During his last episode “Extreme Life” podcast, Former multiple WWE Tag Team Champion Matt Hardy has been spotted again WWE’s Unforgiven 2005 pay-per-view event. As he revisited his career-defining victory over Edge in a steel cage match, other notable wrestlers and matches were on the card, including the late. Rosie and Lance Cade. Both men were featured opposite each other in a tag team match where Cade and former talent Trevor Murdoch defeated Rosey and Storm for their World Tag Team Championships. Paying tribute, Hardy described Rousey as a soft-spoken wrestler who was admired by people near and far.
“Rosie was a real sweet guy…We really liked him…a very, very nice guy. I dug into him. Very soft spoken,” Hardy said. “Umaga was a lot more… he’s loud, a lot more flashy, you know what it’s about. Zilla’s father, he was just that kind of character. Rosie was a lot quieter, but she really enjoyed doing things with Storm.”
Rosey, the late older brother of current World Heavyweight Champion Roman Reigns, died just 10 days after his 47th birthday on April 17, 2017, due to complications from heart failure. like Rosie Cade died of heart failure at the young age of 29 In 2010, Hardy said that Cade’s in-ring performance was one to miss because the former star was good at his craft and was very smart in how he approached it.
“Lance Cade was a very good guy, very hardworking, obviously,” Hardy added. “You know, he had issues that he dealt with, but… he was a very nice guy. And I think an extremely talented wrestler as well… He was just a very solid worker. He was a great athlete. He was very smooth. He was also very smart about how he handled things. And he was very much like a throwback to old school wrestling.”
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