{"id":19394,"date":"2022-07-19T18:48:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T18:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-set-up-for-ric-flairs-last-match-is-bonkers\/"},"modified":"2022-07-19T18:48:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T18:48:42","slug":"the-set-up-for-ric-flairs-last-match-is-bonkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-set-up-for-ric-flairs-last-match-is-bonkers\/","title":{"rendered":"The set-up for Ric Flair’s Last Match is bonkers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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They finally got around to announcing the main event of Ric Flair’s Last Match<\/em> yesterday (July 18). The tag is a mix of expected names \u2014 Flair himself, of course, and his training partner Jay Lethal \u2014 and not terribly surprising reveals \u2014 Flair’s son-in-law Andrade El \u00cddolo, and Nashville legend & current WWE executive Jeff Jarrett.<\/p>\n

Aside from some podcast and social media beefing between the Nature Boy and Lethal, there didn’t look to be much heat to the match. But the video announcement (which first streamed on TMZ exclusively and has now been uploaded to Flair’s YouTube) shows they actually pulled out all the stops to make July 31’s Flair & Andrade vs. Jarrett & Lethal match seem \u201creal\u201d.<\/p>\n

The juice (literally and figuratively) is at the end, and we’ve queued it up to that point. There’s some set-up before that though, with footage from a June press conference for Ric Flair’s Last Match<\/em> featuring Flair, David Crockett, Jarrett, and Nashville Deputy Mayor Brenda Haywood. Haywood announces July 31 will be Ric Flair Day in Music City. Jarrett says he wo n’t be in Ric’s last match, but he is there to support the show’s promoter Conrad Thompson and his Starrcade V convention that it will be a part of. Naitch ribs Double-J by giving him two tickets for the event, saying they’re for Jeff and his dad, legendary Memphis promoter Jerry Jarrett.<\/p>\n

In the parking lot after the presser is where things get nutty, with Lethal waiting to confront Flair over being left off the card. Jarrett and his wife Karen at first try to help the Nature Boy, but when the 73 year old refuses their assistance along with some unkind words for the Jarrett family, Jeff joins the beatdown. At one point he demands Karen give him her spiked heel shoe, which he uses to bust Ric open. Flair’s blood drips onto the pavement while he moans about it being \u201chardway\u201d. Jeff throws in a few remarks about never liking the Crocketts before walking off into the sunset with his wife and new tag partner, all three covered in Naitch’s blood.<\/p>\n

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