Ric Flair has a strong distinction as to what he considers “good” and “great” in pro wrestling and he thinks there are only eight wrestlers worthy of the latter label working today. On the latest episode of Ric Flair Wooooo Nation UNCENSORED, Flair was asked by co-host Mark Madden if he ever worked with an opponent he did not get along with outside of the ring during his historic career.
“I don’t think I’ve been in the ring with too many guys that I didn’t get along with,” Flair said before commenting on the real difference he would encounter while wrestling countless names.
“The difference for me was for every great opponent like [Ricky] Steamboat there was somebody who wasn’t that good. Going back to what I said last week, there’s a big difference than being good and being great and the great ones are few and far between,” and Flair’s list of greatness is short in today’s modern wrestling. ‘If I look at both companies and I watch them for years (now two years with AEW, now almost three) and you take both companies combined, there’s eight great workers between those two companies.”
Ric Flair did not list those names, but he went on to name some of the legendary names he encountered ranging from Pat O’Connor to Verne Gagne to Hulk Hogan. Madden followed up one more time asking Flair about ever working with a person he didn’t like, and Flair said no.
“I think I may dislike them now for the comments they made about me, but at the time I didn’t,” he laughed.
