Posted in: NEWS Ric Flair Wants To Wrestle Again, Comments On Reid's Arrest
By Michael Bluth
May 14, 2009 - 2:37:50 PM
Ric Flair was interviewed by Alex Marvez of ScrippsNews.com this week and says he's itching to get back in the ring. "I want to wrestle again," said Flair. "I watch WWE and I can still do better than 90 percent of the guys there. I weigh one less pound than the day I retired. I still work out really hard and I wrestle my kid (Reid) all the time. It's not like I haven't been in the ring."
Flair, who dishes out $22,000 a month in alimony payments to two ex-wives, has big money offers to return to the ring. "People in Europe are offering me a fortune. I'm tired of signing autographs. I can make more money wrestling. I love the business. I was thinking the other day about the reason why God gave me this health. I don't hurt anywhere. I haven't lost any strength. I'm just like I was 10 years ago. I keep thinking, 'Why am I signing autographs when I can still take backdrops?"
Flair even went to so far as to send Vince McMahon a text message recently asking him why he wasn't a part of the 2009 WWE Draft. Vince responded by reminding Flair that he's retired. At this point, the only thing holding him back is the blessing from WWE and Shawn Michaels. "I respect Shawn and WWE so much that I wouldn't do anything to disrespect them. They would have to give me full approval (to wrestle again). They put me in a special place. I think it's going to be a long time before we see something come across again like what they did for me (with the retirement ceremony). I didn't think it would be that big a deal. We'll see how this turns out."
Flair's son Reid was arrested yet again last month (this time for DWI and felony heroin possession) and the Nature Boy spoke candidly about Reid's drug problem. Ric and Reid had been working on a reality TV show project, but that is now on hold. "It all depends on how he gets himself put back together. The biggest thing about that is that it's a disease. It's not so hard for me to say that after being at an outpatient clinic with him where they talk about a chromosome deficiency causing stuff like that. It's curable, but he's going to have to work real hard at it. He's doing that."
