Eric Bischoff ADMITS To Disrespecting Ric Flair Backstage! 

Throughout the late 70s and early 80s he was probably 2nd only to Hogan, IMO

He basically carried the N.W.A. on his back in the '80's and early 1990-91 and when he came back to WCW after his stint WWF ( now WWE). He drew more than Hogan, Savage, and The Rock combined. Flair brought the fans and the money and that's remarkable being in a regional promotion at the time.There was times Flair wrestled seven nights a week in different parts of the country and world. You have to remember when Hogan was in his first run as champion in WWF-WWE he only wrestled a couple times a month and most of his challengers could had took the belt off of him but Hogan and his backstage politics and plus Vince Jr. not fully letting him actually wrestle ( he was a three move wrestler until he had wrestle Ultimate Warrior). When McMahon basically drove the other promotions out of business and destroyed the territory system, it made wrestling at the time one sided

Engagement farming

Ask fans from WCW and NWA fans. The "WE WANT FLAIR!" chants were loud AF at times.

There gets to be a point with any top guy where it feels like they've been on top for long enough... but the thing with Ric Flair is that even when Ric was at the top, he was putting guys over. Ric would lose the belt, get it back, make people look good in the ring... you remember Sting, Steamboat, Windham, Vader, Dusty, Magnum TA, Terry Funk, etc. Those guys were still main events. The only guys who really feuded with Hogan that had juice AFTER it was over were Macho Man and Piper. For the most part, after Hogan squashed a guy, they had no value at the top of the card after that. They'd be built up for Hogan to smash, then back down to the mid card or high mid card.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

That's badass for shure lol😊

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

*elbow drops the mat*

@@laithamekir5778 elbow drops his jacket

@@mayson9817 Woooooooooo! *Flips over top rope, struts the ring apron. Climbs back through the ropes and elbow drops the microphone.* Wooooooooooo!

Isn't it a fact that those 3 outdrew Flair?

Yeah, it is 🙈 Still unwise to say that though

@@joshuasteward6097they may have but does that mean that Flair didn’t draw at all??

​@@diamondlife8086i think he meant on a large scale

@@joshuasteward6097 Not Piper. WWE and WCW never let Piper win a World Title.

To your point, just the opposite, legal would forbid management from discussing any legal action between an employee and the company. Eric is full of crap, here.

@@thomass789 That's not entirely true, this was a message to the other talent, a warning.

@@thomass789 Also you weren't there to even be 100% certain that this party did this or that over 26 years ago.

There is such a thing as... Sincerely Apologizing for what you said. MAYBE YOU'VE HEARD OF IT !!! But judging by your comment.. You most likely haven't. You should really look into it.

ah the fake punch incident😆🤣

Wooooo!

Throwing those work punches. lol. Surprised Flair didn't try to slip a razor blade to Eric during this while yelling "Come on, sell already you SOB!".

Congratulations, @@jeff-ds2pr . Your comment made me laugh my head off. :)

Eric is actually starting to grow on me the older I get.

@@eveningstar4543 LoL... It took me quite a while to be able to admit that to myself!!!

Tony khan needs to be liked though he wouldn’t say a thing to any talent

Vince fined Austin for him no showing dates and taking time off without notice. Put yourself in the promoter's position, you're trying to make money and one of your big pieces isn't there and it can mess up what you have going on. How are you supposed to take that if you're the guy who has to make decisions? I don't know that Bischoff disrespected Flair publicly, in front of other talent maybe but who cares, everyone's just there to make money and they should understand how it works.

​@@liberalismisahatecrime4385they weren't using flair at the time

​@@farajicouncil4496Is filling out the paperwork that hard?

@@joshuasteward6097 he asked for permission once he was told no tf he gonna waste time with paperwork for when he already had the answer.

Conrad's interviews are so bland and formulaic I can't blame the guests for not putting thought into it.

Eric has told this story on 83 weeks at least half a dozen times

@mateo7650 yet he lies on that show. Alot & it's funny when people like Bret Hart who knows way more about wrestling than Bischoff. He calls him an idiot who often times didn't know what he was talking about.

I don't think it was as disrespectful as it came off to you, at least it didn't to me. Even Bischoff acknowledged the humor in it. You're right though he did seem genuine and understanding about the whole thing.

He did his best to destroy Flair's career.

