There's reportedly a lot of heat on Matt Riddle in WWE right now and many of his fellow NXT Superstars reportedly want nothing to do with him. Now, Dave Meltzer adds that him being dumped from the Royal Rumble PPV was indeed supposed to be a "message" from Vince McMahon, presumably to put him back in his place.
We've also been hearing speculation that the "backstage altercation" between Riddle and Lesnar was a work to set up a match somewhere down the line, especially after the WWE Performance Center YouTube account shared a video of him discussing his desire to face The Beast.
Well, as Meltzer points out, while it's possible that it's a work, the issue with that is that WWE would have wanted to book Riddle to look stronger in the Rumble match in order to make him a viable challenger. It seems we'll have to wait and see but there are reportedly a lot of people in the company who don't know for sure either way!
What do you guys think?