WWE NXT commentator and combat sports commentator Mauro Ranallo was recently a guest on The MMA Hour and revealed why he needed to take a break from WWE last year. He revealed that the rugged travel schedule on the WWE main roster, in addition to his other professional commitments, were simply too much for him to try to balance:

“I was on the road every week. You add MMA and boxing and kickboxing to it. The road travel destroyed me. So, rumors and all this other stuff, what happened, honestly — and Ariel, you know how honest I’ve been in this thing — I had a breakdown in the Chicago O’Hare airport on my way to Pittsburgh to do SmackDown Live. And again, Frank Shamrock … God bless him … Bas Rutten, man. Guys who fought each other are my biggest supporters. But, I had to phone them and I said ‘I’m done. I cannot do this anymore. It’s going to kill me.’ And I thought I was done with the entire company.”