Santana & Ortiz’s Dispute Was Over AEW Misusing Them

Santana suffered what appeared to be serious injury early on in the recent AEW Blood & Guts match. Around that same time, rumors began to surface that he was having some problems with his tag team partner, Ortiz.

Earlier this year, it was reported that Santana might be thinking about leaving AEW. Konnan himself then revealed that the Proud N Powerful members were no longer on good terms.

In a Q&A for his Keeping It 100 podcast this week, Konnan gave more details about the situation and stated that the two fell apart over them being misused in AEW.

“It breaks my heart because I spent a lot of time with them and I’ve said before that they’re like my sons. I heard it almost got physical with Santana and Kingston over this. It’s not a good look, bro. I really hate seeing that these two guys who could have gone to WWE and really f*cking blown up, that they separated. I can see Santana when his contract is up, leaving. Ortiz is very chill and laid back.

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Santana is more of a hot head. Ortiz’s was like, ‘Hey, they ain’t doing sh*t with us’, and Santana’s like, ‘They ain’t doing sh*t with us’, and he’s right. Ortiz is more like ‘We’re getting paid and are taken care of’, and he was comfortable in his role and Santana wants more.”

We will have to wait and see when Santana will be able to make his return to AEW television and reunite with Ortiz. Only time will tell where they end up next, but it might not be in the same company for all we know.

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