Former AEW wrestler Mike Santana talks about his AEW debut and the moment they realized they were one of the hottest tag teams in the world #aew #wrestling #aewdynamite
So much love for you, Santana. AEW will not be the end of your story! I can't wait to see you run the wrestling world, because seeing you go through what you did makes me want to see you as the KING!
I was not ready for that ending 😭😭💀 man making our parents proud... thats what its all about. A pro wrestling fan dreams, to be an actual pro wrestler & having the fans come to see you.
it's AEW.. Tony doesn't know how to book, doesn't understand booking, Santana & Ortiz definitely should've been tag champs.. that's a no brainer for any booker, but again.. its AEW
@@AndrewDaniele87HAHAHA look at the educated man ! Look at him, he will have a functionning back even at 50 HAHAHAHA Sorry, I felt the need to do this. I don't like when parents act like this, it makes me so angry. My father (a "gendarme", it's like police but with depending on the french military) is like that. I can't recall all the times he told me he would be proud if I entered the gendarmerie just like him. I hate this job, and I never wanted to do this. The more he insisted, the more I hated his job. I am 30, and not so long ago, he recognized I made the right choice by not doing like him. My father is 52 and is retiring in september. I'd like to think he saw all the years he spent seeing all the nasty side of mankind and thought "Yeah, I don't want my son to see dead people, sad people, lost people, monstruous people"
@muhammadHassan-kj1jy it's always been that way bruh....AEW fans are the new ECW fans, WWE fans are like WCW fans in the 90s. Tribalism was worse back then because most people could only watch 1 or 2 promotions depending on where you live... being able to watch everything is relatively new in the world of wrestling
Aew should've built the tag team titles around them and Penta phenix but wasted what could've been 8 yrs of feuds 😂😂 but wasted it, i hope he goes to wwe and does well or somewhere else and does well or becomes a actor ,I just want this man to do well
Penta and Fenix were booked better in Lucha Underground. Penta was a badass Anti Hero and Fenix was booked like Rey Mysterio. I tried to watch them on AEW and was instantly disappointed. I saw some random dude dancing around them. Ig he’s their manager or something idk. Penta from LU would’ve broken that dude’s arm. They look like jokes now. There were better when they were singles stars. Tony Khan possesses the ability to ruin everyone and everything.
I saw them the night before their debut and you could just *feel* how they were on the knife-edge of greatness. I'll never forget how AEW mishandled them.
They would have been best if they'd never been the lax 2.0 bs as just Santana and Ortiz They feel like they stand out as their own thing as lax they felt like guys put in to fill the rolls
Wish timing would have been right and they get a run with the tag titles. Also i remember a few times when he got some solo mic time during some of the inner circle promos and him really impressing. If AEW had all the titles they do now I would have liked to see him have a run with a solo title during a slow point for the team.
Did these guys have a feud with FTR? Because Lucha Bros, FTR, Santana&Ortiz and (before Jay died) the Briscoes were the best tag teams under contract with TK and they all faced/feuded with each other, except for Santana&Ortiz who were constantly booked like after-thoughts.
AEW IS AMAZING guys! They give him and Ortiz like 3 tag team title run and then a trios gold team run! I love it…oh wait my bad y’all I just woke up from my dream. My bad they never won any gold. Good for you on leaving homie!
I love these two guys I was so upset when it broke up and aew and went their separate ways sometimes I need to go to separate ways to see if they can fly and see if they can win big belts and tag team belts you're a great tag team partners reach to the top and win some heavyweight titles
Their run was botched by being with Jericho. Jericho and Sammy win the tag belts, yet Santana and Ortiz is the stables tag team. Really dumb and then Ortiz was just awful in everything he did.
I don’t care what anyone else says. Trying to saddle these guys with Eddie Kingston killed them. Sure Eddie is having the run of his life right now, but where are these guys now? I will die on the hill that Eddie Kingston is the worst pro wrestler on a major platform in the world. I don’t get what those 3 thousand AEW fans see in him
Hate 3atching things might be the most pathetic human behavior possible. Tiny, sad petty man crying about things he doesn't like in his mom's basement? PATHETIC.
no, they’re not there much bigger than that The only reason they didn’t get to much farther Heights because there’s just so many people taking their spot in. Please send it pretty much kind of fell apart. That’s just the only reason so shut up user
Did the wrestler just make me cry? 😭
did the FATHER of the wrestler just make me cry? 😭😭😭
So much love for you, Santana. AEW will not be the end of your story! I can't wait to see you run the wrestling world, because seeing you go through what you did makes me want to see you as the KING!
