Flair Responds to Those Doubting Him Sleeping With 10,000 Women

NBC Sports Radio recently interviewed The Two Time WWE Hall Of Famer Ric Flair to promote his upcoming ESPN 30 For 30 special as well as other important topics. Below are the highlights from the interview:
On those who doubt his claim to have slept with 10,000 women in his lifetime: “Well, if you do the math, I started when I was in seventh grade! Let me say that hypothetically, I slept with five people. You’d go to your friend next door and go, ‘bulls–t!’ If I had said, ‘250,’ you’d go, ‘bulls–t.’ If I said, ‘5,000,’ you’d say, ‘oh, maybe.’ I’m not far off on that number. It doesn’t mean that everybody was Marilyn Monroe by any means, but I’m not far off. I wrestled. I was really good at three things: I wrestled, drinking, and talking, saying ‘goodnight.’”
On his new ESPN 30 For 30 documentary: “I guess I like the fact that I’m about as open and honest with things that involved my children, my son that passed away, and I hope that the people understand that didn’t understand the work. In 20 years, I never had a day off. Twice on Saturday and twice on Sunday and that’s not an exaggeration. And most of the time, I’d wrestle an hour every night or two hours on the same day. And that’s a lot of traveling, a lot of wrestling. Tokyo [Japan] one night, back to St. Louis [Missouri], Sydney, Australia the next night, Auckland, New Zealand, over to Japan, back home for a week, and then back in Japan.

“That’s the life I lived, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world. I would trade it for the time now when I look back. I know my son is still very upset and angry and that’s something I have to live with, but he’ll never get over the fact that I wasn’t around enough.” Flair added, “I’ll take the blame for it. I was very selfish. I wanted to be the best and I competed against myself because I knew I was that much better than everybody else.
“I didn’t open up all the way about it. There was just so much going on with the drug problem that it’s just something you never see coming and you’re in denial. My kid’s smoking dope? Not a chance. No chance in hell. Do you know what I mean? And all-of-a-sudden, it’s reality. And then, it’s from dope to duh, to duh, to duh, to duh, and then it was somethingÖ I just couldn’t fathom it. And I learned it wasn’t just me it was a disease and he was fighting it. Trust me, drugs are not an addiction. At a high level, it is a disease and that’s all there is to it.”
On his health: “Believe it or not, I feel great right now. This health issue, self-inflicted, I mean, I had two rotator cuff surgeries, but they are bothÖ I [am] pain-free. I don’t have any hip injuries. All my guys, literally, all my guys from my generation that are still alive got hip, shoulder, ankle, elbow replacements. I’m really good in that respect. I have a beautiful, new fiancé that I’ve been with for five years, and I can tell you honestly I haven’t naitched in five years, so you can put that down in the headlines. ‘Naitch’ no more, but I feel great. I guess the plane crash was the worst thing that happened to me. I don’t remember that, but I remember [medical personnel] saying, ‘I think we’re going to lose this one’ and I think they were talking about me.”
You can listen to the entire interview that NBC Sports Radio had with Ric Flair at AudioBoom.com.