In 1991, Ric Flair signed with Entones WWF (now WWE) after getting tired of the leadership he kept in the WCW, where he had shone for several years, this being this The first time “The Nature Boy” worked with Vince McMahon after having rejected him in the 1980s. At the outset, he was the winner of Royal Rumble 1992 and captured his first world championship there, which was vacant and at stake during the traditional fight.
► Ric Flair arrived at WWE and won the Royal Rumble
During a recent appearance in «The Ariel Helwani Show» Ric Flair talked about the late Hulk Hogan, among other issues, and also took advantage of the opponent to comment on the first time he arrived at the WWE, confessing that He was so anxious to leave the WCW at that time that he didn't worry too much what McMahon offered him. However, McMahon himself had given him a more lucrative contract and star conditions, precisely programming him to win that 1992 Rumble.
«Do you know what Vince said? He said: 'I'm not going to give you a guarantee. I will shake your hand so that you win more money '«.
«I didn't expect it (winning the Royal Rumble). I just wanted to free myself from being belittled by Jim Herd ».
Jim Herd was an executive vice president of the WCW at the time Flair left there, but renounced shortly after the departure of Nature Boy, and Eric Bischoff soon ascended to a position of power within the company, managing to raise it to a level such that he could compete with WWE. Meanwhile, Flair's first stage in WWE did not last long, and He returned to WCW in 1993, where he was until the company disappeared in 2001.
