Ric Flair gives his final word on Eric Bischoff
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- Опубликовано: 9 окт 2024
- In this video, Ric Flair, the legendary wrestler, and Hall of Famer, shares his final thoughts on the recent Twitter beef between him and Eric Bischoff, the former WWE executive. Flair discusses the back-and-forth exchanges between the two and how it all started. Flair also talks about Bischoff's contributions to the wrestling industry and the impact he had during his time with the WWE, as well as his personal experiences with Bischoff. This video is a must-watch for anyone following the drama between Flair and Bischoff on Twitter or just interested in the latest wrestling news. So sit back, grab some popcorn, and get ready to hear what the Nature Boy has to say.
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What Scott Steiner said about taking that drug test with triple H has me laughing all the time
"come pick me up in the limo and we'll go together"
That's because Scott knew there was a 100% chance of failing the test and a 100% chance of HHH failing the test. He also knew that there was a 68.5% chance that the limo wouldn't show up and that he was still a 73% big bad booty daddy.
@@newageassholes But what if you add Kurt Angle to the mix?
That’s one of the best lines ever from Scott , I was shocked that I never heared of that
You all have me LOL love the comments I'm cracking up with laughter
It's October 2023, it's a blessing Ric is still here. We've lost Terry Funk, Bray Wyatt, Superstar Graham, and Iron Sheik. I'm sure I'm missing others.
The last word by Flair on Bischoff? Yeah...ROLMFAO!
Ric Flair is a legend but honestly we wasn’t watching WCW for him past 1996. It was nWo, Goldberg, Sting, DDP and the luchadors..
I fully agree.
Exactly
I appreciate him more these days than I did when I was younger...
90s flair was horrible.
I’ve not been the biggest Flair fan over the years, but he’s right about some stuff here.
His point about missing Thunder is valid. If Bischoff is right, and he was so insignificant to WCW in the 90s, then why would it even be a big deal that he wanted to miss one Thunder show?
Also, Bischoff absolutely WOULD have been broke again if it weren’t for Conrad, cause he tried the podcast thing before and no one listened.
Conrad made a Bischoff show that was at least listenable and made whatever money Bischoff is currently enjoying.
WOOO
Eric gave Ric a chance to be professional and he blew it. Ric was a terrible mentor as well.
The podcast thing is fair. His prior podcast with Hausman just wasn’t good.
Didn't know Conrad was so talented and carried it all. It's a great podcast.
Conrad loves the drama. He eggs it on for views
Ric vs Eric Jeff vs Russo Conrad started it all
Bruce prichard really beind the scenes folks.
Ric answered his own question to bischoff. He was a safe person to make an example of. Big enough name, not big enough to skew ratings
Yuppers
😅😅
To be the man, you got to beat the man and this is my final word.- Ric Flair
That doesn't work for me brother
God bless the nature boy 🙏✝️🕊️🙌😇
Bischoff: “Ric Flair? The Man? I can’t recall this.”
Whoooooooo!!
Wooooo!
Flair still cracking me up. So fun to watch
Try it at 50% speed.
Definitely fun to watch as always but Conrad is so annoying
Ric Flair going to the AAU Finals with his son had to be a massive promotion for WCW. Once again, WCW dropped the ball on an excellent marketing opportunity. I would have sent several of the top performers to the AAU Finals. Ric, you were the face and icon of professional wrestling and Eric wanted to be known as my workers are better than anything the NWA/WCW has ever had.
How so? In terms of positive PR for a promotion going to the tournament? I guess I can see that if they sent a bunch of wrestlers there to volunteer as part of it. But if it was just Ric it wouldn’t have been any big deal for father to watch his son wrestle. But in the end it was more petty than missed opportunity. He should’ve just let him do it because that was the right thing to do. But at the same time I think the story went that WCW was going to fly him back and forth but that he refused because he had asked for the time and been granted the time and when he refuses to show the issues started. I get Eric’s point but it was the wrong call to go after Ric to try and quell the locker room issues that were being caused by people who weren’t ric
@@Matt-cr4vv Those kids wrestling are exceptionally talented and will probably be wrestling at a big-time University and possibly a few might make the Olympics. A few will advance to professional wrestling. Yes, WCW should have sent several of their collegiate-style wrestlers that the kids look up to. MLB players attend the Little League World Series. Pro Wrestling is all about ratings & numbers. I worked part-time at WCW and there were different rules, standards, and policies for each worker. It was a mess. Ted Turner's board of directors threw us off to the side. We meant nothing to them, yet we were advertising for all their companies.
