10 Most Outrageous Pro Wrestling Entrances
Not every pro wrestling entrance is a walk to the ring
6. Ric Flair & Charlotte Flair - WCW Great American Bash 1985 & 1986 + WrestleMania 35
It’s fair to say that the professional wrestling entrance has evolved significantly since the mid-1980’s, when the best you could ask for was a pulsating guitar riff and enough flashbulbs to blind an owl.
Long before the ‘special’ entrance became a regular occurrence, NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair styled and profiled his way to the ring at the 1985 and 1986 Great American Bashes.
Prior to his title defences against Nikkita Koloff and Ricky Morton at the American Legion Memorial Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Nature Boy boarded a helicopter and asked the pilot to take him to the ring. It was a spectacular entrance that totally fit his character and was certainly novel for the time.
By the time Ric’s daughter Charlotte was due to make history as one third of the first all-female main event in WrestleMania history, it had been a while since anyone had took a helicopter ride to a stadium.
It wasn’t her idea to recreate it and she only found out about it days beforehand, but it was a fitting tribute to her father and suitably grandiose for the Grandest Stage of Them All
