The legend of the Ric Flair struggle reveals that it has skin cancer (exclusive)
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Need to know
- WWE Ric Flair legend has skin cancer, he said exclusively to people
- Flair, 76, says it is the “second time in three years”, he treated the disease
- He will start treatment next week, he said
The legend of the Ric Flair struggle has received a diagnosis of skin cancer, he said exclusively to people, for the “second time in three years”.
WWE Star, 76, says he will start treatment next week.
“It’s the second time in three years that I have been facing skin cancer,” said Flair. “I will undergo treatment next week.”
Flair had denied information according to which he had cancer on X Thursday to keep his private diagnosis, but was ready to share the news, adding to people: “Enjoy the concerns!”
Largely considered one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, Flair has already dealt with significant health problems, and in August 2017, Flair was hospitalized with stomach pain.
A few hours after his arrival at the hospital, Flair took place at the early stages of kidney failure and near congestive heart failure, the result of alcohol abuse. The members of his family were told that he had only 20% chance of surviving and that he had been placed in a medically induced coma. His doctors then removed part of his intestine and inserted a cardiac stimulator.
“I crashed on a plane and I broke my back, I was struck by lightning,” said Flair in People in September 2017. “But it is totally different. All that I experienced before has nothing to do with that.”
When he and his 13 -year -old partner Wendy Barlow separated in September 2024, he thanked him for being with him in his 2017 health crisis.
“I can never thank her enough for having been standing by my side thanks to my terrible health crisis in 2017,” said Flair in a statement published on his accounts X and Instagram on Monday, September 23. “She never left my side! And for that, I will always be grateful!”
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Flair’s health problems and past alcohol dependence were the accent placed on his 2022 documentary Woooooo! Become Ric Flair. Barlow says in the documentary that diving into his WWE character seemed to help Flair.
“I do not know how he survived. What he did was to go back to Ric Flair, to be a character so that he did not have to feel.”