{"id":182,"date":"2009-05-18T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T21:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=182"},"modified":"2009-05-18T21:47:48","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T01:47:48","slug":"big-backstage-update-on-ric-flair-tonights-raw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2009\/05\/18\/big-backstage-update-on-ric-flair-tonights-raw\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Backstage Update On Ric Flair, Tonight&#8217;s RAW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/default.aspx?term=flair&amp;iid=4541146\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/a\/2\/e\/2\/PicImg_GOLF_2009_Monday_298f.JPG?adImageId=1153917&amp;imageId=4541146\" border=\"0\" alt=\"GOLF 2009: Monday After The Masters Celeb Pro-Am\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><script src=\"http:\/\/cdn.pis.picapp.com\/IamProd\/PicAppPIS\/JavaScript\/PisV4.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ric Flair&#8217;s surprise return at WWE Judgment Day will certainly not be a one-and-out deal for the WWE Hall of Famer.  Sources say the legendary wrestler has been tapped for a short-term program on WWE television.<\/p>\n<p>If the story about &#8220;The Nature Boy&#8221;&#8216;s future with WWE&#8211;reported by F4WOnline.com&#8211;is true, Flair will be appearing on RAW to begin setting up an angle for the next pay-per-view.  Flair publicly expressed his desire to return to active wrestling in a recent interview with syndicated writer Alex Marvez, but it is unclear if his current WWE program will end with a bout in the ring.  There has been a mixed reaction within WWE about the prospect of Flair coming out of retirement, even if for just one match.<\/p>\n<p>Vince McMahon will make the final call, but many do see a Flair return match as inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, the current angle is being designed as a short-term holdover while Triple H remains on hiatus.  Flair has drawn solid ratings numbers for WWE in the past, and the company believes his star power can provide a nice boost as WWE enters its summer months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Big Backstage Update On Ric Flair, Tonight&#039;s RAW<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ric Flair&#039;s surprise return at WWE Judgment Day will certainly not be a one-and-out deal for the WWE Hall of Famer. 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