In an interview with Cultaholic’s Tom Campbell, Ride Holland discussed the situation that led to him airing his grievances about WWE on social media.
Holland revealed that the company offered him a three-year deal with a 50 percent pay cut, leading to the former NXT Tag Team Champion discussing a one-year extension instead.
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.
Holland mentioned that non-US citizens pay a higher premium for mortgages, insurance, and the like, along with additional costs related to obtaining a green card.
On what led to venting his frustrations on social media, Holland said:
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.
He added that maybe two hours after posting the comments, he received the call from WWE regarding his release, ten days before his contract was set to expire.
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.
Source: F4WOnline