I was not ready for that ending 😭😭💀 man making our parents proud... thats what its all about. A pro wrestling fan dreams, to be an actual pro wrestler & having the fans come to see you.
Dude… I would’ve actually cried that’s so wholesome 😭
Should have won the tag straps
The amount of potentially amazing things AEW squandered will make an amazing series of books someday.
it's AEW.. Tony doesn't know how to book, doesn't understand booking, Santana & Ortiz definitely should've been tag champs.. that's a no brainer for any booker, but again.. its AEW
@@DynastyIconactually Santana and Ortiz was supposed to win the tag titles but due to Santana father death those plans changed
The bucks can't be having another tag team get over
@user-xq9rl7tn4u, they should've been the inaugural tag Champs. And if so, why not put the belts on them once he came back??
Wow. A fathers approval. Something some never see or hear or feel ( including myself. )
My dad thinks I'm a pussy because I got an education, thinks I can't be a construction worker like he can, I feel you.
@@AndrewDaniele87HAHAHA look at the educated man ! Look at him, he will have a functionning back even at 50 HAHAHAHA
Sorry, I felt the need to do this. I don't like when parents act like this, it makes me so angry. My father (a "gendarme", it's like police but with depending on the french military) is like that. I can't recall all the times he told me he would be proud if I entered the gendarmerie just like him. I hate this job, and I never wanted to do this. The more he insisted, the more I hated his job. I am 30, and not so long ago, he recognized I made the right choice by not doing like him. My father is 52 and is retiring in september. I'd like to think he saw all the years he spent seeing all the nasty side of mankind and thought "Yeah, I don't want my son to see dead people, sad people, lost people, monstruous people"
Nothing feels greater than pursuing your dreams and have your father proud of you the entire way
Feel good dad moment.
Why they were never AEW Tag Champs is beyond me
Oh shitttttt
We need, THE WORLD needs more great dad stories…
AEW in 2019 and early 2020 had such potential, it was soo good...
Chris always putting me onto some dope wrestlers I haven’t heard of before 🙏
Lol. There's wrestling all around the world. You should explore more. There's too much tribalism and blind loyalty nowadays anyway
@muhammadHassan-kj1jy it's always been that way bruh....AEW fans are the new ECW fans, WWE fans are like WCW fans in the 90s. Tribalism was worse back then because most people could only watch 1 or 2 promotions depending on where you live... being able to watch everything is relatively new in the world of wrestling
What a sweet emotional response from his dadda!😢❤
I cant unsee this now but Santana looks like Hornswoggle.
Imagine santana and ortiz in nxt and eventually moved up to main. They would have been bigger stars now.
Aew should've built the tag team titles around them and Penta phenix but wasted what could've been 8 yrs of feuds 😂😂 but wasted it, i hope he goes to wwe and does well or somewhere else and does well or becomes a actor ,I just want this man to do well
Penta and Fenix were booked better in Lucha Underground. Penta was a badass Anti Hero and Fenix was booked like Rey Mysterio. I tried to watch them on AEW and was instantly disappointed. I saw some random dude dancing around them. Ig he’s their manager or something idk. Penta from LU would’ve broken that dude’s arm. They look like jokes now. There were better when they were singles stars. Tony Khan possesses the ability to ruin everyone and everything.
@TheSleepyJoe not bad but it isn't great either
I saw them the night before their debut and you could just *feel* how they were on the knife-edge of greatness. I'll never forget how AEW mishandled them.
They should’ve won the AEW World Tag Team Championships
That hit me right here. RIGHT HERE.
Loved them in TNA and AEW.
This was a great interview. He did ask question that I thought Santana wouldn’t answer. Gonna to listen again
What question are you referring to? Idk why I’m even curious since I don’t really even know who these dudes are lmao
Sheesh. His pops almost made me cry.
😢😭
I Love ❤ you Daddy!!!
The tag team division in AEW at the beginning was unreal!
W father🎉
One of the best ever
Santana is one tough fella 💪 love it
They would have been best if they'd never been the lax 2.0 bs as just Santana and Ortiz They feel like they stand out as their own thing as lax they felt like guys put in to fill the rolls
My Guy Since FDA Days IYKYK
aew never giving them the tag belts is nuts, they deserved it
Seen these guys at HOG in Queens some years ago. Crazy to see how fast they rose to fame. Much deserved.
