John Cena vs. Ric Flair: The Debate You Asked For

The Ringer Wrestling Show

The Ringer

Sports, Wrestling

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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After Kaz’s hot take from Tuesday, he and David fire up the mics to continue the conversation about whether John Cena is the greatest of all time (3:38). Then Brian joins in for a rapid-fire debate on the greatest WWE superstars ever (26:45). After that, they recap the highlights from NXT and AEW Dynamite (45:13). Last, they are joined by Phil Schneider, who talks about his latest piece on The Ringer, where he lists the 10 greatest matches in the history of the ECW Arena (64:31). Be sure to check out our videos on BlueSky, TikTok, Instagram Threads, and X. Hosts: David Shoemaker and Kazeem Famuyide Guest: Phil Schneider Producer: Brian H. Waters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Danny Kelly and it's officially fantasy football season, which means the ringer fantasy football show is back with the latest news from around the NFL and everything you need to get ready for the fantasy football season.
0:11.2	So join us at the ringer fantasy football show on Spotify or on our new YouTube channel.
0:17.1	Let's just do the show with the intent of pissing off as many people as we possibly can
0:24.3	you're going to take a side i'm going to take a side and the goal is agony agony for somebody
0:33.5	who's listening to the show so they could get up the gumption to either hit me on
0:38.8	Instagram or hit me on X and tell me how all you were fucking casual bro how do you
0:46.2	put John Cena head of Rick Flair you never watched Rick Flair before I watched a shit
0:52.7	ton of Rick Flair I watched a shit ton of Rick Flair. I watched a shit ton of Rick Flair.
0:56.0	And as famous and as popular
0:58.0	and as amazing as Rick Flair has been,
1:00.7	he has
1:01.9	never been as
1:03.9	famous as John Sina.
1:06.2	Point blank period.
1:07.8	He just has it.
1:09.2	John Siner
1:09.9	motherfuckers who don't even know what wrestling is, know who the fuck John Sina is. Like, period. He just has it. John Siener, motherfuckers who don't even know what wrestling is, know who the fuck John Sina is. Like, I'm sorry. And on top of that, yeah, I think he's had more classics than Rick Flair. I don't go to fuck. People say, there's three. Oh, wait, save this for the show. Oh, that's going in. It's going to be the social clip.
1:28.4	No, let's do it.
1:29.2	Let's do it.
1:30.0	I don't care.
1:42.9	I don't know. No, because I want to argue with you. Let's all right. Are we rolling? We're going to start the show. Fuck it. I got to go, man. Because this was, this was a great conversation. I think it's a conversation we're going to be having.
1:43.3	Forever.
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