Matt Cardona reflects upon his ‘dream match vs. Adam Copeland’ on AEW collision in todays Wrestling news
Cardona’s and Copeland’s careers have been linked ever since 2007.
Matt Cardona says he finally got to wrestle his dream match.
Cardona answered Adam Copeland’s “Cope Open” for the TNT Championship on Saturday’s AEW Collision. He posted a statement to X on Sunday thanking Tony Khan, AEW, and Copeland for making the match happen.
Cardona wrote:
@RatedRCope vs. Matt Cardona…my dream match…finally happened last night at #AEWCollision.
When I was in high school, Edge was one of my favorite wrestlers. I’d have matches with him (an invisible version) in my bedroom or trampoline.
Him reinventing himself into the Rated R Superstar made me an even bigger fan of his.
A couple of years later, @Myers_Wrestling and I made it to WWE but were drowning as The Major Brothers. We were about be fired. We had an idea to be Adam’s entourage…his Edgeheads. He didn’t need us but we certainly needed him. He took a chance on us, saved our careers, and changed our lives.
We went from sitting in catering about to be fired to wrestling guys like Undertaker, Batista, Ric Flair, Shawn Michaels, etc. We learned so much from working so close to Adam. Our first time at WrestleMania was being involved in the main event! I thought the next year at WrestleMania it’d be Edge vs. Hawkins vs. Ryder. That didn’t happen. LOL.
16 years (holy shit!) flew by so fast. Adam had to retire due to a neck injury in 2011. My dream match would never happen. Adam returns to WWE in 2020. I get fired from WWE in 2020. My dream match would never happen.
I’ve been busting my ass these past 4 years to reinvent myself. Adam is the Rated R Superstar and I’m the Self Made Superstar. I’ve been everywhere. I’ve wrestled everyone. When Adam joined @AEW in 2023, I knew my dream match was back on the table.
Last night in Canada, Adam had the Cope Open…an open challenge for his TNT Championship. I accepted. The fans didn’t forget the history. There was a HOLY SHIT chant on my god damn entrance. I may have lost but I learned even more from Adam from that match. It was a night that I’ll never forget. I finally wrestled my dream match.
Thank you Adam. Thank you @TonyKhan for the opportunity.
After wrestling for a few months as Brian and Brett Major on the ECW brand, Cardona and Brian Myers played a major role in the main event of Armageddon 2007. Edge retained his World Heavyweight title in a three-way match against Batista and The Undertaker that night, thanks in part to their interference.
Their debut as The Edge Heads was covered by our own Bryan Alvarez in the Figure Four Weekly newsletter shortly after. The newsletter is available here for subscribers.
Alvarez wrote of the Armageddon 2007 main event:
They did a weird twist where Edge now has a “Rated-Rmy” that consists of Bret and Brian Major dressed up in his gear, and they did a lot of hiding and causing trouble during this match. Of course, it was no-DQ so it didn’t matter if they just ran in, but they still kept trying to be stealthy, like Human Weapon Ninjas. In the end, it was too wacky for a serious WWE main event title match, but apparently, the Rated-Rmy is a regular act now on Smackdown.
Wrestling as Zack Ryder & Curt Hawkins, they would continue as Edge’s entourage for much of 2008. They won the tag team titles at Great American Bash 2008 and held them for a couple of months before dropping them to Carlito and Primo Colon. They’d eventually be split up in the 2009 draft when Ryder was moved to ECW and Hawkins returned to FCW.
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