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#3 Backstage reason behind Randy Orton brutally assaulting Ric Flair on RAW

This week on RAW, we saw 'The Viper' Randy Orton turn on his mentor Ric Flair. Even though 'The Nature Boy' had been by Randy Orton's side in his crusade of eliminating all legends, Orton turned on Flair itself.

As per reports from WON and WrestlingNews.co, 16-time World Champion Ric Flair is done with the company for now and the attack by Randy Orton was a way to write him off Monday Night RAW.

WrestlingNews.co was told that Flair would be written off during the weeks leading up to Orton vs. Drew McIntyre at SummerSlam because the feeling is that it’s better to solely focus on Orton and McIntyre and there would be no need to use Flair in this feud.

Former multi-time WWE Champion Randy Orton will take on Drew McIntyre at SummerSlam. While it was initially believed that Ric Flair might have a major role to play in the match by helping Orton pick up the win, that will clearly not be happening now.