Braun Strowman took to Instagram this week to address his latest absence from WWE.
After recently returning to the company following an injury hiatus, "The Big S.O.B." was removed from a planned match alongside Jimmy Uso and Sami Zayn against The New Bloodline on last week's WWE SmackDown, and also missed the historic WWE Raw on Netflix debut show.
Strowman released the following statement via social media this week to explain why he missed both shows:
We’ll see if people read what I post or not. Or just look at the cool pictures. 2025 has been off to a rough start for me. I picked up some kind of a bug last week and it had absolutely whipped my ass. I laid in a hotel room for four days with a fever of 102 or higher for the first three days. A week later I am finally over what I think is the hump. My severe body aches are finally easing up. Today is the first day I have been able to move around and really do anything. I have lost 36 lbs. in this week. Had test taken and all they could determine is that it was a very bad flu, thankfully. I hate I have had to miss last week's SmackDown, the premiere of Raw on Netflix and I will miss TV again this week. This is yet another speed bump in the road. I will be back bigger stronger and badder than ever!!!
There hasn’t been anything this life has thrown at me that I haven’t been able to able to OVERCOME and this sure as hell isn’t gonna stop me in having one of my best years to date!!!!!
2025 your ass is mine!!!!
#GonnaTakeMoreThanThisToKeepMeDown
