The Original Bro shares a story.
Riddle has had a rocky few months in WWE. He lost to Roman Reigns while challenging for his world titles, while also coming up short in Money In The Bank. Riddle is currently involved in a storyline with Seth Rollins, and will face Seth in a singles match at SummerSlam this weekend.
Riddle’s entrance features him kicking his flip flops off as he enters the ring. While the flip-flops typically land safely around ringside, there has been an incident where a fan was accidentally caught with a flying shoe. Riddle spoke with OutKick 360 and shared the story.
“One time, this was back when I was still in NXT. We were doing a house show, so the guard rails are a little closer to the ring. I kicked off the flops, and usually they go over the top rope and float down, but for some reason, the left foot flew off sooner and it kind of darted out the bottom rope and middle rope, in between them. There was an elderly woman sitting front row and it cracked her right in the face and broke her glasses. I felt so bad because she couldn’t see the match and I broke her glasses. Usually security, they take my flip-flops from the fans. I get them back because they are hard to come by. This ain’t a John Cena sweatband, they’re premium flops. The flop cracked an elderly lady, broke her glasses. She was a good sport about it and I let her keep the flip-flops. ‘Do you want to keep them? I’m so sorry.’ She kept them, I brought the action to the outside, gave the guys some hits in front of her, get her into the action. I felt bad. That’s the worst one I’ve seen in person,”
Riddle to Outkick 360
Time will tell if Riddle will ever drop the entrance, but at least she got to keep the sandals as a souvenier.
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