Halfway through a course of chemotherapy to treat Hodgkin’s lymphoma, his sole focus is on returning to the ring.
Richard Holliday has not stepped in a wrestling ring since late June. Since then, he has wrestled a far different opponent: Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
“It’s been a whirlwind,” says Holliday, whose real name is Joe Zimbardi. “You never expect this will happen to you. I took such pride in my health, so to get news like this was quite shocking.”
Holliday began experiencing a vicious bout of night sweats in June, a time when his sole focus was on a Falls Count Anywhere match against MLW champion Alexander Hammerstone.