During a recent interview on The Wrestling Inc. Daily, AEW star Sammy Guevara discussed his feud with Matt Hardy and being labeled a dangerous performer.
āAs you know, Iāve gotten hurt a lot on the independents with not a whole bunch of people watching. So the golf cart thing hurt a lot but at least a lot of people saw it. So that gives me some kind of weird mental thing where Iām like, āokay, itās justified at least.ā If you look back at how [Chris] Jericho took it, he barely touched it, and I remember saying, āIām gonna make this look crazy.ā And Jericho was like, āNah man, just barely hit it.ā I said, okay, but in my mind, I was like, this is going to be crazy, and I was still mad at it.
āI wanted it to look even crazier than it did. I wanted to do a helicopter spin but, it didnāt work out. Even when I got super kicked by Matt Jackson where I bent in half and nearly broke my leg, I remember I told him beforehand too because that was the only thing. I wasnāt even in that Battle Royale. All I was doing was taking a superkick. So I was like, āHey Matt, Iām gonna make this look crazy.ā Heās like, āAlright.ā Iām like, āNo, Iām letting you know. Iām gonna try to make this the best one youāve ever done.ā So any kind of opportunity I get, Iām going to kill it every time.ā
āThe Matt stuff, a bunch of unfortunate stuff happened there. It was almost like we were cursed for a minute. We had a great one-on-one match before Double or Nothing last year. Thatās what people forget. We had a great one-on-one. Nothing happened between us but then all of a sudden, stuff started happening. It is what it is man. People can have their opinions. Thatās their right. I know who I am. Itās wrestling. This isnāt the easiest of things to do, and I know everybody wants to be safe and stuff, but this stuff is dangerous to do. As much as everyone wants to be like, āHeās dangerous.ā Thereās a reason Iām in the ring. These people are not. What we do is very dangerous, and thereās a reason Iām doing this dangerous thing and theyāre watching this dangerous thing.ā