In a recent interview for The Keepin It 100 podcast with Konnan, former WWE superstar Matt Cardona (aka Zack Ryder) discussed several topics, including his insane action figure collection.

“When I was playing with the toys as a little kid, I don’t have those any more, because I re-bought them, because I want them in good condition. This is really psycho, we can have another podcast on my rules for collecting, but my rule in my psycho brain is that I debuted in 2007, so that’s my cutoff, I don’t get current guys, I don’t get a Seth Rollins or a Dean Ambrose, nothing against them, they just don’t make the cut-off. If they make an Undertaker 2020 WrestleMania edition, I don’t get that, but if they make an Undertaker that’s supposed to look like Survivor Series 1991, then I have to get one. There are just too many, do I have a K-Dog, do I have a Disco, of course, they are my WCW collection. Do I buy and sell stuff, if I see that there is going to be this giant lot and I can re-sell it, yeah, but typically I don’t buy stuff to re-sell it, I open all my stuff up, I don’t keep them in the package, some of the stuff I have is worth a lot.

I’m into pre-production stuff, that is really nerdy stuff, like stuff that was in the magazine ads or commercials that were hand-painted prototypes of what the figure would look like before it was mass-produced. I have a lot of stuff like that. I had this company from the ’80’s called LJN that made the WWF big figures in the ’80’s. Some of the sculptures there decided to make a naked Miss Elizabeth, I’m talking naked, no clothes, nipples, naked Miss Elizabeth. I was able to get my hands on it for a pretty decent price, I had it in my collection and I did a YouTube video talking about it, but I blurred everything out, it was so weird that it would even be in the back of my display case. I was proud that I had it, but I didn’t want to show it off. When I put it on this YouTube video, someone contacted me and said, how much for the naked Elizabeth, I said dude, I didn’t really want to sell it, make me an offer that I can’t refuse. He offered me $45,000, I sold it.

I probably have 10,000 figures, I have some things I need, it’s almost like a mental checklist. Of course, there are times that I can almost convince myself to buy something, once you have one thing, it’s almost like a drug addiction, but a figure addiction, you have them all, now what are you going to do, you’re not going to stop, you want more. I spent $11,000 on a ’93 Kamala figure, there were only 24 of them in the world, it’s this pre-production one where it has a moon painted on his belly instead of a star.”

The interview is available in full at this link.