Matthew Frederick Riddle January 14 1986 is an American mixed martial artist and professional wrestler currently signed to WWE on its NXT developmental brand A professional MMA competitor since 2008 Riddle made a name for himself by appearing on SpikeTVs The Ultimate Fighter 7 Early life Riddle was born in Allentown Pennsylvania and later moved to Saratoga Springs New York where he attended Saratoga Springs High School He graduated from high school in 2004 and then attended East Stroudsburg University where he was a member of the wrestling team for two years After his head coach was fired Riddle lost his wrestling scholarship and moved to MMA Mixed martial arts career Riddles main experience comes from high school wrestling He wrestled at Saratoga High School in upstate New York There Riddle was a National wrestling Champion and in his Senior year was a New York state wrestling champion He is 10 in amateur MMA Riddle worked as a roofer and trained in Brazilian jiujitsu in the evenings Since Riddle had little to no money he did not train at a gym but in his apartment Riddle used BJ Penns book Mixed Martial Arts The Book of Knowledge to help him learn The Ultimate Fighter Riddle fought Dan Simmler an understudy of Matt Serra to get into the TUF house Riddle knocked out Simmler in the opening seconds of the second round and struck him three times in the jaw after he had lost consciousness breaking Simmlers jaw in two places It was called the biggest knockout in The Ultimate Fighter history by Dana White and the knock out of the century by Quinton Jackson Riddle was picked second for team Rampage During the shows taping Riddle was given the nickname Chipper after Rampage noticed him always smiling
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