– WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair recently spoke with WrestlingInc.com, and explained why his WWF title loss to Bret Hart wasn’t televised. Below are some highlights.

On Ultimate Warrior Injuring Him: “That’s because The Warrior and I were in Pheonix, Arizona and The Warrior suplexed me and he just wasn’t — nothing against him personally, but that’s not what he did and he dropped me on my head and I had that inner ear problem. I remember [Charles] Barkley was there, he came to watch me wrestle and when I rolled out onto the floor, I said to Earl Hebner, ‘man I can’t get up.’ I had this thing for almost a year, I can’t think of the name of it, but it’s an ear thing where when I would take a bump, my equilibrium would leave me for maybe as long as twenty seconds.”

Ric Flair on Why His WWF Title Loss To Bret Hart Wasn’t Televised : “The company was aware of [my injury] and they called me and I went up to Calgary where I wrestled the worst match for Bret because I couldn’t do anything. I mean, I could go through the motions but it was like half-speed. I’m glad they don’t play it. I couldn’t do anything, but back then you didn’t give an explanation for it, it was a different time. It’s not like ‘[hey] he’s got an equilibrium problem.'”

Ric Flair on Jim Neidhart: “He was just a great guy. I got to know Jim in the WWE, we were there at different time frames, but he legitimately was a world-class athlete. I mean he threw the shot put at UCLA close to seventy feet. He played for the Raiders, he was a 500-pound bench presser any day of the week. He was like Kerry Von Erich, it didn’t matter what he was doing or how much he drank or how late he stayed out he could bench press 500 pounds. “He was that legitimate and I don’t think you got a true picture of his athleticism in wrestling because he didn’t have to use it. You talk about another tough guy, nobody said s–t to Jim Neidhart, trust me. He probably couldn’t amateur wrestle a lick, but I guarantee you nobody in the Hart Foundation or up in that school that Stu [Hart] had gave Neidhart any s–t.”