Parker Boudreaux Says He’s Grateful For His Time In AEW, Talks Release

Parker Boudreaux had a run in AEW following his WWE release, and he says he’s grateful for his time there and has a great relationship with them. Boudreaux signed with AEW in August of 2022 and appeared on TV as part of The Trustbusters. He was left out of action with an injury in June of 2023, and didn’t return to TV before he was eventually let go in April of 2024.

Boudreaux told F4W Online that he was happy with his experience at AEW and learned a lot, praising the likes of Tony Khan and Swerve Strickland. He said that he could see himself returning to either AEW or WWE at some point. You can see the highlights below:

On His AEW Release Due to Injury:

“It was different, my release, because everybody in the storyline was getting hurt. Trench, the guy with the face tattoos. He got hurt, and then I got hurt with just a sprained wrist, so I was out for like two and a half weeks. And when you get hurt sometimes in some of these companies, some of the time, a lot of the people hurt are in the injury list and they’re trying to get back but the storyline’s so short. You know what I mean? There’s only a certain amount of people and whatever. So I was on the injury-prone list to get back. I was ready. I was fully ready for like seven, eight months.

“But I was in this special class where it was getting back to TV class. So I would go down to Orlando and train every week, sometimes multiple times a week in Orlando with AEW. And that’s when we would do these specific training sessions where everybody was fully healed from an injury and they’re just trying to get back in the storyline. So they’re just trying to develop their character, but also how to fit on the AEW storyline right now. So it was more of an expected release because there were more people getting released who were just trying to get back from injuries and stuff like that, which I understand.”

On Being Grateful For His Time There:

“It’s like a business, so I get it. But that was a great experience too, because I was with AEW for over two years. And like I said, traveling like that and getting used to all that and doing some really big matches, and that was really, really fun. So same thing with AEW. I think I’m in a great relationship with them, and it would be, you know, a great, great opportunity to work with WWE, AEW again. I could definitely see it, you know, working for either of those.”

On His Relationships With Swerve Strickland & Tony Khan:

“It was a locker room full of amazing talents. So, I was still super inexperienced. It was a great opportunity for me to be in the locker room with some real veterans, especially Kenny Omega, a person who really dominated Japan, who literally speaks Japanese. Just for me, it was, you know, I’ve had such great opportunities with coaches and feedback and learning from talent, learning from veterans, and I think that’s what’s helped me grow so much in the little amount of time that I’ve had so far. My locker room experience was amazing with AEW, same with WWE. Everybody treated me really well.

“Slim J was really, really cool. We were in the Trustbusters together in AEW. Obviously, Swerve Strickland was a huge mentor to me because he’s been a veteran. He’s one of the top or the top guy in AEW right now, and he’s just — what a mentor, what a great guy. He’s helped me out a lot when I was starting in AEW, finding that Parker Boudreaux BFD character. Those people really, really helped me out a lot, man. AEW is a great group of guys. Big Show, Mark Henry, Mr. Tony Khan, he treated me so well. He treated me with so much respect. Mr. Tony Schiavone, had a couple of road trips with him. What a great guy. Just everybody, a great group of guys.”