{"id":256419,"date":"2025-11-02T09:35:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T09:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/256419\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T09:35:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T09:35:13","slug":"wwe-star-denies-rumors-surrounding-aew-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/256419\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE Star Denies Rumors Surrounding AEW Departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WWE-AEW-logo-ring.jpg\" alt=\"WWE Star Denies Rumors Surrounding AEW Departure\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    WWE\/AEW<\/p>\n<p>A current WWE star has denied rumors surrounding their departure from AEW earlier this year prior to returning to WWE.<\/p>\n<p>Former United States Champion Rusev made his return to WWE on the Raw after WrestleMania 41 back in April, his first appearance on WWE television in five years.<\/p>\n<p>Rusev was released from WWE back in 2020, before he shortly after joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allelitewrestling.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AEW<\/a> as Miro, where he found some success as his Redeemer character.<\/p>\n<p>However, prior to his departure from AEW earlier this year, Miro\u00a0 had gone an entire year without competing in a match for the company, with rumors online emerging that Miro had been benched by the company due to his refusal to lose matches in the company.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/wwe\/news\/how-rusev-rediscovered-himself-after-many-years-away-from-wwe-i-dug-deep-inside-myself-to-find-out-who-i-am\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Speaking to CBS Sports<\/a>, Rusev opened up on his AEW departure, shooting down rumors of him refusing to lose in the company.<\/p>\n<p>He said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cIn the past five years, I have had 20 or 30 matches. Back in the day, I had 30 matches in 30 days. The dead time sticks out the most. We only have this body and age for so long. We can\u2019t do this job forever, so we must take advantage of it while we\u2019re young.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"> \u201cI sat on the sidelines for so long, unable to do what I love, which is performing for people in professional wrestling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wrestletalk.com\/topic\/rusev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rusev<\/a> is set to challenge for the Intercontinental Championship at Saturday Night\u2019s Main Event tonight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlingmasterclass.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-436300 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760823129_75_wrestling-masterclass-9-stars-webp.webp.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"778\" height=\"128\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To make sure you stay up to date with all the biggest wrestling and WrestleTalk news, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@wrestletalk.official\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">follow us on Threads by clicking this link<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p class=\"share\">Share this article with friends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WWE\/AEW A current WWE star has denied rumors surrounding their departure from AEW earlier this year prior to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[79,49,48,75,119076,119075,13015],"class_list":["post-256419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-aew","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-miro","tag-rusev","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}