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“Nature Boy” Ric Flair shares his thoughts on collecting.

- Stephen Laroche

The Sportcard & Memorabilia Expo in Toronto is one of the world’s biggest events for sports memorabilia collectors, but the Fall 2016 edition of the show was poised to bring fans in attendance the opportunity to meet one of professional wrestling’s greatest legends – an iconic limousine-ridin’, jet- yin’, kiss stealin’, wheelin’ dealin’, son-of-a-gun known as “Nature Boy” Ric Flair

A frequent autograph guest at trading card shows and wrestling fan conventions in recent years, Flair is giving his fans north of the border their first chance to get his signature through a public signing in over a decade and the chance to meet with such and rabid and knowledgeable group on November 13 has him excited.

“I don’t think I’ve done an autograph signing in Toronto since I did one for my book in 2005 or 2006,” he told Beckett Sports Card Monthly. “I think the interaction with fans that have been watching me for four decades and to see the young kids. YouTube has kept us all alive, way past our years, and the WWE Network has been great, so I think it’s the interaction with the fans and just having fun. They’ve been fun to do!”

Flair also had high praise for the city as he regularly performed there throughout his four decades in the ring.

“For me it was great. I loved Maple Leaf Gardens, but we were starting from scratch. e Sheik had killed the Gardens, killed it dead. He and Whipper Billy Watson with 30 second main events, throwing re, it just killed the business. When we moved in there, it was starting from scratch. e crowds that were there were enthusiastic and they grew and grew and grew, and we eventually got them back. You can’t be paying that kind of money and then having a guy throwing re for 30 seconds and then just walk out the door. at really hurts your business.”