TNA World Champion Nic Nemeth spoke with Bill Pritchard of WrestleZone on a number of topics related to pro wrestling, including Matt Cardona’s importance in WWE securing their YouTube deal.
Nemeth said, “[Zack] Ryder was so important to WWE’s YouTube. The YouTube channel came into a deal with WWE, and the cornerstone of the plan was, ‘We need Zack Ryder’s YouTube show, or there is no WWE YouTube deal.’ Can you imagine? I couldn’t imagine hearing that about The Rock. Let alone, ‘It’s Zack Ryder’s show or there is no deal.’ What a crazy thing. So he went above and beyond. Things like that made him stand out. We said, ‘Listen. We are not going to be, at the moment, huge players on TV. Some weeks we are not even on. But if we can continue this, I’ll hack into your show, we’ll do a thing. We’ll flip some video things. Even if I live 20 states away, we can make it seem like I was there. We can do all these different things.’ That was getting the creative juices flowing.”
On Cardona’s run on the independent scene:
“Right now, he is the guy on the independent scene. I’m sure there is a few [others], but he is a guy that does not need a machine behind him. He is the machine behind himself. He’s better off not being at any of the companies right now. If he feels like it, if he can help them out, down the line, absolutely. When it comes to TNA, I love seeing him. Because I know he’s not just going to show up and do his work. He’s going to make some video that leads up to it and then all of these things afterward. He’s always going. I respect that about him so much. I hate his guts, so it’s funny that we get to have this match, all these years in the making.”
