10 Reasons Ric Flair Must Retire (For Good This Time)
5. You Made Us Feel Stupid For Feeling Sad When You Retired
This is a big one Ric. You made us feel like absolute idiots
for buying into one of your many retirements.
While it doesn’t take much to make The Nature Boy cry (we’ve all lost count of the amount of times we’ve seen the waterworks from him) it takes a lot more to get any emotion from a lot us hardened wrestling fans. We’re a cynical bunch.
Flair got us all though with Wrestlemania XXIV and his loss to Shawn Michaels that resulted in his retiring due to a McMahon imposed ‘you lose, you’re out’ rule. We loved that match. We even tuned in in droves to watch you give your tearful goodbye address on Raw. We brought all that up and genuinely thought it was the end. How wrong we were.
Now when we see you, you remind us of that, and how naïve and foolish we were. You’re the equivalent of an unattractive ex-partner who still lives close to you. A constant reminder of a time you did something you’d really rather forget.
We’re pretty angry about all that actually Ric. We don’t like being made fools of. You’d better not think we’re making a fuss of you at your next retirement. We won’t even be organising a whip-round.