Published: May 17, 2026 by Liam | Last Updated: May 20, 2026 by Liam
Liam has been reporting & analyzing wrestling news for over eight years, and is currently the Managing Editor at WrestleTalk.com. Immersed in wrestling for 18 years, he has over 11,000 published articles in addition to leading and overseeing WrestleTalk.com's coverage.
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Tiffany Stratton has responded to rumors that Giovanni Vinci flirting with her led to him being fired by WWE.
When Giovanni Vinci was released by WWE last year, unfounded rumors picked up on social media that he had flirted with or otherwise been involved with Tiffany Stratton – who was dating Ludwig Kaiser at the time – which supposedly led to Vinci’s removal from Imperium and subsequent release a few months later.
The rumors really came from nowhere and certainly not anywhere reputable but somehow picked up and became thought of as true by a lot of people.
On her Twitch live stream today, Stratton was responding to internet rumors about her, one of which was:
“A former WWE wrestler was let go for flirting with me.”
She responded:
“You guys… that might be the craziest one I have ever heard. That did not happen. That is not true. There is no truth to that.
“I hope he’s doing amazing. I heard he just signed with TNA, and I think he’s gonna kill it.
“So, absolutely no truth to that. That’s a complete false accusation.”
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Vinci did make his TNA debut appearance on this past Thursday’s episode of Impact under his real name Fabian Aichner, which he had also used in WWE and NXT for a number of years.
He appeared on the stage at the end of the show to confront new X-Division Champion Cedric Alexander, who had just defeated Leon Slater to win the title.
Stratton is no longer dating Ludwig Kaiser as noted earlier in this article – she is now dating NXT’s Shido Ash (Shady Elnahas) while Kaiser is dating AAA interviewer Andrea Bazarte.
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