Richard Holliday-MLW news (Patreon)

I spoke with Richard Holliday, who confirmed to me that he did have discussions elsewhere prior to re-signing with MLW, and he used the term "contract" as opposed to "agreement," which indicates that he put pen to paper. He's very aware he has the "WWE look" as people call it, but wondered why that couldn't just be the "MLW look," and noted that there's plenty of crossover there. He thinks it's fun to think about what would happen if he went other places or followed someone like MJF over to AEW, but says that MLW is a great platform and one he has high hopes for. He'd prefer people just add MLW to their shortlist instead of saying that he and Alex Hammerstone should go to WWE, because they're already producing great programming within the MLW banner, and thinks that goes over people's heads sometimes as die-hard consumers of just one brand.

Initially getting into MLW was an interesting story as the company was primarily based out of Orlando, so booking Holliday out of New York was easier said than done. An opportunity came up when MLW ran New York and he did enough to impress Court Bauer to get the offer to come back and do more work with the brand.