Ric Flair BANNED From WrestleMania After Bizarre Ludwig Kaiser Rant (WWE News)
Ric Flair was banned from WrestleMania 41 after threatening to "beat the s**t" out of Ludwig Kaiser.
While Ric Flair recently lambasted WWE for supposedly putting a halt to his deal with the Roots of Fight clothing line, the Nature Boy has now revealed that he's been banned from attending the past two WrestleManias.
As for the reason for that 'ban'? Why, that's because Flair threatened to "beat the s**t" out of Ludwig Kaiser.
Speaking on The Ariel Helwani Show (via f4wonline), Ric explained how he rang Kaiser around the time of WrestleMania 41, when Ludwig's then-partner Tiffany Stratton was feuding with Charlotte Flair.
Mistakingly referring to the 35-year-old German as Stratton's 24-year-old English husband, Flair said:
"I threatened to beat up Tiffany Stratton's husband last year, and I wasn't allowed to go [to WrestleMania 41]. A 24-year-old kid being threatened by a 76-year-old man, and I can't go to WrestleMania? Are you kidding me? That English kid, he's gonna go as far in wrestling as a gnat. He'll be a fly on the wall in a year."
The two-time WWE Hall of Famer added:
"They had that thing where Tiffany made a smart remake about Ashley's divorces, which we both know she's not smart enough to have written; somebody gave her the script. And then he implied that, I'm just going based on social mediam, once again, which is a lot, that he was implying that he wouldn't mind a one-off with Ashley. And I went, 'Okay, I need you number.' I got it, which I can get anybody's number I want any minute of any day, and I called him, and I said, 'Hey, when see you, I'm gonna beat the s**t out of you. So, he went like a little b**ch to Hunter, and I wasn't allowed to go."
Ric Flair then didn't seem to know that Ludwig Kaiser was still on the WWE roster, asking, "Where is he now? Is he even on the roster?," to which Ariel Helwani explained that Kaiser is bouncing between WWE and AAA these days.
Elsewhere in this wide-ranging interview, Flair took shots at, amongst others, Dutch Mantell and Stevie Richards, bragged about having Donald Trump's phone number, and claimed that Dennis Rodman originally wanted Ric to induct him into the WWE Hall of Fame last weekend.
Flair also believes that WWE should roll out the red carpet for him at shows like WrestleMania, saying:
"There should be a red carpet for me, a red carpet to the front row, and that's how I feel about it. With my contributions in this business and the work that I put in, hours and hours of trying to make wrestling something that it is today, and I gotta have problems with politics? Give me a break."
Purely speaking from your writer's perspective, while Ric Flair is clearly one of the greatest - the greatest to some - to ever lace up a pair of boots, it's a bit of a stretch to expect a company to roll out the red carpet for you when you're also threatening to beat up one of their performers. Just sayin'.