Ric Flair Fliehr

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Biography

Richard Morgan Fliehr, born February 25, 1949), known professionally as Ric Flair, is an American professional wrestler. Regarded by multiple peers and journalists as the greatest professional wrestler of all time, Flair has had a career spanning over 50 years.

Fliehr was adopted. His adoption story is a bit on the curious side.

Fliehr was born on February 25, 1949, in Memphis, Tennessee. His birth name is widely believed to be Fred Phillips, although on different documents he is also credited as Fred Demaree or Stewart, while his biological parents were Luther and Olive Phillips (the latter of whom was also credited under the Demaree and Stewart surnames).[13] He was adopted by Kathleen Kinsmiller Fliehr (1918–2003) and Richard Reid Fliehr (1918–2000). The Fliehrs decided to adopt due to Kathleen being unable to become pregnant after giving birth to a daughter who died shortly after. At the time of his adoption (arranged by the Tennessee Children's Home Society as part of Georgia Tann's baby-kidnapping operation), his adoptive father was completing a residency in obstetrics and gynecology in Detroit, Michigan. His adoptive mother worked for the Star Tribune. Shortly afterward, the family settled in Edina, Minnesota, where the young Fliehr lived throughout his childhood. After ninth grade, he attended Wayland Academy in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin for four years, during which time he participated in interscholastic wrestling, football, and track. After high school, Fliehr briefly attended the University of Minnesota.

Research Notes

If my research is correct, it appears that his parents were never married. His mother was Olive Demaree, who did marry a man named Stewart prior to becoming pregnant. It's possible that marriage was over because when she enlisted in the WACS in 1945, she was going by Demaree. His father was Luther Thomas Phillips and he was married to another woman, Mary Pauline Burke, at the time Ric was conceived/born.- Lori Zukerman

Sources

• Wikipedia:Ric_Flair
• More on the person that stole Ric Flair and sold him to another family: Wikipedia:Georgia_Tann

See Also:

• Wikidata: Item Q44546, en:Wikipedia