Riddle was a professional MMA fighter between 2008 and 2014. He made a name for his self on SpikeTV and the Ultimate Fighter 7 . Riddle went on to win four fights in the Ultimate Fighting Championship before he was terminated after testing positive for marijuana in February 2013.
In 2018, he signed with WWE and was assigned to NXT, where he was a NXT Tag Team Champion (with Pete Dunne), after becoming champions following the 2020 Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic.