A Battle of Horsemen!

There was the ORIGINAL GANG... 

THE FOUR HORSEMEN - circa 1990 

And there was the revival group: 

The Extreme Horsemen! 

The Extreme ones are like the Musketeers, see: 

they're either 3 or 5... sometimes 4... up to 6 even! 

They simply cannot count! 

Well - there are referees for that! 

(We'll just ignore those other attempts, 

this time out: 

...see - they ALL wanna be Horsemen!)

(Truth be told, Ric Flair didn't help in this: he was part of two 

of the attempted revival factions! What the hell, Ric? 

Don't you know that you cannot recapture lightning in a bottle 

TWICE... much less THRICE! 

And don't you even think about it FOUR TIMES! 

Wooooo! Granted, fellow original Horsemen 

{înducted into a Hall of Fame with him} J.J. Dillon 

and "Widowmaker" Barry Windham 

were also seen aiding the revival we focus on today... 

This "extreme" one, aye... 

But that's another story... and a sad one, at that.)

Based on all the carnage 

(that is available to peruse, at this time) 

which wild bunch of Horsemen 

would have made Peckinpah proud? 

HUH - LOL 

Peek and see:

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//// well, yeah: imitation is the sincerest form of flattery - they say...////

But, no, really... 

though they tried so hard 

and gave it their darn best, 

these independent "Extreme" 

(alternatively known as "Xtreme" - duh)

Horsemen never measured up: 

C.W. Anderson not being a real Enforcer 

(never mind a real Anderson: even Arn isn't!) 

Simon Diamond never matching up 

with the sheer "heel coolness" 

perfected by Tully Blanchard... 

and as for the former 

Aldo Montoya, Portuguese Man'O'War 

- Justin Credible - 

well... he's another X-Pac, 

at best. 

And that is no compliment! 

Steve Corino thought he was 

Ric Flair's heir apparent. 

Well... 

A lot of other guys thought 

the exact (Xact?) same thing: 

and they all fell considerably short! 

(Buddy Landell, Jeff Jarrett, Curt Hennig, Shawn Michaels, Terry Taylor, Stan Lane, Bob Backlund, Steve Austin, Rick Rude, Bobby Eaton, Dolph Ziggler, Bobby Roode, Chris Jericho, Terra Ryzing - to name but a few!)

We won't even get into 

Xtreme members 

Ricky Landell,  

John Skyler (Schuyler?) 

Jeff Lewis Neil, 

Damien Wayne, 

plus Windham and Dillon themselves!

JJ Dillon wanted to recapture this so bad: 

... with this, in the alleged MLW - and elsewhere:

... they hit HARDER, they said? 

Uh... no - not really!

Look at Ric Flair's punching power - 
in evidence right here: 

Uh... okay, that was kayfabe!
(another word for "make-believe"
- you poor uninitiated soul!
Forgive them, Ric!)

Woo!

BETTER RING GENERAL 
BETTER ENFORCER 
BETTER HORSEMEN: 
THE ORIGINAL GANG OF FOUR! 

... and, next time, we compare them to this: 

LOL

Battle of the Nature Boys

Not the battle you think though!
Ric Flair faced off with the golden age version, Buddy Rogers
and then with a silver age pretender, Buddy Landell
and Flair won both times to establish himself as THE Nature Boy -
but that is confined to the world of wrestling!
There was another Nature Boy... a SUPER HERO!
Whereas Flair is the master of the figure-four leglock
and the dirtiest player in the game -
the super guy's the alleged "master of rain, wind and fire"!
Gee - was he a part of EARTH, WIND AND FIRE too?!?
*LOL*
Granted, he looks more like an AQUALAD RIP-OFF to me...
But still...
One can wonder "WHO WOULD WIN" (!)
and also... which Nature Boy was CÉLINE DION
truly singing about?!?

Nature Boy Ric Flair

The original - and the best! (Nature Boy Buddy Rogers came first, sure; but Flair is the one that got it all together - put it all together! And Triple H, Double J & Singled-out Shawn Michaels -among many others- have all emulated him ever since... Didn't do the careers of would-be Nature Boy Buddy Landell, Jeff Jarrett, Curt Hennig, Shane Douglas and Steve Corino all that much good,  now did it...?
But I digress...)
(Witty bit - as seen on the wretched Care2.com website - almost!)







Truth is, there is yet ANOTHER Nature Boy...

But, reelly, I cannot believe for a NANO-SECOND that "Fez"
(aka Fezbird aka Fez M. Whatley aka The Nature Boy... of Radio!)
could ever be the one Céline would be singing about...




See for yourselves in the video below
(depending upon availability - as always with YouTube!)