Ric Flair rips NBA players who 'whine and b---h,' draws major contrast to pro wrestlers

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Two-time WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair is a true lover of sports. He watches it all, from college and pro football to baseball and hockey, where he especially can't get enough of the playoffs.

But there is one sport that he's starting to steer away from because it embodies the exact opposite of what pro wrestling is at its heart.

Scrutiny has found the NBA in recent years as resting players for "load management" on the court as well as players sitting out for injuries some believe should be played through doesn't sit well with "The Nature Boy."

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Ric Flair attends the 44th Annual Sports Emmy Awards at the Frederick P. Rose Hall Jazz at Lincoln Center on May 22, 2023, in New York City. (Arturo Holmes/Getty Images)

"These basketball players that whine and b---h, it's taken a lot of the sport away from me," Flair told Fox News Digital while promoting his new energy drink, Wooooo! Energy. 

The NBA used to be a league where the paint was an area you better be ready to get bruised if you drove to the basket, and rivalries got physical on a regular basis. Now, with safety becoming a priority in every professional sport, the NBA has been calling many more technical fouls for displays of aggression like that. 

However, fans haven't liked the "ticky-tack fouls," or ones that are borderline with players embellishing to get to the foul line for free throws.

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Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James has gotten flak for that for years, but Flair is a huge fan of "The King" nonetheless because of what he's been able to