Matt Riddle On RKBro’s Unexpected Success: ‘It Was A Team Nobody Knew They Wanted, And Now They Need It’
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Matt Riddle reflects on RKBro becoming an important part of WWE RAW each week.
In an interview with Alex McCarthy of talkSPORT, Riddle spoke about linking up with Randy Orton on RAW and how they’ve become one of the more popular acts on the show.
“Randy is amazing. He’s awesome,” said Riddle. “I love that guy, I love that man of mine, Randy Orton [laughs]. I mentioned probably around WrestleMania time and I was like ‘hey, how good would it be if Randy and I tagged up, partnered up and were RKBro?’”
Riddle says it all started with pitching the idea of a team and said it was initially shot down, so when he first faced Orton on an episode of WWE RAW, he was told that they’d be feuding. But of course, the two men wound up following a different path. Riddle described how Orton let him know that he liked the “RKBro” idea, and having “The Viper” on board made it much easier to get the pitch approved.
“He was like ‘Hey, this RKBro thing you mentioned, it actually sounds pretty cool,'” said Riddle. “And I was like [speechless expression]. Nobody else thought it was cool, the only people who really thought it was cool was Randy and me. So then we pitched it and I don’t think it was supposed to have legs or last that long, but kind of like with me and Pete Dunne as the Broserweights, people saw our chemistry together in backstage segments, they know we can both go in the ring for days and here we are.”
Riddle acknowledged that while the team might have been meant as a short-term idea, it “took off,” as practically everyone backstage loves it.
“Vince [McMahon] loves it,” said Riddle. “Bruce [Prichard] loves it. Everybody at the office loves it. The boys love it. They love it so much, they’re starting to hate it [laughs]. That’s how much they love it.
“It was a team that nobody knew they wanted and now they need it.”