The Viper Randy Orton recently appeared as special guest on the latest edition of The Kurt Angle Show and opened up about numerous topics including his thoughts on his new tag team partner Riddle.
On this week’s Monday Night Raw, Randy Orton and Riddle formed as tag team, calling themselves as RK-Bro and had a successful start by defeating former Raw Tag Team Champions Shelton Benjamin and Cedric Alexander.
Randy Orton stated that Riddle is fantastic and he already surpassed the NXT talent that have called up over the last year.
“Matt Riddle, yeah. I think he is going to do fantastic. I think he has already kind of outshined most of his little class of NXT that have kind of come up over the last year. I mean, you have a lot of those guys doing well.”
During the interview, Randy Orton also revealed his first impression on Matt Riddle when he met him at backstage in a WWE Show at Miami. He said that they have both NXT and main roster superstars at backstage during the show, while NXT Talent are not scheduled to perform but they brought their gear and cramped up the locker room.
“But the funny thing with Riddle is when I first met him, we were in Miami. The entire locker room of NXT was in Miami. So now our locker rooms, which aren’t the biggest, are now jam-packed with NXT guys, who aren’t working the show, but you know, in the wrestling business, you bring your gear to the show. You are always prepared, brother, and so, you got all these NXT guys with all their sh**, taking up all the space in the locker room.”
Is #RKBro about to become a reality for @SuperKingofBros & @RandyOrton?! 😲#TheViper & the Ultimate Bro team up RIGHT NOW on #WWERaw! pic.twitter.com/p4QZy6NziK
— WWE (@WWE) April 27, 2021
The 14-time World Champion Randy Orton first impression wasn’t pleasent. Orton expected a warm exchange with Riddle but Riddle’s gesture got disrespectful vibes to The Viper. Here what Randy Orton said:
“Me, especially being a vet, being around for a while, and I see this, and now I already got a hard-on for these guys, right? So, it doesn’t help when I walk by Matt Riddle, and my olive branch was basically me all looking at Matt, and I just said, I go, ‘Oh, there he is, there he is!’ Just kind of icebreaker, expecting maybe a, ‘Oh, hey Randy. My name is Matt; nice to meet you.’ But instead, Matt just kind of barely, you know, with the bloodshot eyes glanced over at me, he is just like, and he just kept walking. I remember thinking, ‘that motherf****r’.”
“This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship” #stallion #rkbro #wwe #wweraw pic.twitter.com/o12jaYN59C
— matthew riddle (@SuperKingofBros) April 28, 2021
For a while Randy Orton didn’t like the former United States Champion Riddle because of that incident. But after over a year of The Original Bro’s arrival to the main roster on Monday Night Raw, Randy Orton relationship with Riddle has changed.
“So, for quite a while, I didn’t like Riddle, and it was because of that little scenario. One little incident. And it wasn’t even an incident. It’s just, ‘I took it as a lack of respect, and when you come back there, and your brand new, and no one knows you, you want to introduce yourself because we are a band of brothers. I have got to trust you with my body in that ring. And you, the same. You’ve got to trust me. We should probably make an introduction at some point. We should probably shoot the sh** a little bit, and so, back to Matt Riddle, I love the guy now. I have been in the locker room now for about a year.” (H/T: Sportskeeda)
