Austin Creed Opens Up About Freedom Of Creative Expression In AEW: “More Space To Be Allowed To Fail”

Austin Creed opens up about the creative freedom.

The New Level (Austin Creed & Kofi) arrived at All Elite Wrestling at the 2026 installment of All In. They were revealed as Swerve Strickland’s partners in the Trios Roulette Royale for the AEW World Trios Championship. They went on to capture the belts.

As Creed was speaking to Fightful’s Phid McAwesome at PAX Australia, he opened up about the freedom that one has in AEW to express themselves creatively. He stated that there’s room to fail.

“Yeah, I would say so. I would say so.” Creed continued to speak about the creative freedom in AEW, “There’s definitely more space for that. More space to be allowed to fail is how I would say it, and that’s what I thrive on is the opportunity to fail. Let me go out and try something. I don’t want it to fail, but that adrenaline rush that I get is because I’m going out on national television. I’m going out in front of a crowd of 20,000 people and I’m trying something that I don’t know if it’s going to work or not, and then it’s successful and I go, cool, I am good at my job. Or it doesn’t work and I go, ‘Ah! Okay, well, what can I change next time so that this does work?’ Getting the chance to have that process is what I really enjoy about anything creative but specifically about wrestling, because that’s fulfillment for me. Getting the chance to try, not knowing if you’re gonna be successful.”

The New Level had four successful defenses of the AEW World Trios Titles.