Matt Cardona On Chelsea Green, Possible WWE Return, Adam Copeland Match, Chris Jericho, John Cena

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

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4.9 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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https://cvvtix.com - Get your tickets for INSIGHT LIVE in LA and NYC with VIP Meet & Greet! Matt Cardona (@TheMattCardona) is a professional wrestler previously signed to WWE. He sits down with Chris Van Vliet at West Coast Creative Studio in Hollywood, CA to discuss his post-WWE career 5 years on from the release, why a return has not happened yet, his matches in AEW and ROH against Adam Copeland and Chris Jericho respectively and why they never led to more, advice for released wrestlers, whether he is interested in returning as Zack Ryder, being married to Chelsea Green and more!

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Fleet.
0:20.0	Ah, yes, welcome back, my friends, to another audio adventure here on Insight.
0:25.9	I'm CBV, Chris Van Fleet.
0:28.3	Thank you for hitting play on this episode.
0:30.6	And thank you for making Insight the number one wrestling podcast on the planet.
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0:50.8	that's a lot of you. That's like more than half of you. And I don't want you
0:55.9	specifically to be known as a gibbonny. So just check right now. Check to see if you're following the
1:02.1	show. And if you haven't yet hit that follow button with an elbow drop, it would be so, so
1:06.9	appreciated. I'm excited to tell you that we have a new tour date coming up. We're doing
1:11.9	Insight Live on Friday, June 6th in Los Angeles. It's the day before money in the bank. That's
1:18.6	going to be such a good one. Tickets are available now at CVVTX.com. That's CVVTIX.com. Great to have
1:27.4	Matt Cardona back on the show. Also, happy 40th birthday to Matt.
1:32.4	As you're listening right now, his birthday was yesterday, May 14th. He's been on the show many
1:38.5	times since he was released from WWE in April 2020. And I'm always so impressed by his business mindset when it comes to
1:47.1	wrestling. And that's not a new thing. Like this dates back to when he was doing the Zee True
1:51.5	Long Island story on YouTube and calling himself the internet champion. But I don't think there's
1:57.3	anyone in wrestling, certainly not an independent wrestling who approaches
2:02.0	it the way that he does. There's actually a perfect example during this interview where he talks
2:08.0	about reaching out to John Sina to ask if he would be his opponent for when G.CW was at
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