Matt Cardona: I Might Not Achieve My Goal Of Winning The WWE World Title, But I’m Gonna Die Trying
Matt Cardona is going to do whatever it takes to get closer to his goals
In a video on his YouTube channel, former WWE Superstar Zack Ryder turned Matt Cardona reflected on the journey he has had since becoming a free agent, from turning into the Indie God to winning gold all over the world. Despite this, the goal remains in the game, and that is to make his way back to the WWE and prove he can be in the main event picture.
“It’s been a wild year, celebrating 20 years in the business, 20 years since my first match, four years since I was fired from WWE. Now, I’m just coming back from injury. The doctors said six to eight months, I did it in four. Time is not on my side. I’m not getting any younger, but I feel like right now, I haven’t even hit the prime of my career. I feel like my best years are ahead of me. I’ve done it all on the indies. Winning titles, cover of magazines, all over the world, and it’s been fun, and I needed it, I needed to find myself, both as a performer and as a man. I did, I did it all. The time is now to go back. Where do I go? Do I go back to WWE? Do I go to AEW? Just having that taste even, earlier this year, wrestling Adam Copeland [on AEW Collision], just being out there, jam-packed, real arena, not the Ukrainian Cultural Center in LA or The Showboat Hotel in Atlantic City, a real arena, and the crowd responded, just on my entrance. It made me feel like, ‘Okay, everything I’ve been doing, it’s working,'” Cardona said.
“I didn’t dream as a little kid to just be a pro wrestler. I dreamed of being a top guy, the top guy. You have to have that goal to be successful in this business. I’m very fortunate in my career, 20 years, highs and lows. But I never got the big one. I never won the WWE World Title. That has to be the goal. Because if that’s not the goal, what are we doing? What am I doing here? What am I working towards? I might never achieve that goal, but I’m gonna die trying. I love the indies, I love everything about it. There are days, and we had a great show, made a lot of money on merch, and I’m thinking, ‘This is fucking awesome, I can do this forever. Then there are days where I’m like, ‘What the fuck am I doing with my life?’ When I’m at fucking GCW in LA and the locker room is a fucking alley, or if I’m in the middle of nowhere, I do the show, I don’t get a fucking tweet about it. Did this day exist in my life? It’s not just like, ‘I want to be back there.’ Everyone wants to be back there. But I know if I was back, I’d make a f*cking difference,” Cardona said.
Cardona looks forward to getting the opportunity to go to a major TV company where he can show the world once again why he is always ready.
h/t to Fightful for the transcription.
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