Scrapped AEW Championship Change Plans Revealed

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A current AEW star has revealed scrapped plans for a championship change in the company on two separate occasions.

During their four year tag team run in AEW, Santana and Ortiz were slated as one of the company’s top teams, though they never ended up capturing the AEW World Tag Team Championship.

With Santana and Ortiz no longer being a team, it seems as though they will end up never being champions, but according to Ortiz, there were two occasions where they were almost crowned.

Speaking on the Shining Wizard Wrestling podcast, Ortiz discussed fans’ opinions that he and Santana should have been champions, saying that the time was never quite right for their run.

He said:

“I tend to avoid it at times but that stuff (opinions from fans that Ortiz & Santana should’ve gotten AEW Tag Title run), it’s almost hard to avoid because we’re constantly tagged in stuff about that. To answer your question, how I felt about it, ah, I think we could have forced a hand a little bit more when we did have the opportunities that we had and I can’t completely blame the company because I mean, there was talks about it but it was almost like it was never the right time, right?

“It just wasn’t our time and it was just kind of because we were always intertwined with a huge storyline with The Inner Circle and it would have been hard to sway off and kind of go do our own tag thing and go after the Tag Titles. So, it actually was supposed to happen more than once. But just due to stuff out of our control, out of my control, it just never seemed to pan out.

“It’s not like those people on the internet that were clamoring for us to be Tag Team Champions — it was noticed by the people in AEW and above and it almost happened two times. It just never panned out. I won’t get into the weeds of things, only because I think I’ll get in trouble if I do (he laughed). That’s pretty much it. It was supposed to happen. It just never did unfortunately.”

Ortiz and Santana had a rivalry on AEW Rampage which blew off in a No Disqualification match back in October.

Ortiz also revealed during the interview that it was Santana who was adamant that the team should break up.

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