Posted By James Walsh on 10/26/25


While appearing on the Battleground podcast, former WWE star Braun Strowman commented on being away from the wrestling business…

“I learned that when you’re good at something, you don’t do it for free. But no, honestly, I miss being in the ring, and I miss being in the locker room. A lot of the other stuff that comes along with it—I’m enjoying the break from that because it’s very stressful.

I mean, I’m still traveling a lot, but now I’m getting to travel instead of it feeling like a job. Before, it got to the point where it was just work. Now, I’m really excited about it. I’m not saying I wasn’t excited all the time with WWE, but it just became a lot.

For the first four years of my career, I was on the road Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday—wrestling every day. I’d get home around two o’clock on Wednesday, have Thursday off, rake the stuff out of the suitcase into the washing machine, into the dryer, and then right back into the bag. I did that for four and a half years.

It was such an amazing blessing to be able to do that, to have the career I had, and the opportunities that came with it. But at the same time, I missed out on a lot of cool things in normal life—whatever ‘normal’ is. So it’s nice slowing down a little bit, having the opportunity to think about my unbelievable career, and catch up on stuff.”