EXCLUSIVE: Foreclosure Notice On Home Led To Ridge Holland's WWE Twitter Rant

Having already been informed that his contract would be allowed to expire on November 14, Ridge Holland found himself without a job earlier than expected when he was fired for breach of contract by WWE following an X/Twitter rant on November 4.

WWE told Holland - real name Luke Menzies - in mid-October that his contract wouldn't be renewed, with the company reaching the decision while the 37-year-old is on the shelf for several months with a Lisfranc foot injury. Holland is also scheduled to undergo neck fusion surgery.

Ahead of his contract expiry, Holland posted on X/Twitter that he was unsure how he was going to pay his mortgage and that he felt like he had been "hung out to dry" by WWE after he was injured while working for TNA as a WWE representative. WWE fired Holland over the tweet, with the company particularly unhappy about his mortgage comments.

Holland's financial issues are serious, however, and the former NXT Tag Team Champion revealed to Cultaholic's Tom Campbell that his Twitter rant was precipitated by receiving a foreclosure notice on his home.

Holland noted that his financial issues began when he re-signed with WWE in November 2024, receiving a 50 per cent pay cut in the process.

"Taking it right back, 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 there because it's just three kids, and everything that people don't understand what you have to pay for," said Holland.

"It's health insurance, don't forget we've got to pay for our own green cards. Everything from insurances to houses to mortgages comes at a premium when you're not an actual resident. You're a higher risk, so you pay a higher premium for that," he continued.

"So the house, 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."

Following the Max and Paddy reference, Menzies noted he is in the process of trying to restructure the family's mortgage following the foreclosure notice, but they are also looking to downsize to a smaller property.

"We're trying our best to kind of restructure the mortgage, but that's a whole process. You've got to prove certain things, so we're trying to restructure that. The goal is to kind of downsize and rejig things. But people think you can do things immediately, and you can't. I had four weeks to know when the income would stop. Four weeks when you've got overheads and stuff. They just don't go away, and you can't change them overnight. So we're just trying to restructure the mortgage and wait for a verdict on that from the mortgage company. We just have to wait and see," Menzies added. 

Just two hours after Holland posted the tweet, he received a phone call from WWE to inform him he was being fired.

"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."

With Holland unable to wrestle due to injury, a family member launched a GoFundMe to help support him. The GoFundMe has since been taken down, however, and Holland will donate the money to charity after he has recouped the funds when he is back on his feet.

When he does recover from injury in 2026, Menzies is unsure if he plans to wrestle again. For the time being, he will work on his YouTube channel and for an online coaching company.

"It’s really hard for me to tell right now, but if I'm healthy and I do decide to wrestle again, I had such a fun time at TNA I'd love an opportunity or something there. Even just to get out and wrestle again and recover the love for it. Do some things on my terms, really, because I really don't think I scratched the surface of what I'm capable of. But we'll see if that fire grows as we get closer to getting cleared," Menzies added.

"At the minute, I've made a couple of connections. I'm trying to get the YouTube thing on the ropes. There's an online coaching company that's wanting to employ me, but it's the same thing with that, that's a self-employed thing, so you don't obviously start getting paid straight away. It's client-by-client basis. So there's things moving, which is good. I'm just an open booking trying to do what I can."