Matt Cardona Reacts To CM Punk’s Twitter Shot

When Sasha Banks and Naomi walked out on an episode of Monday Night Raw last month, many wrestlers took to Twitter to share their support for the duo.

Among the tweets was one from ultimate independent wrestling heel Matt Cardona (Zack Ryder), who posted a joke tweet about the situation, which led to CM Punk responding and taking a shot at Cardona.

Cardona recently spoke to Nick Hausman of WrestlingInc, where he was asked about the Tweet and Punk’s reaction to it.

Cardona said that he thought it was obvious that the Tweet was a joke, saying:

“It was a fun tweet, I don’t know what part of the tweet was more obvious that it was a joke, a) that I was going to put my neck brace on Johnny Ace’s table, or b) that I was talking about the respect of the Internet Championship. It was a joke. I still think it was funny. If people don’t like it, I mean that’s life. You can’t please everybody. You’re always going to have a hater or a critic. That’s life, it is what it is, and I wasn’t going to engage in some Twitter back and forth with anybody over it. I thought it was a funny tweet. I didn’t delete it. I thought it was pretty clever.”

Cardona then commented on Punk’s reaction to the Tweet, noting that he always had a good relationship with Punk, and that he’s entitled to his opinion on the tweet.

He said:

“We always had a good relationship. We used to ride together. I haven’t talked to him in a while, but I have nothing bad to say about Punk.

“As I said earlier, I don’t really care what other people say, it didn’t really affect me. I saw the tweet obviously, people sent it to me. He’s entitled to his opinion. And like I said, I wasn’t going to engage. For what? It’s just a joke tweet. I thought it was funny, and still think it’s funny. It is what it is.”

Less than a month later, both men suffered injuries that require surgery while holding the world championship for their respective company. Cardona suffering a torn bicep as NWA World’s Champion, taking him out of the upcoming NWA Alwayz Ready show, while Punk suffered an injury as AEW World Champion, leading him to miss the Forbidden Door pay-per-view.

quote via WrestlingInc

If you’d go back in time to stand up for yourself, you should stand up the workers now. https://t.co/Hh0zA7nsid

— player/coach (@CMPunk) May 17, 2022