Matt Riddle has not been shy when it comes to how he feels about the in-ring work of WWE Hall of Famer Goldberg.
After months of trashing the former Universal Champion’s work rate, it appears that the NXT Superstar had a brief confrontation with Goldberg backstage at Summerslam. While the two superstars didn’t come to blows backstage, it didn’t sound like a pleasant conversation based on the way Riddle describes the encounter (transcript courtesy of
wrestletalk.com):
“I’m walking by, and I see his locker room. I’m trying to get a peek, and I’m looking, I’m looking. All of a sudden [hand smacks shoulder], big shoulder, 300 pounds at least. I look up; it’s Bill Goldberg. He goes, ‘we got some talking to do.’ ‘We can talk anytime.’ ‘Yeah?’ ‘Yeah. Alright, bro, we can talk anytime.’ He’s like, ‘I’m not your bro.’ I’m like, ‘Alright bro, take it easy, whatever.’ He’s like, ‘We’ll see, I’ll see you later. It was a pleasure meeting you.’ ‘The pleasure was all mine, bro.’ Then he goes, ‘I’m not your bro.’ Then I walked away.”
During the watch along, Riddle didn’t hold back from criticizing the WWE Hall Of Famer’s work against Dolph Ziggler, stating prior to the bout that the match wasn’t going to go longer than one minute in order to play to the Hall of Famer's strengths and actually wished that Goldberg called him out during the pay-per-view.