Tommaso Ciampa’s contract with WWE expired this past January and made his official surprise debut for AEW at the January 28th AEW Dynamite show in Cedar Park, Texas.
Tommaso Ciampa was the latest guest on the AEW Up Close with Renee Paquette. They discussed a number of topics and One of the topics discussed included Ciampa’s thoughts about how he and his wife kept his contract end date a secret to the point that not even his former tag team partner Johnny Gargano knew the exact date when he would be leaving WWE.
“We [Ciampa and his wife] knew my contract end date. I was very very private about that. No one knew that date. I don’t even know that my tag partner at the time [Johnny Gargano] knew the specific date. I just didn’t tell anyone. ‘Okay, contract ends midnight the 26th.’ I already had the plan of what I wanted the next evolution to be and the presentation to be. Whether or not AEW was going to be the place to do was kind of wishful thinking.” h/t: Fightful.com
