Matt Riddle spoke with TMZ Sports and surprisingly, openly criticized a product he’ll be taking part of in a number of years.
The NXT superstar was asked why NXT routinely garners such positive responses from wrestling audiences,
“I think we’re just different and I know that’s easy to say. We’re different, we’re new, we’re fresh, and we’re not the same watered down child’s product WWE’s kind of turned into a lot. When people watch us – even thought it’s scripted a lot of the time – it’s more real. It’s more believable.”
Riddle also voiced his opinion on how he could improve the main roster,
“I would say you have to bring in some of the talent and not just a couple here and there. You’d have to bring enough in, so we can make the other roster members change.”
Based off Riddle’s comments, it’s not surprising that he would prefer to be down in NXT instead of RAW and Smackdown at the moment:
“I want to get to the main roster, but then I was thinking, ‘Maybe I’m thinking about it wrong,’ because NXT is so hot, maybe we should stay and try to build NXT and make it bigger than RAW and SmackDown, and just be the big guy, which isn’t impossible, I don’t think.”
Riddle continued,
“I think the big thing is Vince [McMahon] owns RAW and SmackDown – he owns everything – those are his babies. He’s had them forever, so I think the probability of actually taking over at that level is probably hard, but at the same time, I don’t see it too far from the future of us being on the same playing field as RAW and SmackDown.”