Ric Flair Talks AEW, Andre the Giant, Jim Harbaugh & More with Rich Eisen | Full Interview

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  • Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
  • Wrestling Hall of Famer Ric Flair joins Rich Eisen in-studio to discuss joining All Elite Wrestling, how he came up with his famous “WOOOOO!!!”, shares some amazing stories about traveling with Andrew the Giant, weighs in on Jim Harbaugh and Michigan’s sign stealing controversy, and much more.
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  • @troygaunt6773
    @troygaunt6773 9 місяців тому +21

    I used to work at a restaurant as a teenager in Charlotte that had a golds gym. It was a Rick Flair gym. Hell my bus stop was at the corner of his house. Every interaction I ever had with him, he was the nicest, coolest guy you could ever meet.

    • @ericmaumaryjr8344
      @ericmaumaryjr8344 9 місяців тому +4

      Yet you spell his name wrong....

    • @ericmaumaryjr8344
      @ericmaumaryjr8344 9 місяців тому +1

      Curious?

    • @hulkhoganstights6596
      @hulkhoganstights6596 9 місяців тому +2

      Undertaker is my dad and we laugh at your fake stories

    • @troygaunt6773
      @troygaunt6773 9 місяців тому

      He lived on or around Plantation road in Mathews in the early to mid 80s. Don't know why I remember that road as it was more than 40 or so years ago but I do remember the house. Everybody in the neighborhood knew that house. Whether he still has the golds gym deal, not sure. One of the few actual famous people I've ever had any interaction with. @@hulkhoganstights6596

    • @donjulio4025
      @donjulio4025 9 місяців тому

      no need to make up stories

  • @Uuusssaaas
    @Uuusssaaas 9 місяців тому +53

    Flair is like Forrest Gump. He just shows up with random people at important moments in history, and people love him for it

    • @scottsodyssey2485
      @scottsodyssey2485 9 місяців тому +4

      And just tells great stories, WOOOOO!

    • @jcrider392
      @jcrider392 8 місяців тому +1

      😂😂Greatest comparison I've read. Gave me a hard 😂

  • @jermaineallen336
    @jermaineallen336 9 місяців тому +31

    Ric flari is an absolute legend.. that promo of the cuff! 😂😂 Legend!

  • @Stevesautopartsify
    @Stevesautopartsify 9 місяців тому +5

    Only 16 mins with that legend is criminal!!

  • @Eaglemna
    @Eaglemna 9 місяців тому +10

    If you missed what he said at the end,
    “Ashely, I finally made it to the big time!…. Charlotte, sorry, Charlotte.”
    His daughter Ashley Flair is a famous wrestler, but she goes by the stage name Charlotte.
    Turned a shoot into a work

  • @oak7746
    @oak7746 9 місяців тому +18

    I strive to be a man like Ric. He respects people's time

    • @PorkChopExpress86
      @PorkChopExpress86 9 місяців тому +10

      Trust me, it's nothing you want to be. An old alcoholic absent father trying to hold onto his youth. Great wrestler, entertainer, not a guy anyone should aspire to

    • @oak7746
      @oak7746 9 місяців тому +5

      @@PorkChopExpress86 lhaha I agree just messing.. check out ric on kill tony. It's a comedy open mic with a celeb panel. He got boozed up and stormed off when they made fun of up and coming comedians like they do, and he said he valued their time and left 😂

    • @Yo-6495
      @Yo-6495 9 місяців тому

      ⁠@@PorkChopExpress86
      And I’m sure you’re completely innocent and never did any anything bad, you have the benefit of keeping your life private, Rick does not have that benefit.
      It’s very hard to stay sober when you’ve lived the old wrestler lifestyle, look at just about any wrestler from late 60s to early 2000s and you’ll see that about 90% had some addiction/vices. When you continually hurt your body every week it’s natural to look for painkillers like alcohol, pills etc just to get up out of bed and feel semi normal.
      No one is perfect and everyone’s made mistakes, until you live his life maybe don’t speak on it. 🤷Imagine having everyone around you peer pressure you to drink & do drugs, then you get women throwing themselves at you when you’re at a young age. Average male would’ve been just like Rick if given similar opportunities.

