4. Reid Flair – Age 25
Although Reid Fliehr (aka Reid Flair) had big shoes to fill, his wrestling career offered promise in living up to the legacy of his famous father, “Nature Boy” Ric Flair. Reid competed as an amateur wrestler, winning 1998’s AAU National Wrestling Tournament and showing potential to become a successful professional wrestler. Instead, Reid found his ambitions thwarted by personal excess, destroying both his career and his life. before Reid had several brushes with the law including a 2007 arrest for assault and battery, a 2009 arrest for driving while impaired, and a second arrest the same year after he crashed his car and police found black tar heroin in his possession. Reid reportedly overdosed on drugs twice in 2011, a reflection of his ongoing battle with addiction. Nonetheless, Reid worked to become a successful professional wrestler, competing on the independent scene then undergoing training in All-Japan’s famous Dojo. Sadly, Reid’s promising future was cut far too short however when his father discovered his corpse in a Residence Inn in Charlotte, North Carolina on March 29, 2013. An autopsy subsequently determined that Reid died from a heroin overdose and that there were two prescription drugs—the muscle relaxer clonazepam and the anti-anxiety medication Xanax—in his bloodstream.