​@@rolltide9547 Flair needed to go away. He was an embarrassment by the mid 90s

@@user-kg6tp9js9p He was booked to look terrible by Bischoff.

​@@user-kg6tp9js9p1993 was the best time for Flair to retire

​@@user-kg6tp9js9pmid 90s? How about 1993.

I've never understood the hundreds of thousands of young women willing to debase themselves as groupies or ring rats to take a turn on an STD covered flag pole of some rocker or wrestler or athlete... to me, it's like if they're licking the inside of a urinal at a crowded night club. But there are women standing in line, raising their hand, to do literally anything these guys want, for better or worse. I wouldn't want to be on either end of that. But the difference between Flair and Vince is that Vince had hiring and firing power over that woman he debased (and possibly others)... so at least with Vince, they can make the argument that they were threatened or coerced.

Figures.

I remember that interview. He called him a sexual predator I believe.

Where can I find it?

@@jlopez0710 Just google Sabu shoots on Ric Flair.

Idk about that… u reap what you sow

Guess you’ve never heard about Bret Hart

@@The_Bigot Bret actually is one of the best ever like he said ric had the same match everyday for 40 years.bret has tons of 5 stars and legendary matches flair has been in great matches but it was NEVER bc of the wrestling they were just big matches.not to mention he is a terrible human being and everyone that knows him says so and he owes everyone money.

@@ericseitzler81 Being one of the best ever means you draw money, great talker, have charisma, have the size and be able to change sports entertainment. Bret didn't have that, he was only good in the ring, that's it and Bret also worked the same match as well. Rest holds, head locks, elbow drop from the turn buckle, leg drop, more rest holds, chest first to the turn buckle, Russian leg sweep... Boom typical Bret match that didn't draw money. I get it, you're a Millennial so you're too young for Ric Flairs heyday from 78-89

@@bigolebot dude I'm 42 so I know my history and Bret proved how good he could be on the mic when he was a heel in America and a hero in Canada,that work was amazing AF.ric was better on the mic and Bret was better in the ring,he was a far better wrestler than ric and knew how to make his opponent look great and flair only made himself look good.its fine that u like flair even though he is a horrible human being but to each his own.

@@ericseitzler81 you're 41 which says it all. You didn't witness Flairs heyday and flair made Ricky Steamboat, Sting, Luger, Windham etc I can continue... Again please do not speak about wrestlers before your time

Exactly

I'm so glad to this day Flair didn't stick with WCW throughout 1991, especially how bad business was back then for the company... Dusty, Ole, etc treated him like shit... Gladiator Flair???? Lose to Rick Steiner in a 5 minute steel cage match???? And then you have non drawing guys like Scott blaming Flair as to why NWA and WCW of the late 80s and early 90s didn't draw... What a bum.

Call him that to his face....easy to do and him miles away....

This post makes zero sense.

If your top draw is drawing money but your still losing more money than coming in, thats a you problem. Maybe stop paying ex-WWE guys lucrative amounts of money and operate off what is coming in like a real business

Was that supposed to be funny?

Noticed that too, must be a mid life crisis thing

It's weird because we as fans know there's a ton of horrible things he's done but nobody condemns him over it until Forbes or sombody officially reports it.

Do you guys feel that there's a difference between, say... someone like Ric Flair, or Gene Simmons, or Vince Neil, or LeBron... having thousands and thousands of 'flings' with the groupies and ring rats who literally line up for a turn, and someone like Vince, who has the power to hire and fire the woman working for him, and make her career success or failure a condition of whether or not she goes along? Personally? I think it's all gross, but the hundreds of thousands of women lining up for a turn on that creepy old rock star are flashing their t-ts and begging to go back stage willingly... they want to "party with the band". Is it a crime if the band says "sure, let's party"?

@RealYRM not at all! It's most guys dream scenario to be in that position. Who wouldn't want to hook up with a new beautiful woman every other day lol I don't blame the women either because who wouldn't want to hook up with an attractive celebrity? The stories I'm talking about aren't consensual like Flair and the flight attendant, Vince texting the he controls her sx life and she might say no but we'll do it anyway. That kinda stuff is waaay to far. Frankly I don't know how the Rockstars get away with it Steven Tyler and mick jagger and so many more should've went to jail

@@johnathonkelly5117 It goes too far for whom? There's plenty of women that want and enjoy to be treated like that. They want to be controlled by a man who has power. That's the society we live in. So I'm not even sure what you mean by saying stuff takes it way too far. I think it goes too far when we try to legislate people's sexual relationships. If it's genuinely rape, and a girl was violated, that's taking away someone's autonomy and causing them harm. If they were ok with you taking away their autonomy though, why should we prosecute that? The majority of people want to be told what to do, because people are dumb.

