Effy talks ROH Final Battle.
𓆏On the December 5 edition of ROH On HonorClub, Matt Cardona arrived to the promotion to challenge Chris Jericho to a match for the ROH World Championship at ROH Final Battle. This segment created buzz online, as Cardona is a mainstay in GCW, another promotion that will be running the Hammerstein Ballroom just weeks after AEW and ROH hold three shows there.
Controversy has clouded both shows in recent days, mainly due to the fact that Ricky Starks was pulled from his GCW appearances🎃 after Effy made comments about Tony Khan and his father. Some fans viewed ROH booking Matt Cardona for Final Battle as a direct shot to GCW.
🐷While chatting with The Ringer Wrestling Show for a new interview, Effy talked about the situation and said that it could be a movement in the right direction. Also, Effy revealed that he texted Matt Cardona after learning of the segment.
“A direct shot or a movement in the right direction? If anyone is to be a central force, I promise you it’s not me. Cardona is very good friends with people on WWE’s side, I mean his wife works there. He’s very good friends with people in AEW. At the end of the day, as a pro wrestler, what Cardona does is sees the opportunity for buzz, sees the opportunity to pick up on something. Okay yes, a direct shot he may be working their Hammerstein show, he’s probably also going to be working out Hammerstein show. It goes to kind of go, hey, I think there’s a bridge here you guys are missing. On some hands you go, maybe he’s just doing his own thing to do his own thing, but working with someone like Jericho, for anything that I may disagree with Chris Jericho on, the man knows how to get the buzz. The man knows how to capitalize when juice is moving up. At the end for the day, I as a wrestler, others as wrestlers, my goal and I hope all of our goals would be to incite interest and get people talking and get people involved. Wrestling, since people figured out that oh maybe sometimes they’re working together, the secondary kayfabe of that has always been the excitement of, what is real and what is not anymore. What is going to be something that is planned or what is something that wasn’t planned and that we’re gonna roll with now. I’m excited to see it, it got me fired up last night. I messaged Matt Cardona, I said he was the funniest man of all time. He’s taught me so much about the way to approach this business and I do see some of my weaknesses in being too honest and too emotional. The Effy character, I believe, is a character of when he comes through the curtain to when he goes back through. Any other time you’re interacting with me, I’ve joked that I’m too lazy to be a fake character when I’m just kind of out in public or even at the merch table. Some of that, I look at Cardona and see this version that is publicly on all the time and I think I should probably be a little more like that. I can’t run from stuff I’ve said, I can’t run from things going on.”
🌞Fightful will have a new interview with Effy's rival, Mance Warner, on Sunday, December 8. Stay tuned to for that interview.
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