Prior to his current position as AEW’s Executive Vice President and Head of Global Production, Mike Mansury spent more than a decade working in production at WWE. Mansury was with the company behind the scenes for some scary moments, including when Jerry Lawler suffered a heart attack.
But perhaps the most stressful situation he encountered with the company came when WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair faced a serious health scare in 2017 where he was given a 5 percent chance to survive.
Mansury was a recent guest on Talk Is Jericho, and he shared that WWE actually prepared three different versions of Monday Night Raw in the event of Flair’s passing.
“So Ric had a really bad health situation and I think they basically were ready to give him last rites and everything else in-between,” Mansury shared. “So, we had had three versions of the show prepared. We had the version that it was gonna be executed as it was written, a version that we would do if Ric, God forbid, passed before the show and then if he had passed during the show.”
Mansury continued: “Thank God he pulled through. He’s alive and better than ever now, all these years later but, that’s definitely one of the shows that just really, really sticks out in my brain like, woof.”
Listen to the full episode of Talk Is Jericho here.
