10 Wrestlers Who Really Can't Catch A Break
7. Matt Riddle
Matt Riddle doesn't need to catch a break. The King of Bros is one of the most talented performers of a generation, a man of such intangible magnificence and ability that seems tailor-made for the main event of a major wrestling television show. He is undeniably Matt Riddle. Nobody wrestles like him, nobody talks like him, nobody moves like him. He is Matt Riddle, and he is absolutely tremendous.
The problem Matt Riddle has is that one individual doesn't seem to get him. Where the world sees a preposterously talented individual with charisma for days, that one individual sees a stoner in bare feet who likes saying 'bro'. Nothing more, nothing less. That one individual is Vince McMahon, and he decides the fate of all beneath him.
Even so, there was some hope that Matt Riddle would overcome this on the main roster. That hope dissipated once Riddle was placed in a feud with King Corbin. Like all Corbin feuds, this beef will seemingly never end. Riddle and Corbin will trade wins until long after the sun sets, leaving Riddle a diminished attraction when he should be the top star.
And all this because a global pandemic broke Riddle and Pete Dunne up, ridding NXT viewers of a fresh duo and an eventual feud that could have defined either man's WWE career.
Matt Riddle needs to catch a break.