NEWS - Matt Cardona Is Officially BACK In WWE!
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🗓️ 3 January 2026
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Today's wrestling news, including...
Matt Cardona Is Officially BACK In WWE!
Huge WWE Call-Up!
Another Big NXT Call-Up!
The Rock At WrestleMania 42?!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, my very good friends. On today's wrestling news, Matt Cardona is back in |
| 0:04.5 | WWE, not Zach Ryder. A former NXT champion has been called up to the main roster. Another |
| 0:11.0 | big NXT name has also been called up to the main roster. And finally, we'll have a huge |
| 0:16.5 | update on the Rock's future, including talk of his final match, and also an update on his |
| 0:21.5 | WrestleMania status for this year. I'm Andy H. Murray, the H stands for Houston, and this is |
| 0:28.7 | the news. Right, we're going to kick this one off by talking about Matt Cardona. Most of this |
| 0:32.7 | video is going to be about Smackdown, actually, because it was a very eventful edition of the show |
| 0:36.7 | as it turned back |
| 0:37.6 | into three hours last night and probably the biggest story coming out of it is the return of |
| 0:41.9 | Matt Cardona to WW not as Zach Ryder but as Matt Cardona his real name and the name he used on |
| 0:47.9 | the Indies since being released from WWE in 2020 so he was recently on WW television as Zach Ryder |
| 0:55.4 | as part of the John Sina |
| 0:57.1 | last time is now tournament, which also featured |
| 0:59.7 | Adolf Ziegler return too. |
| 1:01.5 | But last night he returned permanently on |
| 1:03.6 | SmackDown, which is pretty cool in general. |
| 1:05.9 | So Kit Wilson was supposed |
| 1:08.0 | to have a match against a surprise |
| 1:10.0 | opponent. I said supposed to have a match. |
| 1:11.7 | He did have the match. |
| 1:12.7 | And the surprise opponent was Matt Cardona. |
| 1:16.1 | So it was confirmed via Michael Cole, who was speaking on behalf of Nick Aldis, |
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