2017 was a great year for Braun Strowman as he firmly established himself as a WWE main eventer. However, one of his more bizarre moments came when he was thrown in the back of a garbage truck and seemingly compacted as a result! Now, he's talked about what that was like and it sounds like the RAW Superstar found it a rather uncomfortable experience (which is hardly a surprise).
"That was actually terrifying. I never thought to myself I was claustrophobic or anything, but being in the back of that and knowing I literally had split seconds to per se get out of the way of the compactor from being crushed, it was a little nerve-wracking.
"All these crazy stunts and stuff that I do, the boss pitches a lot of them to me and I don’t really worry that much, because I know he would never ask me to do anything that he wouldn’t do himself. At the end of the day I feel comfortable doing it, because we have an unbelievable special effects team and stunt crew on hand and stuff like that, and safety is the first and foremost thought in their mind when we’re going through all this stuff.
"So at the end of the day I feel safe doing it, but it’s still a little nerve-wracking being in the back of a garbage truck with the potential of being crushed."
It definitely sounds like Strowman has a good working relationship with Vince McMahon then even if some of his ideas are a little on the crazy side. When it was put to him that he must have spent an entire week living in that garbage truck, the Monster Among Men jokingly added:
"It took me. I had to … No, I was in a garbage truck for a week, and so I had to jump from nine different garbage trucks to make it across the country to show up there."
It remains to be seen when Strowman will pull off another fun stunt on WWE programming but with WrestleMania right around the corner, you have to believe/hope the company will have something good in store for him. What do you guys think? Let us know in the comments section.