Kevin Nash discusses his recent battle with skin cancer.
Despite being retired for a number of years, Kevin Nash is still one of the more prominent talking heads in the world of professional wrestling, mainly due to the fact that his takes and opinions are often covered in the wrestling media.
On the latest episode of his podcast Kliq This, host Sean Oliver brought up Nash's recent battle with skin cancer. Nash proceeded to tell everyone that he's doing well and that he's going to be fine.
“I’m fine. I’m not bloated, I don’t have a fucking headache. I have a fucking cut on my face, which will heal, just like the thirty three other ones I’ve had on my body. I’m going to be fine.”
Nash went on to recall the specifics of the procedure, also joking that he wouldn't have a face if he had to have any more cancer taken out of his skin.
“I go into this place and they tell me about the procedure. They say that they’re going to make a hole and they’re going to make sure they cut around and get all the cancer on the first take. I’m laying on this table, in comes this crew that says Augusta ground crew and they’ve got that round thing where they change the holes on the green. They stick that motherfucker on my face. He pulls it away, I can smell that they’re cauterizing my fucking skin, I can smell my skin burning. They pulled back and they show me this wound, and then he takes a pen and makes this crucifix in my face. He was determining on the flexibility of my skin, either they’re going to go east west or north south. They cut north south on me, so they fucking sew me up and everything. Everybody in the waiting room, everybody has already got some patch on them that’s already been in for round one and they didn’t get it all, so they’re waiting to go back in to get more shit cut out. If I would have had more shit than that, I don’t know if I would have a fucking face.”
Nash also went on to blame his skin cancer diagnosis on the various amount of tanning beds he used throughout the years.
“I’m 64 years old, and all of this damage is when we were kids, all of this skin damage is when we were kids. I know exactly why I have these problems, I’ve had several things cut off of me, was the 25 plus years of laying in tanning beds in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and everywhere else that had no sun because we had Monday Night Raw, and there wasn’t an alternative. It wasn’t like spray tans or anything that were effective. When tanning beds first came out, they were saying how they took the burning rays out of it, it was safer than the sun.”
Fightful sends out our best wishes to Nash during this time.
Elsewhere in the podcast, Nash described how he thinks Adam Copeland can help out All Elite Wrestling. Fans can learn more by clicking here.
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