Ricky Steamboat on why he pulled out of Ric Flair's Last Match

[Chris]

Ricky Steamboat has revealed why he turned down an offer to wrestle in Ric Flair's last match.

Steamboat spoke with Bill Apter recently and said that he initially agreed to be in the match but backed out after learning that Flair had a pacemaker.

Steamboat said:

"Conrad, who is the promoter, when we talked, I drove to Nashville and we had a sit-down and it was Conrad and his wife and then me and my wife Sandy. I was still training pretty good and feeling pretty good and so 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 I never knew. I immediately just said, 'you know, 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've done some interviews after that when they found out that I said 'no.' [It's] the first time I'm coming public with this. I didn't want to throw Conrad or Flair under the bus.

Steamboat also spoke about teaming with FTR and defeating Jay Lethal, Nick Aldis, and Brock Anderson at BTW Return of the Dragon last month.

It started out with a little conversation about it being a singles match and I said 'no I'm definitely not going to do a single.'
Then it got to a tag and then it got to a six-man and then my two partners, FTR, are two boys that I know. I helped train [them] at the WWE school about eight, nine years ago or so. They're good kids, they're great hands. So I said, 'I've got a pair of really good guys.' I finally said yes because I felt I could sprinkle some Ricky Steamboat dust and then I could tag out.

Ricky Steamboat backed out of Ric Flair’s Last Match after learning Flair had pacemaker

Steamboat has revealed why he turned down an offer for Ric Flair's Last Match.

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[Deezy]

Conrad should never be allowed a promoters license for such exploitive shit like letting a senior citizen with a pacemaker to wrestle.