Bryan Alvarez of F4WOnline<\/a> that Melo requested her release from AEW in 2025, but it was denied.<\/p>\nKhan said that Melo did request her release, but that happened after the June 6th, 2026 AEW Collision during which she and Anna Jay challenged for the AEW Women\u2019s World Tag Team Championship. She told Khan that she wanted to step away from wrestling, and Khan said he would be granting her release.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith Tay (Melo), also a lot of inaccurate things I saw about Tay, and to be honest, in this case, there was smoke to the fire but people were reporting the fire in the wrong place, so what does that really accomplish? And with Tay, Tay had said she wanted to step away from wrestling. She has said, \u2018I love AEW and I love the people here but I wanted to step away from AEW and step away from wrestling,\u2019 and that\u2019s what she told me. That wasn\u2019t in 2025. That was weeks ago at Collision after she wrestled against the Divine Dominion, and she came to me after the match, and said, \u2018I would like a release,\u2019 and I was taken aback, and we had a very nice talk. It\u2019s far to the contrary of what I\u2019ve seen reported about this being last year or that it\u2019s been an ongoing thing, and I heard from Tay this week and she said she\u2019s not putting those reports out and it really bothered her, and we haven\u2019t had an unpleasant conversation ever. I\u2019ve always had a very good relationship with Tay, and she has asked about stepping away recently. It hasn\u2019t been a long thing and also, I haven\u2019t kept her here. Since that talk, I haven\u2019t brought her back, booked her, and I am gonna give Tay that release.\u201d<\/p>\n
Melo first began appearing for AEW in 2020 after her release from WWE.<\/p>\n
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