Mike Santana no longer with AEW

Mike Santana is no longer with AEW. 

His profile was removed from the AEW roster page recently and he hasn’t wrestled for the promotion since the October 25, 2023, Rampage taping. He defeated his longtime tag team partner Ortiz on the show. 

Fightful Select is reporting that sources close to Santana say he is done with the company. 

Santana and Ortiz came into AEW as Proud-N-Powerful in 2019, quickly aligning with Chris Jericho, Sammy Guevara, and Jake Hager as the Inner Circle. Santana teamed with Jericho and Ortiz to beat Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks in the main event of the very first episode of Dynamite. 

Santana wrestled for AEW just three times after suffering a torn ACL in the 2022 Blood & Guts match. His first match back was Stadium Stampede at All In. He then had a singles win over Bronson the following month and then his win over Ortiz in October. 

As for Ortiz, he’s wrestled in AEW just once since his loss to Santana in October. He teamed with Eddie Kingson in a loss to Bryan Danielson and Claudio Castagnoli on the January 20, 2024 episode of Collision. 

Santana has been keeping active on the independent wrestling scene in the Northeast. This weekend he wrestled Penta El Zero Miedo on a House of Glory show in New York and also wrestled Homicide on a show in New Jersey on Sunday.