Braun Strowman isn’t ruling out returning to the ring someday, just not now.
Strowman, a former WWE star who parted ways with the promotion earlier this year, has turned his focus to other TV and movie gigs since then. The 42-year-old, real name Adam Scherr, is currently on a press tour promoting his USA Network show “Everything on the Menu,” which will debut this Friday after a new episode of Smackdown.
Strowman said in a recent interview with In The Kliq that he still has the itch to wrestle again. However, he’s currently using his time away to heal up and try out other gigs in entertainment.
“You’ll see me when I feel like letting you see me, when it comes to that,” Strowman said about his in-ring career. “I’m really focused on the food space. I got four movies I’m attached to next year, I’m in talks with four, five other television shows. Don’t get me wrong, I miss being in the ring. These [hands] things are very capable of being passed out whenever I want to. But I’m also enjoying a little break because my body is starting to somewhat feel normal. I’m getting some of these injuries healed up that were nagging for years, and stuff like that.”
Strowman’s new show, which was produced by WWE Studios, sees him travel the U.S. to try out a mix of up-and-coming and legendary food spots. Strowman won’t sample just one or two dishes from culinary greats; he’s going to get a little bit of everything they have to offer.
Strowman said the idea came together while dealing with a neck injury in 2023.
“Sitting at home, recovering, I’m going ‘Am I ever going to be able to wrestle again? Am I going to be able to lift weights again? What kind of life am I going to have?’ Whatever normal is, being six-foot-eight, 350 pounds. But I had this realization while I’m sitting out, like I’m so blessed, not only with my physical attributes, but I have something inside me that God gave me, that I’m very good at putting smiles on people’s faces, and I realized that I want to keep doing that. I’m trying to figure out how I could continue to make people happy. So I’m out, and one day I’m on the phone with my agent, Nick, and my good friend, Kevin, who’s the producer of Everything on the Menu. And, I don’t know if it was because they were giving me a hard time, we were talking about something, goofing around about how, when I go out to eat, I normally order two, three, four entrees when I go out to eat. I didn’t get 350 pounds by accident; I like to eat.”
When asked specifically about a report from earlier this year that mentioned Strowman possibly coming back to WWE sometime in the future on a part-time basis, he said not to believe everything you hear.
