After his release, Leppan announced his new ring name as Aldo Rose, maintaining the

party host gimmick, but as an edgier character. His first match after his release
took place on 23 July, losing a match against fellow WWE alumnus Damien Sandow.
Rose took an absence from the professional wrestling industry in November. In
January 2017, Rose addressed his absence from the industry, stating he had been
with his family, and his social media was hacked. In addition, he announced that he
had "killed off" the Adam Rose character and returned to his Leo Kruger persona,
now renamed Krugar.[citation needed] Since then, however, he began to compete both
under the Adam Rose and Krugar name.

On 25 March 2017, Rose defeated Aaron Orion to become the Championship

International Wrestling Heavyweight Champion; however, Rose dropped the belt the
next day back to Orion.[83] On 21 April, Rose defeated CJ O'Doyle and Axx Clover to
become the new Atomic Wrestling Entertainment Heavyweight Champion.

On 18 March 2019, Leppan announced his retirement from pro wrestling, saying that
he would be fulfilling the rest of his current bookings, not taking anymore after
that.[11] In his retirement match on June 14 2019 for the Atomic Revolutionary
Wrestling promotion against Bull James, at ARW's 3rd annual Star Spangled event,
Rose lost via submission when James reversed an attempted submission into a
crossface.[84