A brief segment of Matt Sydal’s three-hour interview was put up on Title Match Wrestling’s YouTube page, and in it, Sydal discusses coming up through the indies with now famous WWE superstars, and what it was like be in the ring with them. He also touches on his compatibility with the likes of Sami Zayn, and more.
Check out some highlights below:
On wrestling with Sami Zayn:
I think it was the [Ted Petty Invitational] that I won was when I wrestled Seth Rollins, but the one before that I wrestled [Sami Zayn] and [Kevin Owens], and it was the first day I met those guys, we shook hands, we met that day. My match with [Zayn] that day, still is just, it felt perfect. It was everything we could have asked for, out of two strangers from the blue, but we thought on the same wavelength, we moved at the exact same time. I mean we had perfect timing, it was like a young masterpiece.
On working with a younger CM Punk:
Punk was awesome, he was super cool. Cabana was great, he was fun, they would, you know, lightheartedly pick on me. Punk was always trying to think of something new, I remember him body slamming me off of the top rope and then putting an Anaconda Vice on me, and then I threw maybe under the ring after it … They taught me a lot though, about how to be on the road, on that particular road … They were very much about how to make it last, how to make your dollars last, like how to sell a t-shirt, how to sell a DVD.
