A legend is returning to the ring.

[Lizuka #BLM]

A whole three weeks after his retirement, Ridge Holland is making a shocking comeback next week against whichever LWO guy it was. I'm stunned. I hope he doesn't have too much ring rust.

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

What a weird f***in' angle.

[TWERKIN' MAGGLE]

I am getting whiplash with this fella.

Did he actually slam the door on that guy's hand or was it an accident? Is the angle he's just a nasty f***er who hurts people for real? Or a klutz who injures people a lot by accident?

Neither is really something I want in my wrestling.

[GOTHIC CHARISMA 🧊 🥶❄️FURY]

the NXT crowd is the worst part of the show but I keep wondering what they must be thinking of this and him. in the land of weird and strange, he is the strangest of them all and genuinely makes me uneasy. i wonder how the crowds react when his segments happen backstage, do they all just hide under their seats or something because he makes me want to do that.

they're gonna try to make him some monster heel and it'll probably work because of how uncomfortable everything around him is

[GOTHIC CHARISMA 🧊 🥶❄️FURY]

Apr 10, 2024 1:52:04 GMT -5 TWERKIN' MAGGLE said:

I am getting whiplash with this fella.

Did he actually slam the door on that guy's hand or was it an accident? Is the angle he's just a nasty f***er who hurts people for real? Or a klutz who injures people a lot by accident?

Neither is really something I want in my wrestling.

there will probably be bits i am missing but he was the guy who mistakenly injured Big E with a belly to back suplex during a SD a long while back, Big E was severely injured and hasn't been back since

he stuck around with no real personal gimmick besides being with Sheamus and Butch (Pete Dunne) as a part of the brawling brutes but is now in NXT

since being back in NXT they've done these weird segments on and off of him "injuring" people and playing off of the fact that he.. did that to Big E on accident?

guy "retired" not long ago in storyline and is now back because reasons. there have been segments of him, his kid and his wife and I don't know if we're supposed to root for him now because of that or if he's just really unlucky?

it is weird. it is bad weird and i personally hate every minute of it

[Ryback on a Pole!]

A wasted return. Should have had him appear during the run in during Cody vs Reigns. The pop would have been huge--ideall after Cena and Undertaker's own run-ins to warm up the crowd ready for the return of Ridge.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Apr 10, 2024 1:52:04 GMT -5 TWERKIN' MAGGLE said:

Is the angle he's just a nasty f***er who hurts people for real? Or a klutz who injures people a lot by accident?

Nia Jax claims gimmick infringement either way.

[Gus Richlen Was Wrong]

This storyline where they're playing off the stigma he got from the Big E injury and where they're playing mental health for a heel turn is really rotten as f***.

[schizo]

I could already hear the chants

“YOU STILL…GOT IT?..UM…DID YOU EVEN HAVE IT BEFORE?..”clap clap clap!”

[Cyno]

Apr 10, 2024 1:59:09 GMT -5 GOTHIC CHARISMA 🧊 🥶❄️FURY said:

Apr 10, 2024 1:52:04 GMT -5 TWERKIN' MAGGLE said:

I am getting whiplash with this fella.

Did he actually slam the door on that guy's hand or was it an accident? Is the angle he's just a nasty f***er who hurts people for real? Or a klutz who injures people a lot by accident?

Neither is really something I want in my wrestling.

there will probably be bits i am missing but he was the guy who mistakenly injured Big E with a belly to back suplex during a SD a long while back, Big E was severely injured and hasn't been back since

he stuck around with no real personal gimmick besides being with Sheamus and Butch (Pete Dunne) as a part of the brawling brutes but is now in NXT

since being back in NXT they've done these weird segments on and off of him "injuring" people and playing off of the fact that he.. did that to Big E on accident?

guy "retired" not long ago in storyline and is now back because reasons. there have been segments of him, his kid and his wife and I don't know if we're supposed to root for him now because of that or if he's just really unlucky?

it is weird. it is bad weird and i personally hate every minute of it

He suplexed Big E outside the ring and Big E broke 2 vertebrae on the landing. His in-ring career is probably done barring some medical miracle, but then Big E is also very lucky he didn't get paralyzed. Hell, he's lucky he didn't outright die.

So yeah, turning that into a gimmick is pretty gross. And Ridge is just pretty bad overall even outside of that incident.

[Allie Kitsune]

Apr 10, 2024 10:52:05 GMT -5 Cyno said:

Apr 10, 2024 1:59:09 GMT -5 GOTHIC CHARISMA 🧊 🥶❄️FURY said:

there will probably be bits i am missing but he was the guy who mistakenly injured Big E with a belly to back suplex during a SD a long while back, Big E was severely injured and hasn't been back since

he stuck around with no real personal gimmick besides being with Sheamus and Butch (Pete Dunne) as a part of the brawling brutes but is now in NXT

since being back in NXT they've done these weird segments on and off of him "injuring" people and playing off of the fact that he.. did that to Big E on accident?

guy "retired" not long ago in storyline and is now back because reasons. there have been segments of him, his kid and his wife and I don't know if we're supposed to root for him now because of that or if he's just really unlucky?

it is weird. it is bad weird and i personally hate every minute of it

He suplexed Big E outside the ring and Big E broke 2 vertebrae on the landing. His in-ring career is probably done barring some medical miracle, but then Big E is also very lucky he didn't get paralyzed. Hell, he's lucky he didn't outright die.

So yeah, turning that into a gimmick is pretty gross. And Ridge is just pretty bad overall even outside of that incident.

Just wrestling bad? Or Joey Ryan bad or Drake Wuertz bad?

