Roman Reigns opened up on several topics including his battle with COVID-19 while doing a recent interview.
The WWE Universal Champion tested positive for COVID-19 right before the Day 1 event on January 1st, which forced him to pull out of his scheduled bout with Brock Lesnar. Fans were concerned about Reigns as he has beaten Leukemia and is immunocompromised.
Reigns did confirm in an interview with Sports Illustrated that he is vaccinated and got his booster shot. He also detailed his symptoms.
“For me, obviously in comparison to some of the worst scenarios that are out there and that we’ve seen through the pandemic, it wasn’t bad,” Reigns revealed on the podcast. “For me, it was mainly a pretty good sinus infection, a bronchitis cough, a lot of chest tightness.”
Reigns noted that he is still dealing with the effects of COVID-19 as he has tightness in his chest and does wheeze when doing cardio.
“I still feel that actually. When I’m doing my conditioning because we don’t wrestle quite as much and we’re doing a lot of six-man [tag team matches], I don’t have singles matches as much as I used to, so I have to continue to really push the conditioning on my own and I’ve noticed in the past couple of weeks that when I really blow myself up on the bike or running, or whatever I’m doing, I can feel that tightness and a little bit of wheezing.
So it’s definitely something serious. As someone who is vaccinated and boosted, it still got to me and I still felt the effects. While they weren’t as severe as they can be for some, it did hang around and linger for a while.”
Reigns continued by recalling how he was chasing after getting a negative test so he could get back to work. “The Big Dog” will make his next Universal Title defense against Seth Rollins at this Saturday’s Royal Rumble.
