Ric Flair Fell Asleep During Big Match

Ric Flair officially retired after he was defeated by Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania 24, but that wasn’t the end of the his wrestling career. The Nature Boy went on to return to the ring in Impact Wrestling and over the last few years he teased a potential final match.

Last summer Ric Flair’s dream became a reality when he returned to the ring and teamed with Andrade El Idolo to face Jeff Jarrett and Jay Lethal. Flair was 73 years old at the time, and he admitted during an appearance on This Past Weekend podcast that he actually fell asleep during the match.

“I got out there and I felt great and all that and then I realized the anxiety and I made the mistake of saying to one of the guys, ‘I don’t feel good.’ Of course now they think I’m having a heart attack or… I got light-headed. I actually fell asleep on the apron. I’m standing. [Really?] Oh, yeah. And the guy had to go, ‘Ric! Ric!’ And I woke up and I got back in and then I did something else and I’m laying there and at the end, Manny [Andrade El Idolo], my son-in-law, is going, ‘you have to wake up, sir. You have to wake up, sir.

He was handing me the brass knucks to hit [Jeff] Jarrett with, right? So, he put the brass knucks in my hand, ‘you have to wake up, sir. You have to wake up, sir.’ Boom. But I whacked myself way too early. And then because everybody was panicking, to end it right, I faked like I was having a heart attack just going, ‘ughh.’ Just because I wanted everybody, ‘slow down m************, we can do this. I mean I can make it. Just listen to me.’”

H/T PWMania.com