Chelsea Green says she was “pestering” WWE about bringing back Matt Cardona until “they caved”

During an interview with Adrian Hernandez, Chelsea Green talked about her husband Zack Ryder (Matt Cardona) being brought back to WWE…

“We didn’t really know what was happening until the very last moment. You know how WWE is—you know how professional wrestling is. It can be in talks for months, or it can be in talks for 24 hours. Either way, when they call you, you pick up the phone and you get on a plane. It was the same with Ethan Page coming to SmackDown. Ethan found out that day—the day of SmackDown—that he needed to fly in, and he literally had just enough time to grab his suit and go.

It was the same with Matt, although we got the flights the day before. We figured out last minute that he was coming. However, he’s been in contact with WWE constantly. For the whole five years, he’s stayed in touch—always making sure that Triple H knows what he’s doing and that he’s available for a Rumble and things like that. And I just think it was a perfect storm where this made the most sense, because he does have a personal friendship and relationship with John Cena. So why wouldn’t he want to be John Cena’s final opponent? It worked perfectly. Between me pestering WWE, John Cena pestering WWE, and Matt pestering WWE, they caved.”