Matt Cardona On Facing Adam Copeland: It Was A Dream Come True, I Would Love A Second Round

Matt Cardona is happy to make his dream come true.

This past March, Adam Copeland opened up the Cope Open where he defended his AEW TNT Championship against anyone fit to accept it. The challenge would be accepted by former Edgehead, Matt Cardona who has been making his name bigger and bigger on the independent scene as an Indy God, plus so much more.

Speaking to Tim Battle and Eli on the Battleground podcast, Cardona noted that it was a dream come true for him to face Copeland and that he would love a second round if allowed to take it.

“Well, I’d try to fucking win [laughs]. I did try to win, but I did not win. But man, that night, it was such a spur-of the-moment deal, and that entrance, having that entrance kind of made these four years worth it in the sense that I never wanted to prove anybody wrong. If I do, great. But that wasn’t the mission. It was about proving myself right and my fans right. When I heard the ‘Holy shit’ chants during my entrance, I said, I think I proved myself right. I think I proved my fans right. I got goosebumps right now just talking about it because it was a dream match that I thought I would never get. First, we’re the Edgeheads. We have the big match at WrestleMania, Edge versus Undertaker, Hawkins and Ryder do a run-in. That’s WrestleMania 24. I was just so naive because everything was just clicking for us. I’m like, oh, next year, we’ll probably do a Triple Threat, Edge versus Hawkins versus Ryder. No, the next year, Hawkins and Ryder are lumberjacks in the pre-show tag team match [laughs]. So I thought, oh, man. Then Edge has to retire, like I’m never gonna have the match. Then he comes back to WWE, I get fired from WWE. Like all right, are we ever gonna have this match? Then he’s in AEW. I was like, it could possibly happen here because AEW, that Forbidden Door, they let anybody in if the opportunity’s right. The Cope Open was there. I accepted, and it was literally a dream come true,” Cardona said.

“Once I got a taste of it, man, I would love a round two. Certainly would love a round two,” Cardona said.

Cardona alongside Brian Myers were the Edgeheads in the WWE when they went under the ring names Zack Ryder and Curt Hawkins during Edge’s World Heavyweight Championship reign in 2007-2008.

h/t to Fightful for the transcription.

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