Former WWE star Matt Riddle recently claimed Brock Lesnar completely derailed a planned Elimination Chamber match in Saudi Arabia, showing up without attending the pre-match meeting, going off-script inside the chamber, and then laughing about it afterward.
Riddle shared the account on the Rewind Recap Relive podcast, describing a match that was supposed to feature multiple planned spots and pin exchanges for each participant.
Brock Lesnar not listening to anybody but himself and maybe Paul Heyman — he basically starts flipping out, punches the pod wall. They're not really sturdy. He punches through it, then starts kicking it, busts it down. And everybody just kind of fed him — clothesline, F5. Clothesline, F5.
The result was a match that ended roughly ten minutes ahead of schedule, robbing the other competitors of their planned moments.
AJ Styles was furious. I was furious. Seth — everybody was furious. The match abruptly ended like 10 minutes earlier than it should have.
Laughing It Off — Then Paul Heyman Got an Earful
Riddle revealed that the aftermath was equally infuriating. Rather than apologizing, Lesnar walked away laughing, saying he had simply forgotten the plan.
After the match, he's laughing. He goes, 'Oh sorry, I forgot.' You forgot. You flew all the way to Saudi just to forget," Riddle said. "He didn't even say sorry — he was just laughing and walking away.
Paul Heyman stepped in to smooth things over, only to be shut down by the locker room.
Paul Heyman came up and was like, 'He's sorry, dude.' And we're like, 'Paul, shut the f*** up.' You manage this guy. The better he looks, the better you look.
Riddle said Lesnar had a history of similar behavior and offered a blunt warning to anyone working with him:
Advice for the locker room — don't listen to him.
Riddle was referring to the 2022 Elimination Chamber match, where Brock Lesnar put on a dominant performance. 'The Beast Incarnate' entered the match early after breaking out of his pod and went on to eliminate Seth Rollins, Riddle, AJ Styles, and finally Austin Theory to capture the WWE Championship.
Despite the frustration from the competitors at the time, the moment still became one of the most memorable highlights of the 2022 Elimination Chamber event, with Lesnar bulldozing through the pod and dominantly reclaiming the WWE Championship.
