Update on Tay Melo Asking for Her Release

Does Tay Melo want out of pro wrestling, or just out of AEW? It depends whom you ask, and who’s interpreting.

According to Tony Khan, she asked for her release from the company after her match at Collision, and told him she wanted to step away from wrestling. Khan said he granted he her the release.

Some, however, have a different read on things, after Melo made an Instagram post about a tree she had that didn’t thrive in its pot. Only when it was planted in the ground did it grow up big and strong. That could be read as just a general metaphor for a change of situation; Melo does have a toddler to take care of, and might feel she wants to be a stay-at-home mom. That’s one interpretation.

At the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer takes a different read of the situation. Noting the careful, cryptic wording of the story, he says she “gave the impression she wants to wrestle somewhere else and had been frustrated she wasn’t getting enough chances to wrestle. She didn’t say that, she used words that would lead you to believe that.”

Khan says everything has been blown out of proportion, and Melo has told him she’s not putting that story out there. But he doesn’t say she denied it’s true. We’ll find out soon enough if she surfaces somewhere else.