Ric Flair has been trending on social media for the past few days for all the wrong reasons.
A Flight attendant opened up a can of worms following comments she made during Vice’s docuseries, Dark Side of the Ring. Thursday’s episode of Dark Side of the Ring tackled the infamous “Plane Ride From Hell,” which was a transatlantic flight in 2002 where WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair allegedly pulled one of his famous pranks by stripping down to only his wrestling robe, performed his signature strut down the airplane aisle and swirled his penis like a helicopter.
“That’s what the guys wanted to see, that’s what makes ‘em laugh,” Van Dam said during the episode.
Flight attendant Heidi Doyle alleged that Flair entered the galley in the back of the plane and forced her to touch his penis. “I couldn’t move. I couldn’t get away from him,” she said. “He was spinning around his penis and he wanted me to touch it… He took my hand and put it on him.”
Rob Van Dam corroborated Doyle’s story in the episode: “I remember him crowding her and trying to make her touch him and stuff,” he said.
In a recently unearthed interview, Shane Douglas is heard speaking up about a time where he caught Ric Flair being terrible towards Johnny Ace’s girlfriend, Marti. He stated that he tried to stop it all from happening, but the boys held him back from getting involved.
Via Wrestling Edge:
“Shane stated that he saw Ric Flair go straight for Marti and tried to force himself on her with a kiss. Wahoo McDaniel grabbed Shane Douglas and told him not to get involved. Shane makes it clear that this was a time when you respected the elder wrestlers.
Shane stated: Wahoo McDaniel grabs my pants and says ‘leave it alone, kid’. Flair b-lines to her (Marti). He goes to try to kiss her and she turns her head and he grabs her chin and she kept turning her head and he grabbed her with both hands and she was stiff as a board. She looked like a woman being molested. He got her on the floor and her hands were up like she’s being raped in a room full of people.”
Shane concludes: “Flair is over top of her and unzips his pants and he’s flicking his p***s over top of her. I went up to him and hit him with my forearm as hard as I could.”
