Matt Cardona Says He Wants To Return to WWE, How GCW Changed His Career, Betting On Yourself

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Wrestling, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Sports, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Matt Cardona (@themattcardona) is a professional wrestler who has worked for NWA, AEW, Impact Wrestling, GCW and was known as Zack Ryder in WWE. He joins Chris Van Vliet to talk about the incredible 2022 that he had, why he wants to go back to WWE, his goal to win the WWE Championship, his thoughts on Cody Rhodes wrestling against Seth Rollins with a torn pec at Hell in a Cell, how he has been able to monetize The Major Figure Wrestling Podcast, his infamous match with Nick Gage, getting the fans to hate him, what happened after his AEW debut and much more! For more information about Matt and The Major Wrestling Figure Podcast visit: https://majorwfpod.com/ If you enjoyed this episode, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast/iTunes? It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping to spread the word about the show and also to convince some hard-to-get guests. For more information about Chris Van Vliet and INSIGHT go to: https://podcast.chrisvanvliet.com Follow CVV on social media: Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet TikTok: tiktok.com/@Chris.VanVliet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All systems are going.
0:01.3	Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Bleley!
0:07.9	Oh, yeah, welcome back to another audio adventure on Insight.
0:12.4	I'm CVV, Chris Van Fleet, and Matt Cardona is back with us on the show.
0:18.7	This is our third interview in a little over two years.
0:22.2	And, I mean, if we look back at this, the first one was May 2020.
0:26.4	He was part of that first huge wave of releases from WWE, right when the world first
0:31.6	screeched to a halt and kind of shut down.
0:34.8	Then we chatted with him again in February of last year, and then
0:38.8	think of everything that's happened between then and now. I mean, he's arguably been the most
0:46.8	talked about wrestler on the independent scene, and he's just truly taken ownership of what his
0:52.0	character is, and he's turned it into something so special.
0:56.1	The way that his mind works when it comes to monetizing wrestling is really, really fascinating.
1:01.5	We dig into that a lot here.
1:03.8	But the big question is, is Matt Cardona going back to WWE?
1:09.3	And if he does go back to the WWE,
1:11.4	is it going to be Matt Cardona or is he going to be Zach Ryder?
1:15.8	So Matt tells me during this interview that, yeah,
1:17.8	he wants to go back to WWE.
1:19.9	And one of his goals is to win the WWE championship.
1:23.6	So it's going to be very, very interesting to see what happens in 2023 with Matt Cardona.
1:30.5	Take a screenshot, let us know you're listening, and tag us so that we can share it out.
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