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Chris Dreibelbis

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Chris Dreibelbis has been a wrestling fan since his youth. He has fond memories of watching Jim Crockett Promotions and WWF programming on television with his father and witnessing The Junkyard Dog win a Battle Royale at the old Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland, in the 1980s. Chris can be reached on Twitter at @policydaddy or by e-mail at chrisdreibelbis977@gmail.com.
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Although Roddy Piper rightly gets credit for propelling Hulk Hogan into sports-entertainment supremacy and pop culture prominence (though arguably not enough), the story of how he helped lay the foundation for the rise of Ric Flair is far less familiar.

Roddy Piper and Ric Flair – A Less Familiar Story

by Chris Dreibelbis

The less familiar story of how Roddy Piper helped lay the foundation for the rise of another wrestling icon of the Golden Era: Ric Flair.

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