Richard Holliday Won’t Watch Return Match After Cancer Remission, Wants It To Remain As Pure As Possible

Richard Holliday has no interest in watching his return match and instead, he is choosing to leave the memories alone.

Richard Holliday recently returned to action following a battle with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Although he received high praise for his return match at Paradise Alley Pro Wrestling’s ‘Rarefied Air’ show on Saturday, June 10, 2023. Holliday recently stated on Busted Open Radio that he had no interest in watching the match back and would rather believe it was as fantastic as he felt it was. 

“It was special. I joke around, and I say, ‘I’ll never watch the match back.’ I won’t. I’ll never watch that match back because I just want it to remain as pure as possible in my mind,” he said. “I’ll go back and watch and go, ‘I didn’t like that. That didn’t look great. Why did I do this?’ I don’t 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’t pull any punches. We went like 25 minutes. I did as much as I could, and I didn’t hold anything back. It felt like I didn’t miss a beat. People told me I didn’t miss a beat, and I’ll take their word for it because I’m 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’s 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, ‘June 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,’ and then I did. Then, I had a match on Thursday, and it was, ‘Oh, I forgot I’m doing this full-time again.’”

Holliday is best known for his time in MLW. Holliday is now a free agent. Court Bauer broke the news in April 2023, which Holliday verified days later. Holliday had been a mainstay in Major League Wrestling for four years.

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