Roman Reigns missed WWE’s Day 1 pay-per-view event due to testing positive for COVID-19. Appearing on SI Media‘s podcast, the Universal Champion described his experience with the virus. He said,
“For me, in comparison to some of the worst scenarios that are out there and we’ve seen through this process in the pandemic, it wasn’t bad. For me, it was mainly a pretty good sinus infection, the bronchitis cough, a lot chest tightness. I still feel that, actually. When I’m doing my conditioning, because we don’t wrestle quite as much as we’re doing a lot of six-man (tag matches), I don’t have singles matches as much as I used to, so I have to really push the conditioning on my own. I’ve noticed that in the past couple of weeks, when I really blow myself up on the bike or running, I can feel that tightness and a little bit of wheezing. It’s definitely something serious. Someone who has been vaccinated and boosted, it still got to me and I still felt the effects. They weren’t as severe as they can be for some, it did hang around and linger for a while. Obviously, I missed Day 1, I tested positive a week before that and it took me to where we were chasing that negative test and finally a few days before SmackDown the following week, I got the negative test.”
Thankfully, Reigns was able to return to WWE not long after testing positive and he didn’t miss any other events after Day 1.
H/T to Fightful for the transcription.
