Ric Flair was recently interviewed by Wrestling INC. During the interview, he spoke on a variety of topics.
One of the most interesting parts was when he spoke about who can be ‘The Guy’ in WWE. Below are some highlights from the interview.
Flair on WWE having difficulty figuring out who ‘The Guy’ is:
“I think that Roman was going to be ‘The Guy’ and then, of course, the illness set him back. I think he still can be but it’s hard. They have some great talent [in WWE], great wrestlers, but they’re having some hard time, in my estimation, figuring out who ‘The Guy’ is. And it’s not because they’re not talented. I think they’re just getting crossed, and mixed feelings, and mixed emotions from different people. You’d have to have been a wrestler for a long time to see that. But you watch the show, if you watch it weekly like I still enjoy watching, mostly because of my daughter. I like to see what the girls are doing on RAW now and I always watch SmackDown and see what she’s doing. They usually come out of WrestleMania with three or four angles, or really good things to run with, and they literally came out of WrestleMania this year, for the first time in a long time, I think, pretty flat. So, it’s just hard. Ronda [Rousey] went away, Brock [Lesnar] went away, and you’ve got to move forward. They had a tremendous WrestleMania; made a statement with the women and all that. I think the women proved, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that they deserve that spot and main event. And then they pulled it off even going in the ring at 12-o’-clock at night, they still had a phenomenal match and the fans stayed to watch it. But the next day, they needed to come up with something as big and I just think that it’s hard to do that every year.”
On who he thinks could be the top guy:
“They’ve got some phenomenal talent [in WWE right now]. I’m not saying they’re not carrying the torch, I’m saying that they haven’t, in my opinion, decided who they want to carry it. You’ve got Roman [Reigns], you’ve got Seth [Rollins], you’ve got AJ Styles, all three tremendous.
Randy Orton: there isn’t a better worker in the business, when he wants to work, than Randy Orton. But Randy has been there. When he does those interviews where he says he’s been here for fifteen years and done it all, that’s the truth! That’s how fast time has gone by. Randy Orton, if you take his size into consideration, his looks, it’s hard to say Randy is not ‘The Man’.
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