The annual WWE Hall of Fame induction ceremony aired live on Peacock last Friday night following SmackDown, and Ric Flair ended up speaking at the podium as he inducted The Great Muta. Following the ceremony it was reported that Konnan’s speech for Rey Mysterio was well received backstage, but the opposite was said about Flair’s speech.
During a recent episode of his To Be The Man podcast The Nature Boy addressed the criticism of his speech while noting that he didn’t hear anything from anyone in WWE.
“I don’t know what they didn’t like about it. You have to remember that 99% of the people in attendance in that building don’t even know who Muta is. Does it make sense? They haven’t performed [against him], well the wrestling people do but I’m saying the audience.”
“So I just, anytime you compare someone to Ricky Steamboat, and Shawn Michaels, I don’t see how anyone could complain about that. Because he was that good. Or say he was the first guy to do the moonsault on TV, you brought to my attention.”
“What they didn’t like, I guess, as I mentioned, the fact that I’ve been there 64 times, and all the guys that beat me, because I couldn’t do anything about it. I don’t know what they’re unhappy about. So I didn’t hear it from anybody in the WWE, but that’s not unusual.”
It was also recently reported that Ric Flair went off script during his speech at the Hall of Fame induction ceremony, and you can get more on that here.
H/T TJRWrestling.com
