All Elite Wrestling accuses Ryan Nemeth of misrepresentation and deceptive conduct

All Elite Wrestling and Ryan Nemeth have been in a legal dispute for over a year. The wrestler sued Tony Khan's company in February 2025 for allegedly deliberately ignoring the harassment he suffered from CM Punk (whom he also sued) during his time in the company, as well as for breach of contract, breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing. The resolution of the conflict seemed destined to remain private. However, Nemeth doesn't seem to be making things easy.

According to a recent report by John Pollock of POST Wrestling, on June 5, AEW filed a petition with the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida to compel Nemeth to resolve the matter through arbitration at a JAMS administrative office located as close as possible to Duval County, Florida, and under the laws of that state.

This move comes after the company alleged that Nemeth misrepresented the situation by voluntarily withdrawing the lawsuit he filed in February 2025, after agreeing to resolve the conflict through private arbitration. As part of their efforts to move the dispute to arbitration, AEW subsequently withdrew their own petition filed with the federal court in Florida.

It is worth noting that JAMS is the private dispute resolution company designated in AEW's contracts to handle legal disputes. The franchise has 29 offices worldwide and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

AEW argues that Nemeth later filed for arbitration through a JAMS office in Orange County, California, also adding what the company described as "a series of baseless claims under the California Labor Code." AEW argues that these claims are not applicable because Nemeth was not an employee, but rather worked as an independent contractor.

The company also referenced the arbitrator selection process, noting that both parties received a list of ten potential arbitrators. Of those ten candidates, six were in California, three in Florida, and one in New York. AEW argues that this distribution actually favors Nemeth, given the higher number of available arbitrators in California.

In a separate filing on Tuesday, AEW and Tony Khan requested that the confidential information contained in Nemeth's independent contractor contracts for the period 2021-2023 be sealed and excluded from public access. The filing argues that such contracts contain "sensitive, confidential and proprietary information belonging to the applicants, including, among other things, information related to their business practices, internal economic structures, compensation agreements, and intellectual property."

Almost a year and a half after the start of this legal battle, it seems clear that it will not be resolved quickly. Based on what has been seen so far, and considering the slow pace of justice, it does not seem likely that the company and the wrestler will reach a satisfactory agreement on the resolution of their conflict. At least, not in the short term.