Ric Flair Taken to Hospital After Tampa Fall; Charlotte Says He Will Be Ok

Wrestling legend Ric Flair, 77, was taken to hospital after falling outside a restaurant in Tampa, Florida, on Friday, October 23, 2026, TMZ reported. Flair cut his head and eye open in the fall and was bleeding heavily, and TMZ said he may also have a concussion. His daughter Charlotte Flair said on X on Friday evening that her father is going to be ok.

What happened in Tampa

According to TMZ, Flair got up from the bar at the Wagamama restaurant, left his phone and drink behind, walked across the street and fell outside, injuring his face. He was taken away by ambulance. The New York Post and wrestling outlets including WrestleView and WrestlingNews.co carried the TMZ report.

The concussion is a possibility reported by TMZ, not a confirmed diagnosis. The only condition update after the fall came from Charlotte Flair. No hospital statement and no further family update had been reported by the outlets carrying the story.

The fall came at the end of a day that had already brought health news about Flair, which is why word of the hospital trip spread fast among wrestling fans on Friday night.

Charlotte Flair's update

Charlotte Flair, herself a wrestler, posted on X on Friday evening: "Not my dad telling the doctor he fell bc of warrior dropping him on his head... (ps: he's going to be ok)."

The post did two things at once. It passed on her father's own joke to the doctor about how he fell, and it gave fans the one clear piece of news they were waiting for, in her words at the end of the post: he is going to be ok. The New York Post reported her post as the family's health update after the hospital scare.

The announcement hours earlier

Hours before the fall, Flair had announced on social media that he had cancelled a scheduled appearance at Washington State Horror Con in Seattle. In his post, reported by TMZ and WrestleView, he said he is dealing with a blood clot in his leg and that his doctors have limited his travel to 3 to 4 hours. That travel limit is why the Seattle trip came off his schedule. Flair said he is scheduled for a procedure to strip the affected vein.

The two Friday stories are separate. The blood clot and the travel limit were announced by Flair himself before the fall, in his own words on social media. The fall outside the Tampa restaurant happened later that day and was reported by TMZ. Nothing in the reports links the fall to the blood clot, and this article does not link them either.

Flair is a two time WWE Hall of Famer and a 16 time world champion, one of the most decorated wrestlers in the history of the business on the record reported by WrestlingNews.co. He is under contract with AEW, according to WrestlingNews.co reporting of the TMZ story.