Nick LoPiccolo says AEW did not just want him to back off—they allegedly wanted him to stop mentioning Tony Khan and the company altogether.
LoPiccolo released another lengthy statement on July 18, 2026, nearly one year after the social-media fight he says began during WWE Evolution weekend in Atlanta.
The Hollywood agent has spent the past year hammering Khan and AEW online, but he now claims there was a point when he agreed to end the entire thing. According to LoPiccolo, people connected to AEW and the larger Khan organization contacted his former agency, Paradigm, and asked for his silence.
LoPiccolo said the message also came through Bernie Cahill, whom he identified as someone involved in Khan’s management representation.
“Beyond that, afterward, when things calmed down, I was asked by people on the AEW organizational side and above that, on the Shad Khan organizational side. The same thing was communicated from Bernie Cahill to people at Paradigm: ‘Can you please just have Nick never mention Tony Khan or AEW on social media ever again?’”
LoPiccolo claimed he accepted the request because he had not been trying to launch an organized campaign against AEW in the first place.
“I agreed to it. Fine. I wasn’t doing anything intentional in that manner or in that way.”
That could have ended the war. LoPiccolo says it did not. According to him, Paradigm continued receiving calls months after he agreed to stop discussing Khan and AEW. He claimed people connected to the situation kept stirring things up even after he had backed away.
“But then the calls kept happening. As soon as I agreed to that, two or three months later, it would happen again where they would call Paradigm or stir something else up.”
LoPiccolo also accused people on the other side of using fake accounts and manufactured social-media activity to attack his reputation. He went as far as claiming money was spent to target him, although he did not present direct evidence of those payments in the statement.
“There was also still fake, artificial astroturfing going on through social media. There was money paid for it to be about me.”
He said those attacks went far beyond wrestling arguments or fans taking sides in the WWE-AEW rivalry. LoPiccolo claimed people accused him of domestic violence, drug use and abandoning his children. He argued that strangers online would have no legitimate way of knowing anything about those parts of his private life.
“I’ve been called crazy. I’ve been called a wife-beater. I’ve been accused of being on coke all the time and of not seeing my children. All these crazy things that none of you would know. None of you would know any of it.”
The statement adds more context to LoPiccolo’s recent anniversary warning. On July 12, he revisited the July 13, 2025 photo of his daughter attending WWE Evolution. He claimed that post was attacked with false arrest records, tags directed at child protective services and comments questioning whether he deserved to be a father. LoPiccolo said the fight stopped being about wrestling once people allegedly targeted his family and money.
“None of this is fandom. I barely watch clips of RAW. I could care less about AEW. They fucked with my family and my money. Everything after is just me being as petty as I warned you I am.”
He then told the other side that he had something planned for the anniversary but offered them a chance to end the feud. LoPiccolo followed that with an even stronger warning.
“I’ve got something up my sleeve for the one-year anniversary. Or maybe tap out and I’ll chill.”
“I would kindly, gently suggest tapping out. Otherwise, tomorrow will be a chalk outline like nothing you’ve seen from me in the last 364 days.”
His July 18 statement appears to be part of that promised escalation. Rather than dropping one new accusation, LoPiccolo laid out a timeline in which he says AEW became angry over his client announcements, people connected to Khan gathered information about him, his family was dragged into the fight and Paradigm was eventually asked to make him stop talking.
These remain LoPiccolo’s allegations. Tony Khan, AEW, Shad Khan and Bernie Cahill have not publicly responded to the claims in his latest statement.
LoPiccolo says he accepted AEW’s alleged demand and tried to walk away. His accusation is that the other side refused to leave him alone after getting exactly what it wanted. That is the part of the story he is now using to justify everything that followed.
Do you believe LoPiccolo’s claim that AEW asked him to stop mentioning Tony Khan, or do you think more evidence needs to come out? Share your thoughts and leave your feedback in the comments.
