There have been numerous reports coming out of the Royal Rumble about a confrontation that is said to have happened backstage between Brock Lesnar and Matt Riddle.
It’s being said that the confrontation never became physical, however Brock Lesnar had some heated words for Matt Riddle backstage.
On the latest episode of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer discussed the situation with Matt Riddle and Brock Lesnar and he reported that whatever is going on has caused some serious heat backstage within WWE on Riddle.
“I don’t wanna say that he doesn’t get it, because he may get it. Whatever it is there’s a lot of heat on Matt Riddle right now.”
“You can look at it like he’s got potential and they shouldn’t squander it and he’s not the first guy and he’s not gonna be the last in that situation where Vince sees it differently and it’s not like it’s the kiss of death, but right now… on NXT I guess you could not push him at all, but that would be stupid because NXT is battling [with AEW] and things like that.”
“Yeah, he ain’t in the forefront and there’s a reason why he was in and out so quick [in the Royal Rumble]. It was more than just getting heat for Baron Corbin which is what the outcome was, but the idea was that yeah, whatever it is. I’m not there I can’t speak for his attitude. I can only speak about his performance. His performance is really good.”
“I haven’t heard anything negative about his attitude, but that doesn’t mean it’s not there and he hasn’t rubbed someone the wrong way or whatever he’s done, but I don’t know what it would be, but that’s the case.”
Matt Riddle was a participant in the Men’s Royal Rumble match on Sunday, be it he didn’t last very long in the match.
We will keep you updated if we hear anything more about the rumored confrontation backstage at the Royal Rumble between Matt Riddle and Brock Lesnar.
(Thanks to our friends at Ringsidenews.com for the transcriptions.)
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