Flair's in ring "heart attack"

[therageofeeyore]

What was the deal with Flair's promo in WCW where he just stopped mid promo, slumped down in the corner, and ended up getting stretchered out? The announcers said the next week that he had a heart attack, but was ok blah blah blah.......was that a work? If it was, it was an extremely stupid work, I mean, it just took attention away from the storyline he was in (which i remember nothing about) and showed how much of a fragile old man flair was.......just curious about it, It happened when i was younger and I don't remember much about it, just that I legit thought that flair had a heart attack in the middle of the ring.

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Yeah, it was a work.

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Hasn't he had a couple of "collapses" I remember one they claimed was an inner ear infection that caused him to collapse.

I could be wrong though, my memory is hazy.

[Big Daddy Bad Booking]

Oct 9, 2010 18:37:33 GMT -5 @akeem said:

Hasn't he had a couple of "collapses" I remember one they claimed was an inner ear infection that caused him to collapse.

I could be wrong though, my memory is hazy.

Let's get two things out of the way:
1: The heart attack angle was a work.
2. The ear thing wasn't. Flair got injured in a house show match against Ultimate Warrior, and it resulted in a bone chip that would upset his equilibrium from time to time until the chip set back into place.

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

The heart attack was really nothing more than a way to make Flair an underdog in his Starrcade 98 match with Bischoff.

[Citizen Snips Has Left]

It's pretty sad that a guy who was old enough to believably work a heart attack angle 12 YEARS AGO is still actively wrestling.

[willywonka666]

Didn't they try to throw some kind of food poisoning thing into this as well?

["Nature Boy" Ric Moranis]

Yeah, I think they caught some heat from the Turner/Time Warner higher ups about it being a heart attack, and later changed their tune to food poisoning, even hinting that Bischoff had something to do with what Flair ate at catering that day.

I'll never forget the original angle. Was home from college at my parents during winter break, watching WCW. I grew up in Flair country (NC), watching Mid Atlantic, and my mom used to always say about Flair in the 80s, "That guy's gonna have a heart attack one day, yelling and screaming like that". Needless to say, she happened to walk into the living room to see Flair having a "heart attack" on Nitro, and gave a "told ya so".

She bought it. And so did I at first. That was around the time that WCW was starting to really, really suck.

[héad.casé]

I watched Flair's shoot, read his book, and in both he said Bischoff told him to not tell anyone it was a work, not even the other wrestlers. So when it happened and he got backstage, WCW employees (tech workers and stuff) were actually in tears. I don't even think he told his wife and she went nuts too. I wonder how many of the other wrestlers bought it? I'm guessing not many.