Early Monday morning, numerous pro wrestling dirt sheets revealed that WWE Champion Brock Lesnar and NXT star Matt Riddle got into a heated argument backstage prior to Sunday’s Royal Rumble. Some have speculated that the Lesnar-Riddle fight was because of Riddle’s past comments about “retiring” Lesnar, but it was unclear at the time as to what the reason for the verbal spat.
Inside sources revealed to BellyUp Sports on Monday afternoon that the altercation between Lesnar and Riddle was over who would get the last medium-well steak in catering before the show.
“Steak is really popular and we only really serve it during our big pay-per-view shows,” said catering manager Wes Westerson. “Medium-well is strangely the most popular style amongst the talent.”
“My client is very particular about what he eats and he will only eat medium-well steak with steamed broccoli and a baked potato,” said Lesnar’s advocate Paul Heyman. “Only the best for the reigning, defending, undisputed champion!”
Eyewitness Account
Witnesses to the Lesnar-Riddle fight said that both men were in line at catering at the same time on different sides of the buffet table. Both men sauntered their way to the meat table where the last steak was found. The former MMA stars jostled for position to get to the steak as sides fell from their plates. Both wrestlers stabbed at the steak with neither man gaining an advantage.
“Bro, I heard you like your steak like your title defenses: RARE!” quipped Riddle during their jostle.
“BROCK SMASH!!!!! GRRRRARRGRRRR!!!!!” replied Lesnar while flipping over the dessert table.
Both men avoided coming to blows as they were separated by their fellow wrestlers. Following the Lesnar-Riddle fight, both men received a stern talking to by Vince McMahon and Triple H.
Talent Reacts to the Lesnar-Riddle Fight
Several members of WWE talent, both past and present, gave their reaction to our source to the Lesnar-Riddle fight.
“I haven’t seen anyone this mad in catering since Jim Cornette didn’t get extra mayo on his sandwich that one time in 1997 – doot, doot, doot,” said Michael Hayes.
“This would have been avoided if they had eaten the protein pancakes we offered,” said Kofi Kingston.
“I’m just happy they didn’t discover I had eaten all the ham,” said Otis Dozevic, who offered a sip of a protein shake concoction of questionable origin, but our source declined.
