WWF WrestleMania X8 - Ric Flair vs The Undertaker (No Disqualification Match)
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00:00Got Mother Hawker in there, and I'll tell you what folks, this one is not going to be for the weak at heart.
00:06What a personal, personal vendetta for both these men.
00:11Co-owner of the World Wrestling Federation, Ric Flair, and The Undertaker.
00:15And this one started at No Way Out.
00:21And he hits Rock. It's a lead-tied cinch that The Undertaker's going to win this damn thing.
00:26Oh, there's Ric Flair!
00:27What the heck?
00:28Flair just nailed The Undertaker with that lead-tie!
00:31I cannot believe that Ric Flair insinuated himself into this match!
00:35You're wrong, man. You hit me in the head with that pipe last night.
00:38It ought to have been me just being a man.
00:40I want your ass in the ring at WrestleMania.
00:43We're going to see what kind of man you are.
00:46I want an answer.
00:48Yes or no.
00:53No.
00:55I was going to see what I could do to change your mind.
00:58Undertaker assaulting Arn Anderson.
01:01Arn Anderson is Ric Flair's best friend.
01:04I told Ric Flair that I wasn't going to accept no for an answer, so this is on his head.
01:09That is a sick animal right there, let me tell you.
01:12You left me no other choice.
01:14I had to go pay your oldest son a visit.
01:17That is Ric Flair's oldest son, David.
01:19Oh, God!
01:21I told you.
01:23I wasn't going to take no for an answer.
01:26This is on your head, man.
01:29What's it going to be, Flair?
01:32Because I really don't care how far I got to go.
01:36You got my attention.
01:38Undertaker, you got the nature boy at WrestleMania!
01:48Look at Flair, he's crazy!
01:49This is all about Arn Anderson and all about his son, David Flair.
01:53Flair is out of control.
01:55Ric Flair with a shot.
01:57Ric Flair in pursuit of The Undertaker.
02:00Ric Flair has absolutely lost it.
02:03Go over there, quick.
02:06I'm sorry to inform you that I have to place you under arrest.
02:12You must be so embarrassed over the actions of the co-owner, Ric Flair.
02:21Do you intend, Ric, to go through with this match with The Undertaker at WrestleMania?
02:27Yes, beyond a shadow of a doubt.
02:33Then you leave this board no alternative but to grant to Mr. McMahon
02:39a unanimous vote of confidence with full authority to act.
02:44We do reserve the right, immediately following WrestleMania, to review this decision.
02:50At WrestleMania, I will even the score with The Undertaker
02:59at any cost to myself personally.
03:05Since I do have all the power and authority, at least through WrestleMania,
03:09allow me to inform you that your match with The Undertaker
03:12is now a no disqualification matchup, Ric.
03:17Ric Flair made me do that.
03:19I had to push the envelope just a little bit further, maybe too far.
03:23I just hope you realize that you left with no other choice.
03:36We're back live here, Ric.
03:37Ladies and gentlemen, at Sky Dome in Toronto.
03:39I hear The Undertaker.
03:40Oh, no.
03:42In the ominous sight of one of the most physically intense individuals
03:48who has never lost at WrestleMania.
03:52The Undertaker is 9-0 at the greatest extravaganza in sports entertainment.
03:59Here we go.
04:25Hear that?
04:29The Undertaker.
04:35Good choice for a lead, JR.
04:38The Undertaker, as far as he's concerned, is all about respect.
04:41And I think he deserves all the respect he can get.
04:44But you don't get it by intimidating and beating people up.
04:49A disabled great like Arn Anderson.
04:52A young 23-year-old kid like David Flair.
04:56And Mr. McMahon, who now is back in complete control of the WWF,
05:00at least until this event has concluded,
05:03has made this a no disqualification match.
05:07Woo!
05:10Woo!
05:28From Charlotte, North Carolina, weighing 232 pounds, Ric Flair!
05:36The magical career of Nature Boy Ric Flair began in 1975.
05:4216 reigns as a recognized world champion.
05:48Flair is all business, and The Undertaker looks almost overconfident here.
