Sammy Guevara wrestled in the first official AEW match when he took on Kip Sabian on the Double or Nothing pre-show. He’s booked for a match on the first episode of AEW on TNT against Cody as well. Guevara recently sat down with Chris Van Vliet and talked about how he found out he’ll be wrestling Cody next month and the upcoming Wednesday night wars.
Guevara had the following to say when the topic of NXT and AEW both airing TV shows on Wednesday nights was mentioned:
“That made me laugh so much because at Double or Nothing, when Moxley came down and started beating everybody up maybe it was when he was standing on the chip and it was over with, I was standing next to Kylie Rae and we’re just watching it and I’m like ‘isn’t this crazy? We’re a part of this’ and then she’s like ‘yeah, this is f’n nuts,'” Guevara said. “I don’t know, man, to be a fan and say I want to do this and to be doing it and then to now be in one of the biggest companies right now and they’re about to go head-to-head with friggin WWE/NXT whatever, it’s wild. Another example for nothing is impossible.”
Sammy Guevara Interview Highlights
Guevara also commented on how he was contacted by AEW.
“I was in Japan,” Guevara said regarding the time when AEW was officially unveiled back in January. “So, the press conference happened, right? And I saw all the people that were there and I was like ‘damn, I feel like they are going to reach out to me.’ They hadn’t yet, I had one conversation with one of the members of the upper tier guys at a show and he asked me what I was doing mid-January and I was like ‘oh, I’m going to be in Japan.’ Mid-January was the first press conference, this is back in October before that. And so, I think he was going to ask me to be there but I was in Japan so we just dropped it and started talking about something else. I didn’t think about it until later. So I’m in Japan, that happens and I go to sleep. I wake up in the morning and I get a DM on Twitter and it’s like ‘what’s your contract status?”
Sammy Guevara On Why He Likes Pandas
Guevara also commented on why pandas have become part of his wrestling persona.
“It’s my favorite animal, favorite animal, so I just kind of incoporate things that I like into my wrestling,” he said. “Like my old theme song, I am Jesus, is from one of my favorite movies which is ‘Get him to the Greek.’ There was a lot of fake songs they made for that movie and I am Jesus is one of them. I was like ‘I want this to be my theme song!’ So I come out to TripleMania with that song.”
“The’re chill, right?” he continued. “They eat bamboo, they’re just chilling but they’re a bear, so if you mess with it, it’s going to kill you. I feel like, that’s me. I’m a chill dude but get in the ring with me, I’m not a chill dude no more.”
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