Ric Flair is alive and well and still cutting promos.
The energized WWE Hall of Famer used a 3:44 minute video – in full character — on his Twitter account on Thursday night to deliver his first words since getting out the hospital on May 22 after undergoing a surgical procedure, related to recent heart issues.
“First of all, thank you to my beautiful family to all my friends, to all the doctors, nurses, everybody that brought me back again,” Flair said in front of his television that had a video of one of his WCW promos frozen on it. “It’s a miracle again. It’s a 1.8 million dollar tune-up on the Nature Boy. That’s how much all this has cost. Thank God for insurance! Well almost all the insurance. A lot of cash out of our pockets.
But that’s OK because I lived and I’m living here to tell you the kiss-stealing, wheeling-dealing, limousine-riding, jet-flying son of a gun is not gonna change, slow down. I’m gonna move forward.”
He started the video, titled “Back in Action: Part One”, apologizing for taking so long to thank everyone for their support because “[with] a tube down my throat for four days my vocal cords were hurting.” He later noted he had four senators in his room while in the hospital.
The 70-year-old Flair, who in the past vowed to quit alcohol and had to be put into a medically induced coma in August 2017, goes on to say he has “friends to have a cold beer and I mean two cold beers with if it’s Stone Cold [Steve Austin].” He talks about wanting to be Ric Flair again not Richard Fliehr because he made his friends and influenced pop culture being the wrestling legend and not his real-life self.
“I’m not going to act like my age,” Flair said of what he was hearing from doctors. “Don’t ever tell me that! I’m paying you to make be better so I can be me. That’s me and that’s all I’m ever gonna be.”
He closed by teasing he is going to out those who didn’t support him in his recent time of need.
“I’m up,” Flair said. “I’m well. I’m feeling great and I’m just starting to tell my story because I know who has not been there for me and I know who’s not had my back and I’m going to answer all these questions [in] chapter two.”
