05-05-2025
Former AEW Favorite Fuego Del Sol Shocks Fans with Fake Retirement
One of the biggest matches at WrestleMania weekend didn't take place on a WWE show. Joey Janela's Spring Break sparked the trend of a large assortment of independent shows to go along with WrestleMania. This year's Spring Break 9 event in Las Vegas included former AEW favorite Fuego del Sol's match against Atticus Cogar.
The stakes were high. If Fuego lost, the Alabama high-flyer would have to unmask. For a luchador, that's the worst thing that could happen. Cogar was putting his career in Game Changer Wrestling on the line. Considering his recent decision to shift away from deathmatch wrestling, it seemed like Cogar would lose.
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But no! Cogar won the match. Not only did Fuego remove his mask, but he also left his wrestling boots in the ring. That usually signals a retirement. He thanked his fans on X and said it was time to return to his family.
Nobody was prepared for what would happen next.
At GCW's weekend show in Los Angeles, the unmasked Fuego returned to the ring and unleashed a brutal taser attack against his longtime friend, Sam Stackhouse. Fuego smashed Stackhouse repeatedly with a steel chair and then came back with a wooden chair!
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Fuego will not be retiring, as he will continue to wrestle under the name of KJ Orso. He fooled everyone with this ruse, and now he's ready to reinvent himself on the independent scene.
The fans loved Fuego when he competed in the early days of AEW. Cody Rhodes even teamed up with him once as 'Fuego Dos.' Let's see if his change of heart and attitude leads him to WWE or back to AEW.
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