In fall 2025, a friend of AKIRA posted screenshots and images of conversations between AKIRA and Slamovich, including photos showing alleged domestic abuse by Slamovich toward AKIRA. Slamovich was subsequently pulled from independent bookings and removed from the TNA Wrestling roster. Slamovich issued a statement about the abuse allegations.

AKIRA said the public believes he used his friend to filter out the information about Slamovich, which he denied. He claimed he did not learn what happened until three hours after his friend went public. AKIRA stated he was loyal to a fault, felt cornered in the relationship, and was not seeking a comeback moment for Slamovich but wanted her to grow from what occurred between them.

It all goes towards that time in September when all that news came out, and I've spoken to wrestlers, who again, they come up to me and I guess maybe they're projecting onto me, where they say, 'Well, everyone thinks that you're the one that put out that information, that you had a f*cking vendetta' against my ex-partner, and I said, 'No. Maybe that's something you would do. But all I ever did was love that person,' and I was going to just work through it.

AKIRA said he was teaching a seminar in Colorado when he woke up to the news, suffered a panic attack, and wrote on Twitter while sitting with his mother. He maintained his friend spoke up for him without his direction, though he still holds that against her while understanding why she acted.