Nick LoPiccolo’s Twitter Locked After Exposing Tony Khan and AEW

Nick LoPiccolo’s war of words with AEW just took another twist—and this time, it comes with a platform penalty.

Hours after LoPiccolo unleashed a brutal thread aimed at AEW and Tony Khan, alleging defamation campaigns, coordinated media manipulation, and targeted harassment over a span of months, he shared a screenshot on Instagram showing that his account on X/Twitter had been temporarily locked for allegedly violating the platform’s rules. The message read:

“We have determined that you have violated the X Rules, so we’ve temporarily limited some of your account features… Your account will be restored to full functionality in: 11 hours and 57 minutes.”

According to the screenshot, LoPiccolo is unable to post, like, follow, or repost during the suspension—only able to view content and send direct messages to followers. The timing raises serious questions.

LoPiccolo had just posted an extensive thread exposing what he described as a long-running effort by AEW leadership to silence or discredit him. That included claims of:

• AEW-linked bot attacks
• False rumors about his job status being seeded to reporters
• A fake arrest record being spread under his name
• His five-year-old daughter being dragged into targeted harassment
• Alleged calls from AEW leadership and their reps threatening defamation suits

And now, just hours later, his account gets locked? There’s no confirmed proof that AEW or Tony Khan had anything to do with the enforcement action. But it hasn’t stopped observers from raising eyebrows—especially given that LoPiccolo specifically referenced the role of “faceless bot networks” and hyper-online AEW partisans in his original tweets. Those bots, he claimed, were likely activated in part because he posted a smiling photo of his daughter at a WWE event—prompting waves of spam replies and circulating false arrest records tied to another man with a similar name.

By posting the lockout screenshot to Instagram—the very platform he previously claimed “everyone in Hollywood actually pays attention to”—he reinforced his original message: that Twitter/X is now little more than a battleground for tribal PR warfare.

As of this writing, AEW and Tony Khan have still not issued any public response to LoPiccolo’s original claims. Ringside News will continue to keep you updated, while other wrestling sites probably won’t because it doesn’t fit their agenda.

Will LoPiccolo’s Instagram become his new outlet? Or will this suspension only add fuel to the fire he’s already lit? Let us know what you think. Coincidence? Retaliation? Or just a glitch in the system?