I was Ric Flair – I could do whatever I wanted ... Eight months after the plane crash, Ric was back wrestling. Ric wrestled for 40 years, from 1972 until 2012. But despite remaining a ...

Ric Flair's years of alcohol ... hospital and near death last month. “I crashed in an airplane and broke my back, I’ve been hit by lightning,” Flair tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue.