Ric Flair appeared as a guest on The Ariel Helwani Show on Wednesday for an in-depth interview covering all things pro wrestling and WWE.
During the discussion, “The Nature Boy” spoke about being banned from WrestleMania 41 last year and how he wasn’t invited this year for threatening who he referred to as ‘Tiffany Stratton’s husband’, her ex-boyfriend Ludwig Kaiser, as well as his belief that everyone in the pro wrestling business should be thanking Vince McMahon.
Featured below are some of the highlights from the interview where he touches on these topics with his thoughts. Also embedded below is a complete video archive of the discussion.
On being banned from WrestleMania 41 for threatening ‘Tiffany Stratton’s husband’ Ludwig Kaiser: “I threatened to beat up Tiffany Stratton’s husband last year [Ludwig Kaiser], and I wasn’t allowed to go. A 24-year-old kid being threatened by a 76-year-old man, and I can’t go to WrestleMania. Are you kidding me? That English kid, he’s gonna go as far in wrestling as a gnat. He’ll be a fly on the wall in a year.”
On how everyone in pro wrestling should be thanking Vince McMahon: “They should. They should all be thanking Vince. Everybody. Everybody in the world that likes wrestling should be thanking Vince McMahon.”
On if he has been in contact with Vince McMahon recently: “No, I have not. I feel like there’s so much that’s going on that I would be wasting his time. He knows how I feel about him. He lent me $800,000 [in the 2000s], and unlike what people portray, it was not for the IRS. It was to help me get through three divorces at one time. And the thing of it is, they hate hearing this, I paid him back every dime. When he called me and said I can write this off, I paid him back because I didn’t want to let him down.”
Ric Flair reveals he wasn't invited to WrestleMania 42 following an incident involving Ludwig Kaiser amid Tiffany Stratton’s attack on Charlotte Flair:
"I didn’t get invited to WrestleMania this year. I threatened to beat up Tiffany Stratton’s husband.
A 24-year-old kid being… pic.twitter.com/xUM8IILE6a
— Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) April 22, 2026
"Everybody in the world who likes wrestling should be thanking Vince McMahon… He knows how I feel about him.
He lent me $800k, and unlike what people portray, it was not for the IRS. It was to help me get through three divorces at one time.
I paid him back every dime. You know… pic.twitter.com/qsH7ddvYaK
— Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) April 22, 2026
