#1 Triple H did not shake Matt Cardona’s hand in WWE
Matt Cardona (f.k.a. Zack Ryder) worked for WWE between 2005 and 2020. While he spent the majority of that time performing on Vince McMahon’s main roster, he also appeared on Triple H’s NXT brand for two years.
Since leaving WWE, Cardona has created his own weekly podcast, MC! True Long Island Story, on The Major Pod Network. During an episode in August 2021, the former WWE star told an amusing story about Triple H refusing to shake his hand backstage.
“I’m hanging out with the merch guys, whether I’m pitching ideas or what,” Cardona said. “Triple H is walking down and he’s got like a script or whatever rolled up. I go to shake his hand and say like, ‘Hey, Hunter,’ and he stabs me in the throat and goes, ‘Right in the jugular!’ and just keeps walking. Obviously he wasn’t trying to really stab me, but he did the motion, he connected, and he said that, and he didn’t shake my hand! Like, how do you respond to that?”
Judging by the humorous way that Cardona told the story, he was not annoyed about Triple H’s handshake snub.
Instead, he was genuinely confused about how to react to his former boss rejecting the handshake offer.
Edited by Kartik Arry