Fuego Del Sol says the money he made for his first AEW Dark appearance topped his squash match on Monday Night Raw.
On the Jan. 6, 2020 episode of Raw, Del Sol had a match as KJ Orso. He was squashed by Erick Rowan. Orso had wrestled as KAGE on the independent scene. He soon made appearances on AEW Dark before the company ultimately signed him to a contract.
Appearing on the AEW Unrestricted podcast, Del Sol said that his first AEW Dark appearance brought him more money than his match on Raw.
“I remember that day pretty fondly. They had KJ Orso just constantly practice that over and over again, running up the ramp. But they need this visual of the cage squirting some red stuff in the face and running and screaming. So, no mask. I couldn’t do it at that time, so he did it. It was a good payday for him, and he went from there. He took this prop guy and they had this little capsule in his mouth, and so, he just had to spit into his hand and rub it all over his face because it couldn’t be blood on a PG show. There’s no blood.
“It was just red mist, red substance. There was a big man that kept saying this over and over. ‘It can’t be blood.’ You had to cover your face the whole time to kind of hide it. I got part of his money that night. It wasn’t that great. I remember getting my first AEW Dark check and thinking, oh man, AEW is taking care of me much better than that night was. So, I’ll tell you that right now.”
Fuego Del Sol challenged Miro for the TNT Championship on the debut edition of AEW Rampage. The stipulation was that if Del Sol won, he’d earn an AEW contract. Despite his efforts, Miro won the match. Tony Khan ended up handing a contract to Sammy Guevara, Del Sol’s best friend, and the masked wrestler ended up joining the AEW roster anyway.
