Matt Riddle Tells All About Botched Backstage WWE RAW Promo With Asuka

Matt Riddle made many memories while he was in WWE. One segment is still remembered by many, because it did not end the way it was scripted at all.

Matt Riddle Comes Clean About His Flubbed Lines

Riddle sat down with Signed By Superstars, and he was asked about the promo where he forgot his lines. It sounded like he was happy to finally get asked about this, so he could get it off his chest.

The Original Bro alluded to the idea that he didn’t know he was live. He assumed it was a taped segment, but that was not the case. He flubbed his lines, and then Asuka was forced to just laugh it off and keep walking down the hallway after he scooted away.

“Let’s talk about that promo. One, usually when they go live, they tell you. Sometimes, you go through a couple of rehearsals beforehand. I had the scooter, they gave it to me and said, ‘We don’t want to see you. Go 20 yards that way and roll down.’ I rolled down, and I didn’t know it was live TV. The promo they originally had was me talking about how I had been to Japan before, which I hadn’t, and how I would go to underground robot fights and I was going to ask Asuka if scooters would be a big hit in Japan. Yeah, I forgot everything. I forgot everything when I rolled up.”

“I scoot back to the locker room. Me and Randy [Randy Orton] didn’t really talk, I guess Randy didn’t really like me when I first started working there because I am who I am. Randy comes up to me and goes, ‘I don’t know if that shit was planned, but that was your best promo yet.'”

What’s Next For Matt Riddle

Matt Riddle is now onto his adventures in the pro wrestling world. He is working for NJPW and MLW. When it comes to AEW, Riddle made it abuandatly clear that he is not in any rush to wrestle on television again.

A WWE return is not out of the realm of possibility, because anyone can come back at this point. Don’t expect an immediate return, because it seems that Riddle is doing his own thing right now.

As I already exclusively noted on SE Scoops, WWE always had a plan for Matt Riddle and Randy Orton’s breakup. The idea was for Orton to turn on the Original Bro, but then he took off for 18 months due to back fusion surgery. 

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