Sammy Guevara

Samuel Guevara (born July 28, 1993) is an American professional wrestler signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he was a former member of the Jericho Appreciation Society.

He is a record tying three-time former AEW TNT Champion.

He also appears in AEW's Mexico based partner promotion Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA), where he is a former AAA Mixed Tag Team Champion with real life wife Tay Melo, and a former AAA Cruiserweight Champion.

Sammy Guevara was born on July 28, 1993, in Houston, Texas, to a Cuban father and an American mother.

He grew up in the nearby suburb of Katy, Texas, and his parents divorced when Sammy was young.

Guevara became a fan of wrestling in 2004 when he went to a WWE Smackdown show in Houston where he saw Booker T and Rey Mysterio wrestle.

Guevara made his professional wrestling debut in 2010 - after being trained by Booker T - beginning his career in Booker's Reality of Wrestling promotion.

Throughout the 2010s, he worked for numerous U.S. companies, most notably Impact Wrestling.

He has also wrestled in Japan with DDT Pro Wrestling.

He later decided he wanted to become a professional wrestler, so he went to Booker T's Reality of Wrestling wrestling school in Houston in 2010.

After graduating from Booker T's wrestling school, Guevara made his major promotion debut on January 5, 2013, for the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA).

On April 7, 2016, Guevara wrestled a AAA tag team dark match with Tony Guevara (The Laredo Kid) against Los Matadores (Primo and Epico Colón).

Guevara first worked for Impact Wrestling in 2017 on its weekly TV show, Impact Xplosion, in a tag team match (with Davey Richards) against Drago and Taiji Ishimori.

Guevara was later in Impact's Super X Cup tournament, losing to Drago in its opening round.

Guevara debuted for Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) in its 2017 Battle of Los Angeles tournament, advancing to the quarterfinals.

On December 7, 2017, Guevara debuted in Major League Wrestling (MLW), and appeared many times on its TV show (MLW Fusion) in 2018.

At PWG's May 2018 Bask In His Glory event, Guevara wrestled PWG World Champion WALTER in the main event for the title.

Guevara made his Lucha Libre AAA World Wide debut at Verano de Escándalo 2018.

Guevara has been with AEW since the promotion's founding in 2019, featured early on as a member of Chris Jericho's first stable, The Inner Circle.

Guevara won the PWFP Ultimate Championship from Raja Naveed at the "Rumble in Pakistan" event on April 28, 2019, but was later stripped of the title for going 340+ days without making any title defenses.

Guevara was a cast member for season four of Lucha Underground, the scripted TV show AAA co-produced with the El Rey network.

He won the AAA World Cruiserweight Championship at the Triplemanía XXVI annual event on August before losing it to Laredo Kid on February 16, 2019.

At Triplemanía XXVII, Guevara teamed up with Scarlett Bordeaux in a match for the AAA World Mixed Tag Team Championship where they were unsuccessful.

On February 7, 2019, Guevara was announced to have signed with the newly formed All Elite Wrestling (AEW).

At the promotion's inaugural event, Double or Nothing, on May 25, Guevara was defeated by Kip Sabian.

At Fight for the Fallen on July 13, Guevara teamed with MJF and Shawn Spears to defeat Darby Allin, Jimmy Havoc and Joey Janela in a six-man tag team match.

On the premiere episode of AEW Dynamite on October 2, Guevara lost to Cody.

After the match, Guevara shook hands with Cody, before AEW World Champion Chris Jericho viciously attacked Cody from behind in front of him.

Later on that night, Guevara established himself as a heel when he assisted AEW World Champion Chris Jericho, Jake Hager (who made his AEW debut), Santana and Ortiz attacking Cody, The Young Bucks and Cody's half-brother Dustin Rhodes.

They created a group that would become known as "The Inner Circle".

Guevara would then begin a feud with Darby Allin leading into 2020, all the while assisting Jericho in his rivalries and championship defenses.

At Revolution on February 29, 2020, Guevara was defeated by Allin.

On the March 25 episode of AEW, The Inner Circle and The Elite were set to compete in a Blood and Guts match, but the COVID-19 outbreak would cause AEW to postpone the match.

Guevara would then compete in a tournament to crown the inaugural AEW TNT Champion.

He was again beaten by Allin in the first round of the tournament.

A match between Matt Hardy and The Elite (Adam Page, Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks) and The Inner Circle would be announced for Double or Nothing, called a Stadium Stampede match.

At the event, The Inner Circle faced The Elite and Matt Hardy, but were unsuccessful in winning.

On June 22, 2020, Guevara was suspended by AEW after it was revealed that he made an inappropriate joke about wanting to "go rape" WWE wrestler Sasha Banks during a podcast in January 2016.

He later made a YouTube video apologizing for the remarks and taking accountability for what he said.

Later that day, Banks announced that she and Guevara were in contact with each other, that he had apologized to her, and that they had engaged in an "open discussion" to help him understand the severity of his comments.