Ric Flair confirms injury ahead of his ‘Last Match’ against Jeff Jarrett and Jay Lethal

Richard Morgan Fliehr, better known as Ric Flair, watches teams warm up before the first half of an NFL football game between the Atlanta Falcons and the Los Angeles Rams, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Amis)
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Ric Flair confirmed he won’t be 100 percent for his last match.

The 73-year-old wrestler told the Busted Open podcast a foot injury has slowed him down, but he said he will fight through the pain in preparation for his “Last Match” on July 31.

Flair’s preparation for the match includes working out for two days then a rest day before repeating.

Flair and Andrade will square off against Jeff Jarrett and Jay Lethal on July 31 in Nashville, Tennessee, streamed on FITE TV.

“I’m going to walk that aisle, one last time to prove once and for all, that to be the Man, you’ve got to beat the Man,” he said in a statement earlier this week.

The 16-time World Heavyweight Champion even went directly after WWE’s weekly show “Raw,” where Jarrett, who has been training with Flair for months, is an executive.

The show came more than a decade after Flair’s 2008 Wrestlemania retirement, when he was bested in the ring by Shawn Michaels. Flair never wrestled with WWE again, but has continued popping up on the indie circuit and appearing live on “Raw” and “Smackdown.”

The Ric Flair’s Last Match pay-per-view begins on July 31 at 6 p.m. (7 p.m. ET). Pre-order the event now here on FiteTV.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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