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Listen on YouTube to Jim Cornette stories about Ole Anderson…they never get old. RIP

 

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Ric Flair Opens Up About Being Kidnapped - Declined Meeting Real-Life Brother

Known as one of the greatest wrestlers ever, the Nature Boy Ric Flair has spoken about being kidnapped as an infant from his biological parents.

www.ewrestlingnews.com

Two-time WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair has said he turned down an offer to meet his biological brother.

Soon after birth, Flair was taken from his mother and placed in Tennessee Children’s Home Society, separating him from his brother.

On his To Be The Man podcast, Flair said he was contacted by his brother recently.

“My actual brother reached out to me, about a year ago. He wanted to get together. I declined.

“Where do you go from there? What are you going to talk about? That used to exhaust me. Wanting to know.”

The Tennessee Children’s Home’s Memphis branch operator Georgia Tann was later discovered to have kidnapped children and put them up for adoption.

Flair was one of the children taken without consent by Tann.

Speaking about his kidnapping, Flair said that parents were told by Tann and others that their child had died.

“My mother probably thought I was stillborn. That’s what they told a lot of the girls whose kids ended up with the Tennessee Children’s Home Society in Memphis — their babies were dead, and they just needed to sign a couple of papers.

“Adoption papers. Most of these girls were poor and uneducated. Some were even under sedation.”
Tann is believed to have kidnapped an estimated 5,000 infants, including Flair.

 

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Interesting article on WrestleMania XL:

WrestleMania proved how much Vince McMahon and Kevin Dunn were holding WWE back

WrestleMania XL weekend showed how much better WWE's product is without Vince McMahon and Kevin Dunn involved in it.

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WrestleMania proved how much Vince McMahon and Kevin Dunn were holding WWE back​

If there was a moment that encapsulated the primary message of WWE’s WrestleMania XL weekend, it came at the start of Night 2 on Sunday.

Rather than kicking off the show with a match, Stephanie McMahon — who as far as we know isn’t currently employed by the company in an official capacity — made her way to the ring and issued a not so subtle statement on the significance of the event.

“When I was about eight years old, I sat out at the entranceway at WrestleMania 1 and I have had the honor and the privilege of being at or a part of every single Wrestlemania since.” McMahon said. “And every WrestleMania is special for its own reason. But I think WrestleMania 40 might be the one that I am the most proud of, because this is the first WrestleMania of the Paul Levesque era.

“Tonight we have people from 64 countries in all 50 states. All of us coming together from different backgrounds, different beliefs to share this one thing that we love that brings us all together. And nobody understands that better than Triple H.”



It certainly wasn’t difficult to read between the lines.

Here was Stephanie McMahon — the daughter of WWE founder and former chairman Vince McMahon — stating that this was the WrestleMania she was most proud of, in part, because it was the first one her father wasn’t in charge of. Sure Paul “Triple H” Levesque is Stephanie’s husband. But if there was one central message of WrestleMania XL weekend it was that the old king is dead — and he’s not coming back. All hail the new king — the “King of Kings” — Triple H.

Considering the allegations of sexual misconduct, including assault and trafficking, against Vince McMahon, it goes without saying that WWE is better off without its former chairman, regardless of what it means for the quality of the on-screen product. The heinous allegations against the 78-year-old aren’t just the subject of a lawsuit filed by a former employee, but also a federal investigation.

But while McMahon’s legal issues remain in progress, at this point, what we can definitively about his ouster from the company he built into a global giant is that it was, in fact, best for business.


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