In a slew of releases on November 4th 2021, which included Nia Jax, the newly christened “Bearcat” Keith Lee has been released after being moved to RAW and then, quite frankly, messed about from WWE to NXT and beyond. Mia Yim was broken away from “Reckoning” and never got going again.

    Neither has reacted on their social media at this time, but Keith did hint on Halloween that his book would be good one day soon… Might be irrelevant.


    The former NXT Champion, Keith Lee, spoke more in-depth about his heart issue as a guest on the latest episode of the Out of Character Podcast with Ryan Satin. Lee went into detail about why he was away for so long and how the situation forced him into thoughts of death or having to retire from wrestling.

    “I wasn’t feeling bad at first of all originally,” Keith Lee said. “There were things that were going on that I didn’t really understand. The problem is with this COVID thing is that no one really knows what’s going on right. It’s this trial and error and everyone is experiencing different things and sometimes these after-effects hit people differently, sometimes COVID hits people differently. Some people, it doesn’t really hit at all and in my case, I just assumed I would be fine. I tested positive and I came back after three weeks and then I had that match with Riddle on February 8th and then the next day I got a call saying there was something odd in my blood which kind of gave the idea that there was inflammation. That led to multiple MRIs and really uncomfortable machines that jammed up my shoulder, at the time I felt some things that were odd but I didn’t understand them to be that.

    “I just assumed because other people were having different scenarios that were odd post COVID that it was going to take me a little bit longer to get back to normal than others. It led to ‘Hey man, we need you to not work out, not do anything until we figure this out.’ Then it became very uncomfortable because even though I knew what the potential endgame could be, I wasn’t telling my family, I wasn’t telling the media and that’s because it’s something that’s not in our control. It’s something I didn’t want them to stress about so it was a personal battle that I took on on my own and for the most part stayed quiet about regardless of timing.