Matt Cardona Felt Validation From His Match With Adam Copeland

– During a recent interview with Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp at the Squared Circle Expo, wrestler Matt Cardona

Matt Cardona on his match with Adam Copeland on AEW Dynamite: “I guess AEW didn’t love it because I never got job, but seriously, it was my dream match and it was a great moment. I’m forever grateful for that match with Adam Copeland. I think just walking down that aisle—I’m getting goosebumps right now, you can’t tell because I’m wearing this custom suit—but it was like, ‘Wow, it worked. Everything I’ve been doing, it’s working, it worked.’”

On how it felt validating: “Validation, is that the right word? For it to be against Adam Copeland / Edge, it was just like a story that nobody wrote. It was real life. Edge versus Edgehead, a match I thought that would never happen. My dream match. It was happening and the people were behind me. It was cool.”

On being nervous about his feud with Chris Jericho: “Even like months later when I do the Jericho stuff, I was kind of nervous coming in as a babyface. I’m like, ‘Oh, my God, they’re gonna hate me. Like, I’m not an AEW babyface. I don’t do all those moves.’ But they love me. But even that whole run with Jericho was a bunch of fun.”