@@johnathonkelly5117 No, I actually wouldn't want to be in that position... I'm too logical a guy, to me, all I can think about is the cheating, STDs, risk of being baby trapped... it doesn't look appealing. But, I can sort of put myself in Flair's shoes with the flight attendant. Ok, so, you're Ric Flair... women have been throwing it in your face for decades, and you're on a flight, you're drunk off your ass, and in your mind, you're not used to women being around you when you party who don't want you. Ric Flair's brain couldn't imagine that there's a flight attendant who wants to be loyal to her husband and doesn't want his magic wand. That kind of life messes you up. But also, a lot those groupies who lined up to be with Motley Crue or KISS or an NBA star or Ric Flair... if they had regrets once they sobered up? If they thought they could get revenge or take money? The odd thing about feminists is that they think women are better than men at everything... except these women never heard of lying or exaggerating for personal gain? Like, your toddler could think of lying to get their sibling in trouble, or to steal a cookie, or to get a bigger present... but a grown woman? Shocking right? So how do we know the difference between a real case of someone not consenting, and a case where the girl was a willing freak, but just regretted it later, or saw an opportunity to cash in? In the case with Vince, at least it's pretty clear that he abused his position of authority in the company... and it's just gross, so, he's going to get crushed in this. But how close do you think we are from every 1980s groupie suing Aerosmith, Motley Crue, Poison, White Snake, Metallica, and so on? How close are we to a thousand lawsuits against Shaq or LeBron? Because all they gotta do is consent 100%, then later on, say that they didn't... or say they were drunk, or anything.

Will you stop!

That takes me back 😂

If you're gonna be fair to Flair, you've gotta be fair to Flair. See when you're talking about a man like Flair....

No nor at all He made more people than anyone His matches in 1989 with steamboat are the best matches ever

HHH held down more people than Flair ever did.

Someone wasn't alive during Flairs prime... I wish the Millennials would stop posting nonsense about an era before their time. They do not have a clue and they never will. Flair made Ricky Steamboat, Sting, Barry Windham, Lex Luger, Vader, Ricky Morton and many more. Do some research kid

@@bigolebot I was around for Flairs beginning. I've never found him to be a good talent, let alone someone who should be the face of a federation

​@@jerryd1109if you say so Millennial. Stick with the Attitude era

@chadthunderhawk1650 you definitely don’t know what you are talking about. Just because your class didn’t like flair means nothing😂😂. Hogans 1st match in WCW was against Flair. Flair was one of the few WCW talent that hogan trusted to work with. What other big name in WCW would Hogan work with besides Flair at that time??? Yeah I’ll wait because there is none except for Sting and that didn’t happen until 97😂😂

@@Choke-em-then-stroke-em No. you don’t know what you’re talking about. They didn’t start competing with and defeating WWF until new stars rose and crossover stars came over. I like Flair, too. But I’m keeping it real. His prime has ended before then and he wasn’t the major draw.

As a kid in the late 1990s, ric made me question if wrestling was real. I always thought, how could a flabby old man realistically beat up any of the younger roided up wrestlers lol.

@@Lakers0olll exactly. Thank you.

@@chadthunderkawk1650 the 1st major feud for the NWO at the beginning was against the 4 horsemen bro…. His 1st title defense after turning heel was against Flair. He was always in the mix one way or another. His fire me I’m already fired promo drew some of the best ratings Nitro ever had🤷🏾 When the NWO lost steam by 99 Hogan was back feuding with Flair again. Hell besides sting flair was always hogans biggest feud in WCW bro lol

I wish millennials would stop giving their opinions on ric flair. You guys missed out

@@bigolebot far from a millennial but you keep thinking you can blame his stupidity on youth

@@mikecook8712 you weren't talking about his "stupidity" though... You were talking about his TV appearances You Millennials missed out on the 80s...

@@bigolebot again NOT a millennial... I have millennial grandkids... NOT a millennial.

​@@mikecook8712yeah ok millennial. Stick with 90s wrestling