When Matt Riddle Proved He Was A Real Fighter | UFC
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- Опубліковано 14 гру 2022
- At 6ft 2 220lbs with a high level wrestling background, known for taking down Jon Jones in high school.. Matt Riddle was on the path to becoming a huge name in the world of MMA with his stoner dude personality, however due to failed drug tests and beef with Dana White his UFC run was cut short!
He started out his MMA career in the Ultimate Fighter in 2008 making it all the way to the UFC, he had a solid record of 8 wins and 3 losses. He just couldn't put down the weed and when Dana White had enough of Matt Riddle's inability to pass a drug test he sent Riddle packing with some harsh words in 2013.
But this was the best thing that could've happened to Matt Riddle as he would transition into professional wrestling, and become one of the biggest names in the WWE..
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Dana said, "I wanna know where this rocket scientist is gonna go and make 100 something thousand dollars a year" Goes to WWE and makes $400k+ a year😂😂
Which is even funnier because Matt JUST came back to WWE, and WWE was Sold to UFC. I'm not too hip to what goes on in the MMA world so I don't know if Dana is still in charge of it or whatever he was. But if he is, I have to wonder if anyone in the UFC, as in the people running the company, not the fighters, will have any say over what goes on in WWE. Hopefully this doesn't bite Matt in the ass, because dude is a damn good wrestler and I'd hate it if they tried to pull some petty bs on him.
@@Algoth_Igneousdude you wrote an essay out on a comment 😂😂😂
@@notthechannel2 he wrote 3 lines...
@@Algoth_Igneous WWE was not sold to UFC, WWE was sold to the company that owns UFC, UFC alone could not buy WWE and vice versa.
@Thadtoobad He really didn't. It's basic reading.
4:35 Bro literally predicted his future
Even did an rko
Bro was a Randy Orton fan from the start
Yes lol
Rkbro
That rko bro lol
He was doing the Randy Orton crawl before he was even in the WWE
he hears voices in his head
And then he's doing rko too
He did an RKO as well
Think that’s why he got teamed up with Randy
Hey RANDY!
Matt Riddle was doing the Randy Orton crawl before his debut in WWE. Team RKO was meant to be! He’s an OG!
*RKBro
@@demented_cycles Yea that’s what I meant thx man
@@ogbhadchoppa69 no problem
great tag team those 2 lads
Canon event
0:37 Matt tellin the ref "First KO, bro!" lmao
Herb Dean's face fucking killed me, especially knowing how high he was back in these days 😂
Herb dean was like"bro you just did legal homicide"
Well yeah he had never fought before this mid
He got on the show as he was a dopey stereotypical stoner
Who is Funny on the mic
@@oldironsides4107 True, he never fought in professional MMA before TUF, but he was a really good amateur wrestler in high school. He was New York's individual state champion in HS wrestling in 2004 and he even beat Jon Jones twice as they both were in New York at that time.
He was gonna be the RVD of MMA
He was in a sense.
RVD got buried by Triple H and Riddle by Triple Chin.
@@unknowniam121 good one
He proved he was a real fighter before he joined the UFC when he beat Jon Jones in college.
😂😂😂
Really?
Say whaat
Oh it’s true, it’s damn true. There’s a picture of them on the podium somewhere out there too.
Yeah he did beat Jon Jones in wrestling in college. This HK is not trying to be funny. That really happened.
Dana: "Where is he going to make $162k a year?"
He currently makes $400k a year with WWE
Probably more when you add merch and pay per views
And now it's the same company 😂
Did you see uncle fester refusing to talk about the wwe for the last week? Hilarious!
@@BLACULA-Skeewoah Because it's dumb questions unrelated to his business lol he's there to answer questions about ufc and the fighters. Not that drama show wwe.
Totally different animal. WWE on the road how many days a year? 3 fights a year for over $100k......
UFC just bought WWE...... So..... yea..... Tonight on AEW, MATT RIDDLE! 🤣
4:36 Even back then Matt was doing randy Orton's signature taunts.
