Ortiz recalls talks of winning AEW Tag Team Championships.
The Inner Circle (Chris Jericho, Sammy Guevara, Jake Hager, Santana, & Ortiz) were prominently featured during the early days on AEW Dynamite as the group protected and looked after AEW World Champion Chris Jericho.
Many fans thought Santana & Ortiz should have won the AEW Tag Team Titles at some point during their run, but it never came to fruition.
“Definitely. It was hard to ignore it," Ortiz said on the Shining Wizards podcast when asked if he heard fans calling for them to win the AEW Tag Team Titles. "I still get tagged in stuff to this day. We’re constantly tagged in stuff about that. To answer your question on how I felt about it, I think we could have forced the hand a little bit more, where we did have the opportunities that we had, and I can’t completely blame the company because there was talks about it, but it was almost like it was never the right time. It just wasn’t our time. 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 I mean, it actually was supposed to happen more than once. But just due to stuff out of our control or 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. 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. But that’s pretty much it. It was supposed to happen, it just never did, unfortunately."
Santana and Ortiz have since split. Fans can read Ortiz' comments about the split by clicking here.
Fans can find Santana's comments on the split by clicking here.
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