Over the last few years a number of wrestlers have taken their respective careers to the next level by winning the AEW World Championship. Swerve Strickland happens to be one of them, but Swerve hasn’t wrestled since he was defeated by Kenny Omega on the 3/25 episode of Dynamite.
Earlier this week Swerve posted a tweet questioning why he hasn’t been on TV, then quickly deleted it. Now the former AEW World Champion has taken to social media to claim that management is keeping him off TV, and he’s banned from Dynamite.
“I’m just gonna get some things off my chest and address some things I said on Twitter earlier this week, about asking questions about me being on television. As you can see everybody, I’m not at AEW right now. I’m not at AEW Dynamite tonight in Asheville, North Carolina, I’m here at home, because of AEW management.
They want to keep me away from TV. I’ve been shooting the last couple promos you’ve seen off site. I haven’t been on AEW TV. AEW management is responsible for that. Shout out Tony Khan, thank you for having me do some ambassador work for WBD, thank you for sending me to the NFL Draft. I appreciate that, but you’re keeping me away from doing my job, and that’s getting into the ring and hurting people.
The longer I’m away from the ring, the longer I’m away from championship gold, and you are keeping me away from doing what I do best, and that’s hurting people. That’s why they’re banning me from AEW Dynamite, because they’re afraid of what I’m going to do to Bandido. They’re afraid of what I’m going to do to the staff and the locker room of All Elite. Going all the way back to what I did to Kenny Omega earlier this year, I’m a danger to AEW Dynamite, and now AEW is keeping me away until further notice. They’re going to play games with my career? Bet. Like I said, I want power and I want it all.”
Why @Aew is keeping me from doing my job pic.twitter.com/e5oQ9IrMNT
— Swerve Strickland (@swerveconfident) May 13, 2026