Matt Cardona Explains The Return of Zack Ryder | Notsam Wrestling Update
Notsam Wrestling
Sam Roberts
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🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Sam Roberts talks to Matt Cardona about his return to WWE as Zack Ryder as part of the John Cena final match tournament
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| 0:00.0 | This is Not Sam Wrestling. |
| 0:05.0 | Introducing your host from New York, here is Sam Roberts. |
| 0:14.0 | Oh yes, yes, yes, welcome. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm excited for you guys to hear this one. Welcome to a Not Sam |
| 0:22.7 | Wrestling update. So much has been going on lately yesterday. We dropped an emergency pod |
| 0:29.3 | all about the return of Roman rains and the return of Brock Lesnar. But we had a big moment on Friday, and we talked about it on the Monday |
| 0:39.4 | podcast. If you missed it, then please go back and listen. But of course, the return of Zach |
| 0:45.0 | Ryder to the WWE, and you know, every Tuesday on NaziM Wrestling Live, which is on |
| 0:50.5 | Sirius XM, on Pro Wrestling Nation 24-7, I'm joined by the one and only Matt Cardona. |
| 0:55.9 | And we do the Brosky breakdown. |
| 0:57.4 | It's a regular say every single Tuesday at 1 p.m. Eastern, he and I just shoot the you-know-what |
| 1:04.4 | for a full hour, bury people. |
| 1:07.3 | It's the funnest, it might be the funnest wrestling segment on radio. |
| 1:10.2 | It's just a great time. |
| 1:12.3 | But I say all that to say that this week's was the most highly anticipated. Because coming off of |
| 1:18.8 | the return of Zach Ryder to WWE Smackdown, Matt Cardona told me, well, I was going to say the |
| 1:25.6 | whole story, but about as much as he felt comfortable |
| 1:29.5 | saying right now, which was a lot. So, who better to tell the story about the return of |
| 1:37.0 | Zach Ryder than the man himself, Matt Cardona? Matt Cardona. Welcome back, my friend. How are you? |
| 1:44.7 | I'm back. |
| 1:47.1 | And I'm tanner than ever. |
| 1:50.3 | There were accusations that before Friday night you had spent multiple days inside a tanning bed. |
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