Ric Flair recently spoke to Wrestling Inc about his unplanned promo on RAW a few weeks ago and what he thought about Randy Orton and Drew McIntyre’s SummerSlam match. Flair says WWE trusts him enough to go off the cuff a bit and that Orton is doing the best work of his career.
Check out highlights below:
On cutting an unplanned promo:
I just did my own thing. At the end of the day, I think they trust me enough. Now that I’m supposedly more mature, I’m going to deliver something heartfelt… and I didn’t tell him what to say. I said this is designed to get this whole [thing] over, what we’re doing here Randy. It’s designed to enhance what you’re doing right now in the business, and I’ve known him so long.
On the finish to Orton & McIntyre’s SummerSlam match:
There is no winner. There is no loser. I liked the ending. That’s how Kerry Von Erich beat me in Dallas. When you have a match that good, people are waking up today going, it doesn’t matter who won or lost. We as fans won, and that’s the name of the game. God, what a match they had.
How Orton has helped make McIntyre a star:
I really think [SummerSlam] made McIntyre. Randy really made McIntyre. I mean McIntyre’s work was spot on too. I mean it was solid. There was no air. They’re not stopping. No rest holds. They just kept boom boom boom. People look back and say, ‘oh, that’s easy to do.’ It’s not easy to do. They told a great story and no outside interference, which I loved. Nobody is running down.
It was just a championship match, and they had a winner. I don’t know whose idea that was, but to me, it was the right thing to do. Once and awhile, a wrestling hold can win you a match. It doesn’t have to be something that was found in Lucha Underground.
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