Randy Orton Reveals Why He Didn’t Like Matt Riddle After First Meeting Him

Randy Orton Reveals Why He Didn’t Like Matt Riddle After First Meeting Him

Matt Riddle and Randy Orton are currently teaming on Raw as RKBro after Orton requested to work with the former MMA fighter. The odd-couple tag team has been one of the highlights of Raw in recent weeks, and it seems just a match of time until they challenge AJ Styles and Omos for the Raw Tag Team Championship. However, Orton has admitted on Kurt Angle’s podcast that he actually didn’t like Riddle when they first met. The reason being that Riddle didn’t introduce himself when they first shared a locker room.

I think he’s already outshined most of his little class of NXT that have come up over the last year. The funny thing with Riddle is when I first met him, the entire locker room of NXT was in Miami, so now our locker rooms are now jam-packed with NXT guys who aren’t working the show, but in the wrestling business, you bring your gear just in case. We’ve got all these NXT guys with all their s–t taking up all the space in the locker room, so me, being a vet, being around a while, I see this, and now I already got a hard-on for these guys, and it doesn’t help when I walk by Matt Riddle.

My olive branch was basically me just looking at Matt, and I go “Oh, there he is, there he is,” just kind of ice breaker, expecting a “Oh hey Randy, my name is Matt, nice to meet you.” But instead, Matt just kind of, with the bloodshot eyes, glanced over at me and just kept walking. I remember thinking, “that motherf*cker.” For quite a while, I didn’t like Riddle, and it was because of that little scenario.

I love the guy now. I’ve been in the locker room with the guy for probably a year. I was there when a couple of weeks ago he forgot his verbiage live on Raw and scooted off on the scooter with Asuka in the back, and everyone thought it was brilliant. That was some of the best sh*t I’ve ever seen.Randy Orton

In addition to Orton, during his short WWE career, Riddle has gotten on the wrong side of Goldberg, Brock Lesnar, and Seth Rollins. At one point, Vince McMahon even addressed it with Riddle in a meeting between the pair. Thankfully though, for Riddle, McMahon is apparently a big fan of his character, and at the end of the day, his opinion is what matters in WWE.

JAMES RYDER

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