As seen during Friday night’s WWE SmackDown, Matt Riddle made his debut and picked up a win over Intercontinental champion AJ Styles. Following the show, WWE posted a video of Riddle. You can check that out below:
On his win over Styles: “Honestly, it felt amazing to hear all the people chanting bro and to lock horns with AJ Styles, and not only lock horns with AJ because he’s phenomenal bro, but he’s not a stallion. I beat AJ Styles on my debut of Smackdown. I always say, ‘I don’t think it can get any sweeter, but bro, I don’t think it can get any sweeter than this dude.’ I’m on cloud 24. I don’t even know how high the clouds go, but I’m up there dude. And yeah dude, I’m just stoked. And yeah man, I just can’t wait to get back in there and keep proving myself week and week and showing the WWE Universe what I can bring to the table.”
On the message his win sends: “You know, I think whenever a guy from NXT comes up, there’s always a lot of rumors or scuttlebutt, but I think this win over AJ, my first match, my debut, I think that sends a message to the locker room. And I think they know I’m nobody to mess with, and I’m gonna be in the main picture for a long time, bro.”
