Matt Riddle says Roman Reigns “flipped out” at him in text message due to interview comments

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.”

While speaking to TMZ.com, Riddle addressed the situation…

“I could beat him in an MMA fight, a jiu-jitsu match. In a football game, he probably could catch better than me, throw better than me, tackle better than me. He’s a bigger guy. Dude, he flipped out. He texted me. ‘not cool, dude.’ And I was like, ‘oh sh*t.’

So I apologized. I wrote this long apology. I go, ‘Randy [Orton], how does this look?’ I just showed him and he goes, ‘Nah, this isn’t right.’ You know, because Roman’s on SmackDown. This is during COVID, we’re still separated. He fixes the text. It was basically: ‘My bad, bro. Maybe we’ll work again someday soon.’ We’d worked since then. And the guy loves me… I try to tell this to people, it’s pro wrestling. If I’m not talking sh*t, like what what are we doing here?”