Former WWE Superstar Matt Riddle has alleged that Roman Reigns was angry at him after an RK-Bro promo made reference to The Bloodline.
On a recent edition of “The Bubba Army” podcast, Riddle recalled having a promo in which he was told to tout RK-Bro’s merchandise sales. He said,
“The promo was, you know, RK-Bro was killing it, and the guy who set up the interview beforehand told me to mention how RK-Bro was killing it in merchandise and how we were the best team, better than the Bloodline, since Randy and I were feuding with them.
“So, I talked trash, saying RK-Bro was selling more t-shirts and got into the merchandising numbers and all that. If we got into a cage or a ring, I’d beat the brakes off everybody in the Bloodline. I don’t care if you’re the Tribal Chief or whatever.
The comment made its way back to Reigns, who according to Riddle didn’t take too kindly to the dig at the Bloodline. He said,
“Roman was mad at me, sent me a text saying that what I did was unprofessional. I thought I should probably apologize, so I wrote an apology saying it was my bad, I was kind of told to talk trash, and I didn’t mean to cross a line, but I could beat him up in real life. I showed the text to Randy, and he said, ‘Oh no, dude is not going to like that. You don’t want to talk to him like that.’ Randy gave me a non-apology apology, which was very much a Randy apology. When I sent that to Roman, he got angry.
“I said, ‘I’m sorry, bro. My bad, dude. It won’t happen again.’ Randy was like, ‘Things happen, hopefully we can work in the future.’ The next time I saw Roman was at a Live Event, right when we were coming back from COVID. I said, ‘What’s up, Roman?’ but he didn’t say a word and just walked by. It was awkward.
“As we were walking past each other, he didn’t respond, but about five or ten steps away, I heard him call me a b****.”
Riddle and Reigns’ sole singles match took place on the June 17, 2022 edition of SmackDown where Reigns retained the Universal Championship.
Riddle was released from WWE in September 2023. Reigns hasn’t been seen on WWE TV since his WrestleMania 40 loss to Cody Rhodes.
