The current WWE Raw Tag Team Champion Matt Riddle who is also a former WWE United States champion recently talked about is time in the independent circuit, the time he specially spent with the Pro Wrestling Guerrilla which is an independent professional wrestling promotion.
Riddle started his professional wrestling career as an MMA athlete. He spent five years with the Ultimate Fighting Championship which is mostly famous as the UFC. He has an excellent record in the UFC with a record of thirteen fights and only three losses. He spent five years in the UFC and then he decided to join professional wrestling.
Riddle Looks back At His PWG Days
In 2014 he came to the world of professional wrestling. He started working on the independent promotions. He wrestled in a lot of independent wrestling promotions. Among them his best time had to be spent on Pro Wrestling Guerrilla independent professional wrestling promotion. After spending 4 years on the independent circuit, he got his big cal as he joined WWE.
He first started working in the NXT which is the development Territory of WWE. He spent two years in the NXT. During this tale of time he won the NXT Tag Team Championship won time along with the Bruiserweight Pete Dunne.
He also won the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team classic along with Pete Dunne in 2020. On the same year he came to the main roster. He won the United States Championship one time, and currently he is holding the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship along with Randy Orton.
Matt Riddle who is also a former WWE United States champion recently spoke to Ryan Satin’s Out of Character podcast where he talked about the time he specially spent with the Pro Wrestling Guerrilla which is an independent professional wrestling promotion. He said;
“I wish I would have gotten a good year in BOLA, it was just never my time at PWG, but I did have the Tag Team Championships. I think I never got the singles push in PWG because I was always a champion somewhere I was so busy wrestling everywhere. I loved wrestling for PWG, but I’m going to be honest, they didn’t really pay my full rate.
“To be fair, they’re flying guys from Japan and Australia and they have these supershows, so I get it. The experience, the exposure, and being in that building and being received at that time, I couldn’t replace those moments.
“Without PWG, I wouldn’t be here today. Even though I wasn’t getting paid as much as I wish I was, it was worth weight in gold and that’s why everyone that went there knew that going on in, but was still willing to destroy themselves at PWG because the crowd, exposure, experience, and everything else.”
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