6:04 AM EST

The Stone Cold Steve Austin media whirlwind continues, with Austin telling Mike Mooneyham of THE CHARLESTON POST AND COURIER that the Ric Flair retirement storyline is not quite to Austin's liking.
 
Austin laid out an elaborate scenario for Flair's last major run with the company following last year's Wrestlemania, but a revised, watered-down angle didn't take root until late November when WWE owner Vince McMahon announced that Flair would have to retire the next time he lost, Mooneyham wrote in an article that you can read in its entirety by clicking this link: http://www.charleston.net/news/2008/feb/17/austin_wwe_not_giving_flair_sendoff_he_d30942/.
 
Plans for the original storyline called for Flair to either win the title for a 17th and final time before retiring, or lose in an emotional, competitive match for the gold at Wrestlemania 24 in late March. Flair, however, doesn't appear to be in the title hunt at this year's big show, and his most likely opponent for his final match appears to be Shawn Michaels.
 
www.wrestlingnewsdesk.com was the first media outlet to report that HBK had pitched to be Flair's opponent at WWE's biggest annual event.
 
Austin is quoted as saying "We're talking about 'Nature Boy' Ric Flair. He's my favorite pro wrestler ever in the history of the business. I know he took a little bit of a break and they brought him back. But I don't think they green-lighted that thing near enough or made it as important as it could be and as it should be."
 
Always looking to take a shot at Hulk Hogan, the Texas Rattlesnake added, "Ric Flair is the most legitimate pro wrestler there ever was. He was the greatest traveling world champion of all time. With all the exposes that pro wrestling was supposed to be fake and it turned into sports entertainment (in the mid-'80s), Ric Flair had the ability to go out there with an opponent of any talent level and have five-star matches. Whatever you thought about pro wrestling, when you saw Ric Flair, you knew that was the man in this sport. You had (Hulk) Hogan, who got hot in the '80s and was kind of the show-bizzy type, but Ric Flair was the real deal in the world of entertainment, which everything is these days. Flair was the man. He still is."
 

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