Sammy Guevara made his return to AEW programming during Sunday night’s ROH television tapings in Arlington, Texas.
The former TNT Champion attacked The Dark Order and made the save for Dustin Rhodes.
Despite speculations about Guevara’s absence from AEW being linked to Mercedes Mone, Bryan Alvarez dismissed these rumors during Wrestling Observer Live. He said,
“I know that everybody has immediately jumped to the following conclusion [that] he was moved to Ring of Honor because Mercedes Mone is on the main AEW television show. I was told that him being on Ring of Honor has absolutely nothing to do with Mercedes. I mentioned that to some people and they were like, ‘There’s no way, it has to be.’ All I can tell you is this, Sammy has been ready to go for a little while and they did have a storyline for Sammy Guevara that would have brought him back to the main roster…But there was an aspect of the storyline that he was not cool with. I think it involved him turning heel and he didn’t want to turn heel, whatever it was. They did have a storyline and they decided well, he doesn’t want to do that aspect of the storyline [and] so they ended up coming up with a storyline where he’s a babyface in Ring of Honor. So, there were plans to bring him back to the main roster when Mercedes Mone was there and it didn’t happen. So, I’m sure he’ll be back on the main roster. I would bet you anything that by the end of the year he’s back doing Dynamite, Collision, etc.”
Moreover, Guevara’s previous derogatory joke about black people has seemingly resurfaced on social media. It’s worth noting that years ago, Guevara publicly apologized to Mone after a 2016 inappropriate comment he made went viral.