Chelsea Green On Matt Cardona’s WWE Return: I Know How Hard I Worked To Get Back Here, He Worked Even Harder

Chelsea Green reacts to Matt Cardona’s return.

Fans were treated to a special moment on the January 2 episode of WWE SmackDown, as Matt Cardona made his return to WWE as a full-time member of the roster. This moment came just weeks after Cardona appeared as Zack Ryder in The Last Time Is Now tournament.

Speaking with TMZ’s Inside The Ring podcast for a new interview, Chelsea Green talked about the moment.

“I think I got all of my nerves out of the way when he debuted at the John Cena’s last match tournament. It wasn’t as much nervousness as it was then in Albany. It was a different feeling because we’ve now waited for this moment for five years. I know how hard I worked to get back here, he worked even harder to get back. He worked twice as long on the indies this time around and he really reinvented himself.”

Green was then honest and opened up about some of the nerves she has in regards to her husband’s return.

“That was also kind of where a little bit of the nerves came into play. How are we going to go from transitioning him out of Zack Ryder and into Matt Cardona and still paying respects to who he was and the fact that some fans, they’ll only remember Zack Ryder. They won’t have known his indie run, they won’t have known that he trended worldwide for a deathmatch against Nick Gage, they won’t know that he’s the indie god or that he’s a completely different person. [They won’t know that] he was never a heel in WWE and has now spent the past five years as a heel. All of those things are things we need to now introduce to the WWE Universe. So, it’s kind of a whole bunch of new nerves but it’s just more excitement than anything.”

Chelsea Green was featured in the first trailer for season two of WWE Unreal. Check out the trailer by clicking here.

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