Matt Cardona is the antithesis of everything Game Changer Wrestling fans want from wrestling, so the promotion bringing him into rival Nick Gage was a stroke of genius. The pair faced off in a bloody encounter this past Saturday night at GCW’s Homecoming Weekend event in Atlantic City, and Cardona left with the promotions world championship. However, his body was left shredded to bits thanks to a pizza cutter and broken light tubes. Now in an interview with Busted Open, he discussed the experience and spoken about the hostility he received, including fans wanting his fiancée Chelsea Green dead.
I’ll be honest, there was some fear. Like walking through that curtain? You can watch the replay on FITE like I can’t even get through the curtain. There are fans just in my face, and luckily GCW had some security for me because I think someone would’ve took me out or tried to. It’s impossible for me to get to the ring.
I finally get there, and you could just feel the genuine hate, and not like, “oh, this is a bad guy we’re supposed to boo,” like hate. And during the match, the atmosphere was exciting. People like, they just wanted me to die in there. I was getting tweets like, people wanted me to die, and they wanted Nick to kill Chelsea. These are human beings really typing this on their phones or their computer, like “what the hell is wrong with these people?”
Cardona deserves a lot of credit for stepping out of his comfort zone and doing something few who worked for WWE would do. He has created a ton of buzz for himself and garnered the independent promotion a great deal of attention. However, it isn’t known if Cardona intends to regularly become a regular for the company and compete in this controversial match style more frequently. Although, as their champion, he will need to step back inside a GCW ring at least one more time to at least drop the belt.
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