Undisputed WWE Champion Drew McIntyre has commented on Matt Cardona’s return to the company following his release in 2020.
Matt Cardona made his official return to WWE on the January 2 episode of SmackDown, with him returning to defeat Kit Wilson.
Cardona was released from WWE back in April 2020, with him following in the footsteps of Drew McIntyre and Cody Rhodes by reinventing himself outside the promotion before making his return.
Speaking on TMZ’s Inside The Ring, Drew commented on Cardona’s WWE return, and him following in a similar path to his return.
He said:
“I’m buzzing for Matt, he really took the ball and ran with it. When he got released he hit the ground running.
“Myself, before I wrote my book, I was under the impression that I just left and hit the ground running myself and it all went perfectly to plan, but my wife reminded me, no I was a little worried, and it took a while of faking it ’til I made it and became the guy outside the company, and I carved my niche outside the company, who I was and made it on my own, and hopefully lifted everyone up around me, and they lifted me up at the same time.
“Then you’ve got someone like Cody, who I give credit where it’s due, had a very similar journey. He followed my blueprint, and then he put his own spin on it, and with a few of the talented guys he was working with outside of the company had some great success.
“Then Matt, he went to the true independent level, I’ve said this to him himself, he’s very proud of it, the carny level. I was never good at selling merchandise and hawking t-shirts, and if I went to somewhere like PWG in Los Angeles, all the guys would go ringside, sell their t-shirts, it was kinda the hottest independent promotion in the world, I was the one wrestler who wouldn’t go ringside, you weren’t allowed to talk to me, so that I felt different, but also I wasn’t good at the carny stuff and the merchandise stuff.
“He maximised that, he made the most of his time, he made his name even bigger outside of the company like myself and like Cody, now he has the chance to come back.
“The only thing I don’t like is he keeps talking about the world title. You ain’t getting it mate, it’s mine. Congratulations coming back, I’m proud of you, but sometimes there is a ceiling, and when Drew McIntyre is the champion, you don’t get past it.”
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Drew is set to make the first defence of his Undisputed WWE Championship at the Royal Rumble against the winner of a four-way at tomorrow night’s Saturday Night’s Main Event.
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