WWE purchases AAA

[The Thread Killer]

One thing that seems especially odd to me, is the fact that AAA/WWE was promoting the Triplemania Regia show during the Worlds Collide broadcast, and they also apparently promoted it on NXT last night, but as of now, there is no way to legally see the show in North America. Not on PPV, or YouTube or even Triller.  Why promote a show people can’t see?

[El-P]

Why promote a show headlined by a brutal rapist is the actual question.

(as far as no way to watch it legally in the US, it's irrelevant because no one would anyway. It's not a WWEAAA show like Worlds Collide was. The fact there's zero actual WWE workers on it is telling. I'm guessing they were promoting it just for facade, as the deal is not inked yet)

[The Thread Killer]

So, I don’t know if anybody has actually been watching, but much to my surprise, the weekly AAA show has become a must watch. Partially I think it’s because it’s only an hour so even if it’s not great it’s not a chore to sit through.

But in the larger picture, I’ll be damned if they somehow haven’t managed to turn the Americano vs Americano feud into one of the hottest angles I’ve seen in quite some time. Even Jim Cornette of all people had to give them credit after they shot that super hot segment on the April 11 episode, where OG Americano attacked that blind comedian, and then went after the female interviewer (who apparently everybody knows is Ludwig Kaiser’s girlfriend IRL.)

At first, I was a little annoyed that they were focusing this feud south of the border and weren’t going to do the Mask vs Mask match at Wrestlemania, but considering what a shit show Wrestlemania turned out to be, and taking the insanely hot crowds and massive popularity of Americano II into consideration, it turned out to be the smart decision to keep this angle confined to AAA.

It’s also nice to see acts like Los Garza, Fenix, the LWO and War Raiders get a chance to get some decent ring time there as well. I’ve actually been enjoying the angle between War Raiders and Psycho Circus.

@sek69, I don’t suppose you have been watching?

[sek69]

I have been off and on, and it's still kind of jarring to see AAA shows with coherent booking that actually leads to a payoff eventually. 

[NotJayTabb]

AAA is booked by the Undertaker, right? Feels like a really strange fit, and the fact that it's actually going well is even odder. 

[El-P]

For all intents and purposes, AAA is basically NXT Mexico. After a single year, the product has been streamlined to the point there's not much actual lucha libre left at all (and yeah, AAA was always been a americanized version of lucha, stuck in the late 90's, but it was still very much rooted in lucha culture still). The audience is basically Mexican WWE fans (a point illustrated before by the reaction, of lack thereof, a guy like Hijo del Fantasma got when he showed up with his mask, only to get one when he unmasked as Santos Escobar from WWE). That's what WWE wanted. The thing is, I can't even be sorry about AAA. Their last two years was Konnan and Dorian booking Alberto el Rapist as their world champ. AAA deserved nothing but contempt.

3 hours ago, NotJayTabb said:

AAA is booked by the Undertaker, right?

Well... He's working with Jeremy Borash. But of course, he's the one being credited. I feel like this is