WWE star Keith Lee was banned from exercising during ‘fight against death’ as terrifying heart issue kept him off TV for months

The Limitless One has explained his lengthy absence (Picture: WWE)

WWE superstar Keith Lee has revealed how a terrifying ‘fight against death’ kept him off television for months.

The former NXT Champion recently returned to Raw after being largely absent since January, and he’s now opened up on the reason for his lengthy hiatus from the red brand.

The Limitless One has revealed how he contracted Covid-19 in January 2021 and was off TV for around three weeks, before making a one-off return in February when he faced Riddle.

However, in a YouTube video Lee explained that the next day he got a call telling him there was ‘something off’ in his blood.

This ended up being an inflammation in the heart, which resulted in some ‘scary times’ for the 36-year-old wrestler as he was banned from doing any training or physical activity beyond a light walk, otherwise he’d be risking his life.

He added: ‘Some people may have experienced this thing where there’s like an inflammation in the heart or lungs, for me it was the heart. That led to very scary times.

‘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.’

He explained that he was almost going to have ‘genetic testing and all sorts of things’ to find the cause of the issue, but things got back under control.

He continued: ‘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.

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‘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.’

Thankfully, he did, and Lee is still a part of the Raw roster having made his return just after Money In The Bank last month.

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