Major Ridge Holland WWE Update After ‘Stepping Away From Wrestling’ Announcement

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There has been a major Ridge Holland update after he announced on WWE TV that he was ‘stepping away’ from in-ring competition indefinitely.

Holland said during NXT tonight that he was doing so because he doesn’t want to risk hurting himself or anyone else again and it’s what’s best for his mental health, leading to people questioning whether it was real or a storyline.

It has now however been confirmed that the segment was entirely part of a WWE storyline.

Fightful’s Corey Brennan reported:

“The cliffnotes of it are, Ridge is not going anywhere. It’s storyline. It’s all part of the larger story that they’ve been telling for weeks if not months now with Ridge in (WWE) NXT. They’ve been building this storyline up for quite a while.

“It’s obviously quite an important storyline to Ridge, to Shawn Michaels, and a lot of people have questioned if this storyline is something that has received pushback, whether it’s from Ridge or Shawn or anyone else in the back.

“And I’m honestly surprised to say that there’s been zero pushback within NXT… Ridge has actually been a big supporter of this storyline. He was very motivated to do this storyline for a lot of reasons.”

Despite this, he has been moved to the alumni section of the WWE website roster page.

On tonight’s episode, Ridge Holland had an emotional in-ring segment where he announced that he was ‘stepping away form in-ring competition indefinitely’ and then exited the ring somberly as the crowd chanted ‘Thank you Ridge!’

We’ll keep you posted if any more news emerges.

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