“I used to work every day, twice on Saturday, twice on Sunday. From 1982 to 1985, I had 17 days off. Think about that. Three years, 17 days off.

And some of the days off I was traveling. I did one of the wildest runs I ever did where I wrestled an hour in Sydney, went to New Zealand, wrestled an hour in Auckland, wrestled an hour in Christchurch, back to Auckland, flew non-stop back to St. Louis—not non-stop, but Chicago to St. Louis—wrestled an hour in St. Louis, flew to Atlanta, wrestled an hour, and took off in the morning, went back to Atlanta or to Japan at the 13,000-mile week.”

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“I am seeing all the rumors online about me being back with WWE. Number one, it is disrespectful. Number two, it is not true.

I Am Seeing All The Rumors Online About Me Being Back With @WWE. Number One, It Is Disrespectful. Number Two, It Is Not True. I Have Always Been Friends With Hunter. Nothing Has Changed With Our Friendship. We Both Have Mutual Respect For Each Other. My Daughter @MsCharlotteWWE… pic.twitter.com/vn8yuDNQdO

— Ric Flair® (@RicFlairNatrBoy) September 13, 2026

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“There are more kids right now making money because of their social media than their talent. It’s absolute insanity. I mean, social media can make or break anybody. They got kids now making millions of dollars that couldn’t even walk in the g*ddamn ring with me and Book. I swear to God, they couldn’t—they couldn’t wrestle 30 minutes if they had to, much less—I mean, much less, you know, every day.”

Booker T responded with the following comments…

“I think about social media and I say it’s the best thing in the world, and I think it’s the worst thing in the world at the same time, especially from our business perspective. But I say the kid, you know, like a MJF, I mean, he’s been able to manage still being a heel, still being, you know, vilified throughout this social media world. And I just want to give him a little props there just because he’s been different. He’s been unique.”

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“Basically everything I said I was doing. Actually, 99% of what I said I was doing.

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The lawsuit states that Flair had spent decades building his professional identity and describes his career as “building something… through his body, his blood, his pain, his persona, his craft, and his commitment to excellence at a level that only sixteen world championships can describe.”

According to the complaint, FAM sent Flair a contract by email on December 5th 2025. He allegedly opened it at 5:57 PM and signed it at 6:11 PM. The lawsuit states: “In those fourteen minutes, without the benefit of legal counsel, without a single attorney reviewing a single word on his behalf,” Flair allegedly surrendered an “irrevocable, perpetual, sublicensable license” covering his identity and digital assets worldwide.

The complaint further alleges that FAM knew Flair did not have a lawyer despite contractual language stating that the agreement had been negotiated with counsel.

FAM allegedly offered Flair speaking engagements and appearances, with him receiving 90 percent of the proceeds, as well as 50 percent of revenue from “collaborative projects” and 10 percent from “passive content.” The company also allegedly promised to restore his “hacked, demonetized” Facebook page, which it claimed could generate six figures per month. The complaint states, “These were not aspirations. They were contractual obligations.”

Flair alleges that FAM failed to provide the promised opportunities, stating that it “sourced not one speaking engagement. Not one in-person appearance. Not one personal project at the ninety percent royalty tier. It reposted existing content.”

The lawsuit further alleges that FAM generated as much as $20,000 per month from Flair’s Facebook page while paying him “next to nothing.” It also claims the company transferred control of the page to itself, preventing Flair’s existing team from accessing it and interfering with a potential advertising deal.

The complaint describes the agreement as “not a contract,” but “a trap,” and argues that FAM used the agreement to obtain control over Flair’s digital identity. It also alleges that FAM was involved in an existing legal dispute with ufologist Steven Greer when Flair signed the agreement but did not disclose that litigation to him.

Flair is asking the court to rescind the agreement, return control of his Facebook page, declare that FAM has no rights to his name, image or likeness, and provide a complete accounting of revenue generated using his identity. He is seeking at least $5 million for breach of contract and at least $5 million for fraudulent inducement, along with additional damages, disgorgement of alleged profits, attorney fees and court costs.

Flair told The Independent that he “wants to bury” the people at FAM Networks and said he has lost at least $250,000 in revenue so far.

There is currently no word regarding a trial date.

