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Report: AEW’s merchandise design team has been laid off

Aaron Rift

The AEW merchandise design team has reportedly been laid off. Reddit user KatoMacabre shared the following information…

“In what seems to be an imminent split between AEW and ProWrestlingTees, 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.”

Coleman confirmed via Twitter/X that she is no longer an artist for AEW. She wrote, “Logging off for a little while,not goodbye just see you soon. 💜 Love you guys💜 love AEW and everyone in it.”

PWTees issued a statement regarding the matter…

“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.

-Ryan Barkan (Owner PWTees)”

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