Ric Flair Goes Sneaker Shopping With Complex

[Music] right [Music] well temporary body it's choking complex we're in New York at Stadium Goods with 16 times world champion and WWE legend the Nature Boy Ric Flair and the LeBron James fan is the greatest athlete of all time gonna do some sneaker shopping today gonna see what he's feeling when he's not and then I'll hopefully he's gonna buy some sneakers most assuredly whoo let's go [Music] Rick you cut a promo in the 80s about comparing yourself to Jordan in your field and then throughout the years you've actually became close with him yes how is it hanging out with him um well those stories I can tell I just I partied with what can I tell you ya can't tell on him and I can't tell him myself until Tiger Woods came along I think that Michael was the second most recognized athlete in the world behind Muhammad Ali and one of the greatest guy is obviously one of the greatest basketball players of all time and this was the first one the Jordan one yet as a parent of four kids I spent more money on Air Jordans over the last thirty years forty years and he loved her magic real um yeah this would that his parents ran a store called flight 23 uh-huh in Charlotte and bris door they open and he was always so cordial to my family and now what about like a Python you know you said you talked about lizard a lot alligators what do you think though about a crazy Python by the way beautiful I think that uh you know the Nike brand is what it is and they can pull off anything they wanted absolutely I I should get a pair of those for myself yeah this place may be style and then profile I may get a pair of the sounds good what are they 695 don't nothing to you Rick one thing I want to talk about hip hop has embraced you push your tea release the song a couple years ago what dreams are made of that's sampled the classic Rolex wearing kiss steel and diamond ring wearing promo you talking to the roller diamond ring wearing get steel wheel it feeling right jet flat son of a gun how does it feel to be embraced by hip-hop so much well I'm actually I'm very flattered it's funny when I did all that stuff I usually hadn't been to bed just walked into the studio in Atlanta out all night the night before then it just rolled off roll up I'm always like jewelry always like nice clothes and yeah I know that a lot of the apartments like that kind of stuff with better The Bling yeah I just broke some type out that's for the show today it's see you know that's bracelet - yeah do you believe where I know and then of course having a snoop you know call me the founder of swag you know and then LeBron endorsing it - was pretty cool so I've had a you know fantastic career I just had fun doing that and it's amazing I've caught on and what I'm very flattered by it you send you party with Jordan and you've party with the rappers who are bigger partners Jordan or or not the wrasslers yeah you're kidding yeah no make was conservative I mean you know but he get to like have a good time I witness if you want to have a good time with a basketball player can do well with Charles Barkley that is the best ever really oh yeah 13 long long STS yeah we talked about Jordan let's walk down here let's talk about some current NBA players Rick you're a big Cavs fan I am a LeBron James fan okay but a Mercatus saying yes okay he's the greatest athlete of all time really he could play tight in a football he's the fastest and the NBA he's the strongest it's not the most pure shooter in NBA but he's the best basketball player of all time so you've seen Jordan play you still think LeBron is number one only because of the fact that he's bigger and stronger Michael six six to 15 LeBron six eight to 60 these are all the bronze do you like his shoes and how do you think they compare to Jordan's well I don't think anything is ever gonna compare to Jordans I'm not taking anything away from Michael oh I love his stuff but first of all look at the prompt LeBron James get there no long okay so anything he has I like how do you feel about KB shoes and Kyrie and things like that and where those legacies may end up compared to Jordan and LeBron regardless of how good they are they're light years behind yeah they took you know it's 14 years LeBron has been the league started with 17 and Jordan what one's gonna catch up with that no not based on the way it's going now as good as LeBron is issue it on the overall solo there Jordan um there's an expensive case right across the store let's go talk about that okay [Music] Rick we're at the expensive case in stadium goods the M&Ms were the most expensive but now $30,000 a Kobe PAC a special edition Jordan 3 and Jordan 8 for Kobe in Lakers colors slaw nice and I do think the world of Kobe Bryant he's a great great player I want to ask back in the day you've cut promos you set up I have shoes that are worth more than your house what is the most expensive shoes you ever bought or the most you've ever spent shopping well I'll tell you this Bruce Freedman Freeman she was in Atlanta at one time I had 46 pair of lizard and alligator shoes Wow every color in the rainbow okay what did that run you 2020 200 pair okay has anything changed from the heyday of you shopping crazy doesn't look like it but this a custom styled for Ric Flair make sure you guys are at lol $59 alligator okay I've got a brown one too okay $900 for a guy Mo's $120,000 in thousand dollars $15,000 $6,000 you tell me and sport of horses and three billion dollars in alimony I don't even wear tennis shoes let's go while we're on the topic of expensive shoes Lavar ball and his family were just on the show yes they have a shoot coming out that's four hundred ninety five dollars what do you think about levar and what he's doing for the family first of all I disagree with him and the way he pushes himself yeah I think he pushes himself harder than he pushes this son and what lungs of all is a phenomenal young man and very smart and very articulate but his dad that there you notice the kid doesn't say anything his dad just go down right I think I mean if I was a GM and I knew I had to take that on and have them in the front world minute you see him sit next to Jack Nicholson I don't it's a good place to end now is the part you could do browse the shelves see what shoes you want to pick out okay big man you ready I'm ready okay these are number one Thatcher thank you sir number two okay it's a good one thanks man absolutely all hail tsar the king's shoes whoo all right gotta have a pair of these man number three I like that I got you whoo thank you everybody whoo Chris Rock trying to follow this from big boy whoo so your total is going to be 15 35 and 14 tonnes fantastic so as you guys could see Rick came through bought some lebrons for himself bought some shoes for his fiancee bought some shoes for his daughter's make sure you check out the book to second nature coming soon and ric flair shop calm for everything the nature thank you ma'am thank you [Music]

Channel: Complex

Views: 5,065,211

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Id: gXcprTsQnfY

Length: 8min 54sec (534 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 26 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/NippleNugget]

Parties Erneh

[u/nujabes02]

WOO

[u/Eternal625]

Dude's always drunk like as if he just came back from a party.

[u/slysonic7]

And the round-iest

[u/dont-YOLO-ragequit]

Why do I feel like Flair was partying with some of the hardest drug and still couldn't partylike Barkley probably just drinking a bit

[u/tapk69]

When you reach the top, just like that

[u/Terry_Pandee]

Host looks like Ted Mosby.

[u/constantvariables]

He would know

[u/CalvinGottaJob]

I'm nodding my to myself rn