I would like to hear Ric Flair give his final words on Mark Madden!
Agreed!
Conrad's protecting self interest here. Asks Ric all the tough questions, but when it comes to him oh no.
I’ve never understood why if Eric bischoff felt ric wasn’t any good or had no value than why didn’t he let ric go to wwf in 1998.
Rics character was kinda funny but let's face it he had no real moves.
Did WWF want him in 1998?
@@foreverred105 WWF. wanted him and his son Reid to appear on the pay per view IYH Unforgiven. They both were actually at the event but not inside the arena itself. The idea would be for Reid to be interviewed while in crowd with his father next to him. Ric had been on the phone with the wwf, as well as his lawyer to see if it was ok to appear at a wwf event, but his lawyer told him not too so they both left. Flair was already having problems at the time with Bischoff as the latter went after him for not showing up for an event.
Because Bischoff did like him he respected him and loved his work in and out of the ring but Ric and 4 Horsemen weren't drawing money for WCW that's all Eric said and if you look at how bad WCW was failing before Bischoff started to bring in the big draws it's completely true
Drove Ric in an SUV. He treated me to In N Out with his beautiful wife and then he gave me $100 tip
People don’t understand how kind and sweet Ric Flair is
Okay, I actually understand Ric's emotion here and what he's REALLY upset about. He's upset about the way Eric has been GASLIGHTING on this issue. Ever since their 1990s feud, Eric has taken the public position that all his decisions pertaining to Ric (and actually ALL talent) were never personal and it was strictly business. If you look objectively at all the things Eric did to Ric during that time, you could never conclude that there was not a personal element in the decision-making (how Ric was booked, lawsuit against Ric, etc.). Eric would have to be a complete machine if he genuinely had no emotion in the decisions he was making on any of the talent during the late 90s. Eric is either gaslighting or he genuinely has no ability for real self-reflection.
Ric and Eric were very close in the early to mid 90s before Hogan came, but they had a big falling out after Hogan arrived. Some speculate Eric's animosity started when Ric held up his 'loser-goes-into-retirement' pay-per-view with Hogan. After the NWO arrived, it wasn't just that Ric and Horsemen had to play second fiddle, it was pretty clear with much of the booking decisions that Eric really wanted to humiliate Ric and push him down the card. Ric was certainly not as popular as the NWO, but there were still large numbers of hardcore NWA fans from the 80s that wanted to see Ric and the Horsemen be leaders for WCW against the invading NWO. From a financial standpoint, it didn't make sense not to capitalize on some of that. At very least, Ric and Arn knew how to make a storyline work much better than some of the more popular figures of the 90s (e.g. Lex Lugar, the Giant, even Sting). But Eric really twisted the knife by having Flair lose to a bunch of mid-card talent (Konnan, Shane Douglas, etc.) with no apparent purpose to advancing storylines, or involving Ric/the Horsement in absurd stories.
Perhaps in Eric's mind he has convinced himself that he was just being strictly about the numbers. But from Ric's point of view, he's gaslighting. If you've ever dealt with a real narcissist and how they make you doubt your own reality with the way they spin lies, then you will appreciate Ric's frustration. The narcissist pisses on you at every chance, and then acts innocent. I realize the irony in calling Eric the narcissist here in contrast to Ric; they both have very narcissistic personalities. But the one who's not being honest here is definitely Eric.
I want to like Eric. I think he was absolutely the main force in revitalizing wrestling in the late 90s, and I really like listening to his analysis of that whole period. But this recent spat with Ric is really a wake-up call on his true personality. It's absolutely a smart professional thing for him to do to publicly pretend like there was no personal heat on his part (with Ric and all other talent). Also, staying on Ric's good side is also smart since Ric has regained so much popularity since his WWE run in the 2000s. But re-writing history to make himself to not be the villain is not being honest. Eric is human just like everyone else, and had real emotions towards the talent and it was reflected in the decision-making of that time (why else was DDP pushed??).
