Riddick Moss Had Hesitation About Moving Away From Madcap Moss Character

Riddick Moss was working in NXT for the majority of his career until he finally got called up to the main roster and then got his name changed to Madcap Moss. Back then he was just known as Riddick Moss and did not really see much success there. He is now back to Riddick Moss and it appears he admitted he had hesitation about dropping the Madcap Moss character.

Riddick Moss aligned himself with Baron Corbin back in 2021 and became Madcap Moss, where he was portrayed as a joke character. He would then break up with Corbin and revert back to Riddick Moss.

While speaking to Sam Roberts on NotSamWrestling, Riddick Moss talked about moving away from the Madcap Moss character. Moss admitted that he had hesitation about dropping the gimmick.

“I was conflicted, I would say. When I first heard the name Madcap, there was part of me that was like, ‘Welp, the main event of WrestleMania is not in the picture anymore.’ There was a lot of people who came up and me like, ‘just keep going, you’ll get out of the suspenders.’ I was like, ‘Should we, though?’ Anyone can wear wrestling trunks, but that guy in the third row is dressing up like Madcap. Riddick is a cool name, I like Riddick, I chose it, but there is Riddick Bowe, there are the Riddick movies, you don’t really hear Madcap.

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easy to say once you get it. Some people think Madcat at first, but once you get past that. I was a bit conflicted on it. Even, going away from the suspenders, turning babyface. I was not convinced. In NXT, I always worked heel. On the main roster, I always worked heel. I won the Andre [Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal] the week before and they were not happy about that. I gave a speech and was booed the whole time. The next week, Corbin was going to turn on me and Madcap is a babyface. ‘I think there’s a 50/50 chance they’ll cheer Corbin.’ I should have known better because Corbin is so good. I give Corbin a lot of credit, and Vince [Vince McMahon] had a few key points in that segment that he thought were important for us to hit that would help the crowd understand what we were going, before we even started the turn, they were chanting ‘Madcap Moss.’ I couldn’t believe it. It worked really well and credit to Corbin and Vince.

Ringside News has exclusively reported that WWE doesn’t know what to do with Riddick Moss. Regardless, we will have to wait and see what will become of Riddick Moss in the end.

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