05:52Let's look on Flair's face here.
05:54Oh, watch it.
05:55And the Flair, he's called himself the dirtiest player in the game,
05:59and deservedly so.
06:00The Nature Boy, who has seen his best friend battered and bloody and destroyed
06:05at the hands of The Undertaker.
06:07Watch it.
06:08Look out here.
06:09That's a no disqualification match.
06:11My God, you don't know what's coming.
06:12Oh, the counter!
06:13My God!
06:14Flair taking The Undertaker over the tangle.
06:19Flair dropping those heavy hands.
06:22Hold down on The Undertaker.
06:25Flair has pinned on the concrete right behind our announced position here.
06:31Again, no disqualifications.
06:35And this son of a gun is not gonna be for the weak at heart.
06:39It's not about titles.
06:41It's about pride.
06:43God almighty.
06:48And you talk about a ringside seat, and now Taker retaining that right hand of his own.
06:53And Flair.
06:54Flair is almost possessed here.
06:56I think they broke my headset.
06:58You're on.
06:59I'm on?
07:00And Ric Flair is on.
07:01He's on Undertaker.
07:03He's all over The Undertaker.
07:05Ric Flair's an idiot.
07:07What do you mean he's an idiot?
07:09He almost hit me.
07:10He's hitting everything in sight.
07:12The Undertaker has assaulted Ric Flair's oldest son.
07:15He assaulted his best friend.
07:17And God only knows if Flair had not accepted this match,
07:20what The Undertaker would have done to the rest of Ric Flair's family and friends.
07:25Well, you gotta admit, the Flair family tree needs a little trimming.
07:29Ridiculous.
07:31Now look at this Undertaker.
07:32Here we go.
07:34Rubbing Flair's spine.
07:36Flair had suffered a broken back early in his career.
07:41Somehow it was a miracle that Flair was even able to return and
07:44become one of the greats of all time.
07:46And that shot to the ring post by The Awesome Undertaker is not gonna do that back
07:51any favors, broken many years ago or not.
07:55And now Flair's head through him.
07:58Finally, into the steel ring sticks.
08:01Maybe Flair will have a relapse of that broken back here tonight at WrestleMania.
08:06Again, Mr. McMahon,
08:08reiterated as the co-owner of the World Wrestling Federation,
08:12but he's in complete control thanks to a decision made by
08:16the World Wrestling Federation board.
08:18That's right, and Mr. McMahon made this match here tonight,
08:21this match between Flair and The Undertaker,
08:23a no disqualification match because Mr.
08:25McMahon does everything for the fans.
08:26Look at these shots by Flair.
08:28And Mr. McMahon knew that the fans would want this to be a no disqualification match.
08:32Well, that may be true, but
08:34Mr. McMahon doing everything with a pull to The Undertaker.
08:38For the fans, it's certainly an arguable point.
08:40And Flair now cornered and being hammered down by The Undertaker.
08:43Why would you argue with something like that, JR?
08:47Because I know Mr. McMahon about as well as you do.
08:51I'm not in his fan club as you are, but that's either here or there.
08:56I know you say I suck up, but, JR, it's not sucking up when you really mean it.
08:59Look at that.
09:00Man.
09:02Flair just manhandled that corner.
09:05Nature boy Ric Flair, one of the great veterans of the game.
09:09He thought his active wrestling career had slowed.
09:13He almost was over after buying a 50% ownership in the World Wrestling Federation
09:18from Mr. McMahon's ungrateful children, his son Shane and his daughter Stephanie.
09:23Don't worry, Flair still wanted to wrestle.
09:25He forced Mr. McMahon into the ring.
09:26Look at this.
09:28They're upside down and caught in the face of perhaps the baddest man in the land.
09:35Old Booger Red just stuck that big size 16 right in the beak of Nature Boy Ric Flair.
09:42Now we go to school.
09:44Did you hear that?
09:45I heard him.
09:46Now we go to school.
09:49JR, look at this.
09:50Flair's over here again.
09:53Undertaker, blood running down his left cheek.
09:57Not talking about his backside.
