Matt Cardona denies AEW or WWE contract offer

[Chris]

Matt Cardona: ‘I have earned the opportunity to go back’ to WWE, never got AEW contract offer

Matt Cardona is still hoping he will have the opportunity to return to WWE someday. Cardona appeared on The Ariel Helwani Show Monday to promote this Sunday’s The People vs. GCW event from New York…

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Matt Cardona is still hoping he will have the opportunity to return to WWE someday.

Cardona appeared on The Ariel Helwani Show Monday to promote this Sunday’s The People vs. GCW event from New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom — an interview in which he revealed he never got a contract offer from AEW.

During his appearance, Helwani asked him about WWE and observed that he felt Cardona was better and more over than those who he sees on TV every week.

Cardona said that while he feels he is as successful as he’s ever been at this moment, he would be lying if he didn’t want another WrestleMania moment or to compete at Madison Square Garden again or to be on SmackDown with his wife, Chelsea Green.

“I don’t I think I deserve anything…but I think I have earned the opportunity to go back. I don’t think it’s cocky to say that if my music hit at the Royal Rumble, whether it be Zack Ryder or Matt Cardona, the place would explode, the roof would come off the place, social media would explode, I would move merch, I know that,” he explained.

Cardona later admitted he’s had gear ready for the Royal Rumble for the past few years just in case. He also will be in town for this year’s event, appearing at a convention in town.

He added that while there has been “cordial communication” between himself and WWE, there has never been any offer. He isn’t sure why that is, but he said he can’t live his life worrying about that. He is always ready and would “love to go back if the circumstances were right.”

“I would love to be (in WWE) with (Chelsea). Whether we’re on camera or not, I think we’re better together. I want to be there not just because she’s there, but because I belong there. I know I belong there,” he said, later adding he truly believes he would make a difference.

It’s the not the first time recently where Cardona has publicly said he would like to return. Last August, Cardona said he would love to end his career in WWE and last October, he was surprised he hadn’t got an offer from either WWE or AEW.

In mid-December, Dave Meltzer reported Cardona had been offered an AEW contract but Cardona said during the interview that he never was offered one. He isn’t sure why as he said he would be open to working there and has really enjoyed every time he has appeared there.

Cardona appeared in Ring of Honor for the first time at last month’s Final Battle against ROH World Champion Chris Jericho and worked in AEW twice last year, once against Cope and once against Bryan Keith.

 

[Comrade Khan]

That's a shame I think he'd do great. I hope the Jericho match didn't hurt him.

 

[Cwalker]

Seems like he really wants to be back in WWE.

If he did ever show up at a Rumble, it would be interesting if he were acknowledged as Ryder or Cardona. I think he’d be Ryder with his own personal persona

 

[Deadd2009]

Seems like he really wants to be back in WWE.

If he did ever show up at a Rumble, it would be interesting if he were acknowledged as Ryder or Cardona. I think he’d be Ryder with his own personal persona

And this is why AEW hasn't given him a contract, because they know his end game will forever be being back in WWE.

 

[Chris]

And this is why AEW hasn't given him a contract, because they know his end game will forever be being back in WWE.

You're not the first person I've heard say this at all so don't feel called out or anything, but if this is true then I gotta say: bad move

I get the logic of not hiring someone who's clear goal is to go to your competition, but not everyone that sees AEW as just a stepping stone to WWE is going to be a liability. If they're actually smart people they'll realize for it to be a successful stepping stone, you have to improve AEW too before you leave lol and I think anyone that's worked with Cardona would find it hard to believe he'd be any sort of liability even if you're not his end goal. He knows how the business works, if WWE never gives him the call he wants then he won't half ass wherever he is bc of it

 

[Comrade Khan]

He signed Mercedes so I don't buy it

 

[Brandon Blaze]

He signed Mercedes so I don't buy it

Good point, and I'm sure she will 100% go back to the WWE one day.

 

[Deadd2009]

Didnt she have talks with WWE that broke down before she ended up signing with AEW anyway?