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​Lots Of Additional Details On ESPN’s Upcoming “30 For 30” Special On Ric Flair – Details

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Sports Illustrated posted the following article regarding ESPN’s upcoming “30 for 30” documentary on WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair’s career. Rory Karpf, the director of “30 for 30” documentaries “I Hate Christian Laettner” and “The Book of Manning” is producing the feature, which will be released within the next year.

Sports Illustrated is reporting that the show is currently being edited and will be between 90-120 minutes in length. Several additional interviews still need to be filmed and ESPN is trying to acquire more archival footage. Ric Flair’s first wife Leslie, his three living children, The Undertaker, Shawn Michaels, Ricky Steamboat, Sting, Jim Ross, Eric Bischoff, Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard have all been interviewed for the special so far.

During a podcast back in November, Flair said the following regarding the special, “Well, it’s my whole life. It [has] a little bit to do with my airplane crash, of course, and then coming back from that. And then the titles and the championships and it touches a lot on my personal life, which has been up and down. Right now, it’s perfect, but I had a couple rough years there. And it talks about my son, Reid. [ESPN] wanted to talk about him, how special he was to me. And then, a lot about Ashley, Charlotte, who is now the champion in WWE, the Divas division. And about my other two children, Megan and David. So, it was very nice. And then, it talked about where I am today.”

Flair confirmed that one of the biggest issues was getting WWE to allow ESPN use their footage of him.

Flair said: “The WWE is very, very protective of their intellectual property. [The project] is mutually beneficial for all of us, but it just took a while to get everybody on the same page and to work on it diligently for, I guess, it has been a year and a half now. And all of a sudden, it’s coming to fruition.”

Sports Illustrated also revealed that ESPN had a footage agreement with WWE before they started shooting. Karpf said that WWE has been “very supportive with his requests.”

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