09:58And Flair helpless in that timekeeper's chair here.
10:07He can't take much of this.
10:09And this is, Mr. McMahon must be setting back just loving this matchup.
10:13McMahon saying that this Undertaker is posing his will on Nature Boy Ric Flair.
10:20Watch this.
10:21Watch his boot to the face right here, JR.
10:25And Flair has been busted wide open at the hands of those big soup bones of the Undertaker.
10:32And those clean shots right to the head.
10:35It's a no disqualification match.
10:37There's nothing the referee Charles Robinson can do.
10:40Now you know what?
10:41I'm really enjoying this.
10:42You gotta be enjoying this, JR.
10:44I don't think it's right at all.
10:51Flair's one of the greatest of all time.
10:53Arguably the greatest of all time.
10:55Forced to get back in this environment at the hands of Mr. McMahon.
11:00Forced to get back into it?
11:01He forced Mr. McMahon into the ring.
11:04Did you hear that?
11:05Did you hear what the Undertaker said to you?
11:06I didn't hear a damn thing.
11:08Flair's not in his prime.
11:10You know it.
11:11He's in great shape.
11:14But he's not in game shape.
11:16He's not in the prime of his career.
11:18You should be able to relate to that.
11:20He didn't have to accept the match.
11:21He didn't have to do that, did he?
11:23The hell he didn't.
11:24He had no choice.
11:25What was he gonna do?
11:26Let his family be exposed to whatever this unconscionable, uncaring thing-
11:31JR, you know that's illegal when your family's exposed?
11:34Stop it.
11:36Come on.
11:38Let me enjoy this match.
11:41How can you enjoy the misery of others?
11:43I mean, can you-
11:45In your career, contributed so much.
11:47And Flair's now, his head is-
11:49You should be able to relate to what Ric Flair is enduring here.
11:52I do.
11:53Come on, Ric Flair.
11:54Be a man.
11:55Fight.
11:56Well, if I was in his place, I'd be throwing punches left and right.
11:58Look at him.
11:59He can't even get his hands up to defend himself.
12:01Flair's face, a crimson mask.
12:04The canvas stained by the blood of Nature Boy Ric Flair.
12:09At the hands of The Undertaker.
12:12And this one, I'm afraid, is gonna get a lot uglier before it's over.
12:16I don't know.
12:17Have you seen Flair's face?
12:18Uh-oh.
12:19Flair's showing great heart.
12:21Uh-oh.
12:22The heart of a warrior.
12:24Flair fighting back with every by God thing he's got in his body.
12:28Right down to his bone marrow.
12:31Flair knows what he's up against.
12:33He's up against Turbo.
12:34Uh-oh.
12:36Undertaker's huge arms up against Flair's throat.
12:38God, what a shot.
12:40He's not in that bad of shape.
12:42Oh, he's in great shape for the-
12:44He's bleeding just a little bit.
12:47Undertaker now.
12:48This is-
12:49Flair's hands down.
12:50He can't protect himself.
12:52Jerry's up here.
12:56I realize this is a no disqualification match.
12:59But the referee still has his discretion to stop the match
13:03if a competitor cannot defend himself.
13:05JR, this is WrestleMania.
13:06Stop it.
13:07I know where we are.
13:09I know what this is all about.
13:11Look at the Undertaker.
13:12He's bleeding.
13:13You don't ask the referee to stop it there, do you?
13:15That's a nasty gash on the face of the Undertaker.
13:17That's going to need several stitches.
13:20Why is your nose blue?
13:22What are you talking about?
13:23Undertaker, he's got a scrape on his cheek.
13:26A scrape.
13:27Flair is bleeding like a stuck pig.
13:29A scrape on the cheek of the Undertaker.
13:32If you had that scrape, JR, you'd be in intensive care right now.
13:35Look at this.
13:36Undertaker, right on that second rope,
13:39looking down at Nature Boy and Ric Flair.
13:41My God.
13:42Uh-oh.
13:43This is sinful.
13:45This is absolute evil.
13:48Both men are going to the top.
13:50No!