That's where Randy got it from
@@dr.loomis4221 no bc randy debuted in wwe in 02 and started doing his signature taunt in 05 riddle didn’t start till 09
@@dr.loomis4221aye you just come in from stupid town
@@18problemss r/whoosh
He must’ve been a fan of Randy then. He went from being a fan of Randy orton to getting to work with Randy and getting to know him
This dude is a stud. When he spoke on the weed issue he was spot on. Mature and realistic about it
He was ahead of his time as an MMA personality
True OG’s knew this riddle first ✊🏻
True OG’s 😂😂. Knowing this riddle first make you a true OG. Get a grip Eric
@@HotStepper222 where did you discover him? NXT? cmon brooooooo you slacking rn smh. Riddle would not approve 😂
@@beardineric6558 no I heard of him when he got sacked for smoking weed.
@@HotStepper222 so you knew him in the end of his ufc run because he was kicking ass before, you act like getting sacked for weed is bad when silva was on roids, jon was on crack, and many others were known for peds lol, seeing him before the ultimate fighting championships to the end would make you a original watcher because you're not knowing him for the bs but known him as a mma fan
Bro is a douche.. keeps punching a guy that's clearly out and defenseless and then goes on to cheat on his wife not caring about his family.
He's a selfish prick who only cares about how he feels in the moment
The fact that Joe Rogan is a weed head and saying that it enhance you is some next level hypocrisy 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Every word that comes out of Joe Rogans mouth has been bought and paid for, one way or another
@@donthaveaname1086 facts..500 mill baby
Really? I think drinking a cold beer is awesome, not while im driving though.. I think smoking weed is awesome, not if I have to fight though, where it may present an advantage in some peoples eyes... You can be pro weed and also think it may affect performance in athletics.
Yeah I mean when I smoked my responsiveness was super quick when driving avoiding things of course was only doing 7 mph.
@jason barrett I have been in fights where I was high on weed and been in fights where I was drunk.
Though I don't drink or smoke or fight these days i do know that weed does not increase your ability to fight and you still feel pain it does not numb it nor reduce it.
Rogan is trying to to say that the weed is performing in a way where as it's the adrenaline that is doing all the work.
It's mid level thunk cause he know a lot of his listeners is not going to call him out on his sht and one of the reasons I had to stop listening to his pod cast 5 years ago
Joe being anti weed is a funny sight to see
Rogan: Jamie pull that up when…When I was advocating the band on weed in UFC, yeeah
Have you ever seen a full grown 400 pound weed? That thing will tear your arms off man
Hypocrite.😂
Joe probably got a ton hidden in his
House somewhere.
lol yeah was a different time though
I refuse to believe Riddle is 37!
I thought bro was in his late 20s
Look how young Dana looks in the clips from TUF and it's easy to see that was 10-15 years ago. Riddles age is 22 during that season.
wrestlers ages will blow your mind
He looks about 25.
He acts like a 17 year old stereotypical stoner
Know ruined his career over a wife he’s known for a handful of years and turned to heroin
Dana: Where is he going to go?
Matt: WWE.
Matt Riddle already was a fan of Randy Orton here.. With the signature Viper hunting style and the RKO
OMG Wow, true dat...Rk-bro!!!!
Man! Seeing him smiling as he's throwing punches is something else.
Riddle would destroy over rated Roman reigns in real fight for real
@@alexejcrescini5164fact
@@alexejcrescini5164does Liv Morgan and Becky lynch beat Ronda in a real fight, the black belt and Olympians and ufc champ and hall of famer
Pro wrestlers acting like they would fight him for real are hilarious
How about brock?
@@jamieclarke1360 probably the only one that could even present a threat
@@Bouldah nakamura, Corbin maybe?
Brock, Lashley, Nakamura, Riddle were mma fighter. Chad Gable was an Olympian wrestler. Shelton, Otis, Ziggler, Creed Brothers were legit amateur wrestler. Corbin was golden gloves champion. Yes many of them can fight.
@@Bouldah a mere threat, are u fucking joking? Lesnar could wipe his ass with riddle 😂
Imagine the scenes if he left the UFC with a 4-2-0 record 😂
Did you watch the whole video? He was 7-3 by the time he was done 💀 not 4-2
he paved the road.. diaz stood on his shoulders.
Lmao 😂 the Diaz bros we’re relevant way before riddle haha 😂. He did not pave the road for anybody.
