{"id":343341,"date":"2026-05-31T02:28:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T20:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=343341"},"modified":"2026-05-31T02:28:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T20:58:46","slug":"former-wwe-star-rico-discusses-battle-with-blood-clots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/former-wwe-star-rico-discusses-battle-with-blood-clots\/","title":{"rendered":"Former WWE Star Rico Discusses Battle With Blood Clots"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former WWE star Rico\u00a0Constantino has had several careers across his 64 years, including police work. Nonetheless, the previous\u00a0WWE Tag Team Champion&#8217;s skilled ambitions have been undermined by persistent medical issues, which he detailed during an interview on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/3jT9L7tjjUW0RpqjxkV4Ql?nd=1&#038;dlsi=d890d05442584048\" target=\"_blank\">Insight with\u00a0Chris Van Vliet<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After I was an officer, 2014-2015, I caught blood clots,&#8221; Rico said, explaining that doctors found three clots in his femoral artery. &#8220;I attempted to beat them, they put me on blood thinners, and when it got here time for the state to make a choice, I used to be a liability because I used to be on blood thinners and so I used to be forced to medically retire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rico added that he tried several diets before something stuck, allowing him to work out again and regain his health, bringing him back right into a profession as a security officer in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I got back into what I actually love \u2014 investigations, detective work \u2014 but I could not be an officer, so I became an investigator for a business insurance company called Bell\u00a0United,&#8221; he recalled, noting that he essentially did the identical work he did as a police officer, minus arresting anyone or handing out tickets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the blood clots returned last 12 months after a protracted flight that saw Rico sit for multiple hours without getting up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I got yet one more in my femoral, but the opposite one, which is more dangerous, is I got one in my popliteal\u00a0artery, which is harder to do away with,&#8221; he explained, expressing that it&#8217;s caused him quite a lot of pain. &#8220;Since then I have been on a brand new blood thinner, and the pain behind the leg&#8217;s gone away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Should you use any quotes from this text, please credit &#8220;INSIGHT with Chris Van\u00a0Vliet,&#8221; and supply a h\/t too Wrestling Inc. for the transcription.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former WWE star Rico\u00a0Constantino has had several careers across his 64 years, including police work. Nonetheless, the previous\u00a0WWE Tag Team Champion&#8217;s skilled ambitions have been undermined by persistent medical issues, which he detailed during an interview on &#8220;Insight with\u00a0Chris Van Vliet.&#8221; &#8220;After I was an officer, 2014-2015, I caught blood clots,&#8221; Rico said, explaining that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":343342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21056],"tags":[2917,1331,52305,13761,9293,795,6221],"class_list":["post-343341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wwe-and-more","tag-battle","tag-blood","tag-clots","tag-discusses","tag-rico","tag-star","tag-wwe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343344,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343341\/revisions\/343344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}