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Former AEW Tag Team Champion’s contract reportedly may expire soon

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The contract of Big Bill may be expiring soon, according to one media outlet.

Fightful Select reported Wednesday that in April, there was the belief Bill’s contract was coming up at the end of May or the start of June. There was no news on contract negotiations or the chances of his returning.

The former AEW World Tag Team Champion hasn’t been in the promotion since an eight-man February parking lot street fight on Collision — one of just two AEW matches he’s had this calendar year.

He and Bryan Keith have appeared in Ring of Honor six times in 2026, last appearing at the brand’s Jacksonville, Florida, TV taping. He and Keith defeated Nick Halen and Vin Parker in a match that aired on April 6.

The 38-year-old first debuted in AEW in May 2022 (then W. Morrissey) in a loss to Wardlow. He returned later that year after signing a contract and aligning with Stokely Hathaway’s former faction, The Firm. He and Ricky Starks won the AEW World Tag Team titles in October 2023, holding them for 123 days.

He and AEW/ROH backstage interviewer Lexy Nair are married.

Longtime AEW wrestler’s contract believed to expire soon

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A new report from Fightful Select has the contract of longtime AEW women’s wrestler Anna Jay possibly expiring soon.

The outlet stated Thursday that her deal is believed to be up in “the next few months.” While there is no news on whether they have been negotiating, it’s also believed AEW would like to keep her.

Jay and TayJay teammate Tay Melo were eliminated from the AEW Women’s World Tag Team title tournament on Wednesday’s Dynamite. Jay has yet to hold a championship in either AEW or ROH.

The 27-year-old debuted in April 2020 as part of the Nightmare Factory pandemic era tapings in Norcross, Georgia. Since then, she’s wrestled nearly 130 times in AEW and five times in Ring of Honor. She also spent a month in Japan in August 2024 working in Stardom that was seen as a big benefit to her in-ring career.

As part of an outpouring of social media support following her team’s loss Wednesday, Jay sent a single tweet on Thursday afternoon:

AEW tag team reportedly signs long-term contracts

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The Gates of Agony will be sticking around AEW for years to come.

A new report out by Fightful on Thursday confirmed that Bishop Kaun and Toa Liona have both signed long-term, multi-year contracts with AEW — a day after the duo individually posted a picture of them with Tony Khan on X, retweeted by their agent Steve Kay of Paragon.

The two are currently aligned with Ricochet.

The 35-year-old Kaun made his AEW debut in December 2021 on AEW Dark: Elevation, eventually getting paired with the 34-year-old Liona who debuted in October 2021, also on Dark: Elevation.

The two debuted as a team in April 2022 at ROH Supercard of Honor and were put into a program with then-ROH Tag Team Champions FTR which culminated with a title match at AEW Battle of the Belts IV.

They were members of The Mogul Embassy, winning the ROH Six-Man Tag Team Titles twice. Their first run with Brian Cage lasted 284 days from December 2022 through September 2023 before they lost to The Elite. They eventually regained the titles from the Young Bucks & Hangman Page in November 2023, holding them for 77 days before dropping them to the Bang Bang Gang (Jay White & The Gunns).

Kaun is a three-time ROH Six-Man Tag Team Champion as he held the titles with Shane Taylor & Moses in 2021 before Tony Khan owned the company.

They have yet to hold the AEW or ROH Tag Team titles.

Private Party’s AEW contracts expiring soon

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Former AEW World Tag Team Champions Private Party may be taking their VIP velvet ropes elsewhere in the immediate future.

First reported by Dave Meltzer in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter, the AEW contracts of Marq Quen and Isiah Kassidy are “up very soon.” No other details were given like if AEW is interested in keeping them.

Since losing the titles to The Hurt Syndicate in under ten minutes on a late-January 2025 edition of Dynamite, they haven’t been seen or heard from on either AEW or ROH TV. After winning the titles from the Young Bucks on the Fright Night Dynamite last October, the title loss to Bobby Lashley & Shelton Benjamin ended an lackluster first championship run that resulted in just two successful title defenses.

The duo did appear for House of Glory in mid-March, but that’s been their only action since that title loss.

Quen and Kassidy are AEW originals, appearing on the company’s first-ever Fyter Fest, first-ever All Out, first-ever Dark, and the second-ever Dynamite where they upset the Bucks in the inaugural Tag Team title tournament.

If they do depart, they will join other talents whose contracts have or will expire soon like Mariah May, Abadon, Danhausen, Bear Bronson, Leyla Hirsch and Zak Knight.