@@bmcdermott32 in terms of smoking weed
@@Ill.righteous31 Lol 😂 how young are ya? You sound like an absolute dunce. Nick Diaz was relevant when you were in your nappies. Nate was relevant when you were just a boy. They’re the last of a dying breed. Some real motherfuckers that would stomp anyone. They didn’t care about following or money they wanted to fuck people up. Little birth boy your balls dropped a few years ago shut your mouth
Easier for Dana White to kiss Diaz'z ass
Actually Elijah Theodore was Campaigning for fighters to not be band for failing drug test for Cannabis. He had his own distillery an brand of Cannabis, he actually successfully did it in other Smaller organizations, Meanwhile Nick Diaz was getting Banned for 5 years. An Nate was refusing to fight. First it started with CBD now you can Smoke with no banned. Thanks for him an others who actually study an find a way…
R.I.P Theodore
Sucks his run ended when it did. His last fight, he was on a different level. That standing arm triangle was a thing of beauty.
Matt can’t stop smiling he’s like the joker 😂♥️
4:33 he just did the Randy. Holy shit...
No, Randy has been doing the Riddle. Riddle did that after his college wrestling matches.
@@dr.loomis4221 lol no he wasn't
@@dr.loomis4221 after he did it he even mimic the doing the RKO 😂 stop
@@dr.loomis4221riddle confirmed that he got it from his favorite wrestler.... He even did an rko
7:48 oh Dana you fool he earning way more than that now 😂
I doubt it seriously
@@trynice7443 those wrestlers make bank bro
@@trynice7443then you’re mistaken my friend , more people tune in every week for a raw or smack down show then the ufc gets for pig pay per views , they might get 2 million buys for a ppv with mcgregor in it everything else is 1.5 or less , raw episode just brought in 2.23 million .. on a normal episode
@@trynice7443 you don’t think he makes more then 100k in the wwe? he absolutely does.
That cut made me laugh
I saw Riddle during his time as an indie wrestler after UFC, before WWE, in a bar in Portland and I can tell you he was just built different, that dude is probably the most athletically gifted human I've ever seen IRL. If WWE knew how to book professional wrestling, instead of "making movies", he'd be one of the top faces in the company and a legit title contender, not riding a g-d razor scooter.
Well he sabotage him self with substance so.....
I agree but it could have been worse. His last name. WWE could have made him play the gimmick of the Riddler and have him dress in a Riddler costume. WWE has been shit for years but especially after they bought WCW. Other then the fact that their TV production quality was always worse than WWE, WCW had Flair as their champion and yes, I know it's scripted but they never changed the script, he almost always won by "cheating" cut to today and you have Reigns basically playing the part of Flair and the bloodline, playing the horsemen. He can't win without "cheating" / interference and like back in the day with Flair, that shit gets old real fast and isn't even entertaining any more
@@MeazurAli Are you a Troll ? Or just that stupid ? Every UFC fighter is on drugs, the only difference is that the drugs they take, the government says is medicine
You’re supposed to tell a story when it comes to pro wrestling 😂
Bruh shut up
Dana White’s comments about weed certainly aged well… *sarcasm*
4:36 knew that man always looked up to randy
never realised he was an randy orton fan way back when he was in ufc. i bet it was a dream when they won the tag belts together
The fact he imitated randy in his celebration well before he was in WWE is just amazing
Riddle is just someone you wanna give a big old hug and maybe play beer pong with
And now that Endeavor bought WWE, things just got a whole lot interesting
Yup Dana is gonna get Riddle out of the WWE
@@dr.loomis4221 vince is dana boss now,cause he is exclusive chairman of endeavor now
@@dr.loomis4221 Not how it works 😂
@@dr.loomis4221 Riddle is a star bro it will be difficult even for Dana
@@dr.loomis4221 not how it works bro
And he beat jon jones in a wrestling match in college, look it up.
and?
Matt Riddle defeated Jon Jones during a wrestling tournament in 2004. The WWE star went to Saratoga Springs High School, while the current UFC fighter represented Union-Endicott High School. Riddle won the tournament after beating the former UFC Champion, while the latter finished third.
The ending song is get up again by flaw if anyones wondering
His entire pro career took place in the UFC...very impressive. He likely makes more money than most UFC champs nowadays too.
Yeah an more exhausted too, these guys go from city to city every night an perform, not to mention the bruises an aches they get.
@@briansegura7219 much better than a broken face
@@blackmantis3130and an empty wallet
more work but you don't have to almost fight to the death twice a year@@briansegura7219
Not even close. Champs make millions for 25 min fights. O malley made 2 million last night just for the purse not including bonuses. If the boomer old head businessmen in boxing would quit being baby's when it comes to mma the purses would be way higher but they despise it.
