6) “This Guy’s Not From Planet Earth”

Terry Taylor once told the story about the first time he was scheduled to wrestle Ric Flair. Flair came to the arena hungover and extremely late.

Flair and Taylor were scheduled for the main event but Flair could barely keep his eyes open:

“About 8:15 he rolls in. He reeks of alcohol. It looks like he’s been wearing the same clothes for three days, his hair is matted…and he’s actually being helped in by one of the security guys who’s carrying his bag and his robe for him. Ric lays down on the couch and goes, ‘Come get me in an hour.”

Taylor thought he was going to have to carry the match between him and Flair. He would come to the ring like nothing happened and put on an incredible match like he always would.

“Forty minutes later, I’m begging him to pin me because I can’t breathe. And he’s going, ‘Let’s go, let’s go!’ [But] I can’t breathe. Finally he pins me – I have never been more happy to lose a match in my life. 48 minutes we went when he couldn’t even open his eyes an hour before that. I said, ‘This guy’s not from planet Earth”

Some people just know how to flip the switch… Just shows you the incredible shape that Flair was in that he could go from zero to one hundred with a snap of the fingers.

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