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“He’s good. I mean, here’s the thing. I still even struggle with TikTok and Reels, and it takes me a very long time, or editing, or yada yada yada. But the amount that we fight about his social media, I cannot tell you. It is a daily thing.

Charlotte continued…

“Also, I have to tell him daily that an AI image is not real. He has sent me pictures of him and other people. And I’m like, ‘That didn’t happen. That’s not real. That’s AI.’

I know he is my biggest fan. But if he would just let me manage his social…”

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After both Flair and Eric Bischoff received criticism for their public comments about the match, Flair wrote the following message…

“Please don’t put me in the same category as Eric Bischoff!

Please Don’t Put Me In The Same Category As Eric Bischoff @EBischoff! I Thoroughly Enjoyed The Match. I Know Both Kenny & Will And Have Sung Their Praises To Them Personally. I Have Nothing But Respect For Them. When I Tweeted This Yesterday, It’s Just An Opinion Like Every Other… pic.twitter.com/z8UXZA9wX9

— Ric Flair® (@RicFlairNatrBoy) September 3, 2026

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Can’t we just agree that each match was great for their era?

Geesh.

For one, let’s disqualify a few opinions first… Ric Flair was in the actual match with Ricky Steamboat, so obviously, he’s biased. Dave Meltzer is totally IN THE BAG for All Elite Wrestling and anyone who works for New Japan, so obviously, he’s very biased. One is protecting his legacy and the other is protecting his hidden ties to AEW.

But the rest of you fighting in the trenches… Who cares? Who cares which match is better? What are you trying to prove with online fights?!?

Steamboat vs. Flair happened in 1989, while Ospreay vs. Omega happened in 2026… That’s a 37 year difference, and that’s older than one of the wrestlers discussed (Will Ospreay is 33, born in 1993).

It’s like the same idiotic argument of which athlete from this era of MLB, NBA, or NFL is better, despite being decades apart or never having played each other. Like the Michael Jordan vs. Lebron James debate. Who cares? Just admire that both human beings were very talented and won multiple titles each. Sure, they did it different ways, but the leagues conditions for each era provides context.

Or even worse, the old Joe Montana vs. Tom Brady debate. Brady had to get 4 titles to even be included in the debate, but even that was enough. Tom getting 7 Super Bowl titles still isn’t enough in this lame debate. Who cares? Both were great in their era and both will be Hall of Famers when Tom gets in soon.

Then you have “any player today” versus Babe Ruth debate, as if Babe Ruth wouldn’t dominate with late 20th century or early 21st century medicine, performance enhancers, and nutrition if he played today.

Notice how I didn’t mention NHL… Nobody disputes Wayne Gretzky as the G.O.A.T there… I painfully admit that as a diehard Pittsburgh Penguins and Mario Lemieux fan.

But this debate that everyone is having is STUPID, especially since Ospreay vs. Omega from AEW All In 2026 JUST HAPPENED. Why can’t we let the damn paint dry before we see it’s long-term impact? Ospreay/Omega happened 5 days ago, while Flair and Steamboat happened 37 years ago.

What wrestling fans need to realize that Flair vs. Steamboat was through 1989 was an actual exception to what pro wrestling was back then. You didn’t see hyper-athletic matches like that back then because most of the fanbase believed that pro wrestling was real and wrestlers could do more with psychology or gesturing with fans during the match. With the fans emotionally invested already, they didn’t have to perform high risk moves or show extreme athleticism. Thus, why wrestlers could actually perform over 300 times per year back then because they just had to work the crowds who already believed what they were seeing was real. This is why Randy Savage vs. Ricky Steamboat at Wrestlemania 3 was so unique for its time and then why Ricky Steamboat vs. Ric Flair stood out in 1989. Those matches were complete outliers for their athleticism in comparison to other matches back then.

Fast forward to 2026. 37 years later, wrestlers are influenced by what Ricky Steamboat, Ric Flair, Randy Savage, Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, and a metric ton of cruiserweight wrestlers and international wrestlers have put on for decades. Because kayfabe was shattered, wrestlers since the late 1980s had to TRY HARDER with their matches to keep the crowds interested. Hence why you saw workrate increasing by the year through what we see now with 2026. Sadly, along the way, too, we had ECW to influence everybody flying through tables or jumping off ladders.

