Kemo
12-11-2015, 05:48 AM
WWE Hall Of Famer Ric Flair took part in another “Ask Naitch” segment during a recent edition of his “WOOOOO! Nation”
On replacing Steve Austin in the match against Brock Lesnar on the July 1, 2002 edition of RAW after Austin walked out on WWE over the creative for the show:
“It was fun for everybody except me! Lesnar was twirling me around and I was going, ‘please be careful! Please be careful!’ Actually, I’ve played that match back. It was pretty good! Yeah, it’s not because I wasn’t afraid of him. I was scared to death of him. I’m 65 years old and I’m in there with this powerhouse, man! But, once again, another guy that was very careful with me. Thank you. And then I ended up wrestling him ten times, so it wasn’t bad at all. He never did anything, but you couldn’t tell me that walking down the aisle.”
On his longstanding beef with Shane Douglas:
“My take on Shane Douglas is should’ve, would’ve, could’ve. Never had to. Never will be. And [WOOOOO! Nation co-host Conrad Thompson], he does shoot on me. I don’t know why. I guess he blames me for his career. I guess he blames everybody. But every time I see him, he walks up and shakes my hand like nothing’s going on, so I win. And why waste one minute of negativity on someone like that?”
On if he thinks Vince McMahon would have come to work for WCW the way Eric Bischoff came to work for WWE if the Monday Night Wars were won by the other side:
“I never, ever thought that Vince would lose because I could see from behind the scenes the internal problems everyday and you can’t have individuals arrive at the building at six o’clock for a show that starts live at eight [o’clock] and then change the whole show around. That went on [in WCW] for a year and a half.” Flair continued, “Vince’s ego would never let him come down [to WCW] and run a Turner company. Never. Never. And he wouldn’t have. He never would have gone out of business. He would have figured a way out. Even if it got close, he may have had to do something with Rupert Murdoch or something, but he and [Ted] Turner didn’t care for each other. And I just don’t think you’d ever see Vince McMahon come to Atlanta [Georgia] to run that company.”
On replacing Steve Austin in the match against Brock Lesnar on the July 1, 2002 edition of RAW after Austin walked out on WWE over the creative for the show:
“It was fun for everybody except me! Lesnar was twirling me around and I was going, ‘please be careful! Please be careful!’ Actually, I’ve played that match back. It was pretty good! Yeah, it’s not because I wasn’t afraid of him. I was scared to death of him. I’m 65 years old and I’m in there with this powerhouse, man! But, once again, another guy that was very careful with me. Thank you. And then I ended up wrestling him ten times, so it wasn’t bad at all. He never did anything, but you couldn’t tell me that walking down the aisle.”
On his longstanding beef with Shane Douglas:
“My take on Shane Douglas is should’ve, would’ve, could’ve. Never had to. Never will be. And [WOOOOO! Nation co-host Conrad Thompson], he does shoot on me. I don’t know why. I guess he blames me for his career. I guess he blames everybody. But every time I see him, he walks up and shakes my hand like nothing’s going on, so I win. And why waste one minute of negativity on someone like that?”
On if he thinks Vince McMahon would have come to work for WCW the way Eric Bischoff came to work for WWE if the Monday Night Wars were won by the other side:
“I never, ever thought that Vince would lose because I could see from behind the scenes the internal problems everyday and you can’t have individuals arrive at the building at six o’clock for a show that starts live at eight [o’clock] and then change the whole show around. That went on [in WCW] for a year and a half.” Flair continued, “Vince’s ego would never let him come down [to WCW] and run a Turner company. Never. Never. And he wouldn’t have. He never would have gone out of business. He would have figured a way out. Even if it got close, he may have had to do something with Rupert Murdoch or something, but he and [Ted] Turner didn’t care for each other. And I just don’t think you’d ever see Vince McMahon come to Atlanta [Georgia] to run that company.”