{"id":48706,"date":"2022-04-08T23:07:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T04:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48706"},"modified":"2022-04-09T23:07:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T04:07:27","slug":"sammy-guevaras-talent-is-getting-overshadowed-by-his-bullshit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48706","title":{"rendered":"Sammy Guevara\u2019s talent is getting overshadowed by his bullshit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I remember watching the first episode of AEW Dynamite<\/em>.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t the least bit surprised that Cody Rhodes put himself into the first-ever match.\u00a0 But the guy he was up against, Sammy Guevara, I knew jack shit about.\u00a0 Why was he coming out in a panda hat?\u00a0 How did all the fans in attendance seem to already know who he was?\u00a0 Was I really that out of touch with the business and too insulated in the WWE Universe\u00ae?<\/span><\/p>\n

Obviously, everyone and their mother knew that Cody was winning, but in spite of it, I remember being very impressed with Guevara.\u00a0 It was clear to why he was given the distinct honor of getting to be on the very first televised AEW match in history, he was talented as fuck in the ring.\u00a0 A cursory search afterward showed that he was trained by Booker T, and the five time five time five time five time five time WCW champion seems to have been as good of a trainer as there could\u2019ve been.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the Inner Circle formed, it was pretty clear that Guevara was the designated workhorse of the faction, as Chris Jericho was the leader, Santana and Ortiz were the designated tag team, and Jack Swagger<\/span> Jake Hager was the heavy.\u00a0 But even mired in one of the 52 factions in AEW, it really didn\u2019t take long for Guevara to stand out among the promotion\u2019s bloated roster, because he was an above average worker, had a massive skillset, could sell, could speak and had the general looks of an upper-tier guy.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, it also didn\u2019t take long for Guevara to end up in hot water, with him being documented as having once said he \u201cwould rape that shit\u201d when referring to the WWE\u2019s Sasha Banks.\u00a0 But being a guy that the company had high hopes for, he was taken off tv for a second, and eventually the whole thing blew over.\u00a0 He would have some outstanding feuds with Darby Allin and Matt Hardy to help make fans forget.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not long after pandemic restrictions began lifting, AEW hit the road, and one of their first stops was in Houston.\u00a0 A packed house was witness to Sammy cutting a supposedly heart-felt promo about his girlfriend Pam, which culminated with a marriage proposal that she accepted, much to the happy pop of a crowd that didn\u2019t concern themselves with if Sammy was a heel or a face at that time.\u00a0 This was in August 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t really long afterward that there were lots of rumors that swirled about Sammy Guevara and his \u201cjust friends\u201d relationship with Tay Conti.\u00a0 They were always seen together, photographed together, and it really didn\u2019t take long for fans all over to connect the dots that there was something likely more between the two of them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eventually, Sammy and Pam broke it off and broke up, and Sammy and Tay came out publicly about the most obvious relationship since like Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen.\u00a0 \u00a0Yes, it sucked that the implications were that there was an affair involved, but the sentiment of the internet seemed satisfied at having called it the whole time, regardless of the fact that Pam\u2019s personal life was mostly humiliated and wrecked from how it all transpired.<\/span><\/p>\n

What I think the problem really ended up being, was that kayfabe or not, both Sammy Guevara and Tay Conti have been obnoxiously now flaunting their relationship, which seems kind of insensitive and dickish, considering Sammy pledged engagement not even a full year prior.\u00a0 But I\u2019m not even seeking this shit out, but nary does a week go by where I don\u2019t somehow see that the two of them are making out in public, or are on vacation together, or some photograph of Sammy\u2019s shredded abs and\/or Tay\u2019s Brazilian ass that she\u2019s very proud of.<\/span><\/p>\n

And to make matters worse, they\u2019ve taken their relationship to work, and it\u2019s currently being used in a horrifically cringeworthy feud between Sammy and Tay with Dan Lambert\u2019s stable.\u00a0 However now that it\u2019s being worked into the product, the fans, specifically AEW\u2019s mark-y, tribalistic, basement dwellers out in public, have been able to publicly express their opinions about the players involved, and it\u2019s apparent that I\u2019m not the only one who seems to have soured towards Sammy and Tay.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m entertained that fans are turning on them, and it doesn\u2019t really feel like it\u2019s manufactured, deliberate heat, so much as it\u2019s kind of a facet of X-Pac heat, as in fuck you, we\u2019re booing you because you\u2019ve done something shitty and we want you to know that.\u00a0 I think fans have seen the narrative of their generally deplorable behavior, especially towards Pam, and are reacting accordingly.\u00a0 Sure, as a performer, the goal is always to elicit a response from the crowd, whether it is good or bad, but given the circumstances they\u2019re in, they probably shouldn\u2019t be wanting any X-Pac heat.<\/span><\/p>\n

When the day is over, Sammy will likely always have a job in AEW, because he\u2019s far too talented in spite of the fact that he\u2019s kind of an asshole douchebag.\u00a0 I want to stay high on him, because he really is a tremendous talent, but on a personal level, I think he\u2019s a douchebag.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tay on the other hand, has shown a lot of improvement from her horrible NXT days, but is widely replaceable on the roster.\u00a0 But both of them, their ceilings are going to be hampered by their bullshit, because as much as professional wrestling is a scripted, premeditated soap opera, the fans are still human, and exercise their right to voice their displeasure when they think they\u2019re witnessing bullshit behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I remember watching the first episode of AEW Dynamite.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t the least bit surprised that Cody Rhodes put himself into the first-ever match.\u00a0 But the guy he was up against, Sammy Guevara, I knew jack shit about.\u00a0 Why was he coming out in a panda hat?\u00a0 How did all the fans in attendance seem … Continue reading Sammy Guevara\u2019s talent is getting overshadowed by his bullshit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[147,194,83,69,54],"class_list":["post-48706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cheating","tag-coronavirus","tag-observations","tag-television","tag-wrestling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48708,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48706\/revisions\/48708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}