Ric Flair, Roman Reigns and the leglocks that tie college football and pro wrestling
ByCHRIS LOW
April 2, 2016, 3:13 PM
— -- Ric Flair, the self-proclaimed kiss-stealing, limousine-riding, jet-flying son of a gun, "walked that aisle" night after night, town after town on his way to professional wrestling immortality.
It's an aisle that began for the "Nature Boy" on the football field as an offensive guard on the University of Minnesota's freshmen team in 1968 and quickly led to the wrestling ring. It's the same aisle countless other wrestling stars have taken during the years dating back to Bronko Nagurski, who started wrestling in 1933 to supplement what was modest football pay at that time. He'd wrestle from January to July and then play football from September to December.
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