Matt Cardona has high praise for Mikey Whipwreck.
Although he is no longer active inside of the squared circle, Mikey Whipwreck is often praised as one name that has helped out a lot of the current day wrestling landscape. Performers such as John Silver, Alex Reynolds, Trent Beretta, Brian Myers, and Jay Lethal have all given credit to Whipwreck in the past for being a big part in jump starting their careers.
Another name that has high praise for Whipwreck is Matt Cardona. Although he didn't train from scratch with Whipwreck, Cardona recently credited the ECW legend for helping him learn important stuff about the business in an interview with JBL & Gerald Brisco.
“So, it was such a weird dynamic. I’m September 2003, I went to the school and there’s no real trainers, like this guy is teaching you to lock up. This guy is teaching you how to do moonsaults, what’s going on here. Even then I was like this isn’t right, there should be one guy teaching the basics. I’m learning a hammer lock, and the next day I’m learning how to do a 450, this doesn’t seem right [laughs]. That school eventually closes down, but I was still on the shows. I was in somebody’s posse, one of those bodyguard type guys. I wasn’t having matches yet, but I was on the shows. Then Mikey [Whipwreck] came back in and they reopened the school and he was teaching guys from scratch, but I was already advanced technically because I was on the show. I didn’t learn from scratch from Mikey, but he would teach me like the structure of the match, which was so important because like I said earlier, anyone can do the moves but you need to know why you’re doing this move, why you’re putting it here or the ways to dictate a locker room. That stuff was the invaluable stuff he taught me.”
Whipwreck is still active on social media at the time of this article. Fans can follow the legend on Twitter by clicking here.
Elsewhere in the interview, Cardona discussed playing his character on social media. Learn more by clicking here.
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