A SmackDown star says WWE is forcing him to work a reduced schedule.
During his recent appearance on Prince Street Pizza’s Delivering Happiness, former World Heavyweight Champion Damian Priest revealed that WWE is forcing him to work a lighter schedule due to the multiple injuries he’s dealing with.
“It’s unfortunate, and I don’t like to bring it up too much, and I don’t take breaks. Since I’ve been in WWE, I’ve literally taken zero days off. I’ve never asked for time off because I’ve been hurting. The company now, this year, decided like, ‘Let’s take it easy on him,’ because I’ve been going hard for a while.
“Tore my shoulders a couple of times within the last year and a half. My knees are banged up. My back is ooph. I need a lot of work done, but I choose to not, because if I don’t have to, I won’t. I’ll just figure it out, let’s do rehab and just keep me in the game, coach, that kind of thing.
“So we’ve been doing that for a while but this year I think the company was like, ‘Okay, we’re happy with you but we need to make sure you’re going to last here.’ So they’ve been forcing me to take it easy, put it that way. Not the easiest thing to do when you want to just go out there and perform because you love what you do,” the WWE star said. [H/T Cultaholic]
Damian Priest is not the only WWE superstar who has been working through injuries, as his former Judgment Day stablemate, JD McDonagh, was also dealing with the same and has recently undergone surgery.
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