Ric Flair was a recent guest on “Talk is Jericho”. During the interview, he told several stories about Harley Race and recalled the first time Harley Race and Triple H met. Here are the highlights:

On Race Getting Retaliation For A Bar Fight:

So I’m a kid growing up in Minneapolis, and Harley is there with the AWA, and I had been sent away to private school, and I came home for Christmas break. There was a front page article about this wrestler named Harley Race, who got stabbed at a bar/restaurant called The Chestnut Tree in a fight. He went to the hospital with the knife still in him and they took it out! Then, maybe three months later, he shot out all the windows of a barbecue place and got arrested for shooting out the windows. That was his retaliation, he went after the guys that stabbed him.

On The First Time Triple H Met Harley Race:

Hunter [Triple H] had just started and came to WCW. He was a huge wrestling fan – we all know that about Hunter, like you and me, he grew up loving the business. So we walk in there and Harley is sitting there in his suit, on the edge of his chair, kind of rocking back and forth. I go ‘Hey Harley, this is a new guy, Paul Levesque’. This is before he became Hunter Hearst Helmsley. He goes ‘How you doing, kid?’ and Hunter says ‘Hello Mr. Race!’. He [Harley] was taking a drag of a cigarette and he said ‘Who trained ya?’ and he says ‘Killer Kowalski!’. Another drag of the cigarette: ‘He’s the s****

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