In a recent interview with Ryan Satin as part of the Out Of Character podcast, WWE RAW superstar Tommaso Ciampa discussed several topics, including when he was cleared by the company ahead of his recent on-screen return.

“I was given the green light maybe three weeks prior, whenever we were in Albany. I flew out to Albany to have my last check-up with the medical stuff, and then it was a waiting game of creatively having something to do. I think it was three weeks, and it was kind of nice too, because it gave me three extra weeks of intense dieting, I came back in better shape than I envisioned, I think it was three weeks though.

Hardly ever do I get emotional prior to, or in the moment, it’s always sitting on an airplane reflecting after. The amount of times I’ve shed a tear on an airplane and people are like, what the hell is wrong, especially looking the way I do, I probably look like a lunatic.

Day of, I get so focused on business as usual, I forget who I was talking to about this a week ago, it was one of the women’s wrestlers, but I can’t think who, they were asking, do you get nervous before you go out. This is exactly the demeanor you get until you walk out the curtain, I’m so confident in it, being relaxed is what helps me perform.

That day, it was very much go with the flow, things changed a little bit here and there throughout the day, I really have good chemistry with Miz, so that made that part easy, when you’re out there with somebody who has been doing it for 20 years and they are great and their timing is great, there is nothing to worry about, you just get to go have fun, that was the best part, Cleveland treated me good that night.”

The full interview is available at this link.