Ric Flair is considered by many to be one of the greatest wrestlers of all time, and many fans feel that his retirement match at WrestleMania 24 is iconic.
However, it turned out that the retirement match wasn’t Ric’s last match as he went on to wrestle in TNA, and he admitted to Wrestling Inc. that he did it for the money.
“I needed the money. Very simple. I was paying alimony to three women at one time and lawyers. I got bombed as everyone hit me and then the IRS. It’s very simple – like Jim [Ross] said, I needed the money.
“I would have never have gone there. Even though I got to hang around Kurt [Angle] and Sting, it was a disaster. Everything I did with Bischoff and Russo… You know what people say to me now: where would you have been if WCW hadn’t treated you like that? I get that from people that are my friends who wanna know where I would have been if they treated me with any respect whatsoever.”
Even though Ric got to work with some interesting names during his time in TNA it appears that he doesn’t have fond memories of his run with the company.
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