| Date: | Oct 8 1992 |
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| Location: | Phoenix, AZ |
| Arena: | America West Arena |
| Match: | vs. Ultimate Warrior |
| Comments: |
Flair remembers: "In Phoenix, the Ultimate Warrior gave me a suplex and messed it up. I landed on my head, dislodging a chip in my inner ear and upsetting my sense of balance. But I didn't realize that anything was wrong at first. Charles Barkley, the basketball star, was sitting in the front row and I wanted to show off for him, so I told the Warrior to throw me into the corner for an upside-down flip. That's when everything started spinning wildly. I completely missed the turnbuckle and flew out onto the floor. I stood up, and fell down again. Fortunately, before the Warrior could put his hands on me, Earl Hebner stopped the match. ... "From Saskatoon, I went to the Mayo Clinic in Minneapolis with my dad and the mystery was solved pretty quickly: I had something called benign paroxysmal postion [sic - positional] vertigo. The doctors explained that when I leaned upward, the chip that had broken in my inner ear went backward through a canal of fluid, unsettling my equilibrium. If I sat upright, the chip would float back in the opposite direction and, after about thirty seconds, would drop into place." (222) |
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| Source(s): | Flair, Ric and Keith Elliot Greenberg. To Be the Man. New York: Pocket, 2004. |
