Bret Hart and Ric Flair have each released statements regarding what appeared to be a public spat between the two. Things between Flair and Hart hit a sour point after comments Bret had made several years ago began making the rounds online recently.
Ric Flair then responded to the old quotes from Hart during a podcast with Conrad Thompson.
“What I do wanna do is be able to walk into the building and not have people say, ‘God, he’s bitter, he’s old, and he’s gonna continue to knock people,’” Flair said. “I couldn’t live like that. And calling Roman Reigns the next Triple H or cracking on him… I mean, how uncomfortable is that for people in the family to walk around in front of Hunter? And Shawn, who is an integral part of the company. NXT, that’s part of the company, right? What else? Jerry Lawler… ‘Jerry Lawler hit me with a chair too hard.’ Wow, okay… I don’t understand it. I don’t ever wanna be that lonely.”
Hart has released a statement about old quotes of his being used by someone to insinuate he did an interview with them recently:
Hart continued to say that he considers Ric a friend.
Hart then reached out to Ric Flair and the two of them cleared the air. Flair then posted the following statement addressed to Bret Hart:
Bret also noted on Twitter recently that he is pulling for his niece, Natalya, to win the WWE Women’s Tag Team titles along with Tamina.