Ric Flair’s retirement match had a few scary moments in the ring before “The Nature Boy” came out victorious in bloody fashion.
“I don’t think people realized that I passed out twice,” Flair said during the Aug. 10 episode of his
“To Be The Man” podcast.
The 73-year-old WWE legend cited dehydration as part of the reason he felt sick and light-headed
during the July 31 tag-team match in Nashville, which saw him partner with his son-in-law Andrade El Idolo to take on Jay Lethal and Jeff Jarrett.
“Well what happened was, my regimentation for training was so strict that I kept my weight, I wanted my perfect weight to be like 220 going in,” Flair said. “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.