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Tay Melo appears to be done with AEW. She has been removed from the company’s roster page, months after she asked for her release.
According to Fightful, Melo was removed from AEW’s roster page on the promotion’s website earlier on Wednesday. There has been no official confirmation from Melo or AEW, but the removal strongly suggests she is no longer with the company and is free to sign elsewhere.
The news comes as no surprise. Melo asked for her release from AEW earlier this summer. AEW owner Tony Khan confirmed the request at a press scrum soon after, after Melo and Anna Jay lost an AEW Women’s Tag Team Championship match to Divine Dominion. Khan said Melo had told him she wanted to step away from wrestling, and he said he intended to grant her release.
Melo later told a fan she was not retired. The removal from the roster page now looks like the release Khan said he would grant.
Melo started her wrestling career in WWE, working in NXT as Tay Conti. She spent four years there before she was released in the wave of cuts brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. She started working with AEW that August and was officially announced as signed in September.
She never won a championship in her six years with AEW, but she was praised for how much she improved after leaving WWE. She is best known for her AEW Women’s World Championship challenge against Hikaru Shida, and for her tag team with Anna Jay, known as TayJay.
During her time in AEW, Melo met fellow wrestler Sammy Guevara. The two married in August 2022, and Melo gave birth to their daughter, Luna, in November 2023.
What is confirmed is the roster page removal and the release request from the summer. What is not confirmed is any official word from Melo or AEW, or what she does next.
Source: Fightful (via Wrestling Inc)
