Ric Flair Was Stolen At Birth By Georgia Tann From His Parents Luther And Olive Phillips

Ric Flair was stolen at birth by Georgia Tann from his home in Tennessee. Georgia told his parents he was stillborn.

Tann made money for herself while giving Flair up for adoption on the illicit market.

A mysterious beginning precedes the NWA champion. Flair was kidnapped and bought to the Tennessee Children's Home Society, where Tann held 5,000 children as a ransom for her financial development.

Ric was raised in an orphanage without ever learning the reason why. His mother believed he was at the orphanage because he was stillborn.

The Tennessee Children's Society staff lured his mother into signing adoption papers claiming it was a procedure after a baby passed. His father and mother were likely uneducated and poor based on the circumstance.

Richard Reid Fliehr and Kathleen Kinsmiller adopted him after he was taken to the orphanage for adoption. Although the parents who adopted him are no longer living, they took him in because Kathleen could not conceive after giving birth to a daughter who passed away suddenly.

In Detroit, Michigan, where his adoptive mother worked for the Star Tribune, Ric's adoptive father was wrapping up a residency in obstetrics and gynecology.

Being adopted prevented Ric from ever having the opportunity to meet his biological parents.

Following the relocation of his adoptive parents, Ric spent his formative years in Edina, Minnesota. When he was in the ninth grade, Fliehr started training to be a wrestler.

Although it wasn't the start of his career, he played football, track, and wrestling as a school participant. After earning his degree from the University of Minnesota, Ric started working out with Verne Gagne as an amateur wrestler.

Ric Flair was born to parents Luther and Olive Phillips on 25 February 1949. Richard Reid Fliehr and Kathleen Kinsmiller later adopted him.

He wrote an autobiography in 2004 called Ric Flair: To Be The Man. In it, he describes how different documents claim he was born as Fred Phillips, Fred Demaree, or Fred Stwart in Memphis on February 25, 1949.

Flair's biological dad is Luther Phillips. His mom's name has come up as Olive Phillips, Demaree, or Stewart. In his autobiography, he reveals the deceit that went on at the Tennessee Children’s Home Society.

A report from March 12, 1949, details his mom abandoned him leading the court to put him in the care of the Tennessee Children’s Home Society. It was allowed to put him up for adoption. He was handed to his adoptive parents, Richard and Kathleen, on March 18 in Detroit.

They provided him with whatever he needed as a child, and Fliehr always saw them as his own. Before he began writing his autobiography, in which he detailed every event from his life, Ric had never spoken about his biological father and mother.

Ric Flair was given the birth name Fred Phillips by his mom and dad in 1949.

The real name of Ric Flair has long been a source of debate. His new documentary Woooooo! Becoming Ric Flair revealed the details surrounding his name.

Although he now goes by the name Richard Fliehr, he was born Fred Phillips. Ric learned the name three years ago when he got in touch with his half-brother, with whom he shared a birth mother.

Flair flatly declined his contact and showed no interest in meeting the brother who is now in his seventies.

Ric has experienced enough turmoil and doesn't want to disrupt his current way of life. After seventy-three years of not knowing his personal life, the NWA champion now merely doesn't care. He is on his own path and doesn't require anyone's meddling.

The documentary about the nature boy Ric Flair includes descriptions of Fliehr's past and present from well-known WWE champions, wrestlers, and boxing champions.