WWE reportedly discussed bringing Ridge Holland into The New Day following Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods’ turn against Big E.

According to Dave Meltzer in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Holland was considered as a third member after Kingston and Woods turned heel on the December 2, 2024 episode of Raw. However, the proposal was dropped before reaching television.

Meltzer wrote:

“There was an idea when the New Day turned heel on Big E to have Ridge Holland as a third member of the New Day. It was discussed and ultimately nixed.”

Holland’s history with Big E would have added a particularly personal element to the storyline. Big E suffered a neck injury while taking an overhead belly-to-belly suplex from Holland outside the ring on the March 11, 2022 episode of SmackDown.

More than two years later, Kingston and Woods rejected their longtime teammate during The New Day’s anniversary celebration on Raw. Bringing Holland into the group would have tied that betrayal directly to the incident that took Big E out of the ring.

The report does not explain why WWE abandoned the idea. Holland, who had been back in NXT since December 2023, was released by WWE in November 2025.

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