An interesting name has returned to professional wrestling.
Former NXT star ACH has popped back up as ASE Wrestling has confirmed that he’ll face Leon Slater at ASE Vegas on Thursday, April 17. This is ACH's first match since July 2024. That was his only match in 2024. ACH took a break from the business in 2023. The reason that ACH is a controversial figure is due to his brief stint in WWE/NXT.
Known as Jordan Myles during that time, it seemed that the 37-year-old had a bright future in WWE. In fact, the former Myles won the Breakout Tournament that year. He lost his NXT title shot, but the promotion was consistently using Myles as an NXT regular. Then the T-shirt issue is when trouble started brewing between WWE and Jordan Myles. The latter called out the company for using a racial insensitive t-shirt design and Myles made it a big issue.
He was eventually let out of his contract later that year. He would actually apologize for his behavior the following year about the way he handled the situation.
"It wasn't even a wrestling matter. 'ACH is upset because he wasn't booked right.' This was some serious shit," ACH told Submission Squad. "I honestly wish I did things differently. I had people trying to tell me to use 'mental issues,' not as an excuse, but say it was the thing. 'You're depressed right, that's why you're out lashing out.' I was angry. I'm not gonna be like, 'Sorry, mental illness.' That's a serious issue. I'm not gonna say things like that to smooth things over. I had a meltdown in front of the entire world. I broke down in front of the entire world.
I said so much stuff and if I was to go back and take it all back...it really sticks to me. I went from working my dream job, providing for myself. I was finally at a space in my life that I worked for to where I was starting to feel comfortable. I've sacrificed a lot of pro wrestling, and I don't expect anything back, but I made a lot of sacrifices. I'm ashamed of myself. I'm embarrassed.
This is something that I'll never be able to shake. I know I embarrassed a lot of people. Most importantly, I embarrassed myself. I'm just not used to this type of negativity and attention. Waking up angry for no reason, mad at the world. Truth be told, it's all my fault. I'll take the blame for this. I could have put the phone down and deleted my Twitter app."
ACH continued to work in places like New Japan or MLW since his WWE release. He briefly retired in 2021, but that didn’t stick as he continued wrestling on the indie circuit. He’s been pretty quiet since the whole WWE incident and seems to be in a better place now. The match with Leon Slater should be good and i’ll be interesting to see where ACH goes from here.
MAJOR UPDATE: ASE WRESTLING has confirmed that ACH will no longer appear at their show.