Riddle would have been a perfect fit for MTV’s The Real World.
Could you imagine him and The Miz together?
New York State wrestling champion as well, spadled his opponent for a pin after he was losing I believe, boss shit
That opponent was Jon Jones, the GOAT.
@@H.K.5 No shit that sounds about right.
Jones must have a junior because he won it the following year. So awesome
And look at him now......The ORIGINAL BRO of the WWE!!!!!!!
Isn’t he off tv and in rehab at the moment for failing a drug test 🤷🏻♂️ that’s what I read
@@Matt_Wilson01 He's back
@@Matt_Wilson01 that was never true you're confusing him with jon jones or someone like that
yooo who caught when Matt did an "RKO" celebration move at the end at 04:35 !! bro had no idea he would end up being tag team champs with Randy Orton himself one day !!!
Matt Riddle is hilarious. He needs to put out a book.
Broo did the Randy Orton mat stomp n RKO man predicted his future broo jus smoked lil WEED
He was literally paddy the baddy before paddy the baddy
No..he wasn't cringe
I disagree. Matt is likeable
@@darrellwilliams1714 bet you where one of them singing his praises when he made the speech about talking about mental health and how he lost his friend to mental health related stuff.
There was so many before paddy before riddle that had this same demeanor
Wtf?
4:36 it’s crazy how he went from this to actually teaming wit randy
Riddle went from Knocking out a guy to simulating it in WWE. 😂
Definitely let everyone know he's an Orton fan when he was laying on the mat getting ready for that RKO. I knew he was in UFC but dude had a lot of potential. Honestly would watch UFC again if he went back to it
Matt riddel just made a fan for life
My boy Riddle always keeps a smile
Y’all throw him away. Someone whose mauled Jon Jones. Makes sense
He pinned him in high school...calm down junior
@@dr.loomis4221 Still mauled him
@@dr.loomis4221 beat him 2x
@@danchiziofficial2159 no African
Damn the Randy reference is wild bc little did he know years late he’d be winning titles with him🙌🏻😂
I Love Matt Riddle, spent a long time trying to figure out the Riddle of Matt Riddle and figured out Matt Riddle simply is Matt Riddle.
Damn that first knock out was scary 😮
I always thought it was messed up the way Dana chite on Matt,he has real talent. Glad he's still made a name for himself in pro wrestling
Wow now he and Dana White are colleagues 😂
Again
Like how he progressively gets higher each interview
Two things about this video #1 coming into the Ultimate Fighter it’s no way no how they didn’t know Matt smoked. Dana out here siding with the consensus with the media to save face and threw Matt away when he didn’t need him. #2 the things they said about marijuana didn’t age really well cause now in a lot of jobs they don’t even test for for marijuana anymore. Hell in most sports they stopped testing for weed cause it’s a better understanding of it and the benefits of medical marijuana.
Well it's legal now on the state level so there's no reason to test anymore in most states
Bro your saying this now cause weed is legal in many states they didn’t do research like we do know about Cannabis, this was back then 2007-2013 thank Elijah Theodore he helped with that Whole Cannabis band thing he started with CBD they saw that was good for recovery with inflammation it then later was tested more an he actually helped band that rule in smaller organizations an now we have all this. I recommend you watch his interview with the Schmo, the man doesn’t get that much credit hes only known as the 34 who died in UFC.
Dana - Guess what buddy they drug test in the real world
No they don’t
3:51 paddy the baddy
Definitely got more respect for him now 🙏
Talked to MR many times at Golds Gym. Very laid back liked the gym lifestyle. He did not speak well of Dana. It was strictly business. And according to one of our conversations, MR told me he left the UFC because DW reneged on a promise. DW changed his mind on something he and Matt agreed to. DW's parting words to Matt were, " You will never amount to anything." Well MR is now part of the tag team world title holders and making out pretty well for himself. Congrats Bro and continued success.
He also gave tribute to randy in ufc
Riddle has been doing that since college
He was in a season of absolute KILLERS! It was a great season, I can't imagine what it would've been like if they had a better coach than rampage though!
Props to you for coming up with this compilation to ending it with freaking Flaw's Get Up Again!
That's legit skill right there. and that's randy Orton's taunt.
