Ric Flair is eager to wrestle again.
Last year, Ric Flair competed in what was dubbed his “Last Match,” but recently, Flair has begun craving for another chance to wrestle. Flair, who is now 74 years old, appeared on Insight With Chris Van Vliet to further discuss his desire to wrestle again sometime.
“I want to wrestle again right now. Isn’t it crazy? I feel like because, Ricky Morton, the guy that I should have chosen for my last match would have been great,” Flair said. “Ricky Morton is still wrestling. You know what the best thing for me about it was, is I forced myself to really get in shape. I’ve heard this from guys over the years. When they were older, I was in my prime. The older guys would say, ‘Man, I’m tired of working out.'”
“There gets a time when you just get bored working out. You don’t have a goal. I mean, they gave me a goal and I just attacked it. I didn’t stop drinking or anything but I was training literally training three hours a day, five days a week in the ring, or I was doing the sled, the ropes. Yeah, I got my bench press up for two and a quarter. I mean, so from being dead to all that was pretty cool.”
Ric Flair’s ‘Last Match’
Looking back on his “last match,” Flair recalled feeling mixed emotions heading into it. While Flair was obviously excited to step back into the ring, he later experienced a sensation of light-headedness, which affected his performance.
“Everything went great, including the 9,000 people we packed in there which was more than WCW or WWE had had in the building forever. And then I just walked on the ramp and I just [felt] a combination [of emotions]. I guess I’d be nervous and everything started out fine though. So I don’t know why I got lightheaded for a second. I made the mistake of saying to one of the guys I don’t feel so good,” Flair said.
“Well, they all went [with it]. They all thought I was telling them like my heart or something like that. And that’s the worst thing I did and then I got real lightheaded. And I know that I was in and out all during the match.”
Flair went on to describe how he kept himself afloat throughout the match, and then afterwards.
“I was fighting like hell to get through it, but it was just fighting here. Nothing that I felt, I wasn’t hurting anywhere. I just felt bad because the guys had been all panicking and worried about my health. We had said we had constructed such a great match. If it had come off the way we’ve practised forever, it would have been a masterpiece, but, when I walked back to the locker room,[Undertaker] made me drink three Gatorades. Then I went to Kid Rock and drank all night long.”
Changes To The Match
Though the participants had practiced the match ahead of time, Flair revealed there were some spots that ultimately got nixed.
“Oh God. They were just gonna slam me off the top, suplex me, stuff on the floor. Everybody’s just panicked. It all was a concern for me, they didn’t forget their parts. They just [went], ‘Let’s get through this.’ That’s why I had to fake that heart attack. I went slow down, slow down, I’m okay. Should have never said anything. So then we got a little bit more back in. But my son-in-law [Andrade] had to put the brass knucks on my hand. He’s going, Wake up sir. That was it.”
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