In late September, Matt Riddle and several other talents were released from WWE. The King of Bros was involved in an incident at JFK airport a few weeks before his release.
Last November, Matt Riddle took a shot at WWE after CM Punk returned to the company at Survivor Series. Riddle stated, “Hey @WWE you thought I was hard to deal with 😂 have fun with 0-2 @CMPunk.”
In a recent interview with FOX News, Matt Riddle talked about his WWE release. The former WWE Tag Team Champion said that he has no hard feelings and won’t argue with WWE’s decision.
“No, I have no hard feelings. And I would just say, with WWE, they run a ship, they run it a certain way, and when you work for WWE, everything you do is under a magnifying glass. It doesn’t matter if you did anything wrong, if you did something right if it was in between, it’s perception. And the WWE, unfortunately, if a situation happens, and they don’t like the perception, they make their decision. But I’m not going to argue with them. That’s their company. I don’t run it. I just worked there. I’m thankful that they gave me the time that they did and that’s all I can say. I have zero hard feelings. I don’t know if I can say that for them. They might have some hard feelings, but I feel like they’re pretty professional. They’re more about that paper, that money. So, I don’t think there’s any hard feelings. I mean, they did have to pay me for three months when I didn’t work. That was on them. They fired me.”
On Friday, Hiroshi Tanahashi defeated Ryusuke Taguchi to retain the NJPW World Television Championship at New Year Dash 2024. Later, Matt Riddle appeared on the big screen and challenged Tanahashi to a match. Tanahashi has yet to accept the challenge.
However, NJPW announced that Matt Riddle will team up with a mystery partner to face TMDK (Bad Dude Tito & Zack Sabre Jr.) on January 13th at Battle in the Valley.