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Scott Fowler: Ric Flair remembers friend Kevin Greene and the times they wrestled in a Charlotte bar

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SportsCarolinaMonthly
December 26, 2020

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In 1996, Carolina Panthers star linebacker Kevin Greene and pro wrestler Ric Flair had some of the greatest wrestling matches you’ve never heard of at a now-shuttered Charlotte restaurant called SouthEnd Brewery. Greene died unexpectedly Monday at age 58. No cause of death has yet been announced. “We were close enough that he would come for Christmas dinner,” Flair said somberly when we talked Tuesday over the phone about Greene. The two men lived a block away for several years in the Piper Glen area of south Charlotte. All of Greene’s friends — and there were hundreds — have…

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