In an interview with Slam Wrestling, Matt Cardona opened up on his WWE departure, his brief appearances for All Elite Wrestling, how working with IMPACT Wrestling, Game Changer Wrestling and Nick Gage helped his confidence and much more.

“It took me a while after WWE to kind of find myself, because who was I? Was I Zack Ryder, just called Matt Cardona, like what is that, and even I didn’t know. You watch that cup of coffee I had in AEW, and while I look great, had great matches, sold a ton of merch, what was that?

That’s how you learn, that’s how you grow and that’s how you adapt, but it all worked out for the best, because I found IMPACT, which got my confidence back, and once I found GCW and did all that stuff with Nick Gage and had the death match, just everything turned around.”

The full interview is available at this link.