Andrew Lutzke
Presented by RF Video
We start by talking about the Australian tour Flair undertook after leaving the WWE. Ric says he and Hulk Hogan have buried the hatchet and he understands that Hulk has to win and he has to lose when they match up and he’s fine with that because he can still get himself over.
He is also now ok with Bischoff as well and goes so far to say he “loves” him.
Eric and Ric never talked out their issues – they just shook hands and moved along.
Flair calls interviewer Rob Feinstein out for playing with his cell phone.
Vince McMahon didn’t want Flair to go to TNA but wasn’t going to hire him either.
Dixie Carter is in over her head and has hired the wrong people to help TNA grow.
Flair feels AJ Styles has a ton of talent and went all in on his Flair-lite gimmick.
Vince Russo and him also never really made up but were professional.
Flair left TNA because they gave him so much trouble over the WWE Hall of Fame induction of the Four Horsemen that Flair was to attend.
Ric told Dixie what to change to compete better. Didn’t happen.
Flair thinks it’s foolish to have TNA fan meet and greets before shows for the sake of kayfabe.
The TNA attempt to go head to head with RAW was a mistake that Flair tried to warn Dixie against.
Mick Foley and Flair made up from past issues in WCW and had some great matches with each other.
Foley was convinced that Flair was burying him in the 90’s.
Flair was a huge mark for Jay Lethal.
Ric buries Shane Douglas and mocks his retail job.
Paul Heyman is a smart guy and Flair was glad to have him as a co-worker.
Heyman wanted full control of TNA to come and be head of creative, since they didn’t want to do it, he declined.
Flair bitches about going to Europe with TNA and having the company tell him they wouldn’t advance him any money for the tour.
The TNA guys sleep two guys to a room when touring and Flair calls that “humiliating”.
Terry Taylor was fired from TNA 2 days before his wife died. Then TNA sent office people to the funeral anyway.
Flair declares Kurt Angle the best wrestler in the business.
Angle is in constant pain from his neck and refuses to have neck surgery to fix it.
Ric loves the Hardy Boyz and got them falling down drunk while on tour together in WWE.
Flair plans on dying in the ring or during sex.
TNA never planned on putting Flair on top as the World Champion but Flair still thinks he could pull it off.
Ric bashes guys who read the internet to check on how fans liked their matches.
Flair didn’t need feedback after a match – he needed a drink.
Jim Herd told Flair when he was 40 that he was going to be depushed and it emotionally wrecked Flair.
Hogan loaned Flair 15 grand recently and Flair is a fan for life now.
Flair’s not impressed with Hogan needing hanger-on’s around him at all time.
Ric went to the WWE Hall of Fame and wanted Jerry Brisco to start drinking with him at 2 in the afternoon – Brisco declined.
Flair repeats the claim that he was in Puerto Rico when Bruiser Brody was stabbed. This caused a big stir online when he recently stated the same story on The Steve Austin podcast. It’s a flat lie and a bizarre one at that since Flair doesn’t even have himself involved in the incident while telling it. He walks in on Brody dying.
Flair says Invader – who stabbed Brody – had his child die 2 days earlier.
Dick Slater and Tenryu are 2 tough bad asses.
Haku was banned in Japan after tossing a guy out a second story window during a bar fight.
Flair is chewing tobacco throughout this interview and thus is talking muffled and spitting the juice out ON CAMERA. Classy.
TNA continues to pursue Flair’s services and he keeps turning them down.
Ric wishes he was managing Kurt Angle in TNA.
Reid’s amateur career is put over. Flair talks about getting Reid in Japan as a pro wrestler and telling him to shoot on guys during training to earn him respect.
Ring of Honor wanted Flair to bash the WWE and he refused.
Flair’s daughter is also a former college star in sports and is trying to become a wrestler now as well.
Ricky Steamboat and Flair’s matches in 1989 are the series that most fans talk to Flair about.
After Jerry Lawler’s heart attack on RAW, the WWE’s physicals became more intense – especially for old workers like Flair.
Flair puts over Koko B. Ware and talks about an NWA title match they had in Memphis.
HHH taking over for Vince is discussed. Flair believes HHH will demand more “good” wrestling.
Flair feels Dolph Ziggler has unlimited talent.
Ric says the young guys can take his spot when they get better.
NXT needs to focus on teaching psychology.
Flair’s not interested in being a road agent – they work their butts off.
MMA is discussed – Flair is a fan of Tito Ortiz and GSP. Brock’s fights really got Flair excited.
Dave Meltzer is put over as a great journalist.
McMahon once told Flair his in ring spots were dated. Bret and Flair have issues since they had problems in ring. Flair also believed Owen released himself prematurely from the harness and Bret got mad at him for that as well.
Curt Hennig and Randy Savage are the two wrestling deaths who affected him the most. Savage was finally at peace and that made his death even more tragic.
Feinstein refers to Benoit as an “alleged” killer. Is there still a question of doubt?
Flair puts over Shawn Michaels, Samoa Joe and others.
When Ashley Flair gets called up, Flair would like to manage her.
Dusty and Flair butted heads a bunch when Dusty was booking JCP.
Rhodes is the best talker ever. Flair names himself as the number 2 talker. The best worker ever is himself.
Jericho busted Flair open hard-way with a TV monitor, and Vince wanted to fine Flair 25K for bleeding.
HHH’s nut sack is sucked on for a while.
Flair says he won’t listen to anyone who questions his drinking – it’s his life.
Ric was thrilled that WCW closed down. Flair didn’t want to work on the last Nitro. He and Sting were both hurt and the match stunk.
The angle with Flair as co-owner of the WWE was one of Flair’s favorites.
Flair got the “WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO” from Jerry Lee Lewis.
Ric refuses to share any Roddy Piper stories as he wants to keep Roddy’s marriage intact.
Ray Stevens and Harley Race are put over – Flair loves the fact that he was able to break into the business in the AWA since they had so much talent to learn from.
Ole Anderson is compared to Verne Gagne as far as not evolving with the business.
JCP would still be in business if they had stayed a southern based promotion
Flair is asked about World Class and he brings up the party guys like Hayes, Gordy and Gino Hernandez.
Fritz Von Erich ignored all the reports of his kids being drugged up embarrassments.
Kerry Von Erich worked Flair for an hour while being in a drugged up stupor.
Final thoughts:
Not much here, as Feinstein keeps rushing through stuff saying “in the next DVD we’ll cover ____ in depth”, so we just get a light sampling from Slick Ric. RF would have been better served picking an era or a topic and digging through it. Most of the questions about modern workers has Flair just blandly putting them over and we only get the goods when RF brings up a contemporary of Flair’s – then the story has some juice. Flair is also an unabashed drunk and the tobacco chewing on camera is really off putting. Really nothing worth seeing here. Next time let’s get Flair drunk and say “Charlotte 1978, GO!” and watch Flair weave an amazing set of stories he can find some passion in…or maybe just make some more bullshit up like the Brody thing. “I was in the Porsche with Magnum TA when he crashed.” Ugh.
