Various: Ridge Holland Says He Is Speaking To Specialist About His Neck Injury That Could Require Surgery, Andrade El Idolo Advertised for 11/1 Big Time Wrestling Event in Maine, Indies/Misc.

Oct 21, 2025

Ridge Holland Lisfranc Injury Status Update – Holland Says He’s Speaking with Specialist & Might Require Surgery

As noted before, Ridge Holland, real name Luke Menzies will be leaving WWE once his contract expires on November 14th due to it not being renewed. Holland has been out of action since this past September due to a lisfranc injury he suffered at a TNA Impact! taping.

Holland provided an update earlier today on Twitter stating that he has been speaking to a neck specialist about his neck injury and the possibility of him needing to undergo surgery to fix it.

“So, just a bit of an update. Next Tuesday, I’ve got to go to Birmingham, Alabama to have the cast off, some more X-Rays to make sure that the foot is all good and we can go to partial weight bearing. The kicker is that prior to the foot, I had a neck injury that was going to get imaging for. I got imaging for that post-foot surgery and I’m going to Birmingham to see the neck specialist. Worst case scenario, I’ll need neck surgery and I’m hoping for the best case scenario, which is injections but I’m having some nerve impingement which is sending pain down my arm, so I’m a little bit apprehensive about what’s going to happen because it’s another kick in the balls, really. I’ll keep you posted.”

Update‼️ #surgery #foot #recovery #wwe #wwenxt #prowrestler #prowrestling #necksurgery pic.twitter.com/J0zQ36MZRb
— Luke Menzies (@RidgeWWE) October 21, 2025

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Andrade El Idolo Advertised for November 1st Big Time Wrestling Event in Maine

As noted before, Andrade El Idolo has been absent from AEW since earlier this month due to issues believed to be due to him being currently under a non-compete clause with WWE following his firing from the company this past September. Besides AEW, Andrade had also been pulled from several of his scheduled indies bookings this month due to similar issues.

In a potential sign of Andrade’s current non-compete and legal situation with WWE possibly nearing an end, Big Time Wrestling is currently advertising that Andrade will be making an in-ring appearance at their November 1st event in Augusta, Maine.

“Finally! Big Time Wrestling returns to the Augusta Civic Center on Saturday, November 1 with Olympic Gold Medalist, 13 time World Champion WWE Hall of Famer KURT ANGLE.
Just announced: ANDRADE makes his BTW debut to battle DONOVAN DIJAK, King of Bros MATT RIDDLE meets the French Canadian Frankenstein PCO in a NO DQ match, Mr. USA TONY ATLAS, Tag Team Special with SWIPE RIGHT vs. WAVES and CURLS, 3 Way Dance featuring MORTAR, CHANNING THOMAS w/ Sydney Bakala and DANNY MILES and much more.
Meet KURT and all the stars for photos and autographs from 5-7:30 PM. Belltime is 7:30PM.”

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

TNA Wrestling announced that they will be premiering their new Fade To Black documentary based on their Bound For Glory 2025 event on Wednesday on their TNA+ service for subscribers. This same documentary will also be airing this Thursday for this week’s TNA Impact! special on AXS TV and Sportsnet 360.

TNA also announced that they have recently signed a new partnership deal with Tixr to be the new official sponsor and tickets provider for TNA live events starting with next month’s Turning Point 2025 event and TNA Impact! tapings at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida.

Highspots.TV announced that they recently signed a new deal with indie promotion ACW Wisconsin to air their events live on their service. ACW Wisconsin is owned by former WWE wrestler Hornswoggle.

Major League Wrestling recently announced that The Good Brothers (Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows) will be making their official debut appearance for the company at their MLW x Don Gato Tequila event on November 20th in Charleston, South Carolina.

AAW Pro Wrestling recently announced that they will be holding a new event called Smokeshow on November 22nd in Berwyn, Illinois. It was announced that former WWE talent Scarlett Bordeaux will be making a return appearance to the company at this upcoming event.

ChocoPro Wrestling recently announced that they will be holding an event called Cult Heroine in celebration of Emi Sakura’s 30th anniversary of the debut of her wrestling career on October 30th in Tokyo, Japan. It was also announced that AEW talent Riho, Stardom talent AZM, Mei Suruga, Masato Tanaka, new Hayabusa, and Chris Brookes will be making an appearance at this upcoming event.

In a recent interview with the Dallas Morning News, Athena gave her thoughts about her promotion Metroplex Wrestling’s upcoming all-women’s Who Runs The World? 2 event later this month in Irving, Texas. Athena stated “It’s probably the most stressful thing I do, outside of dealing with my own stuff at work and trying to be creative for me. Trying to be creative for the girls is so much more difficult than I think anyone would ever realize. We’re being a little ambitious this time. We’re going to Southern Junction, which is an awesome venue, an awesome bar, as well, sits up to 1,000 people. I might be overreaching, but I think me and my girls can do it. These girls, here’s the thing, I know my girls are going to put on a great, phenomenal show. You’ve seen them around the world, and a lot of them have so much more to prove. WRTW 2 is about establishing that we’re not going anywhere. We’re going to continue to rise, continue to grow, and continue to show you new women that you’ve never seen before. I love watching independent wrestling. I grew up on the independent scene. I spent nine years there before I got signed to WWE. … I think there are too many dream matches out there that we’re not getting to see, especially in the state of Texas But WRTW is kind of like my passion project. I’ve always wanted a place where women could pick up each other and kind of just push each other to new limits in a different way. … I see a whole bunch of hungry women that just need an opportunity to show the world what they can do. And what better way to give back to the women’s wrestling world than to produce and fund something as big as ‘Who Runs The World?’“

Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their Reena Rumble event on October 27th in Toronto, Ontario, Canada: