MLW star Matt Riddle on recent pro wrestling departures: 'When one door shuts, another opens'

Major League Wrestling (MLW) prima Matt Riddle offered a sunny realization for pro wrestlers amid caller high-profile departures that took spot past week.

WWE parted ways with the superstars known arsenic Braun Strowman, Dakota Kai, Shayna Baszler, Kayden Carter, Katana Chance, Cora Jade, Gigi Dolan, Riley Osborne, Eddy Thorpe, Jakara Jackson, Joe Coffey, Mark Coffey, Wolfgang, Oro Mensah and Javier Bernal, according aggregate reports. Fightful Select noted that departures were not outright releases but alternatively the determination not to renew contracts.

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Matt Riddle wins the MLW title. (MLW)

Riddle was besides a WWE release, parting ways with the institution successful September 2023. He has since performed successful New Japan Pro-Wrestling, Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide and has made an indelible people connected MLW by becoming the satellite heavyweight champion to commencement the year.

He told Fox News Digital that having the accidental to execute astatine a precocious level elsewhere turned retired to beryllium a "blessing."

"It depends connected what you bash erstwhile you get fired. It’s ever unfortunate erstwhile radical suffer their jobs, but astatine the extremity of the day, for immoderate of us, accidental for me, for example, it was a blessing," Riddle said. "Sometimes, you conscionable request the close push. Sometimes you request idiosyncratic to unopen a doorway connected you truthful different tin open. And that’s not to accidental that everyone that’s been released, and that’s not conscionable pro wrestling, that’s immoderate profession.

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Matt Riddle and Tom Lawlor greet Eric Bischoff. (MLW)

"Trust me, it mightiness look similar it’s over, oregon it sucks, but erstwhile 1 doorway shuts, different opens. Even erstwhile I got fired from UFC backmost successful the day, to past travel wherever I did successful nonrecreational wrestling, and adjacent to present wherever I’m astatine today. I got fired implicit a twelvemonth oregon truthful ago, but I’ve held 8 antithetic championships, and I was capable to recapture the 1 title I was ne'er capable to win, and that was the MLW Heavyweight Championship.

"Sometimes getting fired is simply a blessing successful disguise."

Riddle returned to MLW astatine Kings of Colosseum successful 2024 and won Battle Riot VI that year. In January astatine Kings of Colosseum, helium defeated Satoshi Kojima for the World Heavyweight Championship.

He past successfully defended it successful a triple-threat lucifer against Kojima and Alex Kane and past against 39 different men successful Battle Riot VII.

Matt Riddle shows the MLW World Heavyweight Championship. (MLW)

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On Saturday, he’ll look Donovan Dijak successful a rubric defence astatine Azteca Lucha successful Chicago. The lawsuit takes spot astatine Cicero Stadium and tin beryllium seen connected YouTube astatine 10 p.m. ET.

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