Starrcast Media Call Highlights: Ric Flair Condition, Taz, Starrcast, More

Welcome to coverage of the Starrcast media call ahead of next week's Starrcast, with Conrad Thompson. You can see updates below, and get more information on the event at this link.

Conrad Thompson says the Ric Flair situation "is not as grave or serious" as TMZ makes it out, and says that this was a planned procedure that Ric Flair wanted to have before Las Vegas.

— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) May 16, 2019

He stated that Flair and the family knew the procedure was coming and he could have had it before or after Vegas, and wanted to feel good for Starrcast

— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) May 16, 2019

Conrad says the WWE/Magee thing happened how he thought it would, and he's glad Giancarlo put it together, and it was a race to put something together so to speak. He says WWE is well within their right to run the video whenever they want, and he suspected it would air soon

— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) May 16, 2019

Puts over the fact that at Starrcast you can see Bret/Magee talking about the match together for the first time, and says that he didn't take WWE running the doc/match personally. Says it hasn't hurt Starrcast, and more people will know who Magee is now

— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) May 16, 2019

Undertaker being pulled led to Conrad asking for the McMahons or Shawn Michaels. He says Michaels pulled out of the event when he realized that Starrcast was piggybacking off of AEW

— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) May 16, 2019

Conrad Thompson says he's a "friend" of AEW, and that he doesn't have an official role, but isn't surprised he was added to the website as a broadcaster because he's hosted pressers for them

— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) May 16, 2019

Conrad Thompson talks the process of pitching a show to Arn Anderson for Starrcast, says Arn "didn't hate the idea" so he did it.

— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) May 16, 2019

Conrad Thompson talks the process of pitching a show to Arn Anderson for Starrcast, says Arn "didn't hate the idea" so he did it.

— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) May 16, 2019

Conrad says he's not following AEW, he's following Cody Rhodes, because that's his friend. If AEW starts doing their own convention, Conrad doesn't want to compete with them. He'd rather help his friends.

— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) May 16, 2019

Conrad Thompson says he had the graphics and deals made with Dean Malenko for Starrcast before the news of his WWE exit was public. Arn Anderson connected the two

— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) May 16, 2019

"Ric was not worried about this. Ric did not think this was going to be reported or on TMZ. It's all systems go. The Roast of Ric Flair is still happening"- @HeyHeyItsConrad

— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) May 16, 2019