Source: Mike Mooneyham of The Post and Courier
The following piece of information was announced on the Post and Courier website earlier today:
As for Austin, rumors have swirled that “Nature Boy” Ric Flair, who was inducted into the Hall last year, will be tabbed to be Austin’s presenter this year.
“I heard that too, and I didn’t know if it was true or not,” Flair said last week. “That would be cool as hell. I would love to do it.”
Flair added that he had assumed Ross would be Austin’s presenter.
Ross said in a radio interview Friday that he wasn’t sure who was going to induct Austin.
“I heard Ric Flair,” he said. “I would be up for it. If he wants someone else to do, I’m fine, I’m his good pal.”
Flair, who retired from in-ring competition at last year’s Wrestlemania and left WWE shortly afterwards, strongly put over Austin last year during his own Hall of Fame speech and called him the biggest star in the history of the company.
Austin, in turn, has called Flair his “favorite pro wrestler in the history of the business.”
Austin, who enjoyed the most lucrative run in pro wrestling history during the late ‘90s, said in an interview last year that Flair was the greatest performer — bar none — the industry has ever produced.
“Ric Flair is the most legitimate pro wrestler there ever was. He was the greatest traveling world champion of all time,” said Austin. “With all the exposes that pro wrestling was supposed to be fake and it turned into sports entertainment (in the mid-’80s), Ric Flair had the ability to go out there with an opponent of any talent level and have five-star matches. Whatever you thought about pro wrestling, when you saw Ric Flair, you knew that was the man in this sport. You had (Hulk) Hogan, who got hot in the ‘80s and was kind of the show-bizzy type, but Ric Flair was the real deal in the world of entertainment, which everything is these days. Flair was the man. He still is.”
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