I can’t believe this dude is 60 years old

Can’t the Nature Boy just go quietly into the sunset? Over the weekend, wrestling legend Ric Flair was assaulted not by Dusty Rhodes, not by Hulk Hogan and not even by Ricky Steamboat…instead, it was Flair’s wife Jacqueline Beems who did the deed.

On Sunday night cops were called to the Nature Boy’s Charlotte, NC home (not sure if he calls it Space Mountain) to break up a domestic dispute.  Beems was subsequently hauled to jail and charged with simple assault.  She was released from the cooler after a few hours, and it’s unclear whether or not Bobby “The Brain” Heenan was the one who bailed her out.

For anyone who grew up watching the ridiculous spectacle of pro wrestling, Flair is the icon who just won’t go away. His mountain of debt keeps him wrestling to this day, and every year or two he ends up on the police blotter. Check out these lowlights from the Smoking Gun web site:

Ric twirls his johnson on a transatlantic flight

Ric tries to Figure Four a fellow motorist

This isn’t the first time Ric’s been hit upside his head by a woman, start at the 4:40 mark of this clip to see him take one like a champ: