Matt Riddle is no longer the MLW World Heavyweight Champion!
After holding the MLW World Heavyweight Championship for 245 days, the “King of Bros” dropped the belt at MLW’s Fightland show. Originally, Riddle and Donovan Dijak were supposed to fight for the world title in a one-on-one match, but Mads 'Krule' Krugger activated his Gravity Gamble contract before the main event, which turned into a triple threat match.
What is a Gravity Gamble contract? If you guessed that it’s essentially a Money in the Bank cash in then you’re perfectly right. Kruggler won the contract in a Gravity Gamble match back at Kings of Colosseum in January.
The match came down to Riddle and Dijak, with the former hitting a Brostone Piledriver on the MLW World Tag Team Champion. Just as Riddle was about to get the three count, Krule broke up the count and hit a full nelson face slam on the former world champion. He got the three count and officially became the new MLW World Heavyweight Champion.
This is Krugger’s first run with the MLW World Heavyweight title. In fact, this is Krugger’s first run with an MLW title period. Riddle lost his belt during an interesting time. Mr. Riddle has been in the news for the past couple of weeks, but not for particularly good reasons.
First, it was Riddle no showing a charity event. It got worse when Matt tried to lie about why he no showed and falsely claimed that the Global Wrestling Kingdom event wasn’t a charity beforehand. But it only got worse for Riddle.
He crashed out in a profanity laced video after he got backlash over no showing the charity event. Then, Riddle has been creating controversy with his tongue. Riddle has spoken out to several outlets and targeting former WWE Champion CM Punk.
But that wasn’t it.
Riddle also implied that Punk’s wife, AJ Lee, was a slut during her time in WWE. It really hasn’t been a good look for Matt in the past couple of weeks. There’s no word on whether him losing the title here was always the plan or not, but either way, congrats to Mads 'Krule' Krugger!