Former WWE Star Rico Shares Unfortunate Health Update

Former WWE star Rico has shared concerning updates regarding his health.

The 64-year-old officially debuted in the Stamford-based company in 2002. He spent nearly two years as an active competitor, during which he held the WWE Tag Team Title and the World Tag Team Championship.

Following his departure, Rico briefly competed in AJPW before stepping away from the ring to become a police officer. In the late 2010s, the former WWE star had to retire from the force due to health issues.

Ex-WWE Star Rico Recently Developed DVT

In a recent interview with Chris Van Vliet, Rico opened up about his current medical condition, revealing that he recently developed deep vein thrombosis.

The former World Tag Team Champion added that he is currently taking blood thinners and is scheduled to undergo an ultrasound next month to monitor his condition.

It was great, but last March [2025], I was doing great in the gym, everything. Joe Matthews, a promoter, brought me to New York, and my fiance has never been to New York, and I did a Friday, Saturday morning, Saturday night signing, and Sunday, when I was leaving, the promoter, out of his good graces, took Julie and I to New York and gave us a tour of Times Square and everything, and took pictures with Julie and everything.

It was great. He dropped us off at the airport three hours delay, and so by the time I hit my seat, I was exhausted, and it’s five and a half hours to get back to Phoenix, and I didn’t get up once, so I developed DVT [Deep vein thrombosis]. That’s a blood clot in the legs. So I got one more in my femoral but what other one that’s more dangerous is I got one in my popliteal artery, which is harder to get rid of, and it was causing me pain behind the leg and stuff like that.

Since then, I’ve been on a new blood thinner and the pain behind the legs has gone away. I go for an ultrasound next month to see if all of it’s gone away. And in that, within that, I was getting my physicals and stuff like that, they found a small blockage on the left side of my heart. So I’m going through that now. And my sleep apnea returned, so now I do a CPAP machine at night. [H/T: CVV]

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