WWE Superstar Chelsea Green recently took to social media to send a message ahead of the upcoming edition of Friday Night Smackdown. The Hot Mess wants a popular 4-time champion to appear on the Blue Show. It’s none other than her husband, Matt Cardona.
Matt Cardona competed in worldwide wrestling entertainment between 2005 and 2020 under the ring name Zack Ryder. During this time, he won several titles, including the Intercontinental Championship once, the United States Championship once, and the Raw Tag Team Championship twice. Following his release from the Stamford-based promotion, Cardona made a major name for himself on the independent circuit.
Although the former Intercontinental Champion is not under a contract with TNA at the moment, he recently returned to WWE TV during TNA’s invasion of NXT. The former Zack Ryder is now set to wrestle in his first match in the company in five years as he faces Josh Briggs on NXT next week.
Following this announcement, Chelsea Green took to X/Twitter to send a message. The hot mess wrote that she wanted to see her husband again on Smackdown.
“And I want Matt on #smackdown so…” she wrote.
Check out his post below:
The WWE Hall of Fame was full of praise for Matt Cardona
During a May 2025 edition of The wrestling time machineWWE Hall of Famer Teddy Long praised Matt Cardona for not taking his release from the Stamford-based promotion personally and making a huge name for himself on the independent circuit.
Long also spoke about Cardona not wanting to return to WWE TV under his Zack Ryder moniker. Legend said the former Intercontinental Champion doesn’t need to come back if the company doesn’t want him like Matt Cardona.
“The good part about it is he walked away, he didn’t let that… when they fired him, he didn’t take that staff. He walked away, moved up, made a name for himself, I mean, made a huge name for himself. And right now, he’s absolutely doing good. I don’t want him.”
It remains to be seen if the creative team led by Triple H will re-sign the former Zack Ryder.
Edited by Aashrit Satija
