Richard Holliday opens up about his first match back after his cancer went into remission.<\/p>\n
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The former MLW star appeared on Busted Open Radio to discuss his return match that took place at the June 10th Paradise Alley Pro Wrestling’s ‘Rarefied Air’ event. Holliday says that the match felt special to him, especially since he had a ton of family and friends there to support him. It is for these reasons that he tells the show hosts that he will not watch it back. <\/p>\n
\nIt was special. I joke around, and I say, \u2018I\u2019ll never watch the match back.\u2019 I won\u2019t. I\u2019ll never watch that match back because I just want it to remain as pure as possible in my mind,” he said. “I\u2019ll go back and watch and go, \u2018I didn\u2019t like that. That didn\u2019t look great. Why did I do this?\u2019 I don\u2019t want to do that. I want to leave that match as is. It felt fantastic. To have my family there, my friends there. I didn\u2019t pull any punches. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Holliday adds that he didn’t hold anything back in the matchup, and felt like he didn’t miss a beat. He adds that he was very tunnel-visioned on that one event and forgot that he has a bunch of dates coming up. <\/p>\n
\nWe went like 25 minutes. I did as much as I could, and I didn\u2019t hold anything back. It felt like I didn\u2019t miss a beat. People told me I didn\u2019t miss a beat, and I\u2019ll take their word for it because I\u2019m not going to watch it back. It was everything I could have wanted, and I was so happy that I did it because now it\u2019s in the rearview. I was so tunnel-visioned on that one match that I almost kind of forgot that I have a schedule going forward. I was like, \u2018June 10, I have to do this match and train for this and look as good as I can, present the best package that I could,\u2019 and then I did. Then, I had a match on Thursday, and it was, \u2018Oh, I forgot I\u2019m doing this full-time again.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
In a separate interview, Holliday spoke about his love of baseball and how MLB star Anthony Rizzo had a similar battle with cancer like he had. You can read about that here. <\/p>\n
(H\/T and transcribed by Fightful)<\/p>\n