As Zack Ryder, Matt Cardona was with WWE for 15 years and is sharing stories of that time on his new MC! True Long Island Story Podcast. During the latest episode, he revealed that backstage at a WWE SmackDown/ECW combined house show in 2008, he and Curt Hawkins were caught using their cell phones by The Undertaker. This led to them being advised by Mark Henry to apologize to Taker, who then told them to apologize to both Vladimir Kozlov and Triple H, who were in the match they weren’t paying attention to.
So afterward, Mark Henry pulls us aside, he says, “Go up to Taker, you need to apologize,” and I’m like, “okay, you’re absolutely right,” so Hawkins and I pull him aside, we apologize, and he’s super cool about it. He’s super cool because we were really respectful, but he’s like, “you really need to apologize to the guys in the main event,” so I’m like, “Okay, so we’ll apologize to Vladimir Kozlov” I don’t even know if we did. Maybe we did, but he doesn’t know what’s going on. We love Oleg, Oleg’s the best, one of our friends from the deep south.
So Triple H, I’ll never forget, he’s in like a private dressing room, and we’re like, “excuse me, Triple H? we were on our cell phones during your match, we’re very sorry, it was disrespectful” or whatever we said. He played it off like he didn’t care, but I was like, oh man.Matt Cardona
Cardona’s days of walking on eggshells are behind him since he was released by WWE in April 2020. Since then, he’d debut for AEW on the July 29, 2020, episode of Dynamite by saving Cody Rhodes from Alex Reynolds and John Silver’s attack. The following week teamed with Cody against the Dark Order members for his in-ring debut. His final match with Tony Khan’s promotion came at All Out on September 5, 2020, when he was part of an eight-man tag.
Currently, he is wrestling for Impact Wrestling, having debuted at their January pay-per-view wrestling in an unannounced match against Ace Austin. Since then, he has teamed with Josh Alexander and Eddie Edwards, plus defeated Hernandez in his last appearance.
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