Former WWE star Ridge Holland (real name Luke Menzies) has been doing his rounds with interviews and Tom Campbell of Cultaholic in an interview that was released today.
In the discussion, Menzies indicated that he went public with his rant against WWE after being issued a foreclosure notice on his home that same day and went to social media to vent.
"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."
Menzies also went into more detail on how he took a pay-cut on a one-year deal after being offered a three-year contract:
"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."
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.”
