Damian Priest on his reduced WWE schedule: “They’ve been forcing me to take it easy”
While appearing on the Prince St. Pizza show, WWE star Damian Priest commented on his reduced WWE schedule in 2025…
“It’s unfortunate, and I don’t like to bring it up too much. 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 was hurting.
This year, though, the company decided, ‘Let’s take it easy on him,’ because I’ve been going hard for a long time. I’ve torn my shoulder a couple of 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 not to do it. If I don’t have to, I won’t.
Instead, I figure it out. We do rehab, and it’s a ‘keep me in the game, coach’ type of thing. That’s what we’ve been doing for a while now.
But this year, I think the company said, ‘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.
And that’s not the easiest thing to do when you just want to go out there and perform, because you love what you do. I’m still on TV regularly—just not in the ring as much as I’d like to be.
That’s really the only downside. I love performing, man. I love getting physical. So it’s hard for me.”