WWE: Tommaso Ciampa on His Decision To Leave WWE, WWE 2K26 Reportedly Not Planned To Be Released on PS4 & Xbox One, Logan Paul on Him Being “A Legitimate Professional Athlete Now, Life Is About The Art Of The Pivot”

Jan 30, 2026

Tommaso Ciampa on His Decision To Leave WWE

As noted before, Tommaso Ciampa’s contract with WWE expired earlier this week. Ciampa made his official surprise debut for AEW at this past Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show in Cedar Park, Texas and had signed an official contract with the company.

Sports Illustrated’s The Takedown on SI held a recent interview with Ciampa. One of the topics discussed included Ciampa’s thoughts about his decision to leave WWE and how he had been leaning towards that decision for quite some time.

“It’s something I’ve been leaning towards for quite some time. I don’t know that I can say there’s one sole factor that led to it or caused it. I think it’s one of those things when your contract is coming to an end, you naturally have discussions.
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. 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.”

WWE 2K26 Reportedly Not Planned To Be Released on PS4 & Xbox One

As noted before, WWE and 2K Games’ upcoming WWE 2K26 video game is currently expected to be released on March 13th for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC. The status of the game for last gen consoles was not known at the time.

Insider Gaming’s Mike Straw reported that WWE 2K26 is currently not expected to also be released on PS4 and Xbox One.

Straw reported that the ESRB ratings page for the game does not list the PS4 and Xbox One as being among the platforms for this year’s game.

This will be the first time since WWE 2K15 that a WWE 2K game will not be released on PS4 and Xbox One.

Logan Paul Comments on Him Being “A Legitimate Professional Athlete Now, Life Is About The Art Of The Pivot”

A recent episode of The Pat McAfee Show featured Logan Paul among the guests. One of the topics discussed included Paul’s thoughts about if he ever thought he would be a full-time professional athlete in wrestling when him and his brother Jake Paul were starting to blow up in popularity on social media.

“Hell no, Pat. This is crazy. I’m a legitimate professional athlete now, which is just insane to say but life about the art of the pivot. Doing what you’re good at, doing what you love and finding that pocket and running it.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com