Matt Riddle is the only fighter fired from the UFC on a four-fight win streak.

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It’s true. It says so in his Twitter bio, right next to the graphic that displays his 425,000 Twitter followers.

The four-fight win streak part isn’t entirely accurate, though. Two of those wins were eventually made no contests after Riddle tested positive for marijuana — the second of which resulted in his unceremonious firing from the only place he’d ever fought.

“I remember it vividly,” Riddle recalled to Yahoo Sports. “Michael Mersch [former UFC executive] called me and said, ‘Matt, I have some bad news. You failed your drug test. And we’re exercising our right to terminate your contract.’ ”

Thanks to his time in the UFC, those failed marijuana tests, and a firm wrestling background as a high school champion from Saratoga, N.Y., Matt Riddle is now taking the business of pro wrestling by storm.

“To me, it feels perfect,” Riddle said. “I feel like I started with wrestling, and a love of pro wrestling, that lead me to MMA and the UFC. And now it’s come full circle back to pro wrestling.”

One person thankful for Riddle’s transition to professional wrestling is Gabe Sapolsky.

Sapolsky is about as certified in the ways of independent pro wrestling as you can get. He got his start in the business working alongside ECW founder and current WWE “advocate” Paul Heyman and co-founded independent promotion Evolve Wrestling where Riddle currently competes.

“With Matt Riddle, you’re talking about a guy who only had five or six matches, and who only has about 25-50 total matches even now,” Sapolsky said. “He should be wrestling on the smallest indie shows, trying to work on his craft, and instead this guy has just exploded on the scene in every aspect of the game. He’s a phenom. There’s no other way to describe it. I’ve legitimately never seen anything like this before.”

Evolve currently has a working relationship with WWE. Acting on the advice of ex-WWE wrestler Sean “X-Pac” Waltman, the WWE took an interest in Riddle and gave him a tryout last year.

Not even a week into Riddle’s first sessions, Waltman came down to the Monster Factory wrestling school in New Jersey to see the rookie. After a full day spent with Riddle, Waltman quickly called his buddy, wrestler and WWE talent executive Paul “Triple H” Levesque, and said Riddle possessed “it.”

“With a guy like Riddle, coming from the UFC, with his background – and I watched some of his matches – you could see right away that he was a pure natural for the wrestling business,” Sapolsky said. “And this was with something like only five matches under his belt. So, he had no right to be as good as he was at that point.

“So, we figured let’s give him a shot. We figured, worst case, he would work one weekend, and best case, which is what’s happening now, we’d have a bonafide main eventer and star on our hands.”

Blending his realistic MMA arsenal with a natural charisma, Sapolsky thinks Riddle can pave the way for future fighters and athletes to make the jump to professional wrestling. It isn’t just leg drops, flying elbows and clotheslines anymore. Fans are looking for realism and authenticity, something Riddle offers in spades.

On Friday, Riddle will wrestle Timothy Thatcher for the Evolve championship at Evolve 58 in Dallas, Texas, in the backyard of AT&T Stadium, the host of Sunday’s WrestleMania 32.

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