AEW Still Working With Pro Wrestling Tees

According to Pro Wrestling Tees, the company is still working with All Elite Wrestling despite claims of an imminent split between the two parties.

A post on the r/SquaredCircle subreddit claimed that AEW's merchandise team had been laid off, with it being claimed that AEW had ended their partnership with PWTees.

The since-deleted post stated:

"The whole AEW merch design team got laid off.

"In what seems to be an imminent split between AEW and ProWrestling Tees, the whole merch design team (Jacob C. Paul, Erik Veszelka, Mel Coleman and probably a few others but I don't have confirmation) got laid off today (The team designed exclusively for AEW, and everything released on ShopAEW was designed by them, but they worked for PWTees, so them being laid off is a direct consequence of AEW ending their partnership with PWTees).

"I had the pleasure to be in the AEW merch design team and work alongside them, and they genuinely are in my opinion the best artists you can find in the pro wrestling world, and I'm very shocked, sad and a bit angry that they were just cut one day to another. Of course things might change and they might be hired by AEW themselves at some point soon, but so far it's not looking like it and I just thought that they deserved that people who might not have known put a name behind the merch you've seen in the past couple of years, and their work celebrated."

Mel Coleman, Jacob C. Paul, and Eric Veszelka have confirmed they are no longer working with All Elite Wrestling, but owner of Pro Wrestling Tees Ryan Barkan has claimed the company is still partnered with AEW.

"The person who made the reddit post circulating has no knowledge of our business. Nothing on that post is true except that we unfortunately told some of our contracted designers that we would not need them for as many AEW designs anymore. Some of the AEW designers are still contracted. Nothing has changed otherwise and we are still fulfilling merchandise for AEW," Barkan wrote.

All Elite Wrestling and Pro Wrestling Tees have worked together on AEW merch since the pro wrestling promotion was founded in 2019.