Hold onto your robes and styling products, folks! In a jaw-dropping revelation that could make even a steel chair wince, WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair has confessed that his “Last Match” was more like “The Last Heartbeat.” During a casual chit-chat on the “JAXXON PODCAST,” the wrestling icon shared that he unknowingly grappled with a heart attack while strutting his stuff in the ring back in 2022. Talk about taking your work to heart!
Now, Ric, the ever-dazzling “Nature Boy,” trained for this tag team extravaganza like it was a ticket back to his twenties, sweating it out to get in peak shape. But, as it turns out, he was doing more than just dropping elbows; he was dropping hints to his pacemaker! Yes, the man has a pacemaker—not for kicks or style points, but to keep tabs on his mysteriously low heart rate.
Fast forward to a routine check-up, and bam! The doc hits him with a plot twist better than any wrestling script could offer: “Ric, old sport, you’ve had a full-on heart attack in the last two years!” To which our champ, puzzled yet ever flamboyant, recounted his match day saga where he passed out not once, not twice, but three times. Thinking it was just the ol’ dehydration trick, he chugged a couple of Gatorades and partied the night away with none other than Kid Rock. Because, why not?
Reflecting on his brush with the reaper, Ric joked, “I feel great, that’s my problem. I’m sure I’m just gonna fall off a chair one day! They’re gonna say, ‘There he is. Get that little son of a b**** up out of here.'” Classic Flair!
So, next time you see Ric Flair styling and profiling, just remember, this man wrestled a heart attack and lived to tell the tale. And all we can say is, “To be the man, you gotta beat the man!” And sometimes, that man is your own heart.