Ric Flair made controversial proposition to AEW regarding Sting: ‘I haven’t heard from them since’

Sometimes even icons can get the cold shoulder. That’s exactly what happened to Ric Flair when the Nature Boy, who signed a legacy deal with AEW in 2023, offered up an idea regarding the retirement tour of a fellow Hall of Famer and one of his best friends, Sting.

Sting’s retirement tour ended at AEW Revolution in a match that saw him tag team with his protege, Darby Allin, against the Young Bucks, with Flair in attendance to get involved in the match — Sting having requested Flair to be ringside for the sendoff.

It all went off without a hitch, but Flair wanted to instead throw a flaming curveball.

“I gave them a finish to that match,” Flair told the Busted Open podcast , via Fightful. “... I wanted those guys to have the same match, but at the end, instead of leaving my laying there like that, just keep me on the outside the whole time. At the end, as Sting is standing there and those guys are gone, I jump on Sting — boom, boom, boom.”

You read that correctly, folks.

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Flair wanted to go full Nature Boy one last time, and on Sting, but his plan did involve the latter still going out on top … literally.

“[Sting] does one big move to me, puts the Scorpion (Death Lock) on me, and we go out the way we started 31 years ago.” Flair said. “It would have blown the roof off the joint and it would have made me a heel so I had somewhere to go. It's hard to get people to get mad at me now. I haven't heard back from them since.”

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It’s telling that Flair, who has been babyface for years now after having built his entire career and persona on being mostly the flashy bad boy and megaheel in the days of WCW and, to some degree, the WW[F], is itching to get back to being hated for the fun of it all.

Instead, AEW passed on the idea, but not before giving him the Hollywood treatment.

'Ric that's a great idea. We'll call you later on.'"

Spoiler: they didn’t, still haven’t, and might never again.