Report: Kevin Kelly fired by AEW

Kevin Kelly is reportedly no longer part of the AEW broadcast team. PWTorch reports that Kelly has been fired by AEW. Kelly had been an announcer for AEW Collision since the show premiered in June 2023. After initially serving as Collision's lead play-by-play voice, Kelly was replaced in that role by Tony Schiavone last October. It became a three-man booth with Schiavone, Kelly, and Nigel McGuinness. On Thursday (March 7), Kelly was removed from the roster page on AEW's website. Dave Meltzer was told that the situation was "an internal matter." Kelly did not work Thursday night's AEW Collision taping. Kelly sent out a tweet last weekend claiming that he had been benched in AEW due to being "libeled" by ROH announcer Ian Riccaboni. In August of last year, Riccaboni made posts on a Discord server that mentioned Kelly promoting "QAnon movies" (referencing Kelly's public support of the movie Sound of Freedom). Riccaboni admitted that the Discord posts were made by him but said he didn't know how Discord worked.