Ric Flair: I had a legitimate heart attack during my Last Match

With his AEW run seemingly wrapped up after Sting’s retirement match at March’s Revolution PPV, you might be wondering what Ric Flair’s up to these day.

One thing The Nature Boy has been doing is… getting mad online about how long people in the service industry are allowed to use the bathroom. But another is going on the Jaxxon Podcast and talking to Bear Degidio and Quintin “Rampage” Jackson about (according to the episode title) most talented wrestlers, WWE, who trained Logan Paul, and “his wild legendary career”.

That involved talk of the now-75 year old’s “Last Match” with Andrade against Jeff Jarrett & Jay Lethal on the appropriately named Ric Flair’s Last Match PPV in 2022. Naitch previously revealed that he’d passed out twice during the match, which he had chalked up to being dehydrated. Flair told Degidio and Jackson that he passed out three times that day in Nashville, and he & his doctors believe it was due to his suffering a heart attack:

“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. 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.”

As the closer on that anecdote reminds us, Flair is always selling his legend… but this one seems more believable than a lot of wrestler stories.

You can check out Flair’s entire appearance on the Jaxxon Podcast here.