Since his WWE release in 2020, Matt Cardona has reinvented himself and made a name for himself.
Speaking with Steven Muehlhausen on Walkway To Fight Club, Matt talked about the lack of interest from the bigger companies.
“That’s a great question. What is left to prove on the independents? I’ve done it all. Besides just reinventing myself and becoming bigger than I was in WWE, I’ve done everything there is to do on the indies and then some. So what is next? I feel like I need to sign a contract somewhere, but at the same time, I don’t want to sign a contract just to sign a contract. I don’t want to be on a roster just to be a guy on a roster. Been there, done that. Listen, if WWE or AEW called and there was a good offer with some intent to use me a certain way, of course I’d have that conversation. But I’m not gonna BS, I haven’t gotten an offer from either of those companies. So until then, I just gotta keep raising my stock and elevating myself and trying to change the game on the independent level. I’ve said it many times, I’m not trying to pass the torch to anybody, I’m trying to light a new one for myself, and I feel like I have. But at the same time, if I could give somebody the rub or elevate somebody else, so be it. I feel like I’ve done a lot of that. But I’m 39 years old, I’m not getting any younger. At the same time, I don’t even feel like I’ve entered the prime of my career, so it’s a challenging time because what’s next? So I dropped this video just to kind of say, ‘Alright, when you see me at an indie show, you’re not gonna see the Indy God, you’re not gonna see the Deathmatch King, although I am those things. You’re seeing, it’s not a new Matt Cardona, it’s just a fresh coat of paint. It’s just the next chapter. How long is that chapter going to be? In this story of Matt Cardona, how long is this chapter? Is it a couple weeks and then I go to WWE or AEW? Is it another year? Time will tell. Always Ready is a catchphrase I use, it’s the way I live my life and my career. I have to be ready for any and all opportunity, and that’s why I feel like I have been able to thrive on this independent level. But at the end of the day, I don’t want my career to end just wrestling in these smaller venues or these high school gyms or these ballrooms. I want to end it at big stadiums, WrestleMania or Arthur Ashe. I want to end it where I feel like I have to end it, in the big leagues on a big stage,” Cardona said.
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