Ric Flair vents about WWE's 'lack of respect' after alleged WrestleMania snub: 'Not even a call'

Ric Flair is not happy with WWE. The 77-year-old pro-wrestling legend vented on Wednesday’s “The Ariel Helwani Show” after what he perceived to be a less-than-welcoming weekend in Las Vegas for this year’s WrestleMania 42 spectacle. Flair, a two-time WWE Hall of Famer, claimed that he “wasn’t allowed to go” to WWE’s annual two-night event this year due to an alleged altercation in 2025 with Ludwig Kaiser, the former boyfriend of WWE star Tiffany Stratton.

Flair said he “threatened to beat up” Kaiser last year amid a dispute between Stratton and Flair’s daughter, 14-time WWE champion Charlotte Flair, ahead of their WrestleMania 41 title match. Flair’s account of the situation: “I didn’t get invited to WrestleMania this year. I threatened to beat up Tiffany Stratton’s [boyfriend] last year 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? “I went OK, ‘I need your number,’ and I got it — which, I can get any number that I want any minute of any day.

And I called [Kaiser] and I said, ‘Hey, when I see you, I’m going to beat the s*** out of you. ’ So he went like a little b****, told Hunter [WWE CCO Paul Levesque], and I wasn’t allowed to go. ” “Even though I’m not there, I know everything because I know everybody.