Report: WWE Unhappy About Ridge Holland Mentioning His Mortgage Problems, Unsympathetic Towards His Financial Plight

Ridge Holland's WWE contract was due to expire on November 14, but the former rugby league player has found himself without a job earlier than anticipated after the company opted to terminate his deal early over recent social media posts from the 37-year-old.

Holland - real name Luke Menzies - recently noted on X/Twitter that he felt he had been "hung out to dry" by WWE after he was informed his contract would not be renewed despite Holland currently being out of action due to injury. Holland noted in the same post that he was unsure how he was going to pay his mortgage.

Holland sustained a Lisfranc foot injury in September while performing for TNA as a WWE representative, and he may also require neck fusion surgery.

Despite Holland's financial issues and his inability to wrestle until at least well into 2026, Dave Meltzer has reported on Wrestling Observer Radio that WWE are unsympathetic towards his plight, and the company instead feel Menzies should have known he was likely going to be let go and should have adjusted his finances after he accepted a pay cut in 2024.

Menzies reportedly accepted a $200,000 pay cut in signing a new one-year deal in November of last year. Meltzer has claimed that WWE were going to cut Holland in 2024 before he worked out the new deal.

"He had signed a one-year renewal at a much lower rate. The way that that went down, they were going to cut him a year ago and he kind of worked out a deal with them where he would go to NXT for one year and he would be paid less because he was in NXT than he had been paid before. So they gave him another year," Meltzer said. 

WWE informed Holland in mid-October 2025 that his contract would not be renewed and he would become a free agent on November 14. After criticising the company on X/Twitter in recent days, though, WWE fired him as the company felt he was in breach of contract.

"In your deal, you're not supposed to talk badly about the company in public. And so they felt that they now have the right to fire him. It's gonna cost him, it'll either be one week's pay or two weeks' pay, because he wasn't getting paid beyond November 14th anyway. They didn't need to do it. I guess they felt that they, however you want to look at it, they wanted to send a message to everybody out there that if you say anything bad you can be cut. And that's what happened. It's kinda screwed for him," Meltzer later added. 

Meltzer also noted: "I feel bad for him, obviously. Obviously, I have been told the other side from them, which is essentially that he should have known from last year that the way everything went down that he probably wasn't going to be under WWE much longer either way, and he was getting paid through the end of that WWE deal. He made money there, I wouldn't say he made a great amount of money in the last year, but in other years, you know, main roster money is good money. Their feeling is as well, when you know that this is happening, you should adjust your finances and everything like that. At the end, 'I may lose my mortgage', they weren't happy he said that."

After a career as a rugby league player, Luke Menzies signed with WWE in 2018. He ends his run as a one-time NXT Tag Team Champion.

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