The world of WWE was left stunned when champion Reigns announced his cancer had returned on Monday Night Raw.
Reigns relinquished his title and has since received support from everyone in the industry.
One man who knows all about fighting leukemia is Bulgarian Petrov.
He was forced to retire from professional football after being diagnosed six years ago and is now in remission.
Petrov has urged Reigns to keep fighting, and believes the WWE has the inner strength to come out the other side.
Petrov told The Mirror: “I know about Roman’s story. I know he’s fighting already. I can see he has a belief he’s going to win this fight. And you need that, you really do.
“He will keep fighting. But the main thing is that belief. It’s a personal battle. You have to find a way to feel confident in yourself.
“You have to learn for yourself how to adapt and how to fight. He can see many of us have done it. He can see us moving forwards.
“Of course, he already knows how hard it is going to be. And it is hard – no-one can tell you otherwise. Horrible, difficult – trying to find the words to describe it is tough in itself.
“My own personal fitness helped a lot, especially mentally. You try to be professional as a footballer, you try to do extra, you try to live your life in the correct way.
“I decided to get myself into the best shape I possibly could. That way I was able to take additional chemotherapy to kill the disease. I had to.
“I was fitter, I was stronger. That’s sometimes the problem with other people. The chemotherapy is the hardest part.
“And that fitness, that strengthen Roman has from professional wrestling will help him. I’m absolutely sure that it helped me. And even if it didn’t the fact is I believed it was helping me.”
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