RIC FLAIR has vowed never to wrestle again — after seeing his friend Jerry Lawler suffer a heart attack after a match.
Flair officially retired in 2008 after losing to Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania but did wrestle some matches for rival firm TNA from 2010 onwards.
He has now left TNA and is expected to re-sign for WWE very soon but has vowed to retire for good this time.
Ric said: “I want to be in the ring but it will never happen again.
“Firstly I said I’d never wrestle in WWE again. And then there’s the Jerry Lawler incident. It really did affect me. I like Jerry very much.
“What happened to Jerry was terrible, and thank God he’s OK.
“But I wish people wouldn’t gauge me by what happened to him. Everybody’s an individual.
“I think it kind of put a decision on my future in the ring, you know what I mean?
“And that’s fine, because I went back to the ring in TNA, and that will never happen again.”
He added: “I’ll rock the world when I get back on TV. You know that.
“You don’t even have to ask the question! Everyone knows I’ll rock the world. I’m very excited to get back in there soon.”
Lawler’s heart attack happened on a live WWE Raw TV show.
Luckily, the popular commentator is making a fast and full recovery.
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