Ric Flair Says His Umbrella Once Killed A Man, Paul Heyman On Awkward Brock Lesnar Return

Ric Flair has been all around the world, and he’s done some incredible things both in and out of the squared circle. Flair has undoubtedly lived an incredible life, and he’s cheated death on more than one occasion.

Ric Flair was recently a guest on the Dan Le Batard Show on ESPN Radio and he shared a story about an incident involving his umbrella. According to Flair he was getting off a plane when his umbrella was suddenly struck by lightning, and it shot 50 feet up in the air.

“I thought, ‘What the hell?’ Lightning hit the top of my umbrella, bounced off and hit the guy in the eye five feet behind me and killed him. Right there. I just stood there looking at the guy and froze, it scared me to death. People were running out the door to get the guy.”

When asked how he’s still alive, Flair simply said that he doesn’t know.

“I don’t know,” Flair replied. “I’ve always wondered what kind of a lawsuit that was, because it was really a big deal, hence probably the steel tips coming off umbrellas at that point.”

Flair shares some more crazy stories in the full interview which you can check out here.

A few weeks ago Brock Lesnar made his return to WWE, and he returned in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Despite Paul Heyman’s best efforts to get the crowd to boo Brock Lesnar, Paul Heyman just couldn’t do it. When Heyman tried to get them to chant for Goldberg, they chanted “Suplex City” instead, and the promo ended in an awkward manner.

Paul Heyman recently spoke to Brian Fritz of SportingNews.com, and during the interview he accepted full responsibility for the crowd’s actions.

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“I’ll take full blame for it. I’ll tell you why. If I am, as people claim that I am, the best or one of the best or one of the greatest fill in the adjective of all time in terms of someone who can deliver a promo, and if I can go out in Chicago, right before WrestleMania, when CM Punk had just walked out and the 18,000 people in Chicago were hellbent and driven on hijacking that show — I opened the show coming out to Punk’s music, sit down in his pose, never raise my voice, shut them up, lure them in, get them to buy that I’m on their side, double cross them and sell them on Brock Lesnar versus Undertaker and shut down the CM Punk chant all without ever raising my voice — then I’m surely talented enough to go into Minneapolis and manipulate the crowd to say or do anything I want them to say or do.”

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