Sammy Guevara's Craziest AEW Moments, Eddie Kingston Feud, Cody Rhodes, Tay Melo

On his favourite spot:

"It's gotta be probably the cutter off the ladder, spring up, boom. You know, it's funny, the day before at the airport I was talking to Alan Angels, that's when I thought of doing that. I was like, Do you think this would be cool? Or do you think this is not cool enough? I wanted to do something that's never been seen. And then he was like, Yeah, I think it'd be cool. [I said] Should I try to twist with it? And I'm like, Nah, I guess I'll just do it like this. I was so scared the latter was going to kick back from me though. But I remember in midair I'm going I jump off the ladder in midair. I'm like, Oh, wow, it worked, wow, then ow! And then you know, we landed like in midair I'm thinking like, oh, wow, I got a good jump, but it didn't kick back or anything."

On Cody Rhodes’ reaction:

"He was down for everything, he wanted to do so much craziness. This was his last AEW match I didn't know at that time maybe he knew. But like he wanted to go balls to the wall like the ending, he wanted to do like a superplex to the outside through a ladder and all this. I'm like we got to get up and still climb this ladder and yeah, we ended up doing swanton with the ladder that didn't break, literally broke my back."

On nearly killing Sting:

"So, story about that. He was supposed to move. But for whatever reason, either the 630 is too fast or timing, whatever, I landed off. And I remember going through the table, and I feel his body on my back. And I'm thinking, Oh, I just killed Sting. Oh, no, and like I land, kind of roll off that look at him. And then he pops up like a minute later, you know? And like, finishes the match, because he's such a pro. But I remember for a minute, I was like, oh no. He took complete total blame for it. He was like, Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't move, whatever. I'm just happy he's okay. He's like, Sorry, I no sold your move. And I'm like, bro, you're good. You know, like, I'm just happy you're alive."

On Chris Jericho: 

"I feel like maybe because it's Jericho and it's me and the internet likes to pick us as the guys to like, hate or whatever. And I'll say this about Chris, I feel like he gets a target on his back just because he's doing it at such a high level for such a long time. And it's like, sometimes easy to look at a guy and be like, he's the reason my favourites are not doing this or whatever. But in reality, it's like, this guy doesn't need to do this anymore. He does it because he likes it or loves it. And, you know, the fact that he's still doing it 33 years, like you're saying is a testament to him, because the motivation to keep going and doing this is hard. And you know, I'm 13 years in this now. And sometimes I struggle with motivation every now and then it's like, man, to think of like, all the things I got to do to get to where I want to go, it's a lot of work."

On the Matt Hardy spot:

"That was scary for everybody. The tables were, I think too close. That's what it was. Yeah, they were a little bit further or we went too high on the scissor lift. Man, it was just such an unfortunate thing because we had so much cool stuff for that match, like, so much. I was actually getting thrown off Daily’s Pace to end the thing. Like we're going to climb to the roof and Daley's Place."

On the aftermath:

"But man that match. You know, unfortunately, it's remembered as one of the worst moments in AEW, but I think it was a lot of learning from all aspects of what to do in a situation like that. You know, and I'm just happy Matt was okay, I remember when I was in the back crying, so upset. He's like, a hero of mine and stuff keeps happening because the chair thing just happened like couple of weeks before that. And I followed him to the hospital and I stayed with him until like five in the morning to make sure he was good." 

On Stadium Stampede:

"That was such a crazy time for wrestling, the pandemic and everything. And then it's like, Okay, we're gonna wrestle in this big empty stadium, and then we're all talking about ideas and stuff. And then it almost became a bit of like, how much bad stuff can happen to me in the match? I mean, I’m chased by a golf cart. I'm getting chased by a horse. I'm getting hit by sprinklers. I get thrown off of this thing through this platform by Kenny. I remember the day there was one idea for the horse to chase Hagar, and I knew the golf cart was chasing me later. And I was like, Nah, guys, I think this should be the bit, just bad thing after bad thing, I don't ever catch a break. It was probably one of the most fun matches, even though it took forever to film. And then, as we're filming it, too, we find out it's probably going to be the last match of Double or Nothing, so it's like the main event. So that was like really cool, too. And then, you know, I was mad I wasn't a part of this year's. You know, I got to be a part of the first two and missed the third one, but it looked good." 

On the WrestleDream concussion:

"I'm cleared, I'm good. That was crazy. You know, I do the cutter so much and it's the stupidest thing. This cutter that I do all the time, this time just bumped my head on the canvas, and then saw the future. And if you go back there, you can tell like, okay, maybe he's not good. But I didn't know at that time. I actually thought that they had a match booked for me that Wednesday, I thought I was good. And then it was until like, a couple of days later. I was like really feeling it. And then Tay contacted the doctor. [Were you dizzy?] No. Just like the lights are bothering me. [Were you throwing up?] No, no, thankfully, it wasn't like that. But I had a headache and stuff and it was like the lights were bothering me. Like bright lights. Like my future is bright [laughs]. But yeah, then they obviously took me off and let me chill and sent me to some people to see. But yeah, that was like probably the longest I've been out of wrestling so far, it's been since October 1." 

What is Sammy Guevara grateful for?

“Tay, my baby and my life.”