Matt Riddle is too real
Man Matt riddle go hard didn't know he knew MMA that cool 😎
Making your pro debut in the UFC. DAMN. Those were the days.
One of the biggest fumbles of a fighter by the UFC for sure, but it's hard for me to feel like he got the short end of the stick he's got a pretty good job currently happy for the guy 🤙✌️
What about that War Machine guy? Or Jesse Taylor lol
you need more videos bro🔥
Respect for using the Flaw song at the end. Super dope
Dana calling these dudes “pssys “ when he probably hasn’t even been in a fight himself 😂😂 tool
Bro he’s the GOAT
man Matt is still a fkn G hell of a fighter and 420 friendly couldn't be a better combo
4:35 so cool knowing riddle was A randy Fan from the beginning and then got to be tag partners with him years later
Riddle has been doing that since college
I was today years old when i realised riddle was actually in the ufc 😅
I saw riddle on wwe2k22 and was wondering why his name and face looked so familiar
4:35 he predicted the RKBROOOO~
This is the "Bro" I remember. When he decided to join WWE I had mixed feelings but at the end of the day it's better than getting your head pounded in every single day
Seriously. Yeah, people don't have long lasting, career ending, life altering injuries in pro wrestling. Being slammed repeatedly over and over for 300 days a year.
WWE and UFC merging under same umbrella makes Riddle's and Dana's situation a hell of a lot funnier.
love the ocassional playing of his theme
What's interesting is that he got his big break in UFC, then leaves/released from UFC, then makes his way into WWE, and now WWE is bought by and partnered with UFC and Matt Riddle just made his WWE return. They would be stupid to let Riddle go or stifle him creatively.
matt riddle funny ashhhh
4:34 Matt Riddle acting like Randy Orton in a UFC ring
0:38 herb dean was like yeah aight bro hahah
Well Dana White I hate to be the bearer of bad news but Matt Riddle Makes $400,000 a year with WWE so he proved you wrong
7:46 it's so funny that he is now making 400k a year in WWE 😂😂😂
Did not know my boy was in the ufc for a bit I love him even more now
And till this day he still can’t stay off the weed. Just came back from rehab to WWE this past monday.
He didn’t go to rehab for weed
@@thebrianconran You’re correct it wasn’t weed but still failed a drug test while making crazy money like dana stated back in the UFC and had to go to rehab for his choices
@@noneyabidness196 > WWE Dropped recreational in their testing. > Riddles Medical. > I will not reply to this message. As you clearly watched video and didn't hear him state he was medical in the news cast.
@@christophernoel9932 Is he paying you or are you just on his cock that bad? 😂
@@noneyabidness196 I heard that he had popped for Cocaine.
Matt went from making 162k a year, to fighting in the independent wrestling scene, to getting a contract with the WWE and making much more. In a way Dana was right because Matt is making more money.
3:38 that’s my MMA coach Trevor lally behind Matt
Seeing Joe Rogan talk negatively about weed is irony at its finest. But he acts like weed makes you super human. Weed also slows your response time. It is by no means a performance enhancer imo. And Dana talking about drugs being bad: explain Jon Jones. Oh wait, the ones he did weren't the ones UFC tested for. Not a fan of Dana and the way he selectively handles things at all.
I wonder if he kept on, would he have been the welterweight champion at some point.
4:36 channelling his inner Orton I see
Loved the stalking RKO
I became a fan when I first saw him in defiant and evolve. I would tell friends keep an eye on this dude he has “it” And look at him now.
Meanwhile Jon Jones can’t pass a drug test and he can get a UFC title shot.
AND he was in arguably the best UFC era.
0:19 the guy from WWE's Tough Enough
It’s amazing how Matt Riddle’s height went from 6’1 to 6’2 in his 20’s 🧐
All that performance enhancing marijauna
My uncle went from 6' to 6'4 in his 20s, it's really not that uncommon, many people have growth spurts until 25
You do know that adult males can still have a growth spurt and be done growing until almost 30 right!???…. Dummy I gained another 1/2 inch between 20 and 23…
HOLY SHIT 1 INCH THAT IS FKN INSANE DUDE WOW GREAT COMMENT
"I wanna know wheres this rocket scientist gonna go and make $100,000 a year" Riddle making a base salary of $400,000 a year with wwe. Bet Dana White didnt see that coming lmao
Diana white: "where are you going to make 160k + a year?"
Matt riddle: "hold my bong"