Fuego Del Sol reflects on finally becoming “All Elite.”
Fuego Del Sol was a recent guest on AEW Unrestricted, and he spoke to Aubrey Edwards and Tony Schiavone about what it meant to sign a guaranteed deal with the company. Fuego had been a regular on AEW programming for the better part of a year, including appearances on AEW’s Dark and Elevation shows. Fuego worked against Miro on the premiere episode of Rampage, where he also learned that despite the loss, he was being signed to a contract. Fuego reflected on the night, explaining how he put pressure on himself to perform in the match, and the result was the greatest night in his career to this point.
“Friday, August 13, 2021, that night I’ll never forget. It’s kind of hard to put into words. It was such an overwhelming feeling, I remember all day just being excited because I had never even wrestled on Dynamite before. To have over 40 matches in the company and never get to be on TV in that sense, the pressure was already on just to have a good match, just to perform well that night. And then to be shocked the way I was surprised afterward, even thinking about it get the goosebumps about it because I had no clue,” Fuego said.
“I was told to lay there through the break and get the reception from the crowd after we come back. And I remember I’m just sitting there trying to look tough, as we come back from break because I just went through hell with Miro. And Sammy Guevara’s music hit and I immediately turned my head and [was] overwhelmed either emotion in the sense that me and Sammy had never interacted on-screen together and he’s a big star in AEW and I didn’t know if they wanted us to be even connected on-screen at all. So to let him, my best friend, come out and hand me the contract and do it on the biggest stage it could possibly be done on the first Rampage,” Fuego explained, “it was one of the greatest moments of my career, probably the greatest moment of my career.”
Fuego Del Sol also spoke about his rise in popularity through Guevara’s vlog, as well as his appearances on Dark and Elevation, noting that Sammy’s platform really helped in winning people over.
“I think it’s very unique. I always joke with people, like yeah it definitely wasn’t the 40 losses that got me to be liked by the audience. It was totally 100% Sammy’s vlog because I really didn’t have a giant name on the indy scene, as well. Some of these guys who got to come up on the indy scene and really make a name for themselves,” he explained, “so it’s very unique situation that it was really the vlog that kind of pushed me over that limit with the audience and got me so well-liked.
“And I feel like, whether it’s my personality or not, I feel like I slowly gained the respect of the locker room through my matches and things like that. And I slowly gained the respect of the people through the vlog. It was just all about winning over management and with the combination of everything,” he noted. “I feel like that’s what kinda got me to this point. But just getting to show my personality with being on the vlog, I credit Sammy so much because he didn’t have to do any of this. He’s with the platform and he was the one with the name, but he’s such a giving person and a good friend that helped me get to this point.”
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