It didn’t take long for Tommaso Ciampa to find his new home after his departure from WWE! Ciampa made his presence felt on a the January 28th edition of AEW Dynamite, confirming he is All Elite! So how did AEW land Tommaso Ciampa?

After his shocking appearance on AEW Dynamite, Tommaso Ciampa spoke to SI.com, explaining why he decided to make the switch over from WWE to AEW:

“It’s something I’ve been leaning towards for quite some time. If I wrestled in the 90s, I’d wanna be a part of ECW. Early 2000s, you wanna be a part of Ring of Honor. I was lucky I got to do that a little bit. 2010s, I think for me at least, I wanted to be part of NXT Black and Gold. And when I looked at the landscape of professional wrestling in the 2020s, the answer was AEW, man. That’s what I want to be a part of.”

“For a long time, I had to listen to people tell me, not so much directly to my face but more so online, that 2018 was prime Ciampa. I’m a hundred times better now than I was then. That was nothing. That was absolutely nothing. I’m physically better. I’m mentally sharper. My storytelling, my psychology is on a whole different levelthan it was back then… what people are about to see is going to blow their minds. It’s gonna shock the world, because I finally have a shot to find out if I’m as good as I think I am.”