As was noted earlier, Matt Riddle appeared on Ariel Helwani’s The MMA Hour. He discussed what happened to lead to his WWE release, being sent to rehab, and a lot more.
Helwani asked Riddle about the changes in WWE under Triple H and how things are different than when Vince McMahon was running the creative end. Riddle echoed what many have said privately about things being much more organized these days.
Riddle said, “With Triple H in control, a lot more control. In the sense of things are organized. At least when I was there, if they were scheduled for this — unless something catastrophic happened, if somebody got injured or something’s not gonna work out — that’s what’s happening the next day. They write it, it’s actually happening.”
Ridde continued, “With Vince, I feel like he did it on purpose. I don’t know the method but like there would be a show. You’d get a script on like Sunday and by Monday, nobody knew what they were doing. The show was being completely rewritten and stuff like that…With Vince around, it was like that probably every week. A little chaotic. I almost felt like he did that on purpose because I feel like when people know exactly what’s gonna happen and you’re doing live TV and you’re trying to get passion and that energy. You kind of get set in a pattern because you know what’s happening…”
Riddle said that sometimes you’ll see something look too choreographed but things look better when you just call it in the ring. Also during the interview, Riddle admitted that he failed multiple drug tests because of cocaine use. I discussed this in the latest Wrestling News Update video below.
