Former WWE Cruiserweight champion Brian Kendrick will debut for All Elite Wrestling on Wednesday’s edition of AEW Dynamite.
Kendrick requested his release from WWE in December, as first reported by PWInsider. Over a month later, AEW’s latest match announcement shows that Kendrick is in fact gone from WWE.
Brian Kendrick is jumping right into the deep end of AEW. He’ll battle former AEW World Champion Jon Moxley when AEW returns to Chicago, IL.
Kendrick was last seen in action for WWE on the 205 Live brand in 2020. Aside from those bouts, he did work a few Saudi Arabia battle royal matches. He hasn’t wrestled on WWE Raw or Smackdown since December 2017, but did briefly appear on NXT 2.0 for a storyline with Harland that was supposed to lead to a match, but never happened.
Behind the scenes, Kendrick had been serving as a producer with the company. He has yet to publicly comment on his departure from WWE.