At first I thought this was a work since Ric and Eric have made up in recent years, but now I realize this feud is very real. Painful emotions are not something that are easily overcome. The fact that part of this issue also involves Ric's son who passed away makes it even more painful. Maybe Eric had some legitimate reasons for disliking Flair in the mid 90s. But don't be fooled into thinking that Eric was not influenced by his emotions towards the talent at that time in how he made decisions.
Merry Christmas guys! Woooooooooooo!
Oh Rick, please don't blame yourself for what happened to your boy..there's nothing you could have done..as a recovering addict myself I can say with certainty that nothing you could have done would have changed it.. until he was ready to do something about it himself no amount of talking or anything would have stopped him from using..I know it's hard and I'm so very sorry for what happened but please please don't blame yourself..
Ric will never be done talking about Bischoff. Ric will never be over it.
He has bitchoff at his roast! He Just didn’t like what Eric said about him in his documentary..
I pray this is a work to push both of their products they have being released.
This is setting up Flair Vs. Bischoff, it's obvious... Flair is the master of working the crowd.
Shane Douglas is still beefing? How?
That was a very fair question.
You da man Mr. Flair!! Big fan.
I just saw the documentary and I can't figure out what Flair is pissed at Eric about. Eric stated in the documentary how he regrets treating Flair the way he did. At one point in it, Eric said something about "why wouldn't you want to get made to look bad for the NWO, and be embarrassed.....it's good business!"But he meant it in a sarcastic way in that he later understood how it hurt Ric and Eric understands and regrets how he only saw the business side. Eric put Flair over in the documentary.......and I am not a fan of Eric btw.
Ric Flair deserves 10x the amount he was paid his entire career. He's textbook Wrestling. Go anywhere and "Wooooo!" and you can bet you'll get a "Wooooo!" back. He's that damn important. Much love to you, Natch.
Anytime a video is titled "Ric Flair Responds to..." my brain goes into auto-click.
Why Biscoff did a number on you, honestly, He took some advice that Pipper once say " Never hit a man unless his back is to you and never kick him unless he is down".
I'm glad Conrad is not bias and let Ric and Eric get all of their animosity out💯💯
Everyone just needs a little Sting money for the holiday season 🎄
The Nature Boy.
Love how he changed the title and took Steiner's name out. Clearly didn't want that beef. Steiner's the man
Steiner knows what kind of a kiss ass Flair is. He broke into the business carrying Dick the Bruiser's bags. He wasn't a legit tough guy like the Road Warriors and Rick Rude who were bouncers at a strip club.
How can you stay mad @ Flair, besides your parents, kids/ family Ric is one of those people you want to live forever Woooooooo! Wooooooo! Wooooooo!
Flair is not a nice person deep down and is fake. No one needs to die despite that.
Let it go Ric
no one holds a grudge like the nature boy, once his ego is dented, he 'flairs up'
If you can't see this is a work which will end in a live show then you're slow.
Got to love the nature boy!!! Hands down the greatest wrestler of all time!!! Bischoff is an A-hole!!!
" I will NEVER RETIRE. " - WOOOOOO
"Mommy who's that wrestler cutting himself." - Bret Hart
@@ltk20352 LOL
The Man himself, Ric Flair!!! Wooooooooooooooo!!!
The Man is Becky Lynch Ric and his fans can deal with it wooo!
@@bruceivey8812 You got it all wrong, Ric Flair is "The Man" whereas Becky Lynch is "The WooooMan"! lol
He's trash
Got the feeling this won't be the final word on eric 😆
It's all a work.
Eric was right. Everyone liked savage Hogan and piper better. I means that's the truth. Flair buried dudes so he could get drunk and keep his spot.
Seems like Ric may have been drinking before this.
