{"id":141253,"date":"2022-06-13T08:47:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T13:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=141253"},"modified":"2022-06-13T08:47:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T13:47:29","slug":"matt-cardona-talks-vince-mcmahon-potential-return-to-wwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/06\/13\/matt-cardona-talks-vince-mcmahon-potential-return-to-wwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Cardona talks Vince McMahon, potential return to WWE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2254339406\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Matt Cardona isn&#8217;t in the WWE at this time, but says he&#8217;s always had a good relationship with Vince McMahon. In an interview with Bleacher Report, Cardona talked about Vince McMahon and how he changed his strategy when wanting to pitch different ideas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI always had a good relationship with Vince, especially the last couple of years,&#8221; Cardona said. &#8220;I&#8217;d go into his office, not necessarily to get things done, but I was sick of pitching ideas to the writers and all that B.S. If it&#8217;s going to happen, it&#8217;s going to happen because Vince wants it to happen. Listen, not everything I pitched happened. A majority didn&#8217;t, but at least I found out from Vince and not some writer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;I never had Vince&#8217;s number and I never texted with him, but then last year, I got a happy birthday text,&#8221; he confirmed. &#8220;I wondered who the 203 number was and someone said it was Vince McMahon. I was like, &#8216;Oh, sh*t.&#8217; So, I text him every once in a while for the hell of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cardona also revealed what a potential return to WWE would look like for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;d be lying if I said I never wanted to wrestle in Madison Square Garden again or never wanted to wrestle in a big stadium for a WrestleMania,&#8221; Cardona said. &#8220;Of course I would. I&#8217;m not saying that. But I&#8217;m also not saying that I&#8217;m doing everything I&#8217;m doing now thinking, &#8216;What can I do to get back to WWE?&#8217; or &#8216;What can I do to go to AEW?&#8217; I don&#8217;t give a sh*t. Sorry, I don&#8217;t. If Tony Khan or Vince McMahon or Johnny Ace or Bruce Prichard called me, of course, I&#8217;d pick up the phone and have a conversation, but that&#8217;s not my goal right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Matt Cardona was released from WWE in 202o after the start of the pandemic. 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