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When the Nature Boy Ric Flair made his debut to the WWF, the wrestling world was shocked. The man who was the face of the WWF's chief competition WCW had signed with Vince McMahon following Jim Herd's idea of Flair cutting his hair and becoming Spartacus making Natich leave the company and join up with McMahon.

Ric Flair would step into a WWF ring at the 1991 Survivor Series while partnering with The Mountie, Ted DiBiase and The Warlord defeating the team of Bret Hart, The British Bulldog, Roddy Piper and Virgil but that's not all he do that night.

Flair would cost Hulk Hogan the WWF Championship which signaled to fans that the two biggest stars in the wrestling world would collide and so the WWF would tease and tease until the 1992 Royal Rumble, when the WWF Championship was on the line due to it being vacated by WWF President Jack Tunney after This Tuesday In Texas, where Ric Flair won the belt.

And so WWF fans were finally told Hogan and Flair would fight at Wrestlemania VIII following a "press conference" where Jack Tunney announced Hulk Hogan was the number 1 contender to Ric Flair's WWF title.

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