Omos, the former one-half of the WWE RAW Tag-Team Champions with AJ Styles has had a tough life. The early career of the star was full of ups and downs. His career could have come to an end even before it could take off. It was previously reported how The Athletic reported his profile and the site published an in-depth feature about his life. It was also discussed how he got to WWE. It was noted that while he was playing basketball for the University of South Florida, a doctor gave him a medical examination. It was found that he had a tumor in or near his pituitary gland.
He then had to undergo emergency brain surgery as the tumor was getting close to a nerve and as his doctors said it would have caused him to go blind. He then had follow-up brain surgery to clean up any lingering issues from the first.
Omos breaks his silence on the medical history
Omos was the guest on this week’s “Out of Character with Ryan Satin,” where he discussed how he was informed that he had a tumor in 2012. It was informed to him that he had a pituitary tumor which needed to be checked.
“My coach (in college) said to me, ‘I don’t know who this guy is, but it seems like he’s a very high up guy on the campus. I want you to look at his email.’ So I read it and he just stated that, ‘Hey, I noticed that one of your guys has a tumor by the side of his face. He has a pituitary tumor and needs to get checked out ASAP.’ I’m reading this email, like, ‘No way, I am fine.’ I looked at my coaches and I said, ‘I don’t think I have anything but hey, I’m gonna do it just so I can have peace of mind.’”
“The next Wednesday they set up an MRI appointment. The MRI takes about a couple of days (to come back). That following Monday, I came to practice. I go to the trainer’s room. They said to go upstairs to the coach’s office. I walked into the coach’s office and there was the President of the University and all the doctors from the office were there. They said, ‘So this is an MRI right here of your brain. Do you see that little speck right there? You have a brain tumor. We don’t know whether it’s benign or it’s a cancerous tumor, and we’re going to have to figure out how to deal with this.’”
“Literally a month after the MRI, I had the surgery and they had to go through my nose. It was very, very traumatic. But in the process of doing the testing, they found that not only do I have the pituitary tumor, I have partial Cushing’s disease, which is very rare. There’s different forms of large human beings, but it’s a different variation and I had all of these combinations. It was the first time in medical history with someone with all three together. It became this sort of anomaly in the medical world. I had a journal published about my case.”
Omos recently split with AJ Styles and he is currently on a singles’ run.
