

Penn's book, Mixed Martial Arts: The Book of Knowledge, in helping him learn during his early years in MMA.

During this career, he worked as a roofer and trained in Brazilian jiu-jitsu in the evenings. Mixed martial arts career Early career The Ultimate Fighter After his head coach was fired, Riddle lost his wrestling scholarship and began his transition into MMA. Riddle later attended East Stroudsburg University, where he was a member of its team for two years and won many championships. Riddle would face and beat future UFC champion Jon Jones twice in high school wrestling. He later moved to Saratoga Springs, New York, where he attended Saratoga Springs High School and was a New York state wrestling champion in 2004. Riddle was born January 14, 1986, in Allentown, Pennsylvania. In April, Riddle began teaming with Randy Orton as RK-Bro, winning the Raw Tag Team Championship in August 2021 and March 2022. He was later promoted to the main roster, where he won the United States Championship in February 2021. Riddle was originally assigned to the NXT brand, where he was a one-time NXT Tag Team Champion with Pete Dunne as ‘The BroserWeights’, having become champions after winning the 2020 Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic tournament. Riddle signed with WWE in 2018 and portrays a stereotypical carefree, barefoot surfer valley boy. He is a former Evolve Champion, WWN Champion, PWG World Tag Team Champion (with Jeff Cobb), and two-time Progress Atlas Champion.
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Between 20, he worked on the independent circuit, wrestling for promotions such as Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, World Wrestling Network/ Evolve, and others. Readers of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter recognized him as the Rookie of the Year and Most Improved wrestler of the year in 2016.
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In 2014, Riddle began training at the Monster Factory for a career in professional wrestling and made his actual debut in February 2015. He also fought for Titan FC and compiled a career record of 8–3 (2). Īs a professional MMA fighter from 2008 to 2014, Riddle made a name for himself by appearing on SpikeTV's The Ultimate Fighter 7 and went on to hold a four-fight winning streak in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) before being fired upon testing positive for smoking marijuana in February 2013. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand. Matthew Fredrick Riddle (born January 14, 1986) is an American professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist. Greco-Roman wrestling Muay Thai, Kickboxing Mixed martial arts career Martial arts career
