Sleep-deprived and dripping with sweat, Dean Muhtadi exited his hot yoga session in a state of calmness.
Muhtadi needed that yoga to revitalize himself after a four-day loop on the road for WWE. Four years ago, his life was a whirling combination of rental cars, undersized hotel beds and long rides between shows. He had flown on a red-eye back home to Orlando following that Monday’s Raw, and could sense that Tuesday morning he was in dire need of hot yoga’s healing effects.
“I went to unwind,” says Muhtadi, who created a larger-than-life persona in WWE as Mojo Rawley.