 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

@maxearlsexed

5 жыл бұрын

mister may it was double DQ first match ! RACE is the GOAT

@mistermay7986

5 жыл бұрын

@@maxearlsexed you correct sir. But Flair won the rematch when All-Japan cameras wasn't on

@maxearlsexed

5 жыл бұрын

mister may they had many many match where race won lol also it’s fake but real to me

@maxearlsexed

5 жыл бұрын

mister may race beat flair in tea as death match in Kansas City a month before he left for WWF at the time non title match

@maxearlsexed

5 жыл бұрын

Texas