Matt Riddle Labels Bill Goldberg “Dangerous” and a “Liability” in the Ring

Matt Riddle’s long-running feud with Bill Goldberg just got another chapter — and this time, Riddle is revealing details from a backstage exchange that fans have never seen.

Speaking to TMZ’s Inside the Ring, Riddle opened up about his tense interactions with the WWE Hall of Famer, including a second conversation that was filmed but never released to the public.

According to Riddle, Goldberg approached him again after their infamous first encounter at SummerSlam 2019 — where Goldberg told him “I’m not your bro” — and accused him of being disrespectful and not understanding the wrestling business.

“Well, we have one talk that’s filmed, right? And then we talked again and that was also filmed, but that was never brought to the forefront. And I can tell you what happened in that conversation. He came up to me again. He said he found me very disrespectful and rude and I don’t understand the business. And I go, I see your point, but I go—and then I go—I just don’t think you’re that great of a pro wrestler.”

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From there, Riddle says Goldberg fired back by bragging about his bank account, something Riddle claims came up more than once in their history of clashes.

“And he goes, ‘Oh, well, my bank account’s huge and this and that.’ And I go, ‘Bill, your bank account, and I mean this, will probably always be bigger than mine, but at the end of the day, nobody is going to go back to watch that Bill Goldberg 30-minute classic match… His best match was probably with DDP. Shout out to DDP. So far, that was a good match. It was a great match. But let’s be real, other than a couple spears and a jackhammer, that’s about it.’”

Riddle made it clear that he respects Goldberg’s status as an icon but doesn’t rate his in-ring skill.

“Your bank account will always be bigger than mine. And honestly, you’ve been in movies. You’ve done everything. You are an icon in professional wrestling. I can’t replace that. Your in-ring ability—I would never want you to run or teach a school because you really don’t understand. And you were pushed so far to the forefront, you don’t get it. You know, you really don’t because you never had to grind. You never had to work. Even when I was in the UFC, after I got fired, I went to the Monster Factory, started from square one and worked my way through the indies to WWE. He didn’t.”

Riddle finished his point by directly calling Goldberg unsafe to work with.

“When it comes to in-ring technician, being a person that knows what they’re doing, being able to work safe and keep it real and snug, I’m at the top of the list. And I think anybody that knows professional wrestling would agree with that. While Bill Goldberg, on the other hand, not so much. He’s a liability. He is dangerous.”

This is far from the first time Riddle has taken aim at Goldberg. Earlier this year, he doubled down on his claim that he’d “whoop that ass 10 times out of 10,” and their feud stretches back to that first awkward SummerSlam run-in in 2019. While fans continue to dream about a match between the two, Riddle doesn’t seem convinced Goldberg would ever step in the ring with him.

With Riddle’s latest comments, the tension between these two shows no sign of cooling — and the possibility of a showdown remains one of wrestling’s biggest “what ifs.”

Do you think Matt Riddle is telling the truth about Goldberg’s in-ring safety, or is this feud just personal pride on both sides? Drop your thoughts in the comments.

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