strobogo Posted Saturday at 09:26 PM Report Share Posted Saturday at 09:26 PM Just announced on the preshow with all of the luchadores in WWE and Vikingo. That sure came out of nowhere. They will be holding Worlds Collide June 7th at the LA Forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted Saturday at 09:43 PM Report Share Posted Saturday at 09:43 PM AAA is a shit company, has been for a while. Still. Yeah ! Global monopoly ! How great ! *yawn* (does that mean Alberto is out of a job ?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blehschmidt Posted Saturday at 10:30 PM Report Share Posted Saturday at 10:30 PM I thought these types were worried about Mexicans taking their jobs, not the other way around. I'll see myself out..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted Saturday at 10:37 PM Report Share Posted Saturday at 10:37 PM Clap clap clap. Mexican people being fed pro-wrestling by a Trump supporting company is quite the irony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted Sunday at 10:13 AM Report Share Posted Sunday at 10:13 AM Between Lesveque talking about how he'll keep "traditional lucha" alive (yeah, that's absolutely what AAA was about), Stephanie Vaquer standing her while the company that employs the family of the guy who tried to murder her is being brought in the light, Andrade looking like he fears he's gonna get sent back working to Mexico on a regular basis, this is quite the collective hallucination. This is of course awful for the pro-wrestling landscape, no matter how awful AAA has been lately. I wonder if they are gonna rename it Triple A. I also wonder if they basically are gonna send every malcontent people they have there as punishment (come on, they would TOTALLY do that). No one asked a question about Alberto at the presser I guess, uh ? Maybe he's gonna be fired like Jarrett was on Nitro. Holy fuck ! Speaking of Jarrett, he's kind reliving the end of Nitro ! Of sorts ! Also, Konnan. Proud of himself I guess. What about la Hiedra (against whom Vaquer has a defamation lawsuit or something of that sort) ? What about all the people who CMLL has blacklisted and that WWE don't want ? Anywoo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Elliott Posted Sunday at 10:31 AM Report Share Posted Sunday at 10:31 AM On history alone, a really sad day for pro wrestling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted Sunday at 01:13 PM Report Share Posted Sunday at 01:13 PM Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert S Posted Sunday at 02:41 PM Report Share Posted Sunday at 02:41 PM 4 hours ago, El-P said: (...) I wonder if they are gonna rename it Triple A. (...) I am realizing only now that in some way Triple H bought AAA, at least there is something funny about this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strobogo Posted Sunday at 02:57 PM Author Report Share Posted Sunday at 02:57 PM AAA becomes HHH in 2025, love to see it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted Sunday at 02:58 PM Report Share Posted Sunday at 02:58 PM I mean, honestly I couldn't give two fucks about AAA. This company is horrible, has put a women-beater/rapist as its top star (and as it stands, he still is). They can get fucked. The real issue is the overall effect on the Mexican market, CMLL and lucha libre as a culture in the long run. Gotta love the fact that on the same day, they announce they purchased the #2 company in Mexico and Fénix debut at Mania doing the job to a racist anti-Mexican gimmick that is getting cheered by the American audiences. Yeah, Levesque sure "loves the style". Plus, let's not kid ourselves. They are gonna try to do the same thing in Japan and Europe too. It's most probably in the plans already. Fuck, if they announced on the pre-show they purchased NOAH and in a month Naito shows up there I won't even be that surprised. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jmare007 Posted Sunday at 02:58 PM Report Share Posted Sunday at 02:58 PM Man, this news having barely any traction here and basically none at DVDVR really shows how these boards are truly dead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert S Posted Sunday at 03:04 PM Report Share Posted Sunday at 03:04 PM 3 minutes ago, Jmare007 said: Man, this news having barely any traction here and basically none at DVDVR really shows how these boards are truly dead There are about four page on this at DVDVR (though far) in the general April discussion thread, so I wouldn't say there were no reactions over there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert S Posted Sunday at 03:11 PM Report Share Posted Sunday at 03:11 PM 5 minutes ago, El-P said: (...) Plus, let's not kid ourselves. They are gonna try to do the same thing in Japan and Europe too. It's most probably in the plans already. Fuck, if they announced on the pre-show they purchased NOAH and in a month Naito shows up there I won't even be that surprised. It feels like that they have these kind of plans every 10 years. There is this famous picture of Triple H in front of a world map with lot of small NXT markers on different parts of the world and I am pretty sure there were similar news sometimes in the early to mid aughts. Anyway, who could they grab in Europe? Both RevPro and wXw feel too small to make actual plays for real fulltime touring companies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted Sunday at 03:23 PM Report Share Posted Sunday at 03:23 PM They would sure love to kill off RevPro since they are affiliated with NJPW/CMLL and friends with AEW. wXw I'm guessing would work for them. And really, having a fulltime touring company is not even the goal. The goal is to own everything and kill off the rest. They have already infiltrated the US indies with the ID stuff. They are like a cancer, really. It's a global plan. TKO is taking over boxing too and making their best effort to hurt boxers rights. They want it all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KawadaSmile Posted Sunday at 03:27 PM Report Share Posted Sunday at 03:27 PM Yeah, this move fucking sucked. Even in the best of cases, which is a matter of ownership and an occasional spot for wrestlers to get more experience or try to promote eventual joint shows, we are still talking about a huge overseas company being bought out by a, pardon the pun, a Titan. It's already snowballing into complete monopoly and that fucking sucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jmare007 Posted Sunday at 03:29 PM Report Share Posted Sunday at 03:29 PM 25 minutes ago, Robert S said: There are about four page on this at DVDVR (though far) in the general April discussion thread, so I wouldn't say there were no reactions over there. Ahhh, that's were it was. I went to the lucha sub forum and got depressed at how empty it was, lmao. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDuke Posted Sunday at 03:46 PM Report Share Posted Sunday at 03:46 PM I think the idea is that if you own all the places wrestlers are able to work then you can pay them less because where else are they gonna go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted Sunday at 03:57 PM Report Share Posted Sunday at 03:57 PM 12 minutes ago, TheDuke said: I think the idea is that if you own all the places wrestlers are able to work then you can pay them less because where else are they gonna go. No shit. Hell, they already do that. Even CM Punk talked about it this week (which was an amazing moment of lucidity on his part, and he doesn't have many). Plus, they already lowballed Stephanie Vaquer (she got a bigger offer from AEW, bigger to the point WWE told her to take the offer) and she still went with them because it was her "dream" (call that brainwashing rather). I dunno how her dream looks like now that WWE has bought out people who support the man who tried to murder her (even Konnan has talked shit about her I think, and hell, Alberto and all as the champ so...). Another fascinating tidbit, remember how Hijo de Dr. Wagner was supposed to sign with WWE, then signed with AAA. Well, the end result is the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRH Posted Sunday at 04:44 PM Report Share Posted Sunday at 04:44 PM I've heard BTW that AAA only owns the rights to 1997 and up footage, and that Televisa owns the pre-97 footage, so even the benefit of having AAA footage is still limited (if they even do anything with it). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted Sunday at 06:17 PM Report Share Posted Sunday at 06:17 PM Great write-up by cusbfan : https://thecubsfan.com/cmll/2025/04/20/wwe-buys-lucha-libre-aaa/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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