Andrade opened up about what happened backstage before his WWE release in September 2025 and revealed the company wanted to send him to AAA at the time. He said he didn’t like the idea and that it, along with not feeling comfortable after his divorce from Charlotte Flair, ended up leading to his release.
Andrade talked about the situation on Chris Jericho’s Talk Is Jericho podcast. He said he went back to WWE to work with Charlotte, but following the divorce, he didn’t feel at home anymore. Andrade was critical of the storyline creative gave him, which had no clear direction.
“I had my divorce (from Charlotte Flair),” Andrade said. “I went back to WWE to work with my ex-wife, and now that I’m divorced, I felt a little weird. I wasn’t feeling at home or comfy. The story they gave, it wasn’t a good or specific story or direction. Later, they wanted to send me to AAA. ‘It’s a good opportunity.’ I moved here to work with WWE. I know AAA and respect AAA, but WWE is worldwide; AAA is just in Mexico. People in Mexico know me.”
“I wanted people to know me around the world, like in Australia, Arabia, Europe, and other countries where WWE is,” Andrade added. “I made my name in Mexico; why go back to Mexico? I wanted to work in WWE with the top guys. I didn’t feel good. We were talking; I didn’t feel comfortable, and they gave me my release.”
Back then, Dave Meltzer wrote in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that WWE wanted Andrade to be part of the AAA project, which Andrade has now confirmed. But Meltzer noted that it was a disciplinary issue that led to his release.
Andrade left WWE on September 13, 2025, about 11 months after the divorce was finalized, and returned to AEW less than a month later.