This week, NXT Superstar Matt Riddle sat down with Jeremy Borash for an in-depth interview. Featured below are some of the highlights.
On getting advice from The Blue Meanie: “One person gave me some advice when I started wrestling, it was actually The Blue Meanie. He goes, ‘Matt just remember this, you’d rather want somebody to tell you to tone it down and take it back, than to tell you to tone it up.’ So I’d rather just be myself and if it’s too much sometimes, I’m pretty sure somebody will tell me to stop or slow down, or change it, ya know?”
On what is next for him: “I don’t know, I just… me personally, I would just love to have great competition. I’m about great competition. That’s why I can have a great smile before hand, and connect with the crowd, and then when I get in the ring I flip that switch. Because I want a fight, I want to be tested, that’s why I’m here.”
On wanting to retire Brock Lesnar: “Oh yeah, retiring Brock… it’s no secret. That’s been the goal since I started wrestling, since the very beginning. I like to set goals that seem impossible. Only one person can retire Brock Lesnar, only one person can end his career, and that person’s going to be me. I don’t like how he does it, I don’t like the respect that he shows, and I don’t like the workrate that he puts out. That’s just my personal opinion. I think he’s capable of more. Maybe it doesn’t work out for me, maybe it doesn’t work out the first time, but I guarantee you I’m going to beat him and I’m gonna retire him.”
On what his legacy, specifically in NXT, will be: “My goal is to change NXT. It is to change every company I’ve ever been to and I’ve changed every company. The way people wrestle and the way I fight people, and the way it’s not like other matches. But sometimes you gotta get gritty and I think a lot of the people here don’t get gritty enough. And I bring that grit, I get nasty, I get mean. I can flip that switch and be super cool, and super nasty in one sitting. And I don’t think this NXT Universe has seen that yet. I think they got a taste of it in Phoenix and I think they’re going to get more taste of it as the weeks keep playing on, and playing on until WrestleMania.”
Check out the complete interview with Matt Riddle below.
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