Ridge Holland's Retirement Announcement on NXT A Part of Storyline

Ridge Holland's emotional announcement on NXT this week, where he declared he was stepping away from wrestling indefinitely, was a work.

Fightful's Corey Brennan confirmed the segment was entirely scripted and part of a larger storyline. This narrative has been unfolding for weeks, if not months, and has the strong backing of Ridge Holland himself, Shawn Michaels, and other NXT personnel.

"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.”

While the storyline seems significant, Brennan reports there haven't been any objections from within NXT. In fact, Holland is a vocal supporter of the angle and was motivated to participate for various reasons.

Despite the storyline twist, Holland's profile has been moved to the alumni section of the WWE website's roster page.

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