Ric Flair holds perhaps the highest benchmark accolade available in the professional wrestling circuit as he held the world championship for sixteen occasions. Down the road, that record may be broken at some point but WWE has to find out a proper talent to make this happen. After all, no regular candidate could break it.
John Cena is obviously the closer one as he has already tied Ric Flair’s record by holding the world title sixteen times. But he’s no longer a regular performer in the WWE and perhaps he won’t return in a full-time role except for one-off occasions. The record-holder may be happy to hear this as he doesn’t want a part-timer to break the record.
The Nature Boy recently spoke to Wrestling Inc, where he expressed the desire that the person who eventually will break his record, needs to be a full-time performer. This ruled out John Cena (16 reigns) and Triple H (14 reigns), out of the equation. That brings Randy Orton and Charlotte Flair as the two most likely candidates to surpass Ric Flair, sometimes down the road.
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Ric Flair wants a full-timer to break the record
“I think every record’s meant to be broken, number one,” The Naitch noted. “I couldn’t be prouder. I think the world of them both. To be honest with you, I would like to see my daughter break it. Randy Orton has expressed the sentiment to me too. Who knows? It’s funny because I would love to see Randy break it. John, I certainly wouldn’t be opposed to John breaking it, but I think the person that breaks it needs to be a full-time performer, just because I think it’s better for the company, not that it matters who the individual is.”
“I got all 16 of them in 20 years. It’s hard to imagine, but I can see John, Randy, or Charlotte doing it,” Ric Flair insisted. “I will say to her sometimes there are so many big matches for her. There’s another huge match with her and Sasha [Banks], another huge match with her and Bianca Belair [and] another huge match with her and Rhea Ripley if they have the time. They certainly have the chemistry if they have the opportunity to build those. That’s just to name a couple. Ashley will be the best at this as long as she wants to be, health being a big factor.”
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Ric Flair’s record is the highest peak of the pro-wrestling mountain and it will be hard for anyone to break the record. Since Randy Orton already has 14 World Title wins and he is an active competitor on Raw, he’s the closest in the race. Charlotte Flair also has 10 singles championship reigns on the main roster. (13 considering NXT and Divas Title reigns) So she’s not lagging behind, too.
Ric Flair was part of a storyline on Raw for the beginning part of 2021 when WWE involved him in a romantic angle with Lacey Evans. But the latter got pregnant and the company was forced to keep her out of the equation, a few days later. This also helped to write off Ric from TV.
