Angel Ortiz / Ortiz Mike Draztik / Mike Santana / Santana
Name(s)
The Latin American Xchange / LAX EYFBO Proud & Powerful Santana and Ortiz
Billed from
New York City, New York
Debut
March 9, 2012
Years active
2012–2023
Santana and Ortiz, sometimes nicknamed Proud & Powerful, were an American-Puerto Rican professional wrestling tag team consisting of Mark Sanchez (born February 4, 1991) and Miguel Molina (born September 27, 1991), who are best known for their time together in All Elite Wrestling (AEW).[1]
In 2012, Sanchez and Molina, then known as Mike Draztik and Angel Ortiz respectively, formed a tag team known as EYFBO (acronym for Entertain Your Fucking Balls Off or Entertain Your Freakin Butt Off)[2] and worked for several years on the American independent scene. They won several titles, including the AAW Tag Team Championship, CZW World Tag Team Championship and the HOG Tag Team Championship.
In 2017, they were hired by Impact Wrestling, and changed their names to Ortiz and Santana. They joined Konnan as the members of the stable The Latin American Xchange (LAX) and became a big part of the promotion's tag team division. During their time in Impact, they were four time Impact World Tag Team Champions, holding the record for most combined days as champions, with 662 days and, at one point, the record as the longest reign with 261 days. They also won GFW Tag Team Championship and unified the title with the Impact Tag Team Championship. Santana and Ortiz left the promotion in 2019 and, soon after, joined the newly created All Elite Wrestling, where they joined Chris Jericho's stable The Inner Circle. After a dispute in The Inner Circle, they left and teamed up with Eddie Kingston.
^AEW Staff (November 9, 2019). "AEW FULL GEAR Recap November 9, 2019 (**Includes Spoilers**)". allelitewrestling.com. All Elite Wrestling. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
^"EYFBO/LAX Interview · The Indy Corner". www.theindycorner.com. Archived from the original on 2018-08-14.
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