Flair then happily told McMahon that he "had bet on a winner last night," and said to a surprised McMahon that when Shane and Stephanie sold their stock in the WWF to purchase WCW and ECW, he was the consortium who had bought the stock, and as such, he was co-owner of the WWF and he and McMahon were now partners.
Flair told McMahon that he had won a bet, and revealed that when Shane and Stephanie sold their stock in the WWF to purchase WCW and ECW, Flair was the group who bought it, making him a co-owner of the WWF and thus a partner with McMahon.