Ric Flair Didn’t Realize How Big Of A Deal His Illness Was To Everyone

Ric Flair’s 30 For 30 special is going to be something worth watching. Pro wrestling’s elite are all going to be paying attention as well and some of them even lent their talent and observations for the documentary to be talking heads as they tell stories about The Nature Boy.

Ric Flair was recently a guest on Cheap Heat Podcast where he went into many subjects concerning this upcoming project. But not everything in his documentary will be happy times because one part of the upcoming special that is sure to tug at everyone’s heartstrings concerns the passing of his son, Reid.

“The only hard part was what I experienced with the stuff with Reid,” he said. “I expected negative comments from my kids. That didn’t surprise me and I couldn’t be upset about it. What people need to understand is that I am not a Doctor, or Lawyer, I am a Wrestler.”

Flair promoted this upcoming film as being one which will showcase the Stylin’ and Profilin’ life of The Nature Boy.

“Just until the last 15 years or so, if you didn’t work you didn’t get paid and if you are the World Champion, NWA World Champion, you worked and that was it,” he said. “You can be in San Juan one night; literally, I was thinking about my worst week in travel. San Juan to St Louis; St Louis to Sydney, Australia; Sydney, Australia to Auckland, New Zealand; Auckland, New Zealand to Tokyo, Japan. How is that for a week? And I wrestled an hour every night. I was excited; I wouldn’t have wanted to miss it. But looking back on it now, you can see why I had wanted a cocktail. That is a lot of airtime, and the Flight Attendants back then were fun. It’s a different time period now; they are all my age.”

When Flair discussed his recent health scare he revealed that he didn’t realize how big of a deal it would be. Thankfully Flair was able to recover from this devastating illness, but there were times when we got pretty nervous for The Nature Boy. But he still had no idea how everyone was paying attention to his situation as we all wished Ric Flair the best.

“I didn’t because I know a lot of people came to visit me that I don’t even remembered,” Flair said. “They gave me a 20% chance of living, and all my kids came. Ashley [Charlotte] Flair came all the way down from China and the Doctor’s told her to go say goodbye to your dad. They gave me a 20% of living, and of course I don’t remember any of it at the time because I think I already induced the coma, but when I got home and got my phone finally, which they wouldn’t give me because still when I first woke up I wasn’t necessarily me yet, but i had 376 texts on my phone and I still haven’t returned them all.”

“The reason being is that it isn’t because I was being discourteous, but when you text someone back and tell them that you appreciate their text and that I am doing much better, you know that they will respond back if that makes sense. I started that and did it with about ten people, and I said that I just can’t do this. I don’t know how to group text people, so what I did was I called them all and brought them up to speed; it’s much easier to do that, so there’s still people I haven’t thanked yet, but I will see them once I become more active in my life. I have some appearances in November and December so I will see a lot of people and I hope to be at 100% by WrestleMania where I will see everybody.”

Credit for the quotes in this article goes to Cheap Heat Podcast and Wrestling Inc for the transcription