Ric Flair Restaurant Confrontation Footage Emerges
Footage of Ric Flair's rough night at Piesano's emerges.
After several accounts of the confrontation circulated this past weekend, footage of Ric Flair's bad night at a Piesano's location in Gainesville, Florida, has reached the internet.
Both TMZ and an anonymous TikTik user with no previous posts, @bussines11.11, uploaded the clip. In it, an upset Flair appears to be arguing with the restaurant manager, whom he challenges to step outside for a fight. The manager turns this down before somebody appearing to be a Piesano's patron, likely fed up with the situation, offers to accept.
"You wanna go have a talk with me in the parking lot?" the other person asks. "I'll work you, I don't give a s***."
Flair asks the manager for his name at one point. When the staff member replies "Nicholas", Flair says "Nicholas what? Nicholas D***head." Later, the 74-year-old insists that he didn't curse.
When the arguing continues, Flair tells another staff member that he will tip them $1,000 to spite the manager. When Flair accuses the manager of telling him to leave Piesano's, he is told that he isn't being asked to move on, but that the restaurant had cut him off (meaning, presumably, the establishment would no longer serve him alcohol).
Flair tweeted of the incident on Sunday, stating that he'd taken issue with the manager "taking too long in the bathroom":
I Spent $1500 At @PiesanosSFP To Be Disrespected More Than I Ever Have In My Entire Life. After Taking 20 Pictures With Customers And Staff, I Was Asked To Leave Because Of An Issue I Had With The Kitchen Manager Taking Too Long In The Bathroom. I Would Highly Recommend That…
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A manager of Piesano's sister restaurant claimed Flair had been "drunk and disorderly":
I’m the manager of PiesanosSFP sister location off Archer. Mr Flair was being drunk and disorderly. He woo’d directly into a blind grandmothers face. After being confronted he picked up furniture and swung it menacingly. We love Ric. But he was booger’d
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The establishment's co-owner, Jerry Roberts, told the Gainesville Sun:
"We have reviewed video of the incident that took place recently at our restaurant. It is clear, our team worked in a professional manner to ensure the safety of guests and staff. We have thanked our team for their professionalism. We are proud of how they responded to this situation using and displaying our team values."