Ric Flair hasn’t heard from AEW in a while.
Ric Flair signed a multi-year deal with AEW in November 2023, but he has not appeared on AEE programming since he was involved in Sting’s last match at AEW Revolution in March. Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful (via Fightful Select) recently reported that Flair was not factored into AEW’s creative plans.
In a new interview with Busted Open Radio, Ric Flair confirmed that he pitched turning on Sting at AEW Revolution. He detailed how it would have brought him and Sting full circle. (Ht Jeremy Lambert of Fightful for the transcription)
“I gave them a finish to that match,” Ric Flair said. “They looked at me like I had seven different things….I don’t think Tony (Khan) knew that I was on blood thinners. I’ve been doing all that shit for all these years. I’ve had that blood clot since 2012. Tony, if he asked me once, he asked me ten times, ‘Do not cut yourself.’ What I wanted to do. I wanted those guys to have the same match, but at the end, instead of leaving my laying there like that, just keep me on the outside the whole time.
“At the end, as Sting is standing there and those guys are gone, I jump on Sting, boom, boom, boom, he does one big move to me, puts the scorpion (death lock) on me, and we go out the way we started 31 years ago. It would have blown the roof off the joint and it would have made me a heel so I had somewhere to go. It’s hard to get the people to get mad at me now.”
Flair continued with a laugh as he noted, “I haven’t heard back from them since. ‘Ric that’s a great idea. We’ll call you later on.'”
Flair also shared his belief that they disappointed a lot of people by not having him turn on Sting.
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