Matt Cardona Says His GCW Run Was Originally Meant To Only Be A Three-Show Deal

Matt Cardona’s GCW run has blossomed into so much more than it was meant to be.

Matt Cardona is now one of the regular roster members over at Game Changer Wrestling. When he first showed up in the promotion, it seemed as though he was a square peg in a round hole and now, Matt Cardona is revealing but he wasn’t supposed to become a regular part of the roster. He was only supposed to have a three-appearance run with the company but that changed as more buzz was created around his character.

Speaking with Freddie Prinze Jr. on his podcast, Wrestling With Freddie, Matt Cardona says he was only supposed to have the Deathmatch with Nick Gage and then eventually lose the title and that would be the end of his time with GCW.

“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,” Cardona recalled. “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.”

One of the major shows that Matt Cardona was a part of was The WRLD on GCW from a sold-out Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City back in January of this year. Cardona knew that show would be special and invited his mom to be in attendance under the condition that there would be no blood. Of course, he could not keep that promise During his match with Joey Janela.

“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,” he continued.“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.’”

Matt Cardona is currently succeeding in every promotion he is in as he is now holding seven championships including the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.

Freddie Prinze also told Matt Cardona that he is the reason that he currently wants to start an independent promotion in California. Learn more about that here.

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