10 Wrestling Facts We Didn't Know Last Week (Aug 24)

4. An Ultimate Warrior Suplex Knocked Off Ric Flair's Equilibrium

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It also stopped Bret Hart's first WWF Heavyweight Title win from being televised.

In a new interview with Wrestling Inc, Ric Flair told how The Ultimate Warrior botched a simple suplex spot with him on a house show in 1992. When Flair rolled out to the arena floor and tried to get his bearings, he told referee Earl Hebner that the room was spinning and he was struggling to get up.

Warrior, who dropped Ric on his head, had thrown the legend's equilibrium off, and he couldn't regain his balance. That problem ended up affecting Flair for around 12 months, and it's why he requested that the WWF keep his title loss to Bret under wraps. His performance that night in Saskatoon, in Ric's own words, wasn't good.

WWE later released footage of the match on one of those old VHS tape collections, and it's featured in the Vault section of the Network under 'Home Video Classics'. Just look up the 'Smack 'Em, Whack 'Em' tape from 31 March 1993 and go to the 1:09:00 mark to see the match in full.

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