Jim Ross Comments on Reid Flair’s Passing

Hall of Fame announcer and wrestling personality Jim Ross has posted a new blog on his website, JRsBarBQ.com, remembering the late Reid Flair, who was found dead in his hotel room on March 29th. Ross, a long-time friend of the Fliehr family, begins his blog recounting stories of himself and Ric working together in various promotions and how close he became to their family when Reid was only a toddler. The emotional story continues as Ross recounts Ric Flair ALWAYS kissing photographs of his children pre-match and how much they all mean to “the Nature Boy.” Ross himself was like an “uncle” to Reid, and when addictions and issues started to become evident in Reid’s life a couple of years ago, Ross was there for him as much as any other “real” family member.

“A few years ago Reid began having some personal issues that have been documented elsewhere. No family is immune to the temptations of life that exist today and that are challenges that face every family in some way. Either with their own child, a friend of a child, a friend’s or relative’s child, etc. None of us are immune to the ‘demons’ that like to prey upon those that let their guard down if even for only a moment because a moment, at times, is all it takes.
 
Over the past few years while some of those issues were on going I was, at the bequest of Naitch, engaging Reid in a series of telephone calls to discuss his situation, where he had been and where he wanted  to go. At times, these conversations lasted for hours. They were candid, honest and, at times, they seemed to help me address these matters perhaps more than they helped Reid. I loved taking to him and will cherish the opportunities that we had to converse over the years.  
 
During every conversation, I found Reid to never be defiant, to always be polite and above all else to be respectful. That was because of how he was raised… by two, loving parents. 
 
Reid Flair was a lovable, good hearted kid. He, like all of us, had his blemishes but he was a sweetheart of a young man.  Why God picked this particular time to take Reid, we will never know but it is my belief on this Easter Sunday, the first Easter Sunday that Reid Flair has spent with God,that  is the greatest day young Reid could have ever imagined.”

You can read JR’s entire heart-felt blog at JRsBarBQ.com.

 

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