After spending properly over a decade working in WWE, Matt Cardona (identified within the firm as Zack Ryder) was launched in 2020, forcing the wrestler to reinvent himself on the impartial scene. Throughout a latest look on “Walkway To Battle Membership,” Cardona appeared again on his termination and revealed that it is one thing he believes wanted to occur to ensure that him to advance his profession.
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“WWE had provided just about all people new contracts a yr earlier than I received fired, as a result of AEW was beginning up,” Cardona mentioned. “They’d provided all people massive new offers, five-year offers, massive cash. I did not signal it, as a result of … even then, I am like, ‘I do not know if I wish to keep right here. I see how the corporate sees me.'”
Whereas Cardona felt that the corporate “threw [him] a bone” on occasion, it was clear to him that he would by no means attain the degrees he needed to achieve in WWE with out proving himself elsewhere. Nonetheless, he wasn’t completely certain that he needed to go away till the corporate made the decision to let him go.
“I wanted that,” Cardona continued. “It took me some time to seek out myself as a result of we had been in … the very starting of the pandemic. There [were] no independents to do, there was nowhere to go. I did the cup of espresso in AEW — it did not work out. I wasn’t even wrestling.”
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Cardona now credit TNA Wrestling, which was nonetheless generally known as Influence Wrestling on the time, for serving to reinvigorate his wrestling profession. The previous WWE star has discovered nice success in that firm over the past a number of years, although Cardona additionally lamented the truth that he has but to obtain any presents from one of many greater wrestling promotions.
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