Matt Riddle has dismissed Taker’s words when he called the current product “soft.” The former UFC fighter stating that the upcoming roster are savages!
Speaking to ViBe & Wrestling, Riddle explained why he believes that the assumption is wrong – stating that the current product is an evolution of the time when The Undertaker was top dog.
I would say to the Undertaker and everybody else, times have changed, the human race and everyone is evolving. And yes we don’t carry knives and guns to work because we have metal detectors to keep us safe, so people don’t do that.
We have a wellness policy where we are all getting tested regularly so we are safe and in our right state of mind.
I love my job. I am a former professional UFC fighter that broke people’s jaws on a steel cage. [That’s] something that wasn’t around when he was a young man, and I bet if it was, he still wouldn’t step up because it takes a different breed.
He shouldn’t say certain things about the upcoming roster because we are real savages, not pretend ones. He should watch out.
Riddle’ doubled down on his words, emphasising that the times of The Undertaker weren’t tougher, weren’t smarter and called it dumber than the current wrestling landscape.
But I still respect him, I think [he] just a little over sold us, and I don’t think he wanted to be mean.
I just think he thought his time was tougher and I would say this: when he worked times weren’t tougher. They weren’t smart either. They were dumber.
They abused certain things, they abused their bodies and they are all paying the price for it. Today’s wrestlers are smarter, who work smarter. If they think they took more bumps, we don’t work the same schedule you were working and you can’t say we are softer for that.
We’re more smarter and educated like the modern day athlete and we are not getting hurt that much. Training smart, we eat healthier and we do things better because people in the past made so many mistakes that we learned from them. Now we don’t make those same mistakes anymore.
Summarising his passionate speech in support of the modern day roster, Matt Riddle concluded that they do the right thing – physically, mentally and logically. The current wrestlers are evolutions of those in the past, asking for The Undertaker to respect that.
Undertaker saying we are soft, I don’t think we are soft. I think we are more intelligent, so we don’t get hurt and don’t put ourselves in stupid situations like bringing guns to work.
So Undertaker, nothing but respect but at the end of the day. Respect and understand evolution. Realize we have evolved, we are better educated, and we don’t do certain things anymore. We do things right.
h/t Wrestling Inc