Ric Flair reflects on Charlotte Flair's most recent WrestleMania match against Rhea Ripley.
Charlotte Flair and Rhea Ripley recently competed in a critically acclaimed match for the WWE SmackDown Women's Championship at WrestleMania 39.
Now, Charlotte's dad, "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair is weighing in on the encounter. During the most recent episode of his "To Be The Man" podcast, Ric has gone on record saying he believes that his daughter and Ripley had the best match at this year's WrestleMania.
“They had the best match WrestleMania," said Ric. "If I showed you the people that texted me, and I’ll never violate their privacy, what they sent me about Charlotte and Rhea, you’d be amazed. These are people that know, not people that just speculate. From the time Ashley hit that spinning DDT on Rhea, which she took perfectly on top of her head. There’s two ways to take it, you take it on your knees, that looks like shit. Or you take it straight up and down, which is dangerous, and you are asking a lot of trust in the person giving it to you, to that German, where she completely did a 360 off the second rope and landed on her face. Nothing like it. Gorilla stood, which I’m privileged to be able to glad to, stood from the DDT up. Look at this [German suplex] bump? Who else in the business can do that?"
Providing an update on his daughter's condition after the match, Ric says that Charlotte is doing fine but she did suffer some bruising on her face as a result of the encounter.
“She’s fine. She’s got a bruise on her nose and black eye, but between that and the slugfest they had, I’m telling you, it was great. My hat’s off to Rhea Ripley. She let Ashley hit her as hard as I used to hit Steamboat, and that’s what makes it real, as opposed to Seth Rollins [and] Logan Paul, laying on their backs, side by side, and slapping each other in the chest. Come on, they’re both better than that. That looked bad compared to Ashley chopping Rhea. Come on. Let’s get serious," said Ric.
Elsewhere in this podcast, Ric Flair discussed the news that Endeavor had entered an agreement to purchase a majority stake in WWE. Read his comments here.
Fans can read Charlotte's Flair's comments on her loss to Rhea Ripley at this link.
Charlotte reportedly is taking time off after dropping her SmackDown Women's Championship. More about that here.
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