Roman Reigns has revealed the effects his felt following his case of COVID-19

WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns has spoken out on the impact COVID-19 had on his body, after testing positive for the virus in December.

Reigns was forced to miss the Day 1 Premium Live Event on January 1, where he was scheduled to take on Brock Lesnar for his Universal Championship.

Speaking to the SI Media podcast, the 36-year-old went into detail about his positive case of COVID-19 and the effect it had on his body. Effects he is continuing to feel now.

"For me, obviously in comparison to some of the worst scenarios that are out there and that we’ve seen through the pandemic, it wasn’t bad. For me, it was mainly a pretty good sinus infection, a bronchitis cough, a lot of chest tightness.

“I still feel that actually. When I’m doing my conditioning because we don’t wrestle quite as much and we’re doing a lot of six-man [tag team matches], I don’t have singles matches as much as I used to, so I have to continue to really push the conditioning on my own and I’ve noticed in the past couple of weeks that when I really blow myself up on the bike or running, or whatever I’m doing, I can feel that tightness and a little bit of wheezing.

“So, it’s definitely something serious. As someone who is vaccinated and boosted, it still got to me, and I still felt the effects. While they weren’t as severe as they can be for some, it did hang around and linger for a while.

“It took me, obviously, I missed Day 1 and I tested positive a week before that. We were just chasing that negative test and finally a few days before SmackDown the following week, I finally got that negative test and the wife let me back in. So, it was a good week that week.”

Since being allowed back on WWE TV following his negative test, Roman has been embroiled