Ric Flair blasts Paul Heyman, calling him out for a statement the current WWE manager made over the summer. "The Nature Boy" has been making the rounds ever since he signed a new two-year deal with AEW, talking to various members of the media and the wrestling press. During a chat with Dave Meltzer, "Slick" Ric talked about something Heyman said while promoting SummerSlam on ESPN's Fast Take. Here's what Heyman told the show's Stephen A. Smith when Smith brought up legendary manager Bobby "The Brain" Heenan:

“I’m the GOAT. Screw [Bobby Heenan], he’s dead. Jimmy Hart is still alive, which proves God doesn’t answer my prayers.”

During his appearance on Wrestling Observer Radio, Flair told Dave Meltzer:

“I know Dangerously [Heyman] was being funny on TV, but he was on First Take and Stephen A goes, ‘what did you think of Bobby Heenan?’ [Heyman] goes, ‘Ah, he’s dead. Who cares.’ Everybody goes, ‘That’s to get heat.’ It got heat with me. The answer is, ‘Yeah, he’s the greatest of all time.’ It didn’t get over with me at all. He’s just being a heel. Be a heel on me. Don’t say something stupid about somebody who is the greatest of all time.”

H/T Inside the Ropes

Wrestling is known for its hard-hitting promos on TV and in interviews. However, do you think Heyman went too far or was this just an acceptable ploy to get heat? 

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