Ricky Steamboat recently spoke with Bill Apter of Sportskeeda about having pulled out of Ric Flair's last match.

"Initially, when Conrad (Thompson), who is the promoter, when we talked, I drove to Nashville and we had a sitdown. I was still training pretty good and feeling pretty good, and I said 'okay.' We hadn't signed or sealed the deal on the money part of it, but what put the nail in the coffin is, about a week after that, I found out that Flair was wearing a pacemaker. All these years and I never knew. I immediately said, 'I don't think I want to do this.' I don't want my legacy to be that I was in the ring if he happened to pass away or something went wrong. I didn't want that. I've done some interviews after that, when they found out I said 'no,' but this the first time I'm coming public with this. I didn't want to throw Conrad or Flair under the bus, so I threw me under the bus. It's like one of those old-time boxers, they get in the ring and after about the third round, when his legs are gone, everyone is sitting there saying, 'he should have stayed retired.' I used me as the reason."

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