Ric Flair talked about many things in 28th episode of his 'Woo Nation with Ric Flair' podcast. He said that he knew Shawn was a good wrestler from the start and also talked about his 1992'Royal Rumble win and formation of "Evolution"
Flair said that he knew Michaels was special when he wrestled him in 1991 in WWF Prime Time:
"Yes, I sure did. We only had four minutes to wrestle, but I knew. I'd seen him and he was still inthe tag team situation. But yeah, he was tremendous. Yep, I sure did."
He said that 'Evolution' was the idea of Triple H:
"Evolution, [the] complete idea came about as a result of Hunter wanting to bring up some young guys. And Hunter and I were very close friends and he said, 'what do you thinkabout this and that?', and I didn't know Randy [Orton] and Dave [Batista] at the time. And they got there, Hunter came upwith the name, and talked about different names. And it just was a fresh start for those guys, a fresh start for me, it gave me an opportunity to position myself with some great young athletes and, at that time, probably the best worker in the business, Hunter,either it would be Hunter or Shawn, and I couldn't be in a better place. But we had a lot of fun together. Just Randy and Dave were just great guys and to this day, I remain very friendly with them."
He said that there were no crazy evolution stories:
"There [are] not any Evolution stories. I couldn't get Hunter tohave a glass of wine if I had a million dollars. It didn't happen. Now, Dave Batista, I did go out with a few times, Randy a few times, but I was very conservative. Those guys,both wonderful guys. Now Dave, I did get him to take off his shirt a few times in a bar when Hunter wasn't around."