During an appearance on Nicholas Turturro’s Delivering Happiness, Damian Priest talked about taking on a reduced schedule in WWE as he works through injury.
Addressing the various issues he’s had over the past year and a half, the former World Heavyweight Champion stated:
This past year, I’ve taken a step back. Been banged up a little bit. Kind of giving the bones and joints and ligaments and everything in between a little bit of a break.
The company now this year decided, ‘Let’s take it easy on him,’ because I’ve been going hard for a while. Tore my shoulder a couple times within the last year and a half. My knees are banged up, my back is oof.
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 type of thing.
Priest noted that WWE has essentially forced him to “take it easy,” something he says is not the easiest thing to do.
During the conversation, Priest and Turturro also addressed the surprising familial connection between them, finding out during a New York Yankees game they attended that the NYPD Blue star (and former guest ring announcer at WrestleMania XI) is actually Priest’s uncle.
On the timing of the game and the discovery, Turturro added:
That was a good night. The Yankees won that night, we didn’t get swept and then you had to get on a plane to Saudi Arabia.
Source: F4WOnline