Matt Cardona has signed with WWE and returned to the company on the January 2nd episode of SmackDown. Before returning to WWE, Cardona had won the JCW World Championship. Juggalo Championship Wrestling in an indy promotion currently run by former WWF/WCW/TNA writer Vince Russo.
Due to Cardona joining WWE, JCW will have to change their plans now. Russo issued the following statement about it:
“I haven’t said anything so I will now. I am 100% THRILLED for Matt Cardona. I know this was Matt’s Goal, and the opportunity to be able to be on the road and travel with the lovely Chelsea Green once again is a BEAUTIFUL THING! I LOVE both these guys—TRULY!!!
I’m also glad that I got to meet Matt even if it was for only ONE NIGHT. Quite Frankly—that was one of MY GOALS!
Now as a writer are there going to have to be rewrites? Of course there are, but there are ALWAYS RE-WRITES, and to a REAL Writer—that’s a Challenge that is ALWAYS Welcomed.
Vince McMahon told me almost 30 years ago, ‘No One Talent is Bigger than the Company’, and he was 100% CORRECT. It takes a WHOLE ROSTER, and at JCW Lunacy I am literally IN LOVE with the Men and Women that I work with. Every one of them play a HUGE PART of the process and the success of JCW Lunacy!!!
So–onward and upward!!! Now the question—WHO WILL STEP UP?!!!”
Russo posted another message later:
“Does anybody really believe that you don’t know the risk involved when you put your belt on a former WWE WRESTLER? That you don’t understand that he/she could return to the company at any time?
Of course you do, but like anything else you weigh the risk vs. the reward. Even if Matt Cardona is JCW Champion for just a day, that’s a huge win for the company based on WHO MATT IS. That’s the REWARD.
The RISK? He goes back to the WWE so you put the belt on somebody else.
PROP—-REMEMBER? NOT REAL. So, I’m supposed to be ‘mad’ about that?
It’s unbelievable that so many that ‘know me’ actually know nothing about me.
Truth is that I’m really excited about who’s going to be the next
JCW Champion because he’s more deserving than anyone else I can think of.
And, I think it’s REALLY COOL that he doesn’t even know yet!
Stay tuned—Thursday nights 7pm est on YouTube!”
