During a recent appearance on the Wrestling with Freddie podcast, Matt Cardona revealed that his run with GCW was originally intended to be a short-term deal, but those plans changed as he has since become a regular for the promotion.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On his initial GCW deal: “When I signed up to this GCW thing — when I did that Nick Gage match, it was going to be it was a three appearance deal, I was gonna come in, lay him out, have the match, and then lose the title. That was the plan. But we had so much buzz like that night when I beat Nick Gage for the title. We were competing against the Olympics and UFC. We were trending number one over both those things, pretty crazy for an independent wrestling show, you know? So I became a member of the roster doing I don’t do every single show, but I do a lot of the shows.”
On The WRLD on GCW: “I would have never imagined when was that match in July, that in January, we’d be selling out the Hammerstein Ballroom which is incredible with no matches announced. I don’t want to take 100% of the credit. I do want some of it, but it’s the whole roster and it’s the diehard fans that support that roster. Then, of course, we have to deliver. Hammerstein Ballroom sold out. Man, like, you’re talking about art, like I was planning this, this entrance, I was planning like, who I would have run in, I was planning every little detail, and it just worked perfectly. It was like, I don’t want to say my favorite match I’ve ever had, but it has to be in the top three. Even now just thinking about it, I have goosebumps, and like just sometimes I don’t know if I necessarily believe in fate, right? But I remember like, my mom, I wanted her to come because I knew how special this would be. She doesn’t watch wrestling, right? She knows GCW she knows that deathmatch [with Nick Gage]. She saw the pictures, the video, She was scarred for life. So she made me promise there would be no blood. I’m like, ‘Mom, listen, this is not a deathmatch thing. Me and Joey, we’re gonna tell a story in there. There’s not gonna be any blood.’ Of course, I break my nose like five minutes in and I’m just like oozing out of my nose. Joey Janela hits me with a steel chair, now there’s blood dripping from the back of my head. I’m like, ‘Oh, shit. She’s gonna be pissed.’”
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