Miro, Malakai Black and Ricky Starks are all free agents after they were either released or saw their AEW contracts expire.

AEW released Ricky Starks and Miro after lengthy TV absences, setting the stage for WWE to add the two stars to their loaded roster.

Recent reports confirm that AEW has released several stars, including Ricky Starks, Miro, and Malakai Black. These wrestlers have been absent from AEW for a long time. Miro has not been seen in AEW since defeating Andrade at Worlds End in December 2023.

Starks hasn't wrestled for AEW since March of last year, only wrestling five matches for the promotion in all of 2024. As Ricky revealed in an interview with ourselves last May - and more recently in a Chris Van Vliet chat - he hasn't been injured, he didn't know why he'd not been used more, and he was fit, healthy, and eager to work.

Both Miro and Ricky Starks have reportedly requested their release from AEW, and they may have just been granted their exits from the company.

Confirmation that Starks was released from his contract with the company came shortly after he was removed from the company’s website. The belief has long been that he would join mentor Cody Rhodes in WWE as soon as possible.

Miro is reportedly gone from AEW. On Monday, PWInsider reported that AEW and the former TNT Champion came to a mutual agreement on his release from the company. Miro publicly requested his release

Black's departure marks the end of a tumultuous chapter in AEW for the former NXT Champion, who signed with the company in 2021 after being released by WWE. During his AEW tenure, Black was part of some notable rivalries and even led the House of Black to success.

Ricky Starks is reportedly finished with AEW and is currently free to sign with and appear wherever he wants. PWInsider is reporting that Starks is 100% free to perform wherever he'd like because he is in fact finished with AEW.

Ricky Starks is no longer listed on the roster page on the AEW website. On Monday, Ricky Starks’ profile was removed from the AEW roster page. Starks has not appeared on AEW TV in several months. However,