AEW star discloses scrapped championship plans

AEW has been doing an incredible job in keeping its product fresh and fine. However, in the world of professional wrestling, plans often get nixed to pivot to bigger and better things. Recently, a star revealed such plans where he was supposed to win a championship, but Tony Khan did not pull the trigger.

Ortiz was supposed to become the AEW World Tag Team Champion with his former partner Santana. Their tag team, 'Proud & Powerful,' was active in All Elite Wrestling from 2019 to 2024. During their tenure in the company, they delivered incredible performances in their matches, becoming a popular name in the tag division. However, despite being together for five years, they never became tag champions in AEW.

Speaking on Wombreezy, Ortiz revealed that Proud & Powerful were almost locked to become the AEW World Tag Team Champions. However, due to some unfortunate circumstances, the company nixed those plans and went with some other directions for their future.

“It was supposed to happen a couple of times but due to certain circumstances, it just didn’t happen. Some out of our control. Especially the first time, fate took it another way. Honestly that’s a true story, there was plans to put the titles on us... but it just didn’t work out that way.” he said

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Ortiz and Santana parted ways in August 2024 and moved in different directions in their careers. Proud & Powerful never united again in All Elite Wrestling because Santana left the company shortly after in 2024.

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AEW's Ortiz reflects on Santana's TNA World Title win

Mike Santana recently scored one of the biggest wins of his career. At TNA Bound for Glory, the 34-year-old star defeated Trick Williams to become the TNA World Champion for the first time in his career. AEW star Ortiz reflected on this huge win for his former tag team partner.

In the same interview on Wombreezy, the star showered Santana with huge praises over his big title win. He said that The Nasty Assassin has worked hard to achieve his big dreams, and he deserves to be in that moment.

"I think it’s pretty cool. He set out to achieve something and he achieved it, so pretty awesome. "Obviously our history at TNA it made sense, we had such a great run there. We were treated as main event calibre guys, so when he went back he was treated as such and it’s cool that he was able to achieve that." he said

Ortiz even reflected on his history with Santana in TNA, acknowledging how much it has meant to his career.

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Edited by Anugrah Tyagi