I didn't expect to get emotional, and the that last quote ❤️😪
Did my f*cking heartstrings❤️❤️🤘💯💪🏾 what a damn good father he has🤘🤘👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Santana bout to win....💯
Wish timing would have been right and they get a run with the tag titles. Also i remember a few times when he got some solo mic time during some of the inner circle promos and him really impressing. If AEW had all the titles they do now I would have liked to see him have a run with a solo title during a slow point for the team.
Love that. Thats the win right there.
The fact Santana & Ortiz never won the AEW tag titles is a damn shame. Best Friends & PNP carried the pandemic era of AEW
Man i wish i had a dad growing up
Imagine hating on this guy, or any wrestler for that matter, just because the wrestling promotion that signs his checks is an acronym that isn't WWE
Always thought Santana had that it factor!
Such a shame aew booking of Ortiz and Santana, Santana definitely deserves his flowers.
Very cool dad story
Dude I was so bummed when you guys broke up. I was waiting for the damn title run.
AEW had such a good run back then. Damn. The whole Brawl Out was when the shows started to lose steam. [>
Shout out to EYFBO (Santana/Ortiz tag name during CZW).
I wish my father lived long enough to tell me that!
Perfect
Alot if backstage crap be happening in both companies that they dont tell us about hope they get back in the ring
Did these guys have a feud with FTR? Because Lucha Bros, FTR, Santana&Ortiz and (before Jay died) the Briscoes were the best tag teams under contract with TK and they all faced/feuded with each other, except for Santana&Ortiz who were constantly booked like after-thoughts.
AEW IS AMAZING guys! They give him and Ortiz like 3 tag team title run and then a trios gold team run! I love it…oh wait my bad y’all I just woke up from my dream. My bad they never won any gold. Good for you on leaving homie!
I love these two guys I was so upset when it broke up and aew and went their separate ways sometimes I need to go to separate ways to see if they can fly and see if they can win big belts and tag team belts you're a great tag team partners reach to the top and win some heavyweight titles
Wiill Osprey vs Bryan Danielson pls make it a main event match
❤
The guys were robbed of the tag titles I don't even think they ever had a shot
His dad said what 😮😮😮😢😢😢😢
Never heard of them, that's a shame
Young bucks ruined everything once again
That's what they do
They were hot for about 2 weeks.
We could have had P&P vs FTR
They went from being the hottest free agents, to being Chris Jericho’s lackeys.
It's too bad TK couldn't book the tag team division to save his life!
Tony really screwed them up, they should've won the tag titles.
It is so sad Santana and Ortiz had a falling out
Where are they now
One of the hottest tag teams? Have literally never seen or heard of them
Which side willhe come in on? LDF or LWO?
Jericho ruined them
actually kind of agree. I don't think joining various factions ever helped them at all. It certainly never got them the damn titles.
I just wanna know how Peaches is doing?
Dr glaze
Honest question 🙋♂️ who are these guys ?
I woulda died if his dad said Penta was his favorite
Lax
🥹🥹🥹
And then these guys got wasted like most of the other good signings
Guessing he was talking about Jericho?😅
Sad lax could work through their differences unfortunately 😭
Bro what????
Hardly anyone knows them LOL
Who?
hottest? who?
Their run was botched by being with Jericho. Jericho and Sammy win the tag belts, yet Santana and Ortiz is the stables tag team. Really dumb and then Ortiz was just awful in everything he did.
I don’t care what anyone else says. Trying to saddle these guys with Eddie Kingston killed them. Sure Eddie is having the run of his life right now, but where are these guys now? I will die on the hill that Eddie Kingston is the worst pro wrestler on a major platform in the world. I don’t get what those 3 thousand AEW fans see in him
No. You’re crying.
In the World.. typical American, more people support Cricket around the World than sports entertainment,, get a grip on reality
And now hes a nobody
No idea who this is lmfao
you must be a casual...I don't even watch AEW and I know who Santana is
😂😂😂😂 fake wrestling is so pathetic
Why you comment then😂
Your literally subbed to dark side of the ring😂😂
😂😂😂😂 people commenting for attention is so pathetic
Hate 3atching things might be the most pathetic human behavior possible. Tiny, sad petty man crying about things he doesn't like in his mom's basement? PATHETIC.
Wait wait wrestling is fake?
Shit, man…that was a really wholesome memory he shared but knowing his dad’s not here anymore…that shit hit a little too close.
These guys are jobbers
no, they’re not there much bigger than that The only reason they didn’t get to much farther Heights because there’s just so many people taking their spot in. Please send it pretty much kind of fell apart. That’s just the only reason so shut up user
Where are they both now?
Santana left AEW. Ortiz is…somewhere