Flair vs. Steamboat (specifically the WrestleWar 89 match) was the best match that we’ve ever seen until 1997 when Bret Hart vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin happened at Wrestlemania 13. THINK ABOUT THAT, folks… It took 8 freakin’ years for another epic 5-star match the equivalent of Flair vs. Steamboat to happen.

But then, through the late 1990s, guys like Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit, Rey Mysterio, Kurt Angle, Chris Jericho, Dean Malenko, Brian Pillman, and many other international wrestlers arrived to really speed up the tempo of the matches. Main eventers like the Rock, Austin, Undertaker, John Cena, Batista, and Brock Lesnar actually adjusted their own styles to match the faster paced style. With time, wrestling schedules were reduced from 300+ nights pear year to around 150, if that. Wrestlers are working less, so thus they put more effort into the bigger televised matches than ever.

Again, wrestlers of today HAVE TO because putting their bodies on the line is the only way to keep the fans interested because fans know everything is scripted.

Ricky Steamboat vs. Ric Flair stood out because there were no other matches like it, and nothing close to it until the late 1990s.

With Will Ospreay vs. Kenny Omega, we’ve seen many high impact, high energy, and high risk matches like it. Hell, there are other Omega vs. Ospeay matches that are equally as good as what you just saw at All In 2026. Both Omega and Ospreay have had many great matches with other opponents, notably Okada in the past or with other various opponents in New Japan. AEW often has 10-15 matches on their Pay Per Views and they are full of high energy and high impact matches that are receiving higher star ratings from fans and critics alike. Let’s not discount WWE… Their workrate is way up, as even Dave Meltzer had to give Roman Reigns vs. CM Punk at Wrestlemania 42 a 5-star rating.

The problem with Will Ospreay vs. Kenny Omega is that it’s in a much more crowded field, and thus can be forgotten in a short while. If you were a wrestling fan since the 1980s, you remembered 1989 with those 3 televised Steamboat vs. Flair matches and you never forgot about them. Then, it took about 8 years for any match to even be the equivalent of quality to that match.

Then I’m seeing stuff like “Ospreay vs. Omega drew over 40,000, which was higher than anything drawing in 1989 for WCW”. Yeah, well, WCW had more eyeballs watching their shows back then and that Clash of the Champions event in New Orleans drew poorly because it was given away for free on television. There’s a bigger population now, and plus for All In, they had a hometown kid winning the AEW Title. WWE drew strongly in Wembley with SummerSlam 1992 because British Bulldog was going for the Intercontinental Title.

Y’all are just in a worthless pissing match… This is apples and oranges. Flair vs. Steamboat was quality in an era of quantity of matches that didn’t require major athletic effort because fans were emotionally involved. Now, however, there’s too much quantity of quality matches and wrestlers have to work harder to earn fans’ attention.

Just be happy with the abundance of great matches today, but thank building blocks like Flair vs. Steamboat that helped influence what you’re seeing now.

STOP WASTING YOUR TIME arguing this crap online. It’s not good for your health and speaking through your fingers is worthless versus actually talking to and conversing with real human beings in-person.

Both Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat and Will Ospreay vs. Kenny Omega were great for their eras and years… Very simple premise to agree on.

That said, I’ve watched both matches and I’ll hand it to Flair vs. Steamboat. Why? Because Flair and Steamboat didn’t have to nearly injure themselves with higher risk moves than what Kenny and Will had to do. I don’t know how Kenny Omega’s neck isn’t badly injured after that match, while I believe that Steamboat and Flair were chilling comfortably after their matches in 1989.

Plus, again, Flair vs. Steamboat were the diamond in the rough back then… Now, we’re creating too many artificial diamonds that are drowning out the quality.

Gotta try harder to impress fans when you flush kayfabe down the toilet…

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So yeah I thoroughly enjoyed All In. I never got around to watching NXT Heatwave or the Triple A show. There was some news coming out of that double shot over the weekend. According to Dave Meltzer on the Wrestling Observer , the WWE essentially underestimated Triple A thinking NXT would be the bigger show of the two. All I can think of that is the word stupid

Of course Triple A was going to be seen as the bigger show. The WWE is vastly underestimating the drawing power of Lucha Libre in the United States. Triple A should be seen as much more than a pawn for the WWE. Oh we need to leech off AEW again…let’s throw a Triple A show up against it. At least Triplemania 34 (which is in a couple of weeks) will get time to shine on it’s own with a huge Friday night show on September 11th in Las Vegas and night two in Mexico City on September 13th. I’m honestly more interested in the second night because that is the night we will see Dominik Mysterio defend the Triple A MEGA Championship against El Grande Americano. Americano has become almost a folk hero in Mexico so it has to be almost a lock that he would win the title.

