Matthew Fredrick Riddle born January 14, is an American professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist. He also makes appearances on the independent circuit. He also fought for Titan FC and compiled a career record of 8—3 2. In , Riddle began training at the Monster Factory for a career in professional wrestling and made his debut in February Riddle signed with WWE in July and portrayed a stereotypical carefree, barefoot surfer valley boy.
He was promoted to the main roster in May , where he won the United States Championship in February After Orton incurred a back injury in May , Riddle continued wrestling as a singles competitor until he was released from WWE in September Riddle later attended East Stroudsburg University on an athletic scholarship, where he was a member of its wrestling team for two years and won many championships.
After his head coach was fired, Riddle lost his wrestling scholarship and began his transition into MMA. Riddle is 1—0 in amateur MMA. During this career, he worked as a roofer and trained in Brazilian jiu-jitsu in the evenings. Riddle credits B. Riddle knocked out Simmler in the opening seconds of the second round and struck him three times in the jaw after losing consciousness, breaking Simmler's jaw into two places.
Riddle's second match was against Tim Credeur. Credeur defeated Riddle in the second round, causing him to be knocked out of the tournament. During The Ultimate Fighter 7 , Riddle was shown arguing with the older and more experienced Rivera multiple times.
Dante, on more than one occasion, stated that he would retire if Riddle defeated him - a commitment which he didn't follow through with after his loss. Riddle was then scheduled to fight Ryan Thomas at UFC 91 , but a knee injury forced Riddle out of the fight and got pinned. The knee injury's recovery was scheduled to take about 6—8 weeks. In his third bout, Riddle defeated another one of his former Ultimate Fighter 7 castmates, Dan Cramer , via a unanimous decision on the undercard of UFC The fight was held in Osipczak's home country of England.