Starting to think this is all a work to get the wrestling community and the wrestling news sites to report on it and basically advertise Ric's documentary
The new documentary was quality
To be fair Pro Wrestlers in the 1980s and the 1990s wasn't taking drug test unless that company wanted a reason to get rid of someone..
Bischoff never liked how Flair left WCW to go to WWF now E in 1991. I remember him on live TV saying he didn't want to count or include Flair's Two Reigns as WWF Champ to his totals
It’s pretty obv this whole charade was just to promote the Flair documentary on Peacock.
Rick to me being a major fan of wrestling since the 70' to me you were the top dog along with the 4 horsemen and Eric Bischoff was not the man or ever more than that. I feel that both him and Rooso hurt the business!
Rick your the man whooo
Hey how much does Ric do a interview for ?
$25
a pint of bourbon
Ric can't fix his teeth either no matter what he is paid. 5 million or 5 dollars.
Ric flair was the most ENTERTAINING star ever in wcw. Nobody could entertain like him. Nobody could cut a promo like him.
Slic Ric is legendary
I respect ric flair but he stretched his in ring style and his promos to the breaking point. It just got stale. His matches and promos were all the same. Hate me. Don’t care.
🤣😂🤣
Come on champ don't go dark!! We need u
Flair Said it , Bischoff Said about Cornette that he is nothing , but Cornette is on of the Best Managers EVER, and Easy E was relevant 1997,98 that’s it .
You must have missed his time as Raw GM, which was awesome! To say nothing of his time in TNA.
Lol I love how Flair deflected that Steiner Story about him & HHH going to get tested together 💉 When you look back at HHH in 2001-2003, dude was a Unit. No doubt he would of been Dirty too & Vince wasn’t gonna allow that to happen
Flair holding onto his bitterness towards Bischoff is sad. It’s no different than Bret Hart constantly clinging to the Montreal Screw job in 1997. Let it go Ric and move on. You’re 73 years old.
Hes not holding onto any bitterness….hes just telling his story
Naitch sounds happy not bitter. Bischoff's ignorant remarks were like 4 days ago. Give him 96 hours of slack lol.
Brett lost a brother and the own of the company didn’t even gives 3 f$&cs. Ya I’ll hold on to that for a lil too.
Flair’s not holding his bitterness he’s just saying he didn’t like what Bitchoff said about him in his documentary… No bitterness just the FACTS!
@@jackdavies8581Exactly
Documentary was fantastic. Just finished watching it.
Are you talking about the ESPN documentary or is there a newer one?
NWA. Pro Wrestling is the best!!!
You are still “The Man” Sir
Flair has been trashing Bischoff for years even when they played makeup and had been acting like they were actually friends for the last 10 years whenever Flair is in an interview he trashes Bischoff and I'm sure Bischoff just had enough of it. Flair likes to play the victim.
Flair just tell the truth
Flair is a turd. He was supposed to have retired in like 2008.
my nickname for ERic Bischoff was always Eric beechoff.....
Eric bitchoff
At some point Conrad being involved with all of these has to be a conflict of interest lol
Great point
Nope not necessarily lol especially if he doesn’t have an invested interest in said drama
Ric making a comment on Conrad saving Eric from a bankruptcy is rather comical coming from the king of financial irresponsibility. This podcast was a joke with madden and it’s not much better with Conrad, ric is doing it for money as he doesn’t have any left.
I wonder what happened they were always on each other's podcast in a few years ago acting all buddy.
Cracked a tear having ric twll conrad ge loves him after talking about reid.
The money thing is a little about his negotiations. He came back in 1993 having made $500,000 in WWE. He could have asked for $600,000 or more. Also, Eric has said it was corporate policy. He couldn't not do it. Why he insulted Ric in front of the locker room is another story. Both of them should have not made it personal and Eric was the boss so he should have kept it behind closed doors.
Don't change it u herd the man answer!!
Santa Claus is nice, but WWWOOOOOOO! WE! HAVE! THE! MAN! WOOOOOOOOO!
Bankrupt Bischoff was never Fair to Flair!!
End of
Eric B.S. Bischoff
@@williebowen1043 Absolutely!
