During episode 31 of WOOOOO! Nation with Ric Flair, ‘The Nature Boy’ talked about wrestling Brock Lesnar back in 2002 and if he thought Vince McMahon would join WCW if WWE lost the Monday Night Wars.
On wrestling Brock Lesnar back in 2002:
“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 if he thought Vince McMahon would join WCW if WWE lost the Monday Night Wars:
“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.”
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