13:51That's the damndest two backflips I've ever witnessed.
13:54The Undertaker is seven feet tall.
13:58I bet it was the damndest one Flair ever witnessed, too.
14:01It's got to be over.
14:03My God, I hope it's over.
14:05What a sick human being.
14:08The Undertaker, he had that match won.
14:11Take a look at this.
14:17This is heinous.
14:18What do you mean heinous?
14:19I'm just enjoying what a sportsman the Undertaker is.
14:22He could have already won this thing,
14:23but he's the sportsman in the competition,
14:26the heart of a competitor.
14:28He gave Ric Flair another chance.
14:32That shows a lot of heart, JR.
14:35Who do you think you're convincing?
14:37This is ridiculous dribble.
14:39Dribble?
14:40And now Flair again.
14:42He's helpless on the apron of the ring.
14:45Look at that.
14:46Oh!
14:49Free shot for the Undertaker.
14:51Boy, Mr. McMahon somewhere has got to really be enjoying
14:55what's happening to his business.
14:59And now are you insinuating that Mr. McMahon holds grudges?
15:02You're damn right.
15:05What about the Royal Rumble
15:07when Flair kicked Mr. McMahon's ass in Atlanta?
15:10Do you remember that?
15:11Who won the match?
15:12Flair cheated.
15:16Boy, you've got a wonderful way of stretching it through.
15:19Are you looking for a raise or a promotion?
15:22That would be nice, I must admit.
15:25Oh, my God.
15:26Oh, look at this now.
15:27Beat him.
15:28Put him down and count him out.
15:30Come on.
15:31So you're an Undertaker fan as well.
15:34I have respect for the Undertaker for his record.
15:37He's 9-0 in WrestleMania.
15:39He's never lost.
15:40No one has ever even approached that thing.
15:43Bad, bad, bad.
15:44Flair is not in.
15:46That was a nasty cut on the cheek of the Undertaker.
15:52Are you drunk, Pete Russell?
15:54What's wrong with you?
15:55Are you looking at Flair?
15:56You see Flair bleeding?
15:58How much blood has he lost?
16:00It's not like he's got a...
16:02He cut himself shaving.
16:04He's got a bad scrape as well.
16:08Flair again.
16:09Getting knocked down.
16:10It's the blonde hair.
16:11It just shows up.
16:13I mean, the Undertaker's hair is soaked with blood.
16:18Some of these days, somebody's gonna kick
16:20old Booker Red's ass.
16:22He's gonna get what he deserves.
16:25But I'm not so sure it's gonna be tonight.
16:28I got a question for you.
16:30Can I ask you one question real quick?
16:33What the hell is a Booker Red?
16:35I'll tell you tomorrow.
16:37Flair.
16:38Flair trying desperately to get back in this thing.
16:41We got millions of people watching worldwide.
16:44And the inquiring minds wanna know what is a Booker Red.
16:47Rights and less and rights and less.
16:49And down goes Flair once again.
16:55You know, if Mr. McMahon were here
16:57and he had any soul, he'd come out here
16:59and start this match.
17:01This referee should stop this match.
17:03We need some leadership here.
17:05We don't want Mr. McMahon to come out here now
17:07because he would for sure kick Ric Flair's ass.
17:09And now this old school...
17:12Look at Ric Flair.
17:13I get it now. Ric Flair's winning.
17:15Undertaker talking and got jerked off the top rope.
17:20Uh-oh.
17:21Doesn't look good.
17:22Flair bought himself some time, if nothing else.
17:25I get Ric Flair's Booker Red.
17:29Is that AJR's Ric Flair Booker Red?
17:31No, he's not.
17:32And Flair looks fighting back.
17:34He's red all right.
17:35Uh-oh.
17:36Flair.
17:38A little offense, but not enough.
17:40And there's another sidewalk slam.
17:44Flair kicked out that time.
17:45Undertaker did not let Flair out.
17:47Flair's showing that magnificent competitive spirit.
17:50Able to kick out there.
17:55No!
17:56I got to give it to Flair.
17:57He is competitive.
