Ryan Nemeth Calls AEW Countersuit 'Pathetic Attempt To Humiliate & Intimidate'

Ryan Nemeth has spoken on AEW’s countersuit against him, after Nemeth originally filed to sue on grounds of assault and breach of contract.

Nemeth originally filed suit against AEW, Tony Khan, and CM Punk in February 2025, but Nemeth recently Tweeted he was being sued by ‘a literal billionaire’, with before posting the following on his Substack and detailing his side of the affair:



“[…] The night of our second, and final, performance, I was approached by a man in the theatre lobby just outside the restrooms. He said he was there to serve me legal papers (“Hey, sorry, you’re gettin’ sued”), and apologised for doing it at this inopportune time. He was giving me a legal notice that my former employer was suing me to move our legal dispute to arbitration, i.e., to keep everything private.”

Nemeth would continue:



“After we wrapped, I took a moment alone and thought of the lawsuit and the manner in which it was delivered to me. For those of you with the knee-jerk reaction of “That’s how it works, idiot! He doesn’t get to choose when they serve you!” I’ll say this: my former employer, a billionaire, definitely had a choice. He could have very easily sent the notice to my attorney; he has his contact info. (I mean, my attorney’s contact information is printed quite clearly on the paperwork that I was served, so there goes that excuse.) He could have had it sent to my attorney on Monday morning, or any morning, for that matter. So, yeah, my first thought was also, “Well, this wasn’t intentional.” But, it kinda was. The billionaire in question definitely has my attorney’s information, as does his legal team and any independent counsel he’s gotten involved in this. These are aggressive tactics that I believe are designed to intimidate me and to stop me from speaking up about how I was treated.

“I thought of the respectful, professional heads up we gave him. I thought of the two years of respectful, professional consideration and patience I gave him, trying to resolve this all without resorting to anybody suing anybody. He could have also done this in a professional, respectful manner. Instead he and his lawyers chose to send someone to Astoria, Queens, NYC, on a Saturday night, to find me in the lobby of small 150-seat theatre, in front of family, friends, and theatre goers, mere minutes before I stepped onstage, in a pathetic attempt to humiliate and intimidate me.

“So, I’d like to give him the benefit of the doubt, but at this point it’s kinda hard to. I tried giving him the benefit of the doubt for the last two years, actually. At some point the one man who single-handedly runs the entire company can’t just claim plausible deniability at every turn, on every issue that seems remotely negative. I mean, do you run your company, or not?

“I don’t know what it’s like to be a billionaire; I never will. I don’t know what it’s like to be a high-powered lawyer. But I do know that there are more humane and professional ways to approach this.”



AEW filed to move the case due to an arbitration clause in Nemeth's contract which stipulates any disputes are to be resolved in Duval County, Florida. AEW filed another motion on March 20, arguing Nemeth's talent contracts should be kept under seal as "irreparable harm" would be caused to the promotion if the contracts were accessible to AEW's competitors. Elsewhere in his Substack post, Nemeth would allege that AEW offered him a new contract in February to avoid legal action

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