Ortiz says he has ‘about a year’ left on AEW contract
Ortiz hopes to stay with AEW for the foreseeable future.
In an interview with Wombreezy, he said that he has roughly a year left on his AEW contract but hopes to remain with the company, noting that he has also been doing backstage work.
“As of right now, I have about a year left with the company, give or take…I would love to stay there,” he said. “I love working at AEW. I’ve actually been coaching, doing producing basically, which is learning a different skill in wrestling and will give you longevity in wrestling. And it’s also selfishly making me be a better wrestler because now I’m helping people call matches and I’m analyzing it from a different lens and I’m really enjoying that.”
“It’s something I wanted to do anyways, and now I’m getting the opportunity to do it there,” he added. “So even if I stay on purely just to do coaching and producing, and I can still wrestle, for me, I’m happy, that’s the best of both worlds, I’m still getting to perform. If they keep me, I would stay, for sure.”
Ortiz hasn’t wrestled on AEW television since January of 2024, teaming with Eddie Kingston in a losing effort against Bryan Danielson and Claudio Casatagnoli on Collision. After spending most of that year away from wrestling, he resurfaced on the independent scene in March, wrestling for Beyond Wrestling and C4.
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