Ridge Holland says home foreclosure notice led to airing of WWE grievances
Ridge Holland says frustration over his home being foreclosed on led to him airing his frustrations with WWE on social media.
Holland spoke with Cultaholic’s Tom Campbell recently and said that he’d run into financial problems beginning in November 2024, when he took a significant pay cut to go from WWE’s main roster to NXT. He said WWE first offered him a three-year deal at NXT pay, but he asked for a one-year deal instead.
Holland said:
“After my contract was due for renewal previously when I went to NXT, they offered me a three-year deal at a 50 per cent pay cut. With everything financially, I’m like, I can’t tie myself in for three years for that. It’s impossible. So can I do a one-year extension and I’ll try and make it work? We’ll cut back where we can and try, and even then that’s what started the financial issues.”
Holland also mentioned that non-US citizens pay a higher premium for things such as mortgages and insurance. He also mentioned having additional costs related to obtaining a green card.
Holland says that he received a foreclosure notification on his home shortly before posting a message on social media saying he felt “hung out to dry” by WWE on November 4. The company opted to end his contract early as a result of the comments.
Holland continued:
“We’ve got a foreclosure notification on the house, so I just took to Twitter and I just needed to vent. I’m not gonna vent to my wife, she doesn’t need it. She knows. She doesn’t need me p*ssing and moaning, so I just typed it out. It was kind of like a way of coping. I shouldn’t have done it. I shouldn’t have let my emotions get to me. Then, obviously, what’s the old saying? Blow your feathers, you get your ass tickled.”
He says that it was maybe two hours after he posted the comments that WWE called to tell him he was being released, just 10 days before his contract was set to expire.
“Maybe two hours…It was just, ‘We’re going to exercise our right to terminate the agreement effective immediately. Bye.’ I just asked about the medical stuff, asking if that’s covered. And it was, ‘Yeah. Contact the medical team.’ And that was it. Obviously, I’m the one who put the tweet out, right, so I’ve got to take responsibility for that. It is what it is.”
Holland’s full conversation with Cultaholic is available below:
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