Jeff Cobb Opens Up About Health Scare In August

Jeff Cobb had a small heath scare at the end of the summer, something that he opened up about in a new interview. The NJPW star had the scare back in August around when his NJPW return happened.

Cobb spoke about the matter in his appearance on Insight With Chris Van Vliet, noting that he found a lump on the back of his head. He said that he’s all good now and it was a benign cyst. You can see highlights below:

On What Happened:

“Yeah. So I noticed I had this lump on the back of my head. I would say right before the pandemic, but it’s in the back of my head, so I don’t see it. Then your hair grows back, you don’t even think about it. But a couple years go by, and then I was like, oh wait, I still have my insurance from Japan because it lasts for the year. Then I was back in Japan, visiting friends, I wondered if I could just get this removed here. It’s probably cheaper than doing it stateside, and it was like 100 bucks for a 15-minute surgery.

So anyway, this is maybe six years after, I got it done. I’ll say it’s like June of this year. Then I remember going through that and they pulled it out. I was like, holy crap! Can I take a picture of this? I took a picture of it because it looked pretty gnarly. So, it was funny when he cut it and put it in the thing, and I’m laying on the table, and I was like, in my mind, I’m not a doctor, and I definitely don’t want to go to WebMD and ask about these things. Because the first thing they’re gonna tell you is cancer. ‘My nose is running.’ [WebMD says] Oh yeah, cancer. So he’s looking at it, and he says, ‘ah, yeah.’ He spoke a little bit of English. I was like, ‘I don’t think cancer because six years I would have felt something wron?’ But he looked at me. He goes, ‘I send for a test.’ I was like, all right, cool. Then he just goes, ‘Maybe cancer.’ I say, wait, what? You can’t start with that. All my buddies in Japan, doctors there are very like [to the point] ‘Ah, maybe okay, maybe broken.’ I don’t know if that’s a language translation thing or whatever, but yeah, he just says, ‘Ah, maybe cancer.’ I was like, ‘Wait, what? Excuse me?’ He’s like, ‘Yeah, maybe one week come back.’”

On the Result Of the Biopsy:

“Oh, it was like a benign thing. Okay, it was like a cyst that went benign or something like that. I can’t really remember the full of it. Since then, I’m like, okay, you know your body more than anybody else. If something’s off or something feels weird, should definitely get it checked. Don’t wait a couple years like me, like an idiot.”