Matt Cardona feels that some WWE wrestlers “would fall flat on their face and flop” outside of the company
While speaking to Jeremy Jacobowitz, Matt Cardona (formerly Zack Ryder) was asked whether WWE wrestlers who aren’t getting opportunities with the company could benefit from taking risks and competing on the independent scene, including in main event matches around the world. Here was Cardona’s response…
“Leaving WWE is where I found myself, right? And, it’s certainly a sink-or-swim environment. Yes, do I think a lot of people would benefit? Sure.
I also think a lot of people would fall flat on their face and flop because some of the, you know, some of the people online, they would say to me, like, ‘Oh, you’re only successful in the indies because you came from WWE.’
Well, then where’s everyone else who ever got fired? You know what I’m saying? No, that’s not—yeah, it helps that I learned so much from WWE, but I took what I learned and, you know, used that and utilized that on the outside. Because if everyone who was fired was a success outside WWE, where are all these people? You know what I’m saying?”