Bankrupt Bischoff is a good heel gimmick
@@ltk20352 Yea..Itd get great Go Away heat. lol
flair is the G.O.A.T. end of discussion
Ric Flair telling it like it is! God bless the Nature Boy.
Except Flair lies and it's not the real or correct story to begin with. Confirmed by other wrestlers as being lies. That's not telling it like it is.
I met flare at the sonesta lol
Horseman during the 80's were the greatest faction ever
However, the Horsemen were Flair, Tully, Ole, Arn, and JJ. And it was legit with the Luger and Windham versions; however once Crokett sold it was over.
No Tully or JJ - its not the Horsemen.
Sorry, Tully was the guy who made you despise them. I was tuning in each week to see Tully get his ass kicked before the Horsemen were ever formed.
the 90's versions were toothless tigers
I think Bishoff & Jim Herd were both plotting “together” to find away to get rid of Flair & probably Arn Anderson, out with the old, in with the new! But those 2 , Eric & Jim, forgot that Flair was the “face” of WCW, the Legend of Mid Atlantic Wrestling & who would know that better than Ted Turner himself….Whooooooo
Ric is the best
Gonna be weird too see how he back tracks when Jim Ross comes back to AEW tbh. Sad….2 legends.
Eric wanted Ric at Thunder because the rest of the roster wasn't showing up either.
What Ric doesn't tell you is how unprofessional he was at that time when the locker room needed a leader. Ric doesn't remember because we all know why. WCW was going to fail regardless. Flair was on the roster getting heavy TV time and people were just done with it and tuning out.
@@ltk20352 Ric was being demoted to Thunder a real slap in the face.
@@jamminjohn Randy Savage showed up there and still cut a good promo.
To beat the man, You have to be the man Woo!!!!
I don’t like how petty Ric has become now. It’s unbecoming.
I think Bischoff picked Ric simply to bury the old and push the new blood.
There’s a story about Sean Waltman giving the doctor some money to pee in the cup for him during his drug test in WCW. 😂
Lol he took a shot at The Franchise @ the end WOW. Anyway Eric bischoff and the NWO almost single-handedly ruined WCW. They were so full of themselves and so greedy and cared so little about the craft of pro wrestling it just jumped off the TV screen at me. They would always play backstage politics with the best wrestlers who were my favorites like pillman, Austin, Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit so on and so forth. DDP got along with everybody but he ended up falling victim to their stupid story lines and booking. They kept on giving the World Heavyweight championship to the same guys and never giving real wrestling fans what we wanted. They just kept catering to NWO fans and ran it into the ground. Ric flair was caught in the mix of all of it because people were just doing what they wanted to do and not caring about wrestling and that's not how he was used to things being from the '80s and all that. He was trying to take it back to the '80s and they were trying to do some new realistic bad guy type image. It was just a big huge mess. As long as they were making a crap load of money they couldn't care less about what happened in the ring and whether the right guys got put over so that's why most of them left and the company died. Plus their video game started to suck at some point after THQ stop making their games then they started making WWE games and those video games being made a certain way makes fans want to watch their product on TV a whole lot more. And it hasn't been that way for a long time about 10 years but aew and their video game might change that. Because it's being made by Guess who? T HQ and they're going to make it the way we want it where millions of people were buying it and watching wrestling at the same time.
You can
Hit return
To make paragraphs
So this wall of text would be readable.
THQ made terrible games, they were just the only ones available.
My man wrote a small novel 😂
NWO was ran down our throats! They did ruin WCW, they made half the roster NWO and they never lost!! So entertaining lol. I hated it!! Then Bitchoff got involved and he had Flair had their problems..
The whole point is that wrestling didn't get popular because of Ric flair. It was McMahon pushing Hogan as a babyface and then when Bischoff pushed Hogan as a heel. End of story.
Can't put spuerstars eras side by side and judge.. fanbase blew up in late 90s.. so if you put flair and horseman in thier primes in Goldberg , nwos. Stone colds ect slots then they'd be even bigger being flairs stic work. Ric is da man.. period
Flair is so interesting and entertaining to listen to. He's just the best.
some of this is hard to grasp.. i remember most of the backstage between Ric and Eric i always believed that Eric was out to destroy ric's career and these last two or three vids confirmed it i also believe that Eric used Hogan to do it adding in Hogans "politicizing ..in other videos Ric acts like him and Hogan are best buddies how can ric be best buddies with Hogan if hogan willingly went along with everything bishoff did while clearly there is still animosity with eric ?
