WWE icon Ric Flair believes he suffered heart attack during last match
WWE legend Ric Flair has revealed he believes he had a heart attack - during his last fight in the ring.
Flair was told by doctors that he had suffered a heart attack in the last two years and he has a pretty good idea when it was.
Speaking on The Jaxxon Podcast last month, Flair revealed he had been told the shocking information in late 2023.
And the 75-year-old has insisted he believes he was stricken during his last match on July 31, 2022.
The WWE icon said: "I went to get what's called a calcium scan, which I'd never had before, because a couple of guys died in our business of heart issues so it kind of scared me.
"They give you the nuclear stress test, shoot you with the dye, put you on the treadmill, everything.
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"It's two days of three hours of tests. This is six months ago. The guy takes me in, and if you look at your heart like a round pie, there's a piece of my heart right here this big, it's black, it'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 during 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, I just drank two bottles of Gatorade and went back out to Kid Rock's place all night long. But I had a heart attack."
Flair had confirmed at the time that he had indeed passed out multiple times, as well as taking up The Undertaker's advice that he should avoid beer in the dressing room and drink Gatorade.
"I swear to god twice during the match, I went completely black," Flair said in August 2022.
"My hand started trembling, yeah, but it was all dehydration. I had two doctors in there right away with me and everything.
"The Undertaker came running in and said - I had six beers there - he took them out of my hand and said, 'You're drinking two Gatorades first,' I said, 'Gatorade?' So, I drank two and that was all it was."
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 fought since, though he has remained close to WWE as a manager while he also expressed regret over his retirement.