17:58I mean, he's hanging in there.
18:00He's bleeding like crazy.
18:01And he's...
18:02He's still throwing those chops.
18:04Man, those...
18:06Right on the chest.
18:07And a right hand taken down.
18:09Undertaker straddling that top rope.
18:11Knocked off of it by Ric Flair
18:13in this no disqualification match.
18:15Thanks to everyone's big friend, Mr. McMahon.
18:20If Satan ever walked on Earth,
18:23it's your friend, Mr. McMahon.
18:25Oh, wait a minute.
18:26Flair, there's that lead pipe.
18:28Look at this.
18:29And I guarantee you,
18:30you're talking about a lead pipe six.
18:32I guess you condone this, Jake.
18:33No!
18:34It's a no disqualification match.
18:36And Flair just dotted the I.
18:39That's all right.
18:40Willie Good is the dirtiest player.
18:42He earned that reputation.
18:45It's all right.
18:46But Undertaker did not let Flair out.
18:48It's all right what Undertaker did to Arn Anderson.
18:50It's all right what Undertaker did to David Flair.
18:55Man, that's gonna put a huge knot
18:57on the head of The Undertaker.
19:00They stopped him.
19:01And Undertaker now bleeding from the head.
19:04And that lead pipe
19:07rolling right out of the ring.
19:09Now, what do you think the board of directors
19:11of the WWF thought when they just saw Ric Flair
19:13pull out that lead pipe?
19:15I don't really give a damn what that board thinks.
19:19I've got a lot of respect.
19:21I've got respect.
19:22That's what's the problem.
19:23I've got the respect of Ric Flair.
19:25And I know respect.
19:26Oh, look at that.
19:29Undertaker's-
19:32Flair, that sign.
19:36And a shot again.
19:38Right to the cranium.
19:39Right to the spine.
19:40And now Flair, by God,
19:42is getting right back in this thing.
19:44I'm gonna tell you,
19:45the board of directors,
19:46I don't want to personally apologize to them.
19:48They've got to be embarrassed
19:49by the actions of Ric Flair here tonight.
19:53I think they should be embarrassed
19:54by the decision they made.
20:01He's got a rush of adrenaline.
20:04Will it be Ric Flair
20:05to break The Undertaker's winning streak
20:08at WrestleMania?
20:10Or can The Undertaker regroup
20:12and a straight shot right to the jaw?
20:14The Undertaker's hands down to his side.
20:20A giant hand right around our throat.
20:22A nature boy, Ric Flair.
20:24And look at the face of The Undertaker.
20:26Downstairs.
20:28That is legal in this known as
20:30Modification Man.
20:31He's the dirtiest player in the game, all right?
20:34Undertaker's genitals may be called
20:37Death Valley when this is all said and done.
20:40Looking for the figure four.
20:41Oh, no!
20:43Flair's got the figure four of The Undertaker.
20:45Oh, no!
20:48Flair has been the greatest in the business
20:50with this very move.
20:54I can't believe we're here.
20:55We're actually here in The Undertaker's
20:57screaming pad. Let's do it.
20:59Flair looking to break the leg of The Undertaker
21:01and gain some retribution
21:03for what Taker has done.
21:06There's the cover and The Undertaker sitting up.
21:09And now The Undertaker with his long arms.
21:12He's close to seven feet
21:14at six ten and a half.
21:16Reaching out.
21:18Grabbing Flair by the throat.
21:20He's still feeling the effects of that.
21:23God, what a chokeslam.
21:26Yeah, but Undertaker's leg gave way
21:27right in the middle of that chokeslam.
21:30Flair drilled into the canvas.
21:33Undertaker covering Flair.
21:35There you go.
21:36Undertaker covering Flair.
21:38And Flair got his shoulder out.
21:39What?
21:41He got his left shoulder off the canvas.
21:44Look at The Undertaker's eyes.
21:46Flair just, damn, he just does not want to quit.
21:49He will not quit.
21:51The hook to the leg.
21:53And Flair kicked out again.
21:57Take a look at this.
21:58Look at the look on Taker's face.
