Tay Melo Removed From AEW Roster Page Months After Release Request
Summary: Tay Melo no longer appears on AEW's official roster page as of Wednesday, Nov. 11, per F4W Online. AEW President Tony Khan said in July that he would grant her release request. AEW has not announced a release.
The quick version
- Tay Melo is no longer listed on AEW's roster page at AllEliteWrestling.com as of Nov. 11, per F4W Online. A copy of the page we pulled on Nov. 11 showed no entry for her.
- Khan said on July 23, per WrestlingHeadlines, that Melo asked for her release after a June 6 Collision match and that he would grant it.
- AEW has not announced a release or commented on the page change in anything we read.
Tay Melo has been taken off AEW's official roster page at AllEliteWrestling.com, F4W Online (Ian Carey) reported on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2026. AEW has not announced that she has been released, and we found no statement from AEW or from Melo about the change. A copy of the roster page we pulled on Nov. 11 showed no entry for her.
How it was noticed
F4W says users on social media first pointed out that Melo was missing from the page. In a post F4W embedded, the account AIRGold_ wrote that she was "officially a free agent" and had "been granted her release." That is the account's reading. A roster page change is not an announcement, and AEW has not made one that we found.
What Khan said in July
WrestlingHeadlines and Cultaholic both point to Tony Khan's remarks on a media call before AEW Redemption. WrestlingHeadlines dates the call July 23. Khan said Melo came to him after her match on the June 6 Collision and asked for a release. He said: "Since that talk, I haven't brought her back, booked her, and I am going to give Tay that release." F4W says Khan confirmed the reports in July and said he planned to grant it.
Her AEW run
F4W says Melo has not wrestled for AEW since the June 6 Collision in Youngstown, Ohio. She and Anna Jay lost a tag match there to Divine Dominion's Lena Kross and Megan Bayne. Cultaholic says Melo debuted in AEW in August 2020 and wrestled 17 matches after she returned to AEW TV in June 2025.
What is not known
Melo has not said where she goes next. Cultaholic says she posted in September 2026 that she has not retired. F4W says she took part in several World Series Wrestling events in Australia recently, without wrestling, and wrote on X that the Sydney show reminded her why she loves wrestling. Whether any contract time remains, and whether AEW will make an announcement, was not reported in anything we read.
Taya Valkyrie announced her own AEW exit a week ago. See our story on Valkyrie.
Source: F4W Online's report and Cultaholic's report, both read in full. WrestlingHeadlines was read in part (the page text returned was cut short) and also as a search excerpt, for Khan's July remarks. Gerweck.net and Still Realtous were read as search excerpts only. We pulled a copy of AEW's roster page on Nov. 11 and found no Melo entry; we did not check it against the live page in a browser. We did not open the AIRGold_ post on X. We did not contact AEW or Melo. Nothing in this story is a rumor: the page change is observable and Khan's remarks are on the record. The release itself is not confirmed by AEW.
Sources
- F4W Online (Ian Carey), "Update on Tay Melo's AEW status following release request", Nov. 11, 2026, 05:37, no time zone given (the roster page change, her last match, the Australia shows, the AIRGold_ post). https://www.f4wonline.com/news/aew/tay-melo-aew-status-release-request/
- WrestlingHeadlines (Matt Boone), "Six-Year AEW Veteran Parts Ways With The Company, Removed From Website", Nov. 11, 2026 (the July 23 media call and Khan's quote). It reports the release as done; we do not, because AEW has not said so. https://wrestlingheadlines.com/six-year-aew-veteran-parts-ways-with-the-company-removed-from-website/
- Cultaholic (Aidan Gibbons), "Tay Melo Removed From AEW Roster Page", Nov. 11, 2026 (her AEW debut, match count, the September post that she has not retired). https://cultaholic.com/posts/tay-melo-removed-from-aew-roster-page
- Gerweck.net (Steve Gerweck), "Talent removed from the AEW roster page", Nov. 11, 2026 (corroborates the page change, excerpt only). https://gerweck.net/2026/11/11/talent-removed-from-the-aew-roster-page/
- Still Realtous (Josh Foster), "AEW Wrestler Released From The Company", Nov. 11, 2026 (corroborates the page change, excerpt only). https://stillrealtous.com/aew-wrestler-released-from-the-company/
- All Elite Wrestling, official roster page, copy pulled Nov. 11, 2026. https://www.allelitewrestling.com/aew-roster
- WrestlingNews.com, "Taya Valkyrie Leaves AEW After Turning Down Contract Extension", Nov. 5, 2026. https://wrestlingnews.com/story/taya-valkyrie-leaves-aew/
- WrestlingNews.com staff reporting: read F4W Online and Cultaholic in full, read WrestlingHeadlines in part, read a copy of AEW's roster page, and checked the names against our earlier stories. We did not watch any AEW show for this story.
How we credit sources: Editorial standards.