Matt Riddle talks NXT's move to USA Network, AEW, Jericho, Lesnar, and Goldberg (Exclusive)

Riddle has had an immense start to his WWE career

SK: One of the most exciting things for me about NXT moving to the USA is that something that hasn't been around for a while is direct competition.

You guys are going up against AEW on TNT. Is that something you feel pressure about or are you like, "Man, we just have to do what you're doing and let anything else worry about themselves"?

MR: What's the name of that company? No, no, I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

Honestly, I wish them all the best. I'm super stoked. It's the Wednesday Night Wars!

I hope they push the envelope, I hope they push it hard and I hope they get a lot of fans, and I hope they're very successful - because the more successful they are, the more successful we'll be and the more... You know, it just really helps people out like me if there's good competition. It helps the performers, the people that actually make the show go. It really helps them. I don't feel the pressure.

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SK: I'm going to sadly bring things down a little bit here. You had a very impressive streak in WWE right up until April. You suffered your first loss against Velveteen Dream. Was that something that you were disappointed about or do feel like it's maybe a pressure off your shoulders?

MR: Honestly... I wanted to win. I wasn't happy about that. But you know, I look at it like this, Velveteen Dream is a stud, the people are behind him and I knew losing to him wouldn't really be a loss.

If it was up to me, I would just smash everybody out like Goldberg did and just be the champion, that's what I wanted to do, it didn't turn out that way.

But yeah, I also knew from the way that match went and how it played out, how dominant I was, how he caught me with that last-second pin - you know, I feel like I didn't lose anything from that, you know.

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