22:01And then he grabbed the throat of Ric Flair.
22:04Look at this.
22:05What the hell is that?
22:07A dislocation.
22:08Little Charles Robinson getting manhandled by The Undertaker.
22:12Of course, not a damn thing in the face of Mr. McMahon.
22:15And now Taker's got that lead pipe back in his hand.
22:18We're about to witness some retribution here, JR.
22:21It's the lead pipe that Flair brought into this ring.
22:24He took it off the motorcycle of The Undertaker.
22:28Flair went downstairs.
22:30Man, what a shot.
22:33And another hard shot.
22:36Well, The Undertaker's got that.
22:37Wait a minute.
22:38There's Orton Anderson!
22:40Orton Anderson with a spine buster!
22:42Where the hell did he come from?
22:44It's over! It's over!
22:46He got it! He got it!
22:48Undertaker kicked out.
22:51Where did Orton Anderson come from?
22:53I have no idea.
22:54But by God, I'm glad to see him.
22:57That old horseman ought to be in the glue factory.
22:59Get it, Taker?
23:01You yourself said he's disabled.
23:02What's he doing out here?
23:04Well, this is ill-advised.
23:06Orton Anderson, he is not a wrestler,
23:09an active wrestler anymore, obviously,
23:11after a surgeon's knife.
23:13And now Anderson has been busted open
23:15on the right hand of The Undertaker.
23:16Quit making excuses for him, JR.
23:19It's only the truth.
23:20Well, he's got himself involved in this.
23:22He's got nobody to blame but himself.
23:23And Anderson is, now he has busted open.
23:26That didn't take long.
23:27That didn't take long.
23:29And Undertaker-
23:30Oh, God.
23:33Undertaker, Orton Anderson, surgically repaired knife.
23:36Look at-
23:37He may be broken here.
23:40Right to the spine.
23:41Watch it!
23:42That's perfectly legal.
23:45They're driving that chair.
23:47The fourth chair shot on The Undertaker.
23:50And pulled The Undertaker with a huge shot.
23:53The size 16 to the face.
23:57Man, what a war this has been between these two.
24:02This is-
24:03I am really enjoying this, JR.
24:04There's been carnage left and right.
24:06And now-
24:07A bloody reunion of the horsemen.
24:09Getting in.
24:10But The Undertaker-
24:13Tilted on him.
24:14Oh, my God.
24:16Undertaker almost in a backbreaker.
24:19Flair fighting out of it.
24:21He knows what-
24:23Flair down.
24:24He is so fatigued.
24:25The Undertaker is fatigued.
24:26Both men have beaten the hell out of each other.
24:29I think Flair was just covered in blood.
24:30Here's what we wanted to see anyway.
24:32God.
24:33Now the tombstone.
24:36Man, did you see that headbound?
24:38Flair fought out on the last ride.
24:40But he couldn't avoid the damn tombstone.
24:45Here is your winner, The Undertaker.
24:49Ten and O.
24:50Ten and O.
24:56That evil man.
24:57The vile human being.
25:00Has made, I'm sure, Mr. McMahon very, very happy.
25:06And I still wanna know it all.
25:08That is uncalled for.
25:11Undertaker should be fined and suspended for that.
25:14The match is over.
25:15You can do whatever you want to.
25:16You can't do anything you want to.
25:18I still wanna know what a booger rat is.
25:21What a match.
25:23My God, look at the carnage.
25:25Ric Flair is down.
25:26Orton Anderson is down.
25:28The referee is down.
25:30The Undertaker is up.
25:32He's ten and O.
25:33Ten and O.
25:37Let's take a look once again, JR.
25:39Orton Anderson did it from nowhere.
25:41Totally unexpected, but it didn't work.
25:44And then Flair was using that chair with the head when he got into all his trouble.
25:50Flair fought out the last ride.
25:52But could not avoid the two goal final round.
25:55Oh, man.
25:59And the Undertaker.
26:03He didn't come out unscathed.
26:07Keep rolling, JR.
26:10Rolling from WrestleMania.
26:11Ten and O.