Mike Santana: People Thought I Was Committing Career Suicide When I Decided To Carve Out My Own Path

Mike Santana has doubters.

Santana has maintained a solid amount of buzz since making his return to TNA Wrestling in April of this year. Throughout that time, Santana has picked up big wins over the likes of Eddie Edwards, Steve Maclin, JDC, and Jake Something.

Since returning to the promotion, Santana has been vocal about his desire to climb the mountain and win the world championship in TNA. While speaking to 3NT Wrestling for a new interview, Santana talked about how some people believed that he was comitting career suicide when he decided to leave AEW and start his own journey in wrestling.

“I need to be world champ. I need to be world champ because — and I keep it a buck bro, when I initially came back to wrestling and decided to start my own journey and split away and carve my own path, it wasn’t met with a lot of support. It wasn’t met with a lot of, ‘Oh, yeah, you can do this.’ Everybody was like, oh, you’re doing career suicide or whatever. I was like, ‘Word.’ You know what I mean? Now it was like, watch me work. For me, when you’re made the world champion of a company, you’re the face of that company. Nothing is going to say success and this dude did it more than being the face of the company. I came back to TNA and I made statement clear as day after that match I had at Rebellion, I’m coming for the top spot. I don’t care who’s there, I don’t care who has a title, I don’t care who takes offense to it, that’s not my business. My business is being at the top spot and that’s exactly my mission now. I will be TNA World Champ, I will be the face of TNA in the future. There’s nobody that’s gonna take that from me.”

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House Of Glory recently announced that Santana will face Masato Tanaka at their upcoming Salvation event in October. Learn more here.

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