5 surprising names who hold a victory over Ric Flair

#3 MVP def. Ric Flair - WWE United States Championship (Vengeance: Night of Champions - June 24, 2007)

Ric Flair was certainly in the twilight of his career as an in-ring performer in WWE in 2007. Flair was mainly being used to put over younger talent on the WWE roster in an effort to help elevate them to the next level. One such example of this is MVP at WWE Vegeance: Night of Champions.

Ric Flair was the biggest talker of them all ... but he backed it all up.@30for30's "Nature Boy" airs Nov. 7 at 10 p.m. ET on ESPN. pic.twitter.com/Jj0X1CwgtZ

— ESPN (@espn) October 26, 2017

The gimmick for the pay-per-view was that every WWE Championship would be defended. This included the WWE United States Championship. As a former six-time United States Champion, it was a clash of generations.

The match featured sound technical wrestling, with Ric Flair utilizing all of his trademark offense. The Nature Boy hit MVP with a flurry of chops to the chest and worked over MVP's leg for the majority of the match, hoping to use his trademark Figure Four submission hold to get the victory.

On This Day in JCP TV History - 1987No one's interviewed Ric Flair for longer than Bob Caudle, and the Nature Boy knows it. The World Champion lets us know he has $50K burning a hole in his pocket, and has some thoughts on the big matches coming up in Pittsburgh and Baltimore. pic.twitter.com/Xc7M1rF2HS

— The Mid-Atlantic Championship Podcast (@MidAtlanticPod) January 17, 2021

After attempting the submission several times, Ric Flair eventually locked in the Figure Four, but the MVP was able to claw his way to the bottom rope and break the hold. While the referee was preoccupied with getting The Nature Boy to break the hold, MVP poked Ric Flair in the eye and hit his Playmaker finisher to get a major pinfall victory over the professional wrestling legend. It certainly felt as if the dirtiest player in the game had been outsmarted by a trick from his own playbook in this defeat to MVP.