In October 2023, AEW President Tony Khan introduced that he had a particular shock for Sting forward of The Icon’s pending retirement at Revolution 2024, with the shock turning out to be none aside from “The Nature Boy” Ric Aptitude. As a consequence of their prolonged historical past, Aptitude promised to be by Sting’s facet on his highway to retirement, which he did, as he appeared on plenty of episodes of AEW tv, and was current for Sting’s ultimate match at Revolution. Nonetheless, after taking a superkick from The Younger Bucks, he hasn’t been seen since, main some to marvel the place Aptitude is.
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Based on Fightful Choose, evidently Aptitude’s days in AEW are over. Per Sean Ross Sapp, Aptitude hasn’t been seen at any AEW occasions since Revolution and is not being factored into any inventive plans for the long run, having not been introduced up in dialog for a while. When it was introduced that Aptitude had signed a multi-year take care of AEW, a part of the deal was for his vitality drink, Woooo! Vitality, to be featured closely on AEW programming because the official vitality drink of the corporate. With Aptitude seemingly not in AEW, that partnership has successfully completed, with the deal mainly paying for the appearances Aptitude made there.
Aptitude’s signing was met with a number of backlash from followers on social media resulting from particulars of his checkered previous coming to the forefront lately. Essentially the most notable being the episode of Vice TV’s “Darkish Facet of the Ring” that targeted on the notorious “Aircraft Journey from Hell,” by which the flight attendant interviewed for the present described Aptitude being sexually aggressive towards her, in addition to exposing himself to her and everybody else on the airplane.
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