{"id":415960,"date":"2026-01-19T01:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T01:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/415960\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T01:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T01:44:08","slug":"trey-miguel-released-from-aew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/415960\/","title":{"rendered":"Trey Miguel released from AEW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In a bit of unexpected news, Trey Miguel has been released from AEW.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The story moved fast. Earlier on Sunday (Jan. 18, 2026), Miguel posted an announcement on Instagram that he is taking a break from professional wrestling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Taking a break from wrestling. Please respect my space and don\u2019t tag me in any posts or comments. Go support the Rascalz still\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Miguel\u2019s post comes a few days after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cagesideseats.com\/aew\/410825\/aew-reportedly-outbid-tna-for-the-rascalz-and-theyre-debuting-soon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AEW revealed<\/a> that they signed the Rascalz crew, which also includes Zachary Wentz, Dezmond Xavier, and Myron Reed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A while later on Sunday, Fightful reports confirmation that AEW released Miguel from his contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Miguel was noticeably absent from the Rascalz on-screen debut for Collision, which was filmed on Wednesday (Jan. 14, 2026) at the Dynamite session. Wentz, Dez, and Reed were shown emerging from a smoked out locker room with a message that they will take on the best tag teams and the best trios that AEW has to offer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Miguel wrestled in TNA for over seven years. He won the X-Division Championship twice and the TNA tag titles once with Wentz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Share your thoughts on Trey Miguel taking a break from wrestling and his release from AEW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a bit of unexpected news, Trey Miguel has been released from AEW. The story moved fast. Earlier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5894,88,94182],"class_list":["post-415960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-aew","tag-entertainment","tag-tna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}