ESPN’s 30 For 30 on Nature Boy would be so much better if Ric Flair wasn’t so cagey about wrestling being fake

The A.V. Club

“The subject’s caginess about fakery gets in the way of what’s most interesting about his story,” says Noel Murray. “Ric ‘Nature Boy’ Flair was around at the moment when wrestling exploded in popularity, due largely to the expansion of cable TV and UHF channels. As one of the biggest stars of the lower-rent National Wrestling Alliance and World Championship Wrestling, he has special insight into the ways that his team staged combat and built stories, in comparison to the slicker WWF. But while all of that is an element of what ‘Nature Boy’ is about, ultimately the nuts-and-bolts of the pro wrestling phenomenon take a backseat to Flair’s personal story of success and excess.”