Matt Cardona Reflects On His 2024 So Far, Possible WWE Return

Matt Cardona has had a busy year in wrestling thus far, and he recently looked back on his 2024 to date. Cardona posted a new video to YouTube talking about his year and a potential WWE return among his goals. You can see highlights below, per Fightful:

On his year to date: “It’s been a wild year, celebrating 20 years in the business, 20 years since my first match, four years since I was fired from WWE. Now, I’m just coming back from injury. The doctors said six to eight months, I did it in four. Time is not on my side. I’m not getting any younger, but I feel like right now, I haven’t even hit the prime of my career. I feel like my best years are ahead of me. I’ve done it all on the indies. Winning titles, cover of magazines, all over the world, and it’s been fun, and I needed it, I needed to find myself, both as a performer and as a man. I did, I did it all. The time is now to go back. Where do I go? Do I go back to WWE? Do I go to AEW? Just having that taste even, earlier this year, wrestling Adam Copeland [on AEW Collision], just being out there, jam-packed, real arena, not the Ukrainian Cultural Center in LA or The Showboat Hotel in Atlantic City, a real arena, and the crowd responded, just on my entrance. It made me feel like, ‘Okay, everything I’ve been doing, it’s working.'”

On his remaining goals: “I didn’t dream as a little kid to just be a pro wrestler. I dreamed of being a top guy, the top guy. You have to have that goal to be successful in this business. I’m very fortunate in my career, 20 years, highs and lows. But I never got the big one. I never won the WWE World Title. That has to be the goal. Because if that’s not the goal, what are we doing? What am I doing here? What am I working towards? I might never achieve that goal, but I’m gonna die trying. I love the indies, I love everything about it. There are days, and we had a great show, made a lot of money on merch, and I’m thinking, ‘This is f**king awesome, I can do this forever. Then there are days where I’m like, ‘What the f**k am I doing with my life?’ When I’m at f**king GCW in LA and the locker room is a f**king alley, or if I’m in the middle of nowhere, I do the show, I don’t get a f**king tweet about it. Did this day exist in my life? It’s not just like, ‘I want to be back there.’ Everyone wants to be back there. But I know if I was back, I’d make a f**king difference.”

Matt Cardona Reflects On His 2024 So Far, Possible WWE Return

Matt Cardona Reflects On His 2024 So Far, Possible WWE Return

Matt Cardona Reflects On His 2024 So Far, Possible WWE Return

Matt Cardona Reflects On His 2024 So Far, Possible WWE Return

Matt Cardona Reflects On His 2024 So Far, Possible WWE Return