Ric Flair has revealed that he is back to wrestling less than two months after his last retirement match.
The WWE Hall of Famer returned to the ring for Ric Flair’s Last Match show on July 31 when he and his son-in-law Andrade El Idol defeated Jeff Jarrett and Jay Lethal.
The match was announced as his last match after initially retiring after a WrestleMania loss to Shawn Michaels in 2008, before an in-ring run in TNA Wrestling ended with a match against Sting in 2011.
Now his longtime rival Ricky ‘The Dragon’ Steamboat is poised for his own comeback for a Big Time Wrestling event in November, and it’s got the Nature Boy already considering an extra fight.
Speaking with son-in-law Conrad Thompson on AdFreeShows.comHe admitted: ‘The return of a steamboat makes me want to come back again. I went back to Lincoln and started training again. What else is there to do?’
The 73-year-old former world champion hailed Steamboat as one of the greatest of all time, insisting he is still “better” than half of the current roster of wrestlers around the world.
“It’s one of those deals where no one will ever be Ricky Steamboat. So they might as well watch him while they can and enjoy the opportunity because there’s never going to be another Ricky Steamboat,” he said.
“At every level he is better than 50 percent of the guys in the business today, and he wouldn’t be in the ring if he wasn’t.
“He holds himself to a very high standard, and I imagine he’ll probably look better than the guys he’s in the ring with because he’s always in great shape.”
Flair was pleased with his performance in his match over the summer, although he admitted otherwise he fainted twice during the fight by dehydration.
He said: ‘I don’t think people realize that I passed out twice. What happened was that my training schedule was so strict that I kept my weight. I wanted my perfect weight to be about 220 pounds.
“So for the last day and a half, apart from all the work we had planned for me, I haven’t hydrated because I had in my head I had to weigh 219 pounds. So anyway, I went to the ring with about 217 pounds. What happened during the body of the match, I just got dehydrated.’
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