Ric Flair: Roman should've won.

[¡Tranquilo!]

Ric Flair: Roman Reigns should have beat Finn Balor, Cruiserweights will never headline WrestleMania - Wrestling News

Flair said, “I thought Roman should have won. I know Finn Balor to say ‘hi’ only. I’m a big fan of Roman Reigns. I’ll be honest with you…Finn Balor reminds me of Dynamite Kid. They’re very similar in appearance, same kind of work, and, I mean, he’s a great performer. I’m certainly not taking anything away from his performance or the match, but I’m a fan of Roman Reigns, so I’m saying something that I’m partial about. I think Roman, to me, has one of the greatest looks ever in the business. He’s as handsome as can be. He speaks well. He got his self-confidence back. He has been through some ups and downs, which we all go through in life, but, I mean, I’m just a big fan of his. That doesn’t take anything away from Finn Balor and where I think where I see Dolph against [Dean Ambrose] as being huge at SummerSlam, I see that as being a bigger match than I see Finn Balor versus Seth Rollins. I just think Seth got too much experience. And like I said before about Randy, Seth Rollins is the second Randy Orton. He’s that good.”

Flair added, “If I’m looking at what’s going to draw money, what I would pay to see, I would pay to see Dolph against Ambrose before I’d pay to see Finn Balor against Seth Rollins. So I think it’s phenomenal. I think Finn Balor is great too. I just think you’ve got a legitimate heavyweight in Seth Rollins, a legitimate heavyweight in Roman Reigns, and I don’t think we’ll ever see the day, and I could be totally wrong, that a cruiserweight will ever main event a WrestleMania. And that’s kind of what you have to look at, I think, in the total picture of the business.” Flair’s co-host Conrad Thompson asked if Flair considered Balor a cruiserweight. Flair said, “he’s of that size. If you look at the two of them side by side, he’s got a great physique, gosh, but he’s smaller. Yeah, I don’t think he weighs 200 pounds.”

So this bit of Flair's interview with Shawn Micheals on his podcast that got a lot of smark's panties in a bunch. The Weight class thing I think is the main takeaway from this if you ask me. My question is how does RAW handle weight classes with the cruiserweight guys coming in a few months? Do they enforce weight-limits in all divisions or just the crusierweights? Probably that but I'm curious nonetheless.

What do you think? Is Flair making some valid points or is he just some senile old man?

 

[Rogue]

He's never seen Angle v Mysterious v Orton I suppose, or Daniel v Orton v Batista. I really started cracking up when he said he'd rather see Ziggler, though. That got me hard.

Regardless of his argument, I think if anyone should've beat Roman to face Rollins, it should've been Owens.

 

[Jacob Fox]

I love Ric, but he seems to be all over the board here. I personally feel that while Ric was the greatest of time in the ring, his opinions outside of the ring I seldom agree with. He doesn't really seem to give more reason for wanting Roman to win than that having Roman win is his preference. He then proceeds to contradict everything he says from then on:

"I don't think we'll ever see the day, and I could be totally wrong...." Way to have confidence in your opinion there, Ric.

 

[Prince Bálor]

Ric is a mark. :woo1:

 

[Snowman1]

Much like the rest of us, he's got his opinions as well.

 

[Stopspot]

He's never seen Angle v Mysterious v Orton I suppose, or Daniel v Orton v Batista. I really started cracking up when he said he'd rather see Ziggler, though. That got me hard.

Regardless of his argument, I think if anyone should've beat Roman to face Rollins, it should've been Owens.

"People paid to see Randy and Dave in those matches brother, Wooooo!"

Or something

 

[Jacob Fox]

"People paid to see Randy and Dave in those matches brother, Wooooo!"

Or something

You left out about three "woos" in that sentence.

 

[CM Punk]

He's right. Finn Balor should have been mid-card at best, yet they're pushing these small vanilla midgets. :

 

[Roadster]

There's been numerous cruiserweights that have Main Evented WrestleMania. WrestleMania 20, 22, 26 and 30.

I like Roman Reigns too, but I wouldn't pay for a match that we saw, decisively, end at Money in the Bank. There's no need, for Roman vs. Rollins, again. I personally feel Balor was pushed too fast, but I don't really have a problem with him in the SummerSlam Main Event because Balor v. Rollins is going to be, hopefully, a MOTYC.

 

[C.M. Shaddix]

Well most of us were pulling for Reigns to win that match knowing that Rollins will walk out victorious at SS regardless. But Finn Balor winning is a nice, fresh, new surprise that I was rooting for, we had Rollins vs. Reigns at money in the bank already and I really didn't wanna see a repeat, I want to see fresh new stuff at each event.

 

[Wacokid27]

People don't want to see Cruiserweights main event 'Mania?

Shawn Michaels, Eddie Guerrero or Chris Benoit (whichever you think was part of the "main event"), Daniel Bryan....

losers. Every last one of them. Nobody paid to watch those guys.

wk

 

[The Phenom]

Ric Flair: Roman Reigns should have beat Finn Balor, Cruiserweights will never headline WrestleMania - Wrestling News




So this bit of Flair's interview with Shawn Micheals on his podcast that got a lot of smark's panties in a bunch. The Weight class thing I think is the main takeaway from this if you ask me. My question is how does RAW handle weight classes with the cruiserweight guys coming in a few months? Do they enforce weight-limits in all divisions or just the crusierweights? Probably that but I'm curious nonetheless.

What do you think? Is Flair making some valid points or is he just some senile old man?

What the hell Flair? Why wouldn't I wanna see a cruiserweight in the main event of Mania

 

[Grievous 3D]

"Its not the size of the man in the fight,
Its the size of the fight in the man"

Personally...I've never really thought
of size or weight being an issue...

For me...its about in-ring ability and
crowd reaction and involvement.

If you have that...who cares how big
anybody is.

In saying that though...even I have hard
time believing certain wrestlers could defeat
another wrestler.

I mean I like Finn Balor...but I recently
watched a couple of older NXT events
and well...I found it hard to believe that
Samoa Joe wouldn't just snap The
Demon King in half.

I am so confused...

Personally...I don't put much stock
in Ric Flair...I mean his 1992 Rumble
win was awesome and his daughter
is amazing...but yeah...whatever.

 

[Jacob Fox]

I always look at Flair this way: in my opinion, he is the greatest wrestler to ever step foot in the ring. However, he is absolutely one of the worst guys when it comes to knowing jack about how things should work in relation to who should win matches, story lines etc. This is just another example of that.

 

[Rosie]

I mean let's see....Roman was coming off a suspension...

So yeah....