Matt Riddle 'pretty stoked' for Major League Wrestling return after WWE run

Former WWE star Matt Riddle will make his Major League Wrestling return at Kings of Colosseum.

Matt Riddle will return to professional wrestling Saturday when he faces off against Jacob Fatu at Major League Wrestling’s (MLW) Kings of Colosseum in Philadelphia.

Riddle competed in MLW until April 2018 and months later started in WWE’s NXT division. 

In WWE, he was the United States champion, RAW tag team champion, NXT tag team champion and a winner in the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic. 

Riddle and WWE parted ways in September, and it was announced last month he would make his return to MLW against Fatu.

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Matt Riddle  (MLW)

"I’m pretty stoked. It’s been quite a few years since I’ve wrestled for MLW," he told Fox News Digital in a recent interview. "I remember having a lot of good matches with guys like Swerve (Strickland), Tom Lawlor and others. So, pretty, pretty stoked about it.

"Then, to get to wrestle Fatu in my first match back is, yeah, I’m excited. I wanted to wrestle Fatu before I got signed by WWE before but now it’s happening. Pretty happy about it."

Riddle said he’s enjoyed having the last couple of months off. He said he didn’t really feel like doing anything except relaxing and taking care of his family.

"The last couple months, they’ve been good. I feel like the last probably 10 years I’ve been wrestling pretty hard in the sense, like on the indies before I went to the ‘E’ (WWE), I was pretty busy traveling to Europe and wrestling everywhere. And then, of course, with the ‘E,’ I was traveling everywhere.

Matt Riddle delivers a kick in an MLW match. (MLW)

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"So, the last three months, I kinda