Scrapped Pitch For New Member Of Death Triangle Revealed

Death Triangle are one of the most dominant - if not rarely seen - trios in All Elite Wrestling, with the team of Penta El Zero M, Rey Fenix, and PAC having won a litany of titles since joining forces in 2020.

At one point there was a pitch for a potential fourth member to join the team (Death Rhombus?) as former AEW talent Fuego Del Sol revealed on YouTube:

“The first storyline pitch that I want to talk to you guys about is Fuego Del Sol joining the Death Triangle,” began Fuego. “In early 2022, I had a random match on Rampage with the House of Black. It was just supposed to be a one time thing where me and Bear Country wrestled the House of Black because they needed some guys to beat that night. However, Malakai and Buddy saw the reaction that I was getting from the crowd and decided to prolong this, because as they were in a rivalry with the Death Triangle at the time, Fenix had gotten hurt, and they needed to kill some time until Fenix’s return. So in the meantime, they thought they would feud with me to eventually set up the big return of Fenix and the Death Triangle.”

Fuego continued, noting how there were plans for him to have tension with PAC during the arc:

“Because this randomly fell in my lap and I was going to get to wrestle the House of Black a few more times, I realised this could be an opportunity for me to do something bigger, and I thought I would make a great apprentice to the Lucha Brothers, and then I could have a really fun dynamic going back and forth with PAC. Like PAC didn’t like me, but I was trying to earn his respect.

“The Lucha Brothers liked me and saw that I had potential, and I wanted to slowly but surely have this fun back and forth with PAC, where he treats me like crap. He could beat me up, throw me around, do all the dastardly bastard things that PAC does, but I slowly but surely earned his respect as the apprentice to the Death Triangle. I don’t think you would have made it a Death Square by any means, but just an apprentice to the Death Triangle,” said Fuego.

Ultimately, the story never happened, with Fuego wondering if the pitch ever reached Tony Khan:

“I talked to PAC about it backstage. He liked the idea. He told me to pitch it. I talked to a couple people in management about it, but I don’t know if it even ever got back to Tony Khan. However, the night that Fenix did return, the House of Black did a cool angle where they laid me out on stage that then led to Fenix’s big comeback and their subsequent feud. Even though we didn’t get to do it, I did really like the idea and thought it would be a really fun thing to try to earn PAC’s respect each week, while being an understudy to two of the best lucha guys in the world,” said Fuego.

H/T: Inside the Ropes