It was announced by All Elite Wrestling today that Ric Flair has signed a multi-year deal with the promotion.
Speaking to Marc Raimondi of ESPN, the WWE Hall of Famer confirmed that he went to WWE before joining AEW and talked to them about making his “WOOOO! Energy Drink” an official sponsor. He said,
“Here we are today, marching on, making headway, going national with AEW. Out of courtesy, we ran it by WWE, and they have so much going on, it’s no fault of anybody. With the merger and so much going on, they moved past it. It was no disrespect to us, they just weren’t doing anything at the time. I ran it by Tony Khan, Tony called me, I put Chad [business partner Chad Bronstein] on the phone, and here we are.”