    • @PorkChopExpress86
      @PorkChopExpress86 9 місяців тому +5

      ​​@@Yo-6495far from perfect, but I'm better than flair any day. Don't get me wrong, he's one of my favorite wrestlers ever, maybe even my favorite. But like I said above, he's got character traits nobody should aspire to. On top of all that, he got another shot at life about 5 years ago. Almost died . What does he do??? Keeps drinking and acting the fool. Take that any way you like, call it a disease, whatever floats your boat. Bottom line, amazing entertainer, we ll leave it at that

    • @pezzz182
      @pezzz182 9 місяців тому +1

      ​@@PorkChopExpress86 I understand what you were trying to say and as much as I love & respect Rick....you are absolutely correct. I think Yo6495 missed the point .

  • @colby6385
    @colby6385 9 місяців тому +18

    When I was a kid I hated him because I loved sting lol. The man the myth the legend! Love you Ric!!!

    • @MRHEEL-ys2rq
      @MRHEEL-ys2rq 9 місяців тому +1

      Me too but you GOTTA put RESPECK on his name

    • @barryrammer7906
      @barryrammer7906 9 місяців тому

      He was the best villain of all time. You either loved him or hated him. Styling and profiling and dirtiest player in the game he had some one off.😂

    • @colby6385
      @colby6385 9 місяців тому +1

      @barryrammer7906 lol I agree now I'm in my 40s and still love wrestling I love the heels. Ric was the best heel of all time. As a kid tho I loved sting. Now I love Roman Reigns. But cody rhodes is my favorite right now. Loved his dad. As well

    • @timroyall6513
      @timroyall6513 9 місяців тому +2

      Saw him rassle many times back in the 70's and 80's. Always loved him either way, but loved him most as a heel! He was the very best bad guy ever. He could make anyone hate him as a heel, but you always had to give him his props.

  • @mig-l9059
    @mig-l9059 9 місяців тому +3

    "The great Nick Flair" killed me :D

  • @weirdbeardzz
    @weirdbeardzz 9 місяців тому +7

    Had to turn off my subwoofer off cuz Ric talking was causing stress on my windows. Guy has great stories and has seen everything. What a legend.

    • @donjulio4025
      @donjulio4025 9 місяців тому

      legend of make believe and lies

  • @jeffmoore6279
    @jeffmoore6279 9 місяців тому +7

    Nothing beats a Ric Flair wrestling story.
    I could listen to this man for hours.

  • @benjamin29471
    @benjamin29471 9 місяців тому +2

    Met Ric for drinks in a bar north of Atlanta in 2015.
    Wish I’d gotten him to do a voicemail greeting for me in the fashion of the promo he cut for Rich. Haha
    All kidding aside, good to see him alive, well, and living the good life in 2023.

  • @jtaylor708
    @jtaylor708 9 місяців тому +1

    Ric didn’t skip a beat before jumpin’ into a great promo!!

  • @thack57
    @thack57 9 місяців тому +3

    What I found funny about Andre's beer drinking story was Andre drinking 'Miller Beer'. Any Old-Timers that drank beer might remember that the original Miller beer was called, 'The Champagne of Bottled Beers' and was considered to be a beer for the gals cuz it was lighter. I mean some men would drink it but usually not as their preferred beer. They weren't one of the top beers yet (at least that's how I remember it) and I'm thinking it could have been a great promo. Getting Ric Flair + Andre The Giant to do a TV ad for Miller Beer. 'You don't have to drink 110 Millers to love Miller Beer. Drink Miller because Andre + Ric say so!'

  • @Fadamaster
    @Fadamaster 9 місяців тому +6

    Ric Flair is a legend and A Michigan man. Go Blue

    • @ericmaumaryjr8344
      @ericmaumaryjr8344 9 місяців тому +7

      He sure cheated alot... definitely a Michigan man

  • @canelake34
    @canelake34 9 місяців тому

    Fantastic Interview! Wooooo! Diamonds 💎 Are Forever

  • @johngarynavida
    @johngarynavida 9 місяців тому +5

    The Man himself. WOOOOO!!!!! ❤

  • @AlA-ok5jh
    @AlA-ok5jh 9 місяців тому +1

    Ric Flair the one and only...God bless him. I say that seriously..God bless him.
    He has passion and good memory too of the past. Great interview.

  • @user-dj1sg3hm5i
    @user-dj1sg3hm5i 9 місяців тому

    I'm not a wrestling fan, but I met Ric Flair (with a colleague who happens to be black) at the airport in Memphis Tennessee about 20 years ago as we were waiting for flights. We were both sitting at a bar in the airport and he (Ric) bought us drinks, came over and sat next to us JUST to talk. We had about 45 minutes with the guy and it was awesome beyond words. One of the nicest, most humble, sweet (not gay), sincere humans walking this earth. I love the guy. He kept offering to buy drinks and we told him we worked in software so his drinks were on us and he relectually agreed, believe me, we had to MAKE him take that offer, but he kept offering lol😊. ANYWAY, he's just a really good dude, and TRUST me, If you have anything bad to say about Ric, it's on you NOT him. Love him.

