Two-time WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair recently took to his the Wooooo Nation Uncensored Podcast, where he talked about the issues he has had with the WWE ever since he asked his release from the promotion and how it looks like they will be doing to him the same thing they did to Ultimate Warrior, but that it will not work for him. Flair also talked about how his issues are with Nick Khan and not Tony Khan or Vince McMahon as they both respect him, but that Vince knows he will not return to the WWE.
Ric Flair said:
“If you take me off the opening of the show and take the ‘WOO’ which I own, thank god because they’ll never get it back and replace me with the Ultimate Warrior?.” “A guy that sued the company, held them up for money. I guess the next thing they’re going to do with me is make a DVD with so many people saying how bad I was like the Warrior then they brought him back and put him in the Hall of Fame. That ain’t going to work for me, one and done.”
“Very openly, I text Vince, ‘no worries but you’re not going to bring me back.’ Not that they want me by any means but I could never work for Nick Khan in my entire life. Vince McMahon, I could work for but Nick Khan, who’s a guy that orchestrated taking me off the show, I’ve got my facts together, orchestrated taking the ‘WOO’ off. Never in a million years [working for Nick Khan]. Big difference between Tony Khan and Nick, Tony Khan respects me, he has, as has Vince. Nick Khan has not. I talk to Vince now, I’ve got no problems with Vince but he just knows that I won’t come back.”
Ric Flair also spoke about how he will never return to WWE and he is looking to sign with AEW, but he is leaving that decision to Tony Khan as well as how he felt disrespected when WWE removed Flair from the opening video.
Ric Flair said:
“Absolutely never.” “I’m 72, I could be dead tomorrow. The last thing I want is for them to make a package on me, ever. I’ll leave all that to Tony Khan.”
“When I saw that they took me off the opening and all that, I call that lack of respect. Some people said to me ‘Ric how do you feel about that?’ I said ‘Well, after [WWE] asking me to sign my intellectual property to them while I was on life support, nothing that company does surprises me.”
Ric Flair then talked about how Vince McMahon had nothing to do with how he is being treated, despite him being the boss and how these were the decision of Nick Khan.
Ric Flair said:
“He had nothing to do with it, which he made very clear to me.” “He’s the boss but WWE is not just a wrestling company, they’re distant, they do everything. They make movies, he’s got so much to oversee and because he’s so hands on, he still can’t totally watch over everything.”
You can check out Ric Flair's comments at this link. H/T to Wrestling Inc. for transcribing the above quotes.
