Mike Santana vs. Ortiz set for next week’s AEW Rampage

Former tag team partners Mike Santana & Ortiz will square off in a singles match on next week’s AEW Rampage. 

The bout was announced during this week’s episode after weeks of vignettes explaining the dissolution of the Santana & Ortiz tag team and Santana’s decision to strike out on his own as a singles competitor. 

Santana was on the shelf with a torn ACL from June 2022 until his return to AEW in August of this year. Santana & Ortiz briefly reunited and teamed as part of the Stadium Stampede match at All Out on August 27, but Santana declared his intentions to become a singles star in a video promo on the September 8 Rampage show. 

In the weeks that followed, video promos with Santana & Ortiz aired, playing off a real-life falling out that the two had.

As a duo, Santana & Ortiz held Tag Team titles in 10 different promotions from 2015 to 2019, most notably holding the Impact World Tag Team Championship on four occasions. They joined AEW in 2019. 

Santana vs. Ortiz is the only bout announced for next week’s Rampage to this point.