Anything can happen when you watch a WWE show and fans found that out first hand last week when Matt Cardona made a surprise appearance on SmackDown. Cardona faced off against Kit Wilson in a singles match, and during the match it was announced that Cardona was back with the company, and now a member of the SmackDown roster.
While talking about his return on the Major Wrestling Figure podcast, Matt Cardona explained that his appearance in The Last Time Is Now Tournament got the ball rolling, and he officially signed a new deal with WWE during Christmas week.
“After SmackDown with LA Knight, that’s kind of when the ball got rolling where there were discussions and ‘we’ll be in touch.’ We were at WrestleCade, I had to do the match, and I left and I took a phone call. That’s when I got the call, ‘Hey, we’re interested, let’s start talking.’ It was stressful in a good way.
Finally, signed Christmas week. Am I Zack? Am I Matt? I’m having both sets of gear made and designed. Even that day, going to SmackDown. It was in Buffalo, I flew into Rochester so no one would see me at the airport. I was hidden in a room all day.”
Cardona also revealed during the podcast that he signed the contract with the GCW Title on his lap when he added, “When I signed my WWE contract, I signed it with my GCW title on my lap. If it wasn’t for GCW, I wouldn’t be the Indie God. If I wasn’t the Indie God, I wouldn’t be back in WWE. I firmly believe that. When I got fired, I looked at that picture of me and my dad at WrestleMania and when I got rehired, I was holding that GCW Title. I’m very sentimental about that.”
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