WWE Superstar Omos recently opened up about a serious and life-altering medical diagnosis he received as a teenager, revealing how it changed the trajectory of his life before he ever stepped into a wrestling ring.
Speaking with Chris Van Vliet on Insight, Omos shared the moment doctors discovered a pituitary tumor in his brain while he was just 18 years old and in college.
“I walk in and they pull out my MRI. They go, ‘Hey, so we did the MRI on your brain. You see this little dot right here? You have a pituitary tumor,’” Omos recalled.
The diagnosis came with an urgent warning. The tumor was causing his body to overproduce growth hormones, which posed an immediate threat to his health.
“They said, ‘We’re gonna take it out because you’re gonna go blind or you’re gonna have a heart attack.’ Because my body was producing so many growth hormones, it was making my heart enlarged. So they said, ‘We need to get this fixed now.’”
The news came as a shock to the young Omos, who was far from home and attending college in the United States while his family remained in Nigeria.
“I know it was a blessing. I was 18 years old, and it was just me and myself in college. My parents were back home in Nigeria. I never expected anything like that to happen my entire life,” he said.
The experience not only tested his strength but also laid the foundation for the resilience and presence that now defines his WWE persona. Today, Omos stands tall—literally and figuratively—as one of WWE’s most physically imposing superstars, but his journey to the squared circle began with a fight far more personal and real.
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