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Originally posted by Grimm:
and there are other WWF champions that are not on the list. your point?
Um...that there's reason to put Flair on the list other than he's currently with the company? Big Show and Nash are with the company and aren't on the list, as are many other wrestlers, so what’s your point? My point would be that Flair's on this list because of his first run with the company, regardless of his current run.

Alright, I'll expand--he won the WWF Title by going in the Rumble for an hour, the most famous and celebrated Rumble ever, beating out every top name in the company at the time. He also had a one of the greatest money feuds of all time with Randy Savage, and was the key to Bret Hart’s rise to WWF Champion. Even before wrestling a match for the WWF, he brought the NWA World Title to WWF events, giving his entering the company more immediate impact than probably anybody else’s in history. The fact that he did all of this in such a short time is remarkable, and I think would get Flair on this list even if he wasn’t currently with the company.

Also, let's not forget that when Flair won the title, changes were a lot less frequent and thus meant a lot more. The only pre-Flair champions not on the list are Ivan Koloff, Stan Stasiak and Antonio Inoki, all three of whom had short reigns even by today's standards. So Flair’s two world title wins mean a helluva lot more than the wins of guys like Sid and Big Show(the only multi-time champions not on the list).

There. Does that make my point clear?