  • @diamondwchamp
    @diamondwchamp 9 місяців тому

    Wow, many decades ago, I bet nobody knew that Ric Flair & Andre the Giant would be the icons of pro wrestling. Ric Flair will always be the Greatest!

  • @BronzeAgeBryon
    @BronzeAgeBryon 9 місяців тому +1

    I’d like to see TKO get back to the champion by committee process like the old NWA. When that board gave Flair the vote of confidence to carry the company a legend was born.

  • @KD_SWAGGER
    @KD_SWAGGER 9 місяців тому

    Ric Flair was a nice person when I met him several years back. Good to see he is stylin' & profilin' WOOOOO!

  • @jmbisho72
    @jmbisho72 9 місяців тому +6

    I wish Rich would have brought up Travis Kelce's Flair touchdown celebration. It was epic, and would have enjoyed Ric's reaction/thoughts.

  • @ORagnar
    @ORagnar 9 місяців тому +1

    He visited the St. Louis Blues locker room I believe just last year to give a pep talk, but I wonder how many of the players knew who he was. o

  • @stlkev
    @stlkev 9 місяців тому +1

    1982 or 1983 in Saint Louis King Kong Brody was standing over a bloodied Champion Ric Flair, sprawled on his back after a near hour-long back and forth battle. As Brody stood there thinking of what to do next, he lost track of time, the bell rang ending the 60-minute time limit match. Within a few years Nature Boy would replace my favorite wrestler Brody. I remember the Top 10 List Why to Reinstate Ric Flair (after being banned) #1... WHOOOO! I also liked "Time to go to school!" just before applying figure four leg lock. Saint Louis loves you, Ric!

  • @ColbyONE
    @ColbyONE 9 місяців тому +3

    Ric Flair. The WOAT in Podcasting.

  • @mikemoore5263
    @mikemoore5263 9 місяців тому +3

    MICHIGAN haters gonna say he is out of his mind, Im gonna say he still has it, and just dont give a damn what anyone thinks, love it! Lol

  • @user-ni1ig7un1e
    @user-ni1ig7un1e 8 місяців тому

    Great show.

  • @lukem8420
    @lukem8420 9 місяців тому

    Nice to see him sober in this interview

  • @mattbriddell9246
    @mattbriddell9246 9 місяців тому

    Still rockin' the alligator shoes :D

  • @zanethomas6826
    @zanethomas6826 9 місяців тому

    Damn! That promo was fire!

  • @jamesburton1812
    @jamesburton1812 9 місяців тому

    Love that hes still kickin

  • @coreybrown7969
    @coreybrown7969 9 місяців тому +3

    Where is the part where he storms off half way through the show? Lol "have fun... not make fun".

    • @jlobiafra
      @jlobiafra 9 місяців тому

      Not sure if you are being serious or not but just in case that was from the tony hinchcliff podcast when he walked off.

  • @louissmith4218
    @louissmith4218 9 місяців тому

    Fantastic show

  • @snocone6228
    @snocone6228 9 місяців тому

    Nick Flair? Cmon Rich! Legend

  • @patrickgray5633
    @patrickgray5633 9 місяців тому

    Met Ric & Ashley ( Charlotte) were both very nice always had a thing for Ashley shes' beautiful. ❤❤❤❤

  • @d-mo733
    @d-mo733 9 місяців тому +1

    I Love Baseball n FB but NOTHING Compares to 80 and 90s wrestling! It’s the greatest entertainment ever! Even your favorite actors can’t do any character on just one take and need multiple takes, but these guys do it once in front of live audience! Incredible!

  • @bobdaluga418
    @bobdaluga418 9 місяців тому +2

    Flair is the greatest!!!

  • @SupermanHopkins
    @SupermanHopkins 9 місяців тому

    Cut a whole promo off the top! 😀
    GOAT! 🐐

  • @icetrae91
    @icetrae91 9 місяців тому +1

    flair still got it lol im so glad hes still stylin n profylin wooooooo!!!

  • @JWhitten1911
    @JWhitten1911 9 місяців тому +1

    WOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @scottmcallister6600
    @scottmcallister6600 8 місяців тому

    The greatest of all time, period!

