Ric Flair Speaks Out On Son's Death Being Used In WWE Raw Angle

The WWE Hall of Famer shares his emotional take on what happened this past Monday.

by Brad Hamilton
In another chapter of the evolving saga of Monday's closing angle, Ric Flair made his feelings known regarding the death of his son being used to further a storyline. On this week's WOOOOOO! Nation podcast, Flair said that he thinks his daughter Charlotte doesn't feel like she's in a position where she can refuse anything written for her.

"If they ask you to do something, what is she going to say, 'no, I quit'? I don't think that anybody has... I listened to a lot of the interviews with a lot of the kids. Forget anything personal, it doesn't mean I have to like the verbage of them. They've written down stuff for me that I wasn't comfortable with and I can go ask and they'll change it. It's nothing sensitive like that but they've brought stuff to me and I've said to Hunter 'this doesn't make sense' and Hunter goes 'well, write something down that does' or 'go talk to the writer' and I will. But it's never anything of that level of sensitivity."

The WWE Hall of Famer claims he had no knowledge of the angle beforehand and was greatly affected watching it live:

"I never heard a word about it. I started crying while I was watching it. Nope, nobody called me and nobody has called me today. That would indicate that they just assumed that that's good. So I don't have an answer for that."
This comes on the heels of Flair's ex-wife Elizabeth, the mother of both Charlotte and Reid, taking to Twitter to voice her extreme displeasure with the angle, by calling is "lazy" and "disrespectful". It's very telling that not even Ric Flair - someone who considers himself one of Triple H's closest friends - seems to feel like he doesn't have enough clout to rock the boat with WWE over an issue such this, nor that they saw fit to run it by him before running the angle. Flair does end the segment by saying that by the time Survivor Series rolls around this will all be forgotten and he'll be at the event in support of his daughter in her WWE divas championship match with Paige.
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