Matt Cardona, who attacked GCW World Champion Nick Gage at the recent GCW Zombie Walk event and will challenge Gage for the GCW World Champion on Night One of the GCW Homecoming shows next month, took part in an interview with Busted Open Radio where he discussed several topics, including the possibility of him working a death match against Nick Gage.

“A lot of people have been texting me that, a lot of people think I’m crazy and maybe I am, but everybody’s talking so I got the response that I wanted and it was so much fun. For so long, I was a white meat babyface and to have these people, Bubba you know, when the fans really don’t like you and really don’t want you there. It was like a drug for me, I loved it, you were experiencing it night after night after night, I got a small taste, but oh my God, I’ve got goosebumps right now thinking about that night.

I don’t know how it started on social media, whether a fan tweeted it and I responded and then, it got kind of personal at first, I was like dude, I don’t want to do this death match stuff, that’s not my style at all, but he just kept calling me out and calling me out and GCW even promoted me for one of their shows when I clearly had a booking somewhere else and they had the whole crowd, like I can’t even say what they were chanting at me, so it’s like, at one point I had to stand up for myself because I can’t take that, I just got to be a man and shut them up.

Bill DeMott told me when I was in Deep South Wrestling that wrestling’s like, there’s all these different flavors of ice cream and death match wrestling, I respect the hell out of it. It’s not for me, it’s not my style, but you know, I dropped him with that DDT, I slicked my arm open on the glass, I’m doing the offensive move so there’s no doubt it’s dangerous, there’s no doubt it’s real, like I was walking to the back and there’s just blood dripping down, I was like where’s this coming from and oh it’s coming from me. This is legitimate, am I crazy for getting involved in this, probably, am I afraid, I would be lying if I said I wasn’t afraid, but I’ve been through way worse than a death match with Nick Gage, or insert wrestler. He says he was locked up, you know I was locked up in WWE for a decade, I’ve done that, I beat cancer twice, I’m pretty sure I can survive Nick Gage.

I use the catchphrase Alwayz Ready, but I am, everything I do in my life, I do 110%, I’m not guaranteeing that I’m going to win, no, but I’m going to go in there and I’m going to give it my all and if you want to see Matt Cardona with a light tube or with thumbtacks, if that’s what I’ve got to do to beat this guy, then I’ll do it, I laid out the challenge for GCW Homecoming in July. I want that GCW Championship, that’s why I held it over his head, that’s my goal. I didn’t just come there to lay him out, I came there to shut everybody up, the GCW Universe, Nick Gage and to take their title. He’s riding that high, he had Dark Side of the Ring, he’s the talk of the town right now, but I’m coming to steal everything he’s worked for, I’m coming for that title. I want to be the face of GCW and GCW, the Universe, they’re going to hate me for it, but deep down, I know they love me and I love my fans too.”

The interview is available in full at this link.