How old is Ric Flair, the wrestler?

Factual Questions
1

I’m surprised to see this guy is still wrestling, as I had thought he retired about 10 years ago. Just how old is he?

2

“Flair - born Richard Morgan Fliehr on Feb. 25, 1949 - wrestled on his high school team in Minneapolis and avidly watched pro wrestling on TV. “It was something I liked and watched a lot as a kid growing up…I like Verne Gagne and Dick the Bruiser and The Crusher,” Flair says”

3

Also, while we are here, Hulk Hogan is 49. He turns 50 on August 11 2003.

4

Ric Flair, the famed cellist and namesake of the even more famous pro wrestler, is only 39.

5

Or, as my buddy Bob calls him, Rick “I’ve been wrestling since the pleistiocene” Flair…

6

Quick – post again, you`re on 666 for gosh sake!!!

7

Just for the record, the oldest person to ever wrestle was Lou Thesz, who had his last match at 74.

8

And currently, Carlitos Colón, at 3 years older than Flair (born 1946), is still active – he actually owns a wrasslin’ promotions business here in PR and a few times a year arranges to get himself “challenged” for the “Universal (:p)Championsip”.

9

Vinny Mac was born in '45 and he will be wrestlin a farily important match (historically speaking) with Hogan at WM19.