Top AEW star and ROH World Champion Chris Jericho spoke with Z100 New York on a number of topics, including how Matt Cardona was chosen as his ROH Final Battle opponent.
Jericho said, “Well, once again, kind of a little bit out of my wheelhouse but Tony Khan, when we started talking about Final Battle and what to do, being the Ring of Honor World Champion, we’re kind of throwing around some names of guys that I could work with and he mentioned Matt Cardona. I thought that’s a great call because nobody would really expect that, and I think Tony really liked the vibe of what we did the last time I was the Ring of Honor Champion which is the ‘The Ocho,’ where I just wrestled a bunch of different guys, you know, and there was guys from different companies and guys that came in from Japan and that sort of thing.”
On Cardona being a good choice considering the location of the show:
“Also the fact we’re were going to be based in New York City for, you know, three shows, the better part of a week, came up with the ‘King of New York’ idea, and then I thought, well maybe I just challenge someone from New York. No one would expect Matt Cardona.”
You can check out Jericho’s comments in the video below.
