Nick Wayne

The Patriachy / The Matriachy (2023–2026)

On February 12, 2022, Wayne was offered an All Elite Wrestling (AEW) contract by longtime friend Darby Allin during DEFY Wrestling's 5th Anniversary event.^[1][9]

After turning 18 years old, Wayne made his debut for the promotion on the July 12, 2023 episode of Dynamite, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, losing to Swerve Strickland.^[10][11][12] On September 21, Wayne made his debut for AEW's sister promotion Ring of Honor (ROH) on that day's episode of Ring of Honor Wrestling, unsuccessfully challenging Katsuyori Shibata for the ROH Pure Championship.^[13]

At WrestleDream on October 1, Wayne turned on Allin to side with Christian Cage during Cage's and Allin's match for the AEW TNT Championship, turning heel in the process.^[14] Wayne joined Cage's stable The Patriarchy with Luchasaurus (later renamed to Killswitch) and was dubbed "The Prodigy" by Cage.^[15][16] At Full Gear, The Patriarchy lost to Adam Copeland, Sting and Allin in a six-man tag team match.^[17] On the December 23 episode of Collision, Cage announced that Wayne's mother, Shayna, has joined The Patriarchy as "The Matriarch" Mother Wayne.^[18]

On the July 21, 2024 episode of Collision, The Patriarchy defeated the Bang Bang Gang (Juice Robinson and The Gunns) for the vacant AEW World Trios Championship after interference from Mother Wayne. This is Wayne's first world championship title win and also made Wayne, at 19 years old, the youngest champion in AEW's history.^[19] On August 25 at All In, The Patriarchy lost the AEW World Trios Championship in a four-way London ladder match to Pac and Blackpool Combat Club (Claudio Castagnoli and Wheeler Yuta), ending their reign at 37 days.^[20]

On April 17 at the Spring BreakThru episode of Collision, Wayne defeated Komander to win the ROH World Television Championship for the first time and also makes Wayne, at 19 years old, the youngest title holder. This marked Wayne's first ever singles championship in a major promotion.^[21] On July 11 at Supercard of Honor, Wayne successfully defended his title against Titán.^[22] After Christian and Wayne failed to win the AEW World Tag Team Championship from The Hurt Syndicate (Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin) at All In: Texas on July 12,, Wayne (along with Kip Sabian) turned on Christian and attacked him, thus kicking him out The Patriarchy. ^[23] On the July 16 episode of Dynamite, The Patriachy was renamed to "The Matriachy".^[24] In August 2025, it was reported that Wayne had suffered a broken foot and would be out of action.^[25][26] Wayne returned from injury on the February 26, 2026 episode of Ring of Honor Wrestling, defeating Lucas Riley.^[27] On May 9 (aired May 14) at ROH Supercard Showdown, Wayne lost his title to AR Fox.^[28]

Singles competiton (2026–present)

After returning from competing in New Japan Pro-Wrestling's Best of the Super Juniors tournament in July 2026, Wayne began appearing as a singles wrestler without his mother and Kip Sabian, quietly disbanding the Matriachy.^{[29][30][31][32]}