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.