Dan Lambert Explains Why He’s Disappeared From AEW

Dan Lambert explained why he’s been off of AEW TV for the past few months during an interview with Chris Van Vliet that was released today.

Lambert said that he felt that his act was “getting stale,” so he told Tony Khan, “that’s gonna do it for me,” though he said that he was open to eventually returning if Tony Khan had a “good idea” for him.

When Lambert was asked if he’s still working with AEW, he answered:

Not now. Maybe two months ago, we finished up our feud with The Men of the Year and Scorpio Sky against Wardlow, and Sky dropped the belt to Wardlow. Sky was going to take a couple of months off because he had a knee injury that needed to heal and [Ethan] Page was getting repackaged to do what he’s doing now with The Firm and the work with MJF. So I just thought that was a good time. It seemed like it was winding down. I felt like I was getting stale, even though the reactions were still good – it was still fun. But I just grabbed Tony Khan after that show and said, ‘Yeah, I think it ran its course. I don’t want to go backwards or overstay my welcome. So that’s gonna do it for me.’ He was like, ‘Oh, man, sure, whatever you want. Maybe we’ve got to come up with a good idea and you can come back in the future.’ [I said] ‘Yeah, sure, call me.’ I mean, hey, if Tony called me tomorrow and said, ‘Hey, I’ve got a good idea. Do you wanna do it?’ and it was a good idea, I’d say, ‘Sure, why not?’

Lambert last appeared on the July 6 Dynamite in the corner of Scorpio Sky when Sky lost the TNT Championship to Wardlow.