John Tolos
A month later, the Heenan Family came to a temporary conclusion as Heenan announced on May 28 at a "Superstars" taping that he was selling the contract of Intercontinental Champion Mr. Perfect to "Coach" John Tolos and retiring to become a "broadcast journalist"; in reality, he retired as a manager due to lingering effects of a broken neck suffered in 1983 and being an announcer offered a less strenuous travel schedule as well as no longer taking bumps. However, he would go to associate with Ric Flair when he came to the WWF soon after. Heenan was to have been on the road with Flair for six months, but told in his WWE Hall of Fame speech that he went to Vince McMahon after only a month and said he couldn't do it, that Vince had teamed him with Larry Flynt and that he simply couldn't keep up with Flair's party lifestyle, though he would continue to heavily support Flair in his commentating with his catch line being "That's not fair to Flair" when he was getting beat up in the ring. Heenan also introduced Lex Luger in January 1993 and was known as his advisor, though he did not appear as his manager at ringside.