Tommaso Ciampa was moved to the alumni section on the WWE roster page on January 27, indicating his departure from the company. On January 21, Ciampa confirmed that his WWE contract was set to expire and that he would be leaving the company. He had been with WWE since 2015, winning the NXT Title, NXT Tag Team Titles, and WWE Tag Team Titles. When I looked at the landscape of professional wrestling in the 2020s… the answer was AEW, man. That’s what I want to be a part of.”Ciampa is set to challenge Mark Briscoe for the AEW TNT Championship on Saturday’s Collision.