Many WWE couples talk about how much fun it is to travel with your significant other on the road, but not many talk about the smaller challenges of dating in the industry. WWE Women’s Champion Chelsea Green and her husband, WWE SmackDown star Matt Cardona, appeared on “Coincidences with Cathy Nolan“And talked about their relationship, where Greene revealed something that even Cardona didn’t know.
“I couldn’t remember Matt’s real name. Everyone called him “Zack,” Green said, referencing Cardona’s former ring name, Zack Ryder. “Everybody called him by his wrestling name. All his friends called him that. Everyone in his life called him that. I didn’t know his parents yet, it would be different if I knew his family, but everyone knew him as “Zach” and no one called him “Matt” until I felt like I was with him and just called him “Matt” and then slowly people called him “Za”.
A puzzled Cardona said it was the first time he had heard that it was now difficult for a woman to remember her real name. He admitted that even his father called him “Zach” while he was gone released by WWE in 2020.
Green and Cardona were officially reunited down the road when it was revealed the former Ryder is officially a WWE star again on the January 2 episode of SmackDown. The star previously competed in WWE NXT as a member of TNA in the companies’ partnership. He also cooked a special appearing in John Cena’s Last Time Is Now tournamentin November, where he lost to LA Knight.
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