PWInsider.com is reporting that AEW has hired Adam Hopkins, the former WWE Vice President of Communications. He has already started his new job and was backstage at Dynamite last week.
Hopkins departed WWE in January of this year and the reasons behind his departure remain unknown. He had worked for WWE for 25 years, starting in 1997 as a Fan Services Coordinator and then moving to Public Relations Coordinator in 2000. In 2004, he was promoted to Manager of Media Relations and three years later he rose up in ranks as Senior Manager of Public Relations and Corporate Communications. In 2012, Hopkins was appointed Director of Communications and then Senior Director of Public Relations and Corporate Communications in 2019. In February of last year he was promoted to Vice President of Communications, a position he held until his departure.
Hopkins was very well-liked among the wrestling press and helped facilitate many interviews along the way.