Some interesting news broke on Monday, February 10, Miro was removed from the AEW roster page and shortly after PWInsider reported that he is no longer with the company.
Mike Johnson of PWInsider reported the former TNA Champion and AEW came to terms on a release.
“Miro is gone from AEW, PWInsider has confirmed,” Johnson reported. “We are told that Miro and AEW came to a mutual agreement on his exit from the company. There was talk he had asked for his release back in the Fall 2024. The two sides had been working towards an agreement for some time.”
Miro has not appeared on television since AEW Worlds End 2023 in which he defeated Andrade. It’s worth noting that it was Andrade’s last match before he would return to WWE in 2024. Miro joined AEW in 2020 after nearly seven years with WWE.
Miro’s AEW run did not live up to expectations
Fans had a lot of hope for Miro when he made the jump from WWE. He was known as Rusev during that time and he was exceptionally over with fans, even as leadership behind the scenes tried to quash his rise.
The start of Miro’s AEW tenure gave a preview of how things would go over time. He started aligning with Kip Sabian in one of the first storylines in AEW that fans started to complain about. He’d eventually break away from Sabian and go on to run through several performers, eventually capturing the AEW TNA Championship on May 12, 2021. He held that title for 140 before dropping the title to Sammy Guevara.
Miro will be among the names that fans will describe as “misused.” While the truth always remains somewhere in the middle, Miro’s run in All Elite Wrestling has been perplexing at best. Things looked like they would pick up after splitting from Sabian, but he would never break through to capture the top title in the brand, even though he looked like the perfect performer to do so. Miro had the physical abilities, on-screen presentation, and he can cut a promo – checking all the boxes that AEW fans request. Sadly, he would disappear off television as reports popped up his relationship with AEW.
Will Miro return to WWE?
Speculation is already building that Miro will head back to WWE. This has been a rumor that started back when the reports about his backstage status started to hit online channels. The expectation is that with Triple H in charge of the creative, a performer like Miro would get better booking if he returned to WWE. It’s too soon to know if that is the move to make, but fans would certainly be interested to see how Miro would be presented if he returns to the WWE.