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PWINSIDER Q&A: SLAMMING ANDRE, FLAIR RUNNING FOR PUBLIC OFFICE, WAS WWE DISRESPECTFUL BY JOBBING FLAIR AND MORE

Now that Ric Flair has officially retired from wrestling, what are the possibilities of him running for public office such as senator or a member of the House of Representatives from his home state of North Carolina? There was once talk of him running for Governor of North Carolina. He is very popular in his home state.

Flair has discussed running for public office in the past, but given the fact that a large part of the reason he wants to retire is to have more time with his family, I don't think jumping into public office would be a great way to do that. Plus, let's be honest, if the New York Governor could be brought down for his dalliances, imagine the stories about Flair that are out there from the last 30 years! They wouldn't exactly endear Flair to a life of public service.

What is the latest on that WWE wrestler who was sent home after being spotted attending a taping of TNA's Impact!? Is he still with the company? Suspended?

As of this writing, he is still with the company, although management is upset at him for all the obvious reasons.

Do you see an angle coming out of the brothers of destruction both being champions?

As a matter of fact, you'll see something on this Friday's Smackdown in regard to this. It's a natural idea.

In your opinion, should Ric Flair have won the match at Wrestlemania 24 over Shawn Michaels or are you totally satisfied with the results? In my opinion, Flair should have won. I would have loved to have seen him go out with a victory, with his head held high and proud, instead of a loss. He truly deserved it. A shame. Your thoughts.

Don't take this the wrong way, but if you don't think Ric Flair left with his head high with a standing ovation on Sunday and the entire company as well as some of the most important people from his career giving him a sendoff on Monday, you really weren't paying attention. Whether Flair went out on a loss or not was irrelevant. Flair being celebrated for what he was, the living embodiment of all that is great about professional wrestling as an art form, was. WWE should be commended for giving someone who influenced more than any other performer, past, present, or future the farewell that they did. Plus, wrestlers like to go out losing anyway, feeling it's more romantic and it keeps the territory stronger. If Flair went down losing, it was by his choosing, one last gift to the sport he loves.

I know that at Wrestlemania 3, Hulk Hogan slammed Andre The Giant and the WWF said at the time that no one ever slammed Andre before. Now I know that isn't true. In Harley Race's Autobiography"King Of The Ring", Race said that he slammed Andre before Hogan did and had photo's of himself slamming Andre as well as Andre slamming Race. A friend of mine said that the first man ever to slam Andre was Stan"The Lariat"Hansen! Three questions. (1) Who was the first wrestler ever to Bodyslam Andre The Giant in a match?(2) How many other wrestlers besides Harley Race and possibly Stan Hansen bodyslammed Andre before Hogan and (3) Who were these wrestlers?

I don't know who was the first to slam Andre, but Hogan had slammed Andre prior to Wrestlemania, plus I can recall seeing photos of El Canek slamming him in Mexico. WWF simply ignored the past to make their Wrestlemania III storyline work.

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