Tay Melo has been removed from the AEW roster page. The change follows Tony Khan’s comments on the July 23 AEW Redemption media call. Khan said Melo came to him after the June 6 episode of Collision, where she and Anna Jay lost to Divine Dominion, and told him, “I would like a release.” He said the request caught him off guard, that he has not booked her since, and that he would grant it.
Khan also pushed back on a Wrestling Observer report that Melo asked to leave in 2025 and was denied. By his account, the request came only weeks before the media call, and he said Melo told him she was not the source of those reports.
Melo has not wrestled for AEW since that June 6 match. In September, a fan noticed she had removed “wrestler” from her Instagram bio and assumed she had retired. Melo replied on X that she had not.
Her exit would end the TayJay tag team. Khan said on the same call that Anna Jay had signed a contract extension and that there was no change to the status of Melo’s husband, Sammy Guevara. Melo joined AEW in 2020 after her WWE release.
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