  • @charleshart3010
    @charleshart3010 9 місяців тому

    Loved this interview andre the giant was great in the princess bride

  • @desmondalford7494
    @desmondalford7494 9 місяців тому +1

    Rich should have talked to Ric about Roddy Piper

  • @edgarcorona2581
    @edgarcorona2581 9 місяців тому +1

    Wooooooo!!!!!!!!

  • @chrisb4248
    @chrisb4248 9 місяців тому

    So nice to hear him talk without Joe Rogans side kick trying to tell his stories over him.

  • @keithkoski2016
    @keithkoski2016 9 місяців тому +1

    I would love to ask Mr. Flair about Houston Wrestling. Did he know Paul Boesch, Wahoo McDaniel, Playboy Gary Hart, the Funk brothers, Mil Mascaras, Mr. Wrestling? Fun fact: the Texas market dried up and they all went to Japan and made a killing.

    • @chrischar9428
      @chrischar9428 9 місяців тому +1

      He wrestled all of them. Maybe not mascaras

    • @dwade6322
      @dwade6322 9 місяців тому +1

      Ric was great friends w/Wahoo. Wrestled many times.

  • @bigatya
    @bigatya 9 місяців тому +1

    Whoooooo!!

  • @shaunkelly3149
    @shaunkelly3149 9 місяців тому +2

    Who’s here for a WOOOO off?! WOOOOO!!!

  • @jeffkravitz7105
    @jeffkravitz7105 9 місяців тому +1

    WOOOOO!!

  • @manilo149
    @manilo149 9 місяців тому +1

    Woooo!!!

  • @TheJasonVoorhees
    @TheJasonVoorhees 9 місяців тому +1

    The man. The myth. The helicopter legend.

  • @JJshadowhunter
    @JJshadowhunter 9 місяців тому +1

    An American Treasure!!!

  • @markhatfield8809
    @markhatfield8809 9 місяців тому

    I loved him as his, Mr. Wrestling, the sophisticated moves
    he had seemed to fool everyone !
    I grew up in the mid-Atlantic area, so I`m familiar w/ much of the Wrestling scene . . .

  • @TheHvac1971
    @TheHvac1971 9 місяців тому

    BRAVO SIR👏👏👏👏BRAVO....

  • @OFFTHECOUCH365
    @OFFTHECOUCH365 9 місяців тому

    Lookin good Ric ❤

  • @jamescooper3324
    @jamescooper3324 9 місяців тому +2

    Greatest wrestling villain in history. Embrace the role of villains Michigan fans. Wooo!

    • @jlobiafra
      @jlobiafra 9 місяців тому

      I'd still put Roddy piper and the iron sheik ahead but flair is definitely top three.

  • @donnieb602
    @donnieb602 9 місяців тому

    Wooooo

  • @user-ni1ig7un1e
    @user-ni1ig7un1e 8 місяців тому

    Buffalo bills needs Jim Harbaugh.

  • @MrBryantcm
    @MrBryantcm 9 місяців тому +2

    nick flair. Wtf. Almost fell off the couch after hearing that

  • @Straker1895
    @Straker1895 9 місяців тому

    The great Nick Flair, wtg Rich LOL!

  • @solo77
    @solo77 9 місяців тому +1

    You've got the greatest professional wrestler of all time on your show and you ask him about the Harbaugh / Michigan crap!?! Really!?!

    • @SamuelDuplessis12
      @SamuelDuplessis12 9 місяців тому

      Nah this isn't Bryan Danielson, it's 108 yr old Ric Flair. Danielson is the fucking GOAT, Flair would not have been able to keep up with him even at Flair's peak. Flair is absolutely a Mount Rushmore guy 80 retirements ago but now Flair would turn into dust even if he took one bump.

    • @richardstephens5570
      @richardstephens5570 9 місяців тому

      The "Harbaugh/Michigan crap" is a big story right now, and Flair has been friends with Harbaugh for years. Flair visited Ann Arbor on Nov. 6th and spoke to the football team. Why would Eisen NOT ask him about Jim Harbaugh?

    • @solo77
      @solo77 9 місяців тому

      @@richardstephens5570 Why not? You answered your own question. Because it's a big story "right now". No one will care in a week. Flair is a living legend with 40+ years of wrestling history to talk about rather than an overrated college coach.

    • @chrischar9428
      @chrischar9428 9 місяців тому

      @@SamuelDuplessis12 you mean with the broken eye socket...the guy out with concussions

  • @RedMo46
    @RedMo46 9 місяців тому

    WOOOOOOOO!!

