Mike Santana Details Scrapped Plans For Proud & Powerful To Win AEW World Tag Team Titles
Mike Santana reveals scrapped AEW World Tag Title plans for Proud & Powerful
During their run in All Elite Wrestling, many fans hoped management would pull the trigger on The Proud & Powerful, and give Santana and Ortiz a long overdue run as AEW World Tag Team Champions.
Alas it never came to be, as the team split on camera and in real life, with Mike Santana striving for a singles run before exiting the promotion in March 2024. Talking to Chris Van Vliet on Insight, Santana revealed that there were indeed plans for he and Ortiz to win the titles:
“Your guess is as good as mine (as to why Proud & Powerful didn’t win AEW Tag Titles). I’ma be real, I’ma shoot straight with you. The reason I was given was that there was too many other people fighting for that spot, and that p***** me off more than anything… Yes! (it feels like we would also be fighting for that spot) And I understand that when you get to a certain level in this business, if you don’t fight for yourself, if you don’t advocate for yourself, you ain’t getting nowhere, and that was a big part of my fight within my team and when I heard that, it just validated everything that I was like, alright.
“There was in the beginning (talks of Proud & Powerful getting the AEW Tag Titles). It was right before the pandemic. We were feuding with The Bucks, we were ending our feud with The Bucks and they both told us, they were like, ‘Hey, after this, you’re gonna go and start working a program with Frankie [Kazarian] and Scorp’ [Scorpio Sky] - at the time that they were still champs - ‘and then you guys are gonna grab the belts from them’ and whatever. So that was the week of New Year’s Eve and then we were supposed to have a match New Year’s Day and then start the program with them. We were gonna go into some promos and then that morning, I woke up and got the call that my dad passed away. So I had to leave. So I left and then I was gone for two weeks and in those two weeks, everything changed and then that was it,” revealed Santana.
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