On today, solo Sunday news, the latest on Zach Ryder's WWE return.

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Hello and welcome to What Culture Wrestling, the solo Sunday news, myself, Andrew Ballard.

I hope you got, I hope you well, and I hope your weekend is going as well as possible.

Mine, yeah, mine's just been a very stuffy, bunged up, duchy throat sort of a weekend, so yay for that. Anyways, let's get into wrestling chatter. And let's start with the latest on Matt Cardona's status, or Zach Ryder's status, or Macon Donor if you watched

NXT the other week, but Zach Ryder, if you watch Smackdown

on Friday, for yes, Smackdown

saw Zach Ryder's status or Macon, if you watched NXT the other week, but Zach Ryder, if you watch Smackdown on Friday, for yes, Smackdown saw Zach Ryder back in a WWE ring for the first time in five years, at least, you know, in a main roster ring.

And it was very much Zach Ryder announced to Zach Ryder in Zach Ryder gear with Zach Ryder merch into Zach Ryder's old old radio entrance theme or

you know at least a remix version of that song and so many fans have been speculating whether this appearance

which was a first round lost to LA Knight in the last time is now tournament whether that was you, was it just a one-off or whether Zach

Matt Codone Brosky was back in WWE, you know, a proper full-time return.

On top of that, there was also the classic point photo of Triple H and the death match king,

the indie god backstage. Plus, there was Zach Ryder merchandise as well. It is now available

on www.com. However, despite that, it looks like Zach Ryder, Matt Cardona, has not signed

with WWE. Now, this comes from FIFEL Select, and their sources were both WWE and also

from Matt Cardona's side. He is not signed with WWE right now, though WVRE sources

confirm that there is a merchandise deal in place, hence why

there is Zach Ryder and merchandise now on weree shop.com. Go buy yourself some t-shirts. Why not? I don't know why I'm saying that. I'm not on commission or anything. Although if you want to pay me, W.W.E. Me and pay me, apart from the extra stuff you give us to write positive stories about you then, you know, no. Obviously, this could change, and I'm sure, you know, if that, Zach

the merchandise sells well. And WWA, I mean, they're clearly going to be keen to bring him back. You know, Cardona did great on Friday, which is, I mean, that's a weird thing to say, is a dude has been absolutely busting his ass man on the Indies, TNA and G.CW, the NWA, House of Glory, wherever he's been busting his backside for the last five years. So, of course, he's going to look great. But you have to remember, there are some people, some people who say, in this instant, they only watch WWI. There are some people who aren't keeping up with things online that aren't keeping

up with spoilers or news or whatever or what people are doing away from just that bubble of what they watch on TV for, you know, a couple of hours on a Monday or a couple hours on a Friday. And so for those people, I mean, this might be the first time that they've seen Matt Cardona or Zach Ryder since he left of the beauty in 2020. And so in terms of making an impression, I a first impression, but it's not really a first impression. But for those people who've not been keeping up with Cardone and the point of making is he would have looked great where it's like, oh God, where's this guy been for five years? What's he been doing? He looks absolutely jacked. He's slightly tanned and his work is great and it's just his whole personality comes through. I mean, the other side of that as well, I guess, is that he has to website what does Matt Codd owner want to return to WWE? I mean, he's made the point of not signing lengthy deals in recent years, often work without a contract for TNA, regularly talking up the freedom of his own schedule and whatnot. And the money that he's been making because the dude, like said he's been absolutely killing it man if there's ever a wrestler who gets released who

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