  • @shoWbitz
    @shoWbitz 9 місяців тому

    WOOOO!!!

  • @secondbest2877
    @secondbest2877 9 місяців тому

    TJ says he’s read Flairs book “multiple times”😂😂😂😂

    • @SamuelDuplessis12
      @SamuelDuplessis12 9 місяців тому +1

      TJ's a mark, he definitely has read Flair's book.

  • @user-dc1sl6ym7m
    @user-dc1sl6ym7m 9 місяців тому

    To be the man you got to beat the man greatest of all time

  • @zhoubaidinh403
    @zhoubaidinh403 9 місяців тому

    I spent more money on spilt liquor in bars from one end of the country to the other than you make in a year!!!!

  • @naturalgazdooley
    @naturalgazdooley 9 місяців тому +1

    Wow. Ric Flair.! Who's on next week? Harvey Weinstein? R Kelly?

  • @randomhereoh
    @randomhereoh 9 місяців тому

    Good job on Kill Tony

  • @hermanschmid7777
    @hermanschmid7777 9 місяців тому

    love it lol

  • @paulthompkins4150
    @paulthompkins4150 9 місяців тому

    I don't like Finebaum but he's absolutely right.

  • @Cobra37061
    @Cobra37061 9 місяців тому

    Nic Flair!

  • @billywilliams8753
    @billywilliams8753 9 місяців тому

    Akways felt he was the greatest. He was a legend in the kayfabe era when people used to riot. Sports Entertainment is more of a TV show with wrestling as the backdrop. Just not the same

  • @lifeasafanpodcast9529
    @lifeasafanpodcast9529 9 місяців тому

    Nic flair is great 👍 😅😅

  • @rss9944
    @rss9944 9 місяців тому

    Ric flair is the most celebrated fek up in history, whew what a legacy 😂

  • @alanF
    @alanF 9 місяців тому

    NAITCH
    THE MAN THE MYTH THE LEGEND
    STYLIN AND PROFILIN
    JET FLYIN WHEELIN DEALIN
    ❤️NATURE BOY RIC FLAIR

  • @phillipbuckley3894
    @phillipbuckley3894 9 місяців тому

    👍🏻

  • @justincooper925
    @justincooper925 9 місяців тому

    FINEBAUM WAS RIGHT! GET OVER IT!

  • @jamesconsiglio2709
    @jamesconsiglio2709 9 місяців тому

    I could sit for hours listening to Ric flair interviews👍👍 and Ive been hearing dutch mantell saying Ric flairs one of the biggest liars in wrestling,which I think is BULLSHIT

  • @mikem.7921
    @mikem.7921 9 місяців тому

    Wow 20 whole seconds of talking aew 😮😂

  • @dickhammerbusch8015
    @dickhammerbusch8015 9 місяців тому +1

    Ric Biden

  • @user-cp6cu6tq8f
    @user-cp6cu6tq8f 9 місяців тому

    AEW All Elderly Wrestling.

  • @leroywindsor5914
    @leroywindsor5914 9 місяців тому

    Don't said any bad things about ct. If you do get off your beind and do what she does.

  • @justincooper925
    @justincooper925 9 місяців тому

    Michigan will NEVER win the NC as long as Georgia or Alabama make the playoff!

  • @ericmaumaryjr8344
    @ericmaumaryjr8344 9 місяців тому

    Odds ric gets emotional and sobs?...

  • @shanewright8089
    @shanewright8089 9 місяців тому

    Supporting a cheater sad I guess it's ok to cheat who cares right

    • @ianwhite1101
      @ianwhite1101 9 місяців тому

      Maybe if pacers cheated they would have beat the bulls in the 90s 😂😂😂

  • @1fast5gp
    @1fast5gp 9 місяців тому

    Pathetic.. 😂😂😂😂

  • @David_four_twenty
    @David_four_twenty 9 місяців тому

    The Michigan narrative is that the Michigan players should not be cheated because they play for a team that cheated this year.

    • @pretzelhunt
      @pretzelhunt 9 місяців тому +1

      correct. weird, no?

  • @markhatfield8809
    @markhatfield8809 9 місяців тому

    Oops, Mr. Wrestling II, rather . . .

  • @ludwigvoncocksucker3275
    @ludwigvoncocksucker3275 9 місяців тому

    Harbaugh will be the Bears Head Coach next year, you heard it here first. he ain't staying in College and Chicago will PAY him and Chicago gets the 2nd and 3rd overall pick in the 24 draft. watch.