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Ric Flair used his appearance on The Ariel Helwani Show to fire back at Stevie Richards and Dutch Mantell by name after both broke down his recent Roots of Fight rant on their respective podcasts with James Romero.

Flair on Richards and Mantell:

"I get punks like f**king Stevie Richards and Zeb Colter, whatever his name is. A guy that has suffered serious health problems, not as serious as mine. I would keep my mouth shut, because if you don't have a legacy, you can't talk about a legacy."

"Stevie Richards, my little finger is bigger than his neck."

Flair used a story the late Blackjack Mulligan once told about Lex Luger to sum up his view of Mantell.

"We were in Marietta Georgia and Lex Luger used to always speak of himself in a third person. And he looks at Jack Mulligan, who was the agent, and he goes, 'Why would a Lex Luger wrestle a Dutch Mantell?' Now I understand why Luger said it. Who in the f**k is Dutch Mantell?"

Flair said the online commentary does not bother him and framed the shots as jealousy.

"How could it bother me? Who are they? I just talked to Donald Trump on the phone myself. Do I give a shit about those guys? They don't even have Donald's number."

"I can call Charles Barkley. I can call Shaq. I can call Mark Wahlberg. I can call anybody because I've earned their respect. These guys don't know anything and don't know sh*t. The only way they make a dime is by cracking on people that are successful. The older you get, and the more successful you stay, the more relevant you stay, the more jealous they get."

On Mantell's podcast with Romero, Mantell called it Flair's pattern: "It's because Roots of Fight are entering into an exclusive deal with WWE and Ric Flair is signed with AEW. I said ego. That ego bouncing around in his head."

On Richards' podcast with Romero, Richards said: "You have to have your head on a swivel to see who Ric Flair is upset with today. Ric Flair is doing a grand job of destroying his own legacy."

#RicFlair #StevieRichards #DutchMantell #WWE

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