Ridge Holland States That It Was ‘Quite Humbling’ To See Donations To GoFundMe, Discusses People Assuming WWE Talents Are All Millionaires

Ridge Holland does some post-WWE media.

Fightful Select broke the news that WWE terminated Luke Menzies a.k.a. Ridge Holland’s contract after he posted a message that he might not be able to pay his mortgage after the company informed him that his deal was not being renewed.

Menzies is now doing media, and one of his stops was TMZ’s Inside The Ring podcast. A GoFundMe was set up for Menzies after he sent his message out, as he is recovering from surgery for a Lisfranc injury.

Menzies said during the interview that the GoFundMe was set up without him knowing. It was humbling for him to see fellow wrestlers and the general public donating. He added that people assume that because wrestlers work at WWE that it means they’re millionaires.

“So, the GoFundMe was set up without my own knowledge. It’s not something that I would have done off my own back. I’m quite a private person and I believe that any (problem of mine) makes my cross to bear. But, I never expected people to donate as they have, and I never really realized people cared that much to be honest. So, it’s quite humbling that people are willing to put their hard-earned money, and kind of help me out in that respect and help the family out in that respect because, you know, that’s the positive and then the negative side is people are saying, ‘Oh, well, you’re a WWE superstar. Financial. How you manage your money and stuff.’ I’m like, people think that just because you work for WWE, you’re a millionaire and that’s not the case. We have bills, we have other things to pay for, things happen. You have three children. You gotta pay for their births. We had twins unexpectedly. There’s medical bills that still need paying. There’s all sorts of things that people just don’t know so it’s easy for someone to say, ‘Well, you should be this.’ It’s like, yeah, if I thought that, I can say I should be worth multi-millions but unfortunately I’m not. It’s just the way it is. We’re not Hollywood movie stars. We don’t get compensated that way.”

Menzies is going to be present at Game Changer Wrestling’s Fan Slam event on November 22nd. He’ll be signing autographs and taking photos.

If the quote in this article is used, please credit TMZ’s Inside The Ring podcast with an H/T to Fightful for the transcription.