Ric Aptitude’s retirement match had a number of scary moments within the ring earlier than “The Nature Boy” got here out victorious in bloody trend.
“I don’t assume folks realized that I handed out twice,” Aptitude stated through the Aug. 10 episode of his “To Be The Man” podcast.
The 73-year-old WWE legend cited dehydration as a part of the explanation he felt sick and light-headed through the July 31 tag-team match in Nashville, which noticed him companion together with his son-in-law Andrade El Idolo to tackle Jay Deadly and Jeff Jarrett.
“Effectively what occurred was, my regimentation for coaching was so strict that I stored my weight, I wished my excellent weight to be like 220 moving into,” Aptitude stated. “So the final day, the final day and a half, except for all of the work that we had deliberate for me to do, I didn’t hydrate. I had it in my thoughts that I needed to weigh 219.
“So I went to the ring and I’m like 217 kilos, and what occurred through the physique of the match is I simply turned dehydrated. I really, after I was standing on the apron, I checked out Jay, which began a wheel of movement. I stated, ‘Man, I believe I’m getting sick’ as a result of I used to be getting light-headed.”
Aptitude insisted that his situation throughout his remaining match had “nothing to do with” his coronary heart or intestines. In 2017, Aptitude was positioned on life help and in a medically induced coma for 10 days following a medical emergency, wherein he was later identified with early levels of kidney failure and congestive coronary heart failure.
“I used to be getting light-headed. I’m certain plenty of it was nerves as nicely,” Aptitude stated. “So I believe Jay stated, ‘Guys, we gotta transfer this alongside’, when that isn’t what I meant. However to the purpose when [Andrade] came to visit and stated, ‘Your flip, sir. Your flip, sir.’ So I bought in and I didn’t know the place we had been within the match as a result of I had missed about clearly like 10 seconds of it.”
After the match, Aptitude stated fellow WWE legend The Undertaker was ready for him, and compelled him to drink Gatorade earlier than pulling down a number of beers.
“My hand began trembling, but it surely was all dehydration,” Aptitude stated. “I had two medical doctors in there instantly with me and every thing, and The Undertaker got here working in. I had like six beers there. He took them out of my hand and stated, ‘You’re consuming two Gatorades first.’ So I drank two, and that’s all it was. I underestimated the significance of conserving hydrated, which is admittedly massive, particularly after I misplaced that a lot weight and skilled that onerous.”
Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer E-newsletter additionally reported that Aptitude wrestled by a foot harm in his remaining match.
Aptitude, who completed the match together with his head and face lined in blood, obtained a standing ovation from the Nashville crowd.
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