Impact Wrestling and GCW star Matt Cardona said during a recent appearance on Busted Open Radio that he wanted to do an entrance similar (or rather inspired) by The Sandman from ECW. He said,
“I thought about doing the Sandman entrance, the iconic entrance from Hammerstein. I don’t know with all the rules now that someone can walk through the crowd these days. Trust me, I thought about it, I pitched it. I pitched it big time. That’s going to be another interesting thing about this show; GCW is known for the deathmatch and blood and guts, if know anything about the New York Athletic Commission, some of that stuff is not going to fly.”
He also spoke about how GCW is keeping the spirit of ECW alive. He said,
“Just like ECW, where some outsiders are probably like, ‘Oh, it’s just hardcore, blood, guts,’ we know that if you’re a real fan, it is way more than that with so many different styles. GCW is the same thing. When I first heard about GCW, I was like, ‘this deathmatch sh*t, I don’t want to do that.’ Then, when I went to the shows and was there, I realized it was just a small part of it, the deathmatch stuff. Some of the stuff these guys can do, the athleticism, then you have me, I’m just doing old school wrestling. I don’t even have to wrestle. I just talk and they hate me. There are so many different styles and something for everybody. That’s why I think a lot of people compare it to ECW because there is the bloody stuff, but there is so much more, especially the passion.“
