Before his recent return to television, Keith Lee hadn’t wrestled since February, having been replaced by John Morrison for a triple threat match at Elimination Chamber. Since then, there had been much speculation on why he was absent, with the most prevalent rumor being that Lee has been suffering from health issues.
Now though, Lee has uploaded a video to YouTube where he verifies that this was accurate. He reveals a heart issue was discovered in his blood work, and he required multiple scans and was not allowed to train.
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I was basically forbidden from training or any activity outside of a light walk. There was a fear that doing more than that, that there was a chance that I could just up and pass away.
So this became a fight against death, so to speak, and it took up until the company sent me to Pittsburgh to get looked at. It was to the point where I was about to have to undergo genetic testing and all sorts of things because it was thought that there was a potential I could have a heart disease of sorts.
Very fortunately, even though it took a long time, we waited that amount of time, for that allowed the inflammation in my heart to eventually go down to normal. So even though the first MRI was bad and the second one was worse, over time, things got better here and there. And eventually, after that visit, I was cleared to try and get back into some sort of shape. That’s where the real struggle is.
But, yeah, it took some time. And to be honest, it wasn’t even certain that I was going to show up in Dallas in terms of on TV.
Lee returned to Raw three weeks ago to answer an open challenge set by WWE Champion Bobby Lashley, fresh off his dominating victory over Kofi Kingston at Money In The Bank. With the show being held in Dallas, Keith, who is a Texan, had the crowd fully behind him but ultimately would be defeated clean in just under six minutes. Since then his has traded wins with Karrion Kross and wrestled dark matches before both Raw and SmackDown.
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