Matt Cardona Reveals His Wrestling Industry Pet Peeves

Matt Cardona has a few pet peeves in the wrestling business that he’d like to send “straight to hell,” and he revealed them in an interview with Cultaholic. Cardona was a guest on the brand’s “Straight to Hell” series in which wrestlers send aspects of the industry they don’t like “to hell.” You can see the video and highlights below, per Wrestling Inc:

On people who hang out at gimmick tables: “This one, I like to call the gimmick table lingerers. As an independent wrestler, we make a big chunk of our living selling gimmicks. Photo ops, before the shows, intermission, maybe after the shows. There is nothing worse than somebody just coming up and talking your ear off and not buying anything. What the f*ck?”

On fans who get multiple autographs to sell: “I would say it’s the early morning airport ‘fans.’ Listen, I can tell if you’re a real f**king fan, or if you are shoving all these 8×10 cards in my face, I know the difference. Get the f**k out of here. Seriously, stop. If you’re a genuine fan, cool, take the picture, sign the autograph, whatever.

“Listen, even if you’re not, if you want to make a couple of bucks, I’ll sign an 8×10 or a card. A – ask nicely, don’t just shove it in my face or anybody else’s face, and don’t have a f**king stack. Don’t have like 10 cards, no, get out of here. It’s not my job for you to make money.”

On unreliable gear makers: “This one is probably going to get me some heat if any gear makers are listening to this. Unreliable gear makers. Listen, I have been wrestling for 19 years, and I have worked for every major wrestling company there is. Find me one f*cking reliable, 100% gear maker, that’s all I am asking. Because guess what? It doesn’t exist. They spread themselves way too thin, they take on way too many projects.

“Listen, I have some great people now that I use, so I am not going to sh*t on them, because they’re great. But, they are all guilty of this. If I give someone a design now, what is it now, middle of March? And I say, ‘I need this for a PPV in May,’ you would think, ‘oh, maybe I’ll start designing and working on it now.’ No, they wait like two days before that f**king PPV in May, you know what I am saying?

“They’re stressed, I am stressed. I know you can do it in two days because you wait until two days before to actually make it. So, imagine if you took the whole three months to make it? You could do a little here, a little there. Stress-free life for everybody, but no.”