Steamboat avait peur de voir Flair mourir dans le ring devant lui

Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat, qui devait affronter Ric Flair pour le dernier match du “Nature Boy”, a expliqué pourquoi il a finalement refusé de participer à cet événement historique.

En entrevue avec Bill Apter, de Sportskeeda, Steamboat a avoué qu’il a craint de voir Flair – qui porte un stimulateur cardiaque depuis plusieurs années – subir des problèmes de coeur et même mourir durant leur match.

“Initially, when Conrad, who is the promoter, when we talked, I drove to Nashville and we had a sitdown. I was still training pretty good and feeling pretty good, and I said ‘okay.’ We hadn’t signed or sealed the deal on the money part of it, but what put the nail in the coffin is, about a week after that, I found out that Flair was wearing a pacemaker. All these years and I never knew. I immediately said, ‘I don’t think I want to do this.’ I don’t want my legacy to be that I was in the ring if he happened to pass away or something went wrong. I didn’t want that.”

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