[Cyno]

Apr 10, 2024 10:59:17 GMT -5 Allie Kitsune said:

Apr 10, 2024 10:52:05 GMT -5 Cyno said:

He suplexed Big E outside the ring and Big E broke 2 vertebrae on the landing. His in-ring career is probably done barring some medical miracle, but then Big E is also very lucky he didn't get paralyzed. Hell, he's lucky he didn't outright die.

So yeah, turning that into a gimmick is pretty gross. And Ridge is just pretty bad overall even outside of that incident.

Just wrestling bad? Or Joey Ryan bad or Drake Wuertz bad?

Wrestling bad. Don't know anything about him as a person.

[J is Justice]

I'm sorry, that was hilarious when he trapped Del Toro's fingers in the door. They're gonna turn him into an accident-prone bufoon.

[Chiral]

Ridge in NXT is an allegory for the tightrope HBK's NXT walks between so bad it's good and like actually genuinely bad bad

[GOTHIC CHARISMA 🧊 🥶❄️FURY]

Apr 10, 2024 10:52:05 GMT -5 Cyno said:

Apr 10, 2024 1:59:09 GMT -5 GOTHIC CHARISMA 🧊 🥶❄️FURY said:

there will probably be bits i am missing but he was the guy who mistakenly injured Big E with a belly to back suplex during a SD a long while back, Big E was severely injured and hasn't been back since

he stuck around with no real personal gimmick besides being with Sheamus and Butch (Pete Dunne) as a part of the brawling brutes but is now in NXT

since being back in NXT they've done these weird segments on and off of him "injuring" people and playing off of the fact that he.. did that to Big E on accident?

guy "retired" not long ago in storyline and is now back because reasons. there have been segments of him, his kid and his wife and I don't know if we're supposed to root for him now because of that or if he's just really unlucky?

it is weird. it is bad weird and i personally hate every minute of it

He suplexed Big E outside the ring and Big E broke 2 vertebrae on the landing. His in-ring career is probably done barring some medical miracle, but then Big E is also very lucky he didn't get paralyzed. Hell, he's lucky he didn't outright die.

So yeah, turning that into a gimmick is pretty gross. And Ridge is just pretty bad overall even outside of that incident.

yeah like my tolerance for what is offensive ON a wrestling show (not outside of it) can be pretty high save some exceptions but I feel like I need a shower whenever I hear his imagine dragons ripoff music and know that shit is about to get real awkward

[Ryback on a Pole!]

Apr 10, 2024 11:38:35 GMT -5 J is Justice said:

I'm sorry, that was hilarious when he trapped Del Toro's fingers in the door. They're gonna turn him into an accident-prone bufoon.

His Wrestlemania entrance should be a parody of Sami Zayn's walking through the back before exiting down the ramp, only he treads into buckets, steps on rakes, falls into a vat of glue, has a bag of feathers fall on hs head, knocks over paint, walks through a massive spider-web, disturbs a possum nest all enroute.

[Allie Kitsune]

Apr 10, 2024 12:38:35 GMT -5 GOTHIC CHARISMA 🧊 🥶❄️FURY said:

Apr 10, 2024 10:52:05 GMT -5 Cyno said:

He suplexed Big E outside the ring and Big E broke 2 vertebrae on the landing. His in-ring career is probably done barring some medical miracle, but then Big E is also very lucky he didn't get paralyzed. Hell, he's lucky he didn't outright die.

So yeah, turning that into a gimmick is pretty gross. And Ridge is just pretty bad overall even outside of that incident.

yeah like my tolerance for what is offensive ON a wrestling show (not outside of it) can be pretty high save some exceptions but I feel like I need a shower whenever I hear his imagine dragons ripoff music and know that shit is about to get real awkward

Part of me wonders if Holland/Menzies should have just walked away from the company rather than agree to work this gimmick, and seen if Anthem would work him into the TNA Rotations.

[Cyno]

Apr 10, 2024 12:38:35 GMT -5 GOTHIC CHARISMA 🧊 🥶❄️FURY said:

Apr 10, 2024 10:52:05 GMT -5 Cyno said:

He suplexed Big E outside the ring and Big E broke 2 vertebrae on the landing. His in-ring career is probably done barring some medical miracle, but then Big E is also very lucky he didn't get paralyzed. Hell, he's lucky he didn't outright die.

So yeah, turning that into a gimmick is pretty gross. And Ridge is just pretty bad overall even outside of that incident.

yeah like my tolerance for what is offensive ON a wrestling show (not outside of it) can be pretty high save some exceptions but I feel like I need a shower whenever I hear his imagine dragons ripoff music and know that shit is about to get real awkward

The crazy thing is that I think the basic gimmick could work if it was someone who was actually interesting. But Ridge Holland is just so dull.

[GOTHIC CHARISMA 🧊 🥶❄️FURY]

Apr 10, 2024 13:16:57 GMT -5 Cyno said:

Apr 10, 2024 12:38:35 GMT -5 GOTHIC CHARISMA 🧊 🥶❄️FURY said:

yeah like my tolerance for what is offensive ON a wrestling show (not outside of it) can be pretty high save some exceptions but I feel like I need a shower whenever I hear his imagine dragons ripoff music and know that shit is about to get real awkward

The crazy thing is that I think the basic gimmick could work if it was someone who was actually interesting. But Ridge Holland is just so dull.

he is extremely dull and it could work but you'd need someone really interesting for it as you said. once you get to the level of actor/wrestler that IMO it would require, it would kinda be like why choose this though yknow?

you can hear the crowd just die when he walks out there and the most i've seen people ever react for him was people getting mad that some of us didn't buy that he was actually taking a "real" mental health break. I don't want that in my goofy wrestling show lol, that shit bums me out

[ayumidah]

Don't disrespect Joaquin Wilde in such a way