The real reason why a popular AEW tag team recently went their separate ways after years together has been revealed.
Mike Santana returned to AEW back in August as part of the Stadium Stampede match at Wembley Stadium at AEW All In, reforming his Proud-n-Powerful team with partner Ortiz.
Following the match, Ortiz and Santana took part in a feud on AEW Rampage, which came to an end back in October.
The breakup came following real life issues between the two men, and we now know whose decision it was to end the team.
Speaking to the Shining Wizard Wrestling podcast, Ortiz revealed that it wasn’t AEW’s call to break up the team, and that Santana was adamant about not working with him.
He said:
“Unfortunately, it wasn’t the company’s call to split us (Santana & Ortiz). Me and Santana just couldn’t get it together personally and he was just very adamant about not working with me anymore. So, the company kind of had no choice but to split us up, right? So they’re like, ‘Okay, you’re just not gonna not tag. It doesn’t make any sense. Let’s at least make this make sense why you split.’
“But even when we did it on TV, it just ended up, I feel like, being kind of rushed and you know what I mean? Let’s get to the point already due to stuff that was going on backstage and it was just making it hard to really put forward a program and then just our television in general, kind of has that feeling all over on all our shows.
“There’s almost that sense of rushing at times. Some stuff kind of sits and settles but, you could kind of see what they’re putting their effort into. The stuff that really gets time to settle and really get to cook whereas some other segments, due to time constraints, you just kind of have to make those segments go faster and faster and there were supposed to be more development between me and him.
“It just, again, things out of my control. It just never panned out the way it was. It was set out to be a couple of weeks program throughout all our television. Like Collision, Dynamite and Rampage and then we just kind of went to Rampage and then we stood there and yeah, it just kind of played out how it played out unfortunately.”
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