When you look at the career of Matt Cardona, it’s kinda crazy just what he’s been able to accomplish. Despite working to get himself over in the biggest wrestling company in the world under the old Zack Ryder persona, he was continually shoved aside in favor of other folks who never connected with the audience. Case in point our SQUASH this week as he takes on Matt Morgan.
Look, I know hindsight is 20/20 and all that jazz, but as you see Morgan stomping down to ringside he just looks like every musclebound oaf ever. Cardona looks like he has a zillion times more personality, and that’s just by appearing that he’s pooping his panties. Woo woo woo!
SPEAKING OF PERSONALITY…Morgan’s here was to be the guy that thinks everyone is laughing at him. So he asks Zack if he falls into that category and Ryder begs off in a fantastic manner. That of course does not help, as Morgan waylays him in the turnbuckles.
So Morgan starts the beat down and has poor Long Island Iced Z crumpled on the canvas like a sack of wet noodles. I will give him this – he does look impressive. I mean, he’s not the can’t miss WrestleMania main eventer Jim Cornette always claimed he’d be, but yeah, I could see someone thinking they could do something with the dude. Of course, I’m the same guy who thought Rene Dupree was a can’t miss prospect, so I may not be the best authority on such things.
A giant side slam comes next. I always thought that move was the dirt worst when Dino Bravo used to do it. In hindsight, that was largely due to the fact that Dino Bravo himself was the dirt worst. Here it looks pretty daggum good. That’s likely due to the fact that Cardona is flopping around like a fish out of water. We need more sell jobs like that in today’s wrestling.
Morgan finishes poor Zack off with whatever the heck this is. Seriously, the first time I watched it I thought Cardona had reversed it. But since it led to the 1-2-3, I guess it was pretty devastating. It’s just crazy to see this match and think about all the times Cardona has been written off, but reinvents himself to become relevant. Props to the guy. Maybe in the future he’ll get a SQUASH of the week in which he is the winner!