Jeff Cobb Details Cyst Removal

In August 2026, Jeff Cobb revealed that he had a nasty looking growth removed from his scalp.

Cobb didn’t share any other details, but things turned out okay for him as he continued to wrestle, seemingly unaffected.

Speaking to Chris Van Vliet on Insight, Cobb detailed 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 wrong?’ 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.’”

Asked what the result was, Cobb said, “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.”

You know your body best, something feels off, get it checked, blessed it wasn’t anything really bad. Love you all, let’s do good today! #OneLove pic.twitter.com/fm8EGGfqQG

— Jeff Cobb (@RealJeffCobb) August 16, 2026

Elsewhere during the interview, Cobb revealed other potential WWE names that weren’t JC Mateo. You can find his comments here.