{"id":640907,"date":"2026-10-25T13:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T13:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/640907\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T13:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T13:48:12","slug":"wwe-great-ric-flair-hospitalised-after-florida-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/640907\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE great Ric Flair hospitalised after Florida fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">She wrote: \u201cNot my Dad telling the doctor he fell bc of warrior dropping him on his head &#8230; (PS: he\u2019s going to be ok [sic]).\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">News of the accident and subsequent hospitalisation came after Flair had earlier taken to Instagram to share a health update with fans while explaining why he had been forced to pull out of a scheduled appearance at the Washington State Horror Con in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">He wrote: \u201cI want to sincerely apologise to my agent, Steve Solomon &#8230; and especially all my fans in Seattle for having to cancel my scheduled appearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cUnfortunately, I am dealing with a blood clot in my leg, and my doctors have limited my travel to 3\u20134 hours. Seattle falls outside that range, and as disappointed as I am, I have to put my health and recovery first.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cBlood clots are extremely serious and can be life-threatening. We have seen this recently with Jalen Hurts and the complications involving blood clots in his lungs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt is a reminder that this is not something to take lightly and I must follow medical advice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Flair added that he will be undergoing a procedure to \u201cstrip the affected vein\u201d in the coming weeks, after which he\u2019s hoping he will have more freedom to travel for both work and leisure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">He concluded: \u201cPlease know this decision was not made lightly. I am truly sorry for the inconvenience and disappointment and I am incredibly grateful for your patience, understanding, and continued support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Flair has battled numerous health issues over the years, including being diagnosed with skin cancer in 2025 for \u201cthe second time in three years\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">A month later, he told fans on social media that he was \u201ccancer-free\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">\u2013 BANG Showbiz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She wrote: \u201cNot my Dad telling the doctor he fell bc of warrior dropping him on his head&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74,1558,156,3592,38403,136857,2147,16773,28750,111,139,69,14727,2539,314179,15370],"class_list":["post-640907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-after","tag-been","tag-entertainment","tag-fall","tag-falling","tag-flair","tag-florida","tag-great","tag-hospitalised","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-outside","tag-restaurant","tag-ric","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}