On a recent edition of the “Insight” podcast, Mike Santana spoke about WWE showing interest in himself and Ortiz in 2019. He said,
“Our contracts were coming up with TNA, there was interest with AEW and WWE. We had spoken to WWE extensively and they made it very hard for us to turn them down. But, our thing was, Cody was the one who hired us right. Before anything, we had spoke [to him] a while back and we had given Cody our word.
“Our word is everything. By that point, they asked, ‘Hey, have you signed anything?’ We’re like, ‘No, but we gave our word and we would like to stick to that.’ At that time, we both had young children and we wanted to see them grow up and the schedule was much easier with AEW.”
Santana added that being part of something new and exciting like AEW also helped tempt him to sign. Santana would appear on the inaugural edition of AEW Dynamite.
Earlier this month, Santana’s profile was removed from AEW’s official website. He would later confirm that his time with the company had ended.
