Below are a couple of top news stories of the day, involving Matt Riddle, Vince McMahon and Kazuchika Okada.
• During an interview on Sunday Night’s Main Event, Matt Riddle was asked to comment on the allegations against Vince McMahon.
Here’s what the former United States Champion said:
“Well, people say that (being surprised), and granted, I had no idea of anything going on. I don’t even politic my own matches. I show up and do my job. Honestly, if you watch any of his work from in-ring performances, the things he said and did, logic would tell you alone.
Especially me, personally, all the good wrestlers that play good characters, that’s them. It might be turned up by 10 or 100, but that’s them. When I see Vince do all the things he’s done from the 80s, 90s, early 2000s, I was not surprised.
Some of it, a little, but yeah, the guy is a billionaire that owns a company. He’s done it all, seen it all, and wants to do more and see more. I don’t know. I’m not a billionaire.
Yeah, I wasn’t the dude (alleged in the lawsuit). Brock (Lesnar) was the dude he was talking to. It wasn’t me. So yeah, I really have no comment other than that. I’m not surprised. I hear people say they’re surprised. I’m not surprised. The guy was a maniac.”
• Former IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada’s final two matches in NJPW will take place at the New Beginning in Sapporo on February 23 and 24.
Below are the matches:
1. February 23: Kazuchika Okada, Tomohiro Ishii, Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI, and YOH vs. Jeff Cobb, Great-O-Khan, Aaron Henare, Francesco Akira, and Callum Newman
2. February 24: Kazuchika Okada, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Ishii, Goto, and YOSHI-HASHI vs. Matt Riddle, Cobb, Great-O-Khan, Henare, and Akira
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