Ric Flair is one of the most famous names in wrestling history – but even he didn’t know his actual name until recently.
– but even he didn’t know his actual name until recently.Hall of Famer was adopted as a baby and given the name Richard Fliehr, which eventually became his pro wrestling moniker way back in 1972, but it wasn’t the one on his birth certificate.
In his new Peacock documentary Woooooo! Becoming Ric Flair, the Nature Boy revealed he was actual born Fred Phillips, which he didn’t know himself until three years ago. When asked for his ‘given name at birth’, he told the cameras: ‘Fred Phillips. I just found that out three years ago.’ A voiceover revealed that his life ‘began’ in an orphanage in Tennessee, with the star explaining that his birth mother was a nurse, while his father worked as an architect.
Also in the film, he noted a man who shares the same birth mother got in touch and revealed he is the wrestling legend’s brother, but Flair wasn’t interested in meeting him aged 73, as he doesn’t want to look into the past.‘I don’t have any curiosity,’ Flair insisted. ‘I’ve got enough to be curious about, without someone I’ve never met in my life and meet him now at 73.‘He probably only wants to meet me because I’m what I am, whoever I am… If that makes sense.
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