Matt Riddle Speaks On Rumours Of Backstage WWE Heat
"Heat"? It's all fun and games for 'The Original Bro.'
"Backstage heat? Stop taking everything so seriously, bro."
This is the word of WWE's Matt Riddle in a recent interview with Gary Cassidy, who asked the current NXT Tag Team Champion what he thought of talk that he isn't the most well-liked person in the WWE locker-room.
"I'll tell you this. Do I have heat with WWE or NXT, or the people that run the show? No," Riddle said. "Do I have heat with some people who think I'm disrespectful at times because they don't understand how business works? Yes. Do people take things too seriously? Yes."
NXT's 'Original Bro' added that he'd "had to give talks at NXT," there was nothing malicious about his attempts at stirring the pot: "I'm like, 'Hey. I'm going to tweet or say something that offends you. Realise I'm not trying to actually offend you, I'm just trying to make people think I am.' I'm putting out an image, a facade, you know?"
So being a professional wrestler, basically.
Summing things up, Riddle conceded that while he does have beef with some people, it's mostly just "high school, catty" stuff from "people who can't take a joke or a work."
The full interview can be read here.