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Ahead of tonight’s tonight’s taped WWE SmackDown from the Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, The Takedown on SI, has published an exclusive interview with Matt Cardona.
Cardona told The Takedown on SI’s Zack Haydorn that he loved the run he had on the pro wrestling independent scene, but that he did not want to ever be a wrestler, only a ‘WWE Superstar.’
“When I got released in 2020, I knew Zack Ryder was dead. And as grateful as I was for him, he taught me everything. And WWE taught me everything I needed to become a superstar outside of WWE. That’s what I did. I reinvented myself, rebranded, and had the most fun and the most success I ever had in my career. But the goal was always to be WWE Champion. You can’t be WWE Champion unless you’re in WWE. As awesome as the independents were, I wanted to wrestle on SmackDown. I wanted to wrestle in Madison Square Garden again, or have a WrestleMania moment…My dream was never to be a pro wrestler. My dream was to be a WWE Superstar.”
Cardona said how excited he was to come to Atlantic City, which is where the Matt Cardona character was truly born.
“I’m so excited to be coming back to Atlantic City. It was a very special place in my career on the independents. That’s where Matt Cardona was truly born. GCW in Atlantic City.”
Cardona said he was proud that WWE wanted Matt Cardona instead of Zack Ryder and how the creatively reinventing himself and his entire gimmick and personality changed his career, adding how excited he was when came back to WWE, it was under Matt Cardona and not as Zack Ryder.
“They wanted Matt Cardona. “I’m proud of that. That they thought the Matt Cardona I built on the independents was more valuable than Zack Ryder. And I’m grateful for Zack Ryder, because without him and my previous time in WWE, there’s no Matt Cardona. Everything I learned, and not just putting matches together, but how to do interviews like this, how to market myself, how to sell merchandise, I learned it in WWE.”
Cardona also compared the independents to WWE as far as his presentation, noting that if he wanted to ride to the ring in the Ghostbusters Ecto-1, he could just do it. He said that is not the case so much in WWE.
“On the independents, if I wanted to ride to the ring in the Ghostbusters Ecto-1, I just did it. I don’t think I’ll be doing that this week. I got SmackDown. It’s WWE. You’re on USA, you’re on Netflix, you’re on ESPN, you’re all over the world. There’s nothing like being a WWE Superstar. I’m grateful to have that opportunity again.”
Also in the interview, Cardona praised his real-life wife Chelsea Green, noting she maximizes to the time she is given and does whatever she can with what she is given to work with.
“She maximizes her minutes. Whether she’s got a two-minute match on TV or a five-second backstage segment, she does whatever it takes to get noticed. You’ve got to be your own advocate. You’ve got to be self-promoting and you’ve got to get yourself over. She’s so good at it, and anybody can follow that example. If you’re on TV for five seconds, how are you going to make it about you? You want to play along and tell the big story, sure, but if you want to make it to the next level, you’ve got to be a star. You’ve got to carry yourself like one.”
Cardona made his return to to WWE programming during the TNA invasion that took place on NXT last September. He was also a surprise entrant, as Zack Ryder in John Cena’s Last Time is Now Tournament against LA Knight this past November.
(All quotes are courtesy of The Takedown on SI)
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Cardona told The Takedown on SI’s Zack Haydorn that he loved the run he had on the pro wrestling independent scene, but that he did not want to ever be a wrestler, only a ‘WWE Superstar.’
“When I got released in 2020, I knew Zack Ryder was dead. And as grateful as I was for him, he taught me everything. And WWE taught me everything I needed to become a superstar outside of WWE. That’s what I did. I reinvented myself, rebranded, and had the most fun and the most success I ever had in my career. But the goal was always to be WWE Champion. You can’t be WWE Champion unless you’re in WWE. As awesome as the independents were, I wanted to wrestle on SmackDown. I wanted to wrestle in Madison Square Garden again, or have a WrestleMania moment…My dream was never to be a pro wrestler. My dream was to be a WWE Superstar.”
Cardona said how excited he was to come to Atlantic City, which is where the Matt Cardona character was truly born.
“I’m so excited to be coming back to Atlantic City. It was a very special place in my career on the independents. That’s where Matt Cardona was truly born. GCW in Atlantic City.”
Cardona said he was proud that WWE wanted Matt Cardona instead of Zack Ryder and how the creatively reinventing himself and his entire gimmick and personality changed his career, adding how excited he was when came back to WWE, it was under Matt Cardona and not as Zack Ryder.
“They wanted Matt Cardona. “I’m proud of that. That they thought the Matt Cardona I built on the independents was more valuable than Zack Ryder. And I’m grateful for Zack Ryder, because without him and my previous time in WWE, there’s no Matt Cardona. Everything I learned, and not just putting matches together, but how to do interviews like this, how to market myself, how to sell merchandise, I learned it in WWE.”
Cardona also compared the independents to WWE as far as his presentation, noting that if he wanted to ride to the ring in the Ghostbusters Ecto-1, he could just do it. He said that is not the case so much in WWE.
“On the independents, if I wanted to ride to the ring in the Ghostbusters Ecto-1, I just did it. I don’t think I’ll be doing that this week. I got SmackDown. It’s WWE. You’re on USA, you’re on Netflix, you’re on ESPN, you’re all over the world. There’s nothing like being a WWE Superstar. I’m grateful to have that opportunity again.”
Also in the interview, Cardona praised his real-life wife Chelsea Green, noting she maximizes to the time she is given and does whatever she can with what she is given to work with.
“She maximizes her minutes. Whether she’s got a two-minute match on TV or a five-second backstage segment, she does whatever it takes to get noticed. You’ve got to be your own advocate. You’ve got to be self-promoting and you’ve got to get yourself over. She’s so good at it, and anybody can follow that example. If you’re on TV for five seconds, how are you going to make it about you? You want to play along and tell the big story, sure, but if you want to make it to the next level, you’ve got to be a star. You’ve got to carry yourself like one.”
Cardona made his return to to WWE programming during the TNA invasion that took place on NXT last September. He was also a surprise entrant, as Zack Ryder in John Cena’s Last Time is Now Tournament against LA Knight this past November.
(All quotes are courtesy of The Takedown on SI)
The post Matt Cardona talks on always just wanting to be a WWE Superstar, reinventing himself appeared first on WWE News, WWE Results, AEW News, AEW Results.
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