Hogan asked Ric's opinion before jumping to WCW. Ric put Hogan over when he came to WCW. Ric then got lazy because the NWO got a push and he didn't. Ric got lazy and instead of being prepared when Eric was ready to use him again he failed to answer the call.
In fairness Ric once you let Hulk beat you twice you were just a jober, as for Conrad supporting Bischoff, I would doubt there is any money left after your grubby tribe has finished fleecing him
I take no sides I respect both these guys. Eric making an example out of ric even though he was insignificant to the company can just be explained because you can not mean anything to the company but if the guys respect you which I’m sure they did you don’t want to lose the locker room and have everyone just skipping stuff
Yeah he made the example because of who Ric is and that Ric openly was saying he wouldn’t show. It’s also probably because he was letting others get away with murder so he felt Ric was one he could finally crack down with. Others he didn’t crack down on because they made excuses for not going to stuff over openly refusing and were more integral to the shows booking which likely makes you hesitate to discipline them for fear of the cost. For Ric the sad reality is that the lower status you see him as makes him the prime one to use as your example. He has the big name but also isn’t your focus so you don’t feel like it’s a big risk to your television product to do it where you’d be worried to go after the NWO guys. It’s kinda sad to think of Ric had made up some excuse to not show he probably gets away with it. But whatever opinions one has for Eric in the episode years back about this eric is open to his thoughts and really does accept a lot of ways he was wrong and openly owns that he didn’t treat flair with the respect he deserved during these years.
😂😂😂 Eric already did this and Flair couldn’t let him have the last word.
I figured his final word would be him, just after saying the f word.
They’ll still be talking about Eric 40 years down the road like they do the nature boy except he’ll be the butt of the joke that they’re telling instead of the highlight of an impressive life story.
That's fair. Ric flashing stories are more interesting anyway.
Flair is right to blame himself. Everybody pays for Ric’s mistakes except Ric
"Final Words" lol he is still making vids about him today
Flair wanted the limelight all the time. Like when undertaker was getting stale he went away or into the background then came back. It applies to all wrestlers flair thought he was the exception for some reason.
Ric and Conrad - something else to ask Bischoff when you see him next - if Ric Flair was a washed up talent, was the 18th highest paid employee in WCW, had no following or TV value anywhere other than in Charlotte - why the hell would they make a documentary about his life? We will wait for Konans documentary with baited breath, lol. WHOOOOOO :)
Flair has the believability of a local town drunk
bischoff didnt say anything bad about Flair other than he was used as fodder for the nwo beatdowns.
Even if those guys supposedly “drew more” in the 90’s Ric Flair is still god and all the other wrestlers never were on bishoffs side burying Ric. Bottom line is Ric is larger than life the horesman and Ric Flair were and still are one of the most if not most popular wrestlers and I’m sure they drew money. They were so huge back then. Larger than life and still are. Love ❤️’em
Why don't these two just sit down and talk
I just don’t think fans really care about him no more… His CV life in general the way he did people.
Flair your last great match Steamboat ‘89 .. As Sid said when he nearly killed Arn. He was holding talent.
There was so much talking. Flair was a great to do about WCW failure.
Ric, you are the greatest of all time and greatest champion. David Crockett called you the only real Heavyweight Champion. Ric, you are the best my friend. WCW lost to Vince because of Eric Bischoff and Vince Russo. Plain and simple
90s Flair and Horsemen weren’t the shits. Still stole the shoes on promos. Eric did not push them but the fans did. NwO were pushed by Eric and not the fans.
Eric and bruce made conrad's podcast Empire and Eric has been the cal ripken of Conrad's crew !
Lol send the limo lol. Scott Steiner has no chill at all lol😅😅😅
Oh fuck shots fired.
Maybe he made an example of you because you were the vet