Autopsy: Ric Flair’s son Reid died from toxic mix of heroin, prescription drugs

Promising pro wrestler Reid Fliehr died in late March from a toxic combination of heroin and prescription drugs, according to an autopsy report released Friday.

The report by Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner Thomas Owens said that Fliehr the son of wrestling icon Ric Flair of Charlotte had traces of clonazepam, a muscle relaxant, and alprazolam, an anti-anxiety drug commonly marketed as Xanax.

It was Ric Flair who found his 25-year-old son unconscious on March 29 in a second bedroom of a two-bedroom SouthPark hotel suite, where Ric Flair was living at the time.

The autopsy report said Reid Fliehr was found unresponsive with drug paraphernalia.

Reid Fliehr, who went by Reid Flair in the ring, had just returned from a successful wrestling tour in Japan. Hed looked forward to tag-teaming with his father in two bouts in Maryland and training in Charlotte before going back to Japan for a second tour in late April.

But medics declared him dead on the scene. Police wrote in a report that he was incapacitated because of drugs.

The autopsy confirmed that.

Friday, his mother, Beth Fliehr, said shed suspected a drug overdose killed her son and that the autopsy report didnt surprise her.

She said Owens contacted her about the findings Friday morning and she spent the afternoon sobbing as she reminisced about her son.

It (the report) makes it harder, she said. I knew his fears and I knew how to help him. All he wanted to do was stay busy, train and keep his mind off the old triggers, then go back to Japan. He was doing really well there. He was happy.

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Autopsy: Ric Flair’s son Reid died from toxic mix of heroin, prescription drugs