Throughout a current version of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer addressed the contractual standing of Matt Cardona with AEW, after returning to the corporate to construct an angle for ROH Last Battle.
When requested if the previous WWE Intercontinental and Tag Staff Champion was signed with the corporate in mild of AEW Store promoting a Cardona t-shirt, Meltzer responded:
I do know he was supplied a contract. I don’t know if he’s signed or something. So yeah, I suppose perhaps shut.
Cardona wrestled in AEW in 2020, months after the previous Zack Ryder was launched from WWE, earlier than returning as a part of the “Cope Open” to problem Adam Copeland for the TNT Championship this previous March.
Cardona is ready to face Chris Jericho for the ROH World Championship at Last Battle, emanating from the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York Metropolis on Friday, December 20.
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