{"id":85549,"date":"2021-02-24T11:24:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T16:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=85549"},"modified":"2021-02-25T18:41:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T23:41:39","slug":"ric-flair-arn-anderson-no-longer-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/02\/24\/ric-flair-arn-anderson-no-longer-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Ric Flair Reveals Why He is No Longer Close with the Four Horseman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two-time WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair has opened up about why he and his legendary stablemates in the Four Horseman are no longer close friends. In an interview with Wrestling Inc<\/a>, Ric Flair gave details about how some of his old Four Horseman teammates, like Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson, and Tully Blanchard didn\u2019t try to contact him while Ric was going through some personal tragedies. Flair explained:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cWhen my son died\u2026 I don\u2019t think we\u2019re ever going to be best friends, but when something like that happens, or when I get sick like I did or something that really upsets your life, those are the people that show up. And I can remember driving across town about three days after he died. Eric (Bischoff) called on the phone because I was crushed. I was absolutely devastated.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI can remember the people that called and the people that didn\u2019t. If they couldn\u2019t come, they called or texted me. Those are the people that count, or likewise, when I was sick, you really find out who your friends are. It took me six months to return them all, but I had over 170 texts on my phone, and Wendy counted each one of them. You wake up and you don\u2019t know where you are.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s who you know who your friends are because there\u2019s people that I was very close to that did not show up for his (Reid\u2019s) funeral and did not text me. Simple as that but there are people that I spent a lot of time with and put a lot of faith in, and we\u2019re very close. I didn\u2019t hear a word from them, and those are the things that are more hurtful than anything I experienced in wrestling. It\u2019s just a very personal feeling.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s one of the reasons Arn and I aren\u2019t close. How do you not text? We don\u2019t do anything anymore. We don\u2019t talk. When it\u2019s close to his (Reid\u2019s) birthday, I get emotional. Like I said, (Arn is) one of the greatest. It\u2019s got nothing to do with business. You just struggle with the people who you think will be there for you, and the people that you don\u2019t think will be there are. Nothing\u2019s bigger than the love of your children.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t just saying it about Arn. I didn\u2019t hear a word from Tully, didn\u2019t hear a word from Barry. I didn\u2019t hear anything from Ole. He\u2019s mad at the world. Arn just comes to mind because he was so close to the family. Then when I was sick, not a word. You spend 10 years being so close with these people, and you just wonder what really matters at the end of the day. It means nothing apparently.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Lately, Ric Flair has been a regular on WWE Raw while two of Ric Flair\u2019s Four Horseman teammates are prominent managers on AEW Dynamite, with Arn Anderson managing Cody Rhodes and Tully Blanchard managing FTR. In fact, Tully Blanchard will make his AEW in ring debut at the age of 67 on the March 3rd<\/sup> episode of Dynamite when he teams with FTR to take on Jurassic Express.<\/p>\n

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Two-time WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair has opened up about why he and his legendary stablemates in the Four Horseman are no longer close friends. In an interview with Wrestling Inc, Ric Flair gave details about how some of his old Four Horseman teammates, like Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson, and Tully Blanchard didn\u2019t try […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3748,"featured_media":35921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2192,3],"tags":[4619,4620,469],"class_list":["post-85549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-wrestling","category-wwe-universe","tag-arn-anderson","tag-four-horsemen","tag-ric-flair"],"modified_by":"Marilee Gallagher, Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3748"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}