AEW CEO Tony Khan commented on Miro’s departure from the company and subsequent return to WWE during a recent appearance on The Ariel Helwani Show. Miro, formerly a TNT Champion in AEW and now known as Rusev in WWE, had been inactive in the company for well over a year before being released and reappearing in WWE.

Khan confirmed that the separation was a result of conflicting creative plans. “Miro is a great wrestler. He was great in AEW. He was a TNT Champion. I think he and I just had, at times, different visions of things, but that’s okay because everyone’s entitled to different opinions and different ideas,” Khan explained. “Really, that’s what this all is. It’s different ideas. We just kind of drifted into some different ideas of what we thought we should be doing, and that’s okay.”

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