There is no definitive word on Keith Lee’s status, but the belief within wrestling is that he may have already had his last match. Bryan Alvarez discussed Lee on Wrestling Observer Live after news broke that Lee and Mia Yim are divorced.
“Everyone has been asking what’s going on with Keith Lee. Is he ever coming back to AEW, and are we ever going to get that match with Swerve [Strickland]? Well, all I can tell you is that, you know, this has been discussed within the business, obviously with this news coming out as well. There’s been a lot of talk about Keith Lee over the last couple of days.”
“I’m not saying this 100 percent, okay? I’m not saying this 100 percent because I don’t know. But, from talking to people, the belief within the business is that Keith Lee is done.”
Lee, 41, is still under contract with AEW but has not wrestled since December 2023, when injury forced him out. He said in summer 2025 that his health had been good for a while. He has not posted on social media since September 2025, the same month he tweeted that he would certainly return to the ring without saying how or when.
Yim posted that she and Lee remain friends. Fightful Select reported in June that AEW had discussed a Lee return a number of months earlier, but that he had not been backstage at AEW shows and it was not known whether he was aware of the idea.
