Cody Rhodes is rooting for Matt Cardona to accomplish a longstanding goal of winning a WWE or World Championship someday.
Rhodes was quick to point out Cardona’s ambition of winning the WWE Championship during their interaction in the latest episode of his ‘What do you wanna talk about? Podcast’. He voiced his support for Cardona to eventually capture the WWE or World Title and said he would hold him to that dream becoming reality.
“There’s something you brought up and I didn’t want to be mushy, if that’s the word, I didn’t want to be emotional but you brought up something. You said you came back to be WWE Champion and like I think it’s okay we got the cameras here to tell you, I hope that happens but also as your friend I’d like to hold you to it cause you were very much of a ‘hold me to it’, and you were a very celebratory person in terms of, I would do something and I knew it was ‘this is big’. I’d go ‘I just beat Brock Lesnar in Puerto Rico’ like ‘this is big.’ And I remember you telling me, you’re always just there for it. So, I’d hope to hold you to it and I hope that happens – a World Championship, WWE Championship or World Championship or within WWE, I think the flagship of these shows.”
Later in the interview, Rhodes asked Cardona stars he would consider essential for a dream team.
“If we do let’s say five people, I’ll pick Chelsea Green, need that No. 1. You know, I’ll throw you in there, Cody, you know you can politick for me. Hey, we have the TNA partnership now I’ll say Brian Myers, somebody whose known me since day one. From NYWC to winning tag team titles to podcasts – Major Wrestling Figure Podcast, collectmajor.com, lower third. Let me get, since we also have the TNA partnership, Nic Nemeth, the wanted man. And I can’t believe I’m saying this but ‘Awesome’ The Miz. The Miz can do it all. He’s always there when I need to pick his brain about something.”
“If I had to throw in a little bonus – Kit Wilson I would say in like 2011, 2012, the core would’ve been me, Miz, (John) Morrison, (Dolph) Ziggler and Kit.”
Cardona returned to WWE last year on the NXT brand, five years after being released by the company. He lost to Josh Briggs amidst NXT and TNA’s invasion storyline. In November, he was a competitor in John Cena’s Last Time Is Now Tournament on SmackDown.
Last week on SmackDown, he confronted Randy Orton backstage. His attempt to reason with Randy Orton for his actions against Rhodes at the contract signing the week prior ended disastrously for Cardona. Orton called him out to the ring under the pretense of an apology only to attack him instead.
