# How old is Ric Flair, the wrestler?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-ric-flair-the-wrestler/162708
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [March 20, 2003, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-ric-flair-the-wrestler/162708 "2003-03-20T02:55:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Hermann\_Cheruscan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermann_Cheruscan)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-ric-flair-the-wrestler/162708/1 "2003-03-20T02:55:40Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-ric-flair-the-wrestler/162708/2 "2003-03-20T02:59:52Z")
[“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”](http://www.ddtdigest.com/features/flairnws.htm)
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### Author:  [@moc.liamtoh\_rorrim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moc.liamtoh_rorrim)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-ric-flair-the-wrestler/162708/3 "2003-03-20T04:47:57Z")
Also, while we are here, Hulk Hogan is 49. He turns 50 on August 11 2003.
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### Author:  [@Philosophocles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philosophocles)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-ric-flair-the-wrestler/162708/4 "2003-03-20T04:54:05Z")
Ric Flair, the famed cellist and namesake of the even more famous pro wrestler, is only 39.
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### Author:  [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-ric-flair-the-wrestler/162708/5 "2003-03-20T05:31:18Z")
Or, as my buddy Bob calls him, Rick “I’ve been wrestling since the pleistiocene” Flair…
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### Author:  [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-ric-flair-the-wrestler/162708/6 "2003-03-20T05:44:57Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Philosophocles \*
> \*\*Ric Flair, the famed cellist and namesake of the even more famous pro wrestler, is only 39. \*\*
Quick – post again, you`re on 666 for gosh sake!!!
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### Author:  [@ProjectOmega](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ProjectOmega)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-ric-flair-the-wrestler/162708/7 "2003-03-20T08:37:03Z")
Just for the record, the oldest person to ever wrestle was Lou Thesz, who had his last match at 74.
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### Author:  [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-ric-flair-the-wrestler/162708/8 "2003-03-20T12:58:22Z")
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”.
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### Author:  [@dead0man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dead0man)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-ric-flair-the-wrestler/162708/9 "2003-03-20T14:07:20Z")
Vinny Mac was born in '45 and he will be wrestlin a farily important match (historically speaking) with Hogan at WM19.