WWE legend Ric Flair has revealed he thought he had a heart attack during his last in-ring fight.
Doctors have told Flair that he suffered a heart attack within the last two years and he has a pretty good idea of when it happened.
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Speaking on the Jaxxon podcast last month, Flair revealed he received the shocking information in late 2023.
And the 75-year-old insisted he thought he was struck in his last match on July 31, 2022.
The WWE icon said: “I went and did what’s called a calcium test, which I’ve never done before, because a few guys died in our company from heart problems, so That scared me a little.
“They make you take the nuclear stress test, shoot you with dye, put you on the treadmill, everything.
“It’s two days of three hours of testing. That was six months ago. The guy welcomes me, and if you look at your heart like a round pie, there’s a piece of my heart here that big, he’s black, he’s gone.” .
“The guy said, ‘You’ve had a heart attack in the last two years.’
“He said, ‘Have you passed out in the last two years?’ And in my last match, I passed out three times.
“And I thought it was because I was dehydrated. So I went in the locker room with Kid Rock and Taker, just drank two bottles of Gatorade and went back to Kid Rock’s house all night. But I I had a heart attack.
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Flair confirmed at the time that he had indeed passed out on several occasions, and followed The Undertaker’s advice that he should avoid beer in the locker room and drink Gatorade.
“I swear to God twice during the match, I went completely black,” Flair said in August 2022.
“My hand started shaking, yes, but it was just dehydration. I immediately had two doctors with me and everything.
“The Undertaker came running in and said – I had six beers there – he took them from my hand and said, ‘You drink two Gatorades first,’ I said, ‘Gatorade? ‘ So I drank two and that was it.”
Flair and his son-in-law, Andrade El Idolo, defeated Jay Lethal and Jeff Jarrett in his retirement match in the tag team match.
He has not wrestled since, although he remained close to WWE as a manager while regretting his retirement.
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