Former WWE personality addresses backstage heat between Roman Reigns and Matt Riddle

In the summer of 2021, Matt Riddle publicly took aim at Roman Reigns during an interview with BleacherReport.com when he said the following…

“You’re related to The Rock. Shut up. Like, I’m not impressed, I can beat you up in a real fight. So, shut your mouth. You’re not moving needles.”

During his podcast, former WWE personality Matt Camp reflected on Reigns appearing on The Bump around that time…

“Riddle was the in-studio guest and we 100% did not put Riddle on the set until Roman was gone and off the video screen. Just not going to mess with that. Then Riddle went and said something dumb about Roman right after that in another interview. Right after that. I think that’s where he told the story about writing a letter to Roman, apologizing, and Randy [Orton] told him to do it.

We made a point to keep Riddle…we would have those interactions where someone would be in studio and then they’d interact with the guest, whether they were in storyline or not, we’d have some fun stuff with that. We 100% kept Riddle off the set until the Roman interview was done, which was the right call.” (quote courtesy of Jeremy Lambert)

Reigns did end up working with Riddle on television in 2022.