Ric Flair is excited about WrestleMania 42, though he does have one wish for his daughter Charlotte. Speaking with Yahoo Sports Daily, Flair praised the event as the greatest sports spectacular in the world and offered a strong endorsement of Triple H’s work leading WWE’s creative direction, while making clear he would love to see Charlotte in a more featured singles spot.
“I think he’s done a great job. I don’t think anybody truly understands how difficult it is to manage egos and talent. You can’t make everybody happy, does that make sense? You just can’t. Everybody thinks they’re the best. Everybody thinks they deserve more. I could tell you who does and who doesn’t, but I’m not going to get into that. I’m staying neutral. But they have some great talent, great storylines. I’m really looking forward to watching it. I wish my daughter was in a singles match, but that’ll happen again. She’s the greatest, I’ll say it right now,” Flair said.
When asked how much it has meant to watch Charlotte become an icon in professional wrestling, Flair did not hold back.
“I’ll put it to you like this, if she had a Roman Reigns push, no one could ever talk to her again. She is an icon. I mean, she’s just raised the bar so high. And I know she gets upset when I say this, but it’s the God’s honest truth, she’s just that damn good,” Flair said.
Charlotte and Alexa Bliss compete in the fatal four-way Women’s Tag Team Championship match at WrestleMania 42 night one on April 18, challenging the Irresistible Forces alongside Bayley and Lyra Valkyria and The Bella Twins.
Flair also addressed his removal from the Roots of Fight clothing brand, expressing disappointment not at the decision itself but at how it was communicated to him.
“Those are the kind of things that throw me off a little bit. You would think they’d have enough respect to call me, but they didn’t. So it is what it is. It isn’t the financial part of it. I can remember Randy Orton telling me a couple of years ago, ‘Man, I hope that someday I can be part of that Roots of Fight.’ It’s just the prestige of being part of that, Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, just a lot of very famous people. To be awarded that, and the merchandise is really rare and hard to find. So I don’t know what happened. I wish they would have called me, but they didn’t,” Flair said.
Roots of Fight has since entered into a deal with WWE, which explains Flair’s removal, given that he is currently under contract with AEW.
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