But I want to go back to AEW today because I honestly haven’t written enough about them in a while. As I said, I thoroughly enjoyed All In: London. The match everyone is talking about is of course Will Ospreay vs. Kenny Omega. I loved everything about this match from the pre match introduction narrated by Will’s own mother and then set to “Baba O’Reily” by The Who. It just was everything I love about a “pure sports build” in pro wrestling. But as much as I loved the match, I’m not going to say something crazy and be like “Oh it was the best match ever”. Surely a match of the year candidate regardless of the promotion.

Over on twitter/X, someone randomly tweeted at Darius Rucker (country singer/formerly of Hootie & The Blowfish) that Omega vs. Ospreay was the greatest match of all time. Darius responded simply by saying “You obviously never saw Flair vs. Steamboat”. Now, it’s well known that Rucker is a Flair fanboy. I mean hell, he owns I believe two of Flair’s actual robes. But he wasn’t wrong to state that if you think Omega vs. Ospreay was great, you’ve never seen Flair vs. Steamboat. Enter Dave Meltzer into the discussion.

“I saw countless Flair-Steamboat matches. Seriously, Ospreay vs, Omega had more emotion than any Flair-Steamboat match and Flair-Steamboat was state of the art from 1977 to 1989.”

I like Dave, I really do. But Ospreay vs. Omega did not have more emotion than ANY Flair-Steamboat match. Like I said it was a really good match, but if you’re comparing it to Flair and Steamboat…that is a bridge too far. Of course it didn’t take too long for Ric Flair to chime in about it over on Twitter and it’s a doozy from Ol’ Nat’ch.

“No one has more respect for Kenny Omega and Will Ospreay than me! But to compare them to Steamboat and I is like comparing the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean! When they have a great match 300 times a year and 200-hour broadways, get back to me! Until then, there is no problem with being number two. You are great young talent, but let’s get serious, kids! You should only hope that you have people talking about your matches 37 years later! WOOOOO!”

Now, I sense a tad bit exaggerating from Ric because I’m pretty sure he and Steamboat did not wrestle each other 300 times a year. The 200 hour long broadways is probably true. But that’s over a span of decades. I honestly believe that Kenny’s matches with Okada will be discussed in the same vein as Flair and Steamboat down the line. Those were epic matches that should be talked about decades to come. But this match with Omega and Ospreay, while pretty damn good…it was not a Flair vs. Steamboat encounter.

In the end like I said, it might be a match of the year. Hell, I’ll even say it could be a top ten match of the decade. But I just don’t see people talking about this match like a Flair/Steamboat match. Right now the all time series between Kenny and Will is tied at two wins apiece. Will said on Dynamite he’s happy with being equal with Kenny Omega. But if he ever wants to go again…game on. I do hope that fifth and probable final match between Omega and Ospreay does happen. Now if that match happens, that will probably have a lot of emotion to it because it’s pretty clear right now Kenny Omega is on the last lap of his career. Does Omega go out with a win or does he fall just short one last time? That’s a story right there AEW could do.

On that note I am done for this week. I apologize for any delay with my column. The world of wrestling moves faster than I can type sometimes. As always you can leave feedback down below, over on Twitter or email me at phantomlordnyc@gmail.com

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“No one has more respect for Kenny Omega and Will Ospreay than me! But to compare them to Steamboat and I is like comparing the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean!

No One Has More Respect For @KennyOmegamanX And @WillOspreay Than Me! But To Compare Them To Steamboat And I Is Like Comparing The Mississippi River To The Pacific Ocean! When They Have A Great Match 300 Times A Year And 200 Hour Broadways, Get Back To Me! Until Then, There Is No… pic.twitter.com/UFqcgPg8Zs

— Ric Flair® (@RicFlairNatrBoy) September 2, 2026

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