Not everything about Ric Flair’s final match went exactly as planned.
Ric Flair returned to the ring for the final time SummerSlam weekend in a tag team match. He would team with Andrade El Idolo vs Jeff Jarett and Jay Lethal and would even get color in the match like he hoped. It seemed like everything about the match went as planned and it was confirmed afterwards that Flair was fine following the match.
Speaking on his To Be The Man podcast, Flair discussed his return to the ring and revealed that he passed out twice during the bout.
“I don’t think people realized that I passed out twice. Well what happened was, my regimentation for training was so strict that I kept my weight, I wanted my perfect weighty to be like 220 going in. So the last day, the last day and a half, aside from all the work that we had planned for me to do, I didn’t hydrate. I had it in my mind that I had to weigh 219. So I went to the ring and I’m like 217 pounds, and what happened during the body of the match is I just became dehydrated. I actually, when I was standing on the apron, I looked at Jay, which started a wheel of motion. I said, ‘Man, I think I’m getting sick’ because I was getting light-headed. Nothing to do with my heart or nothing to do with my intestines. I was getting light-headed. I’m sure a lot of it was nerves as well. So I think Jay said, ‘Guys, we gotta move this along’, when that isn’t what I meant. But to the point when [Andrade] came over and said, ‘Your turn, sir. Your turn, sir.’ So I got in and I didn’t know where we were in the match because I had missed about clearly like 10 seconds of it,”
Ric Flair On To Be The Man Podcast
Flair wrestled his final match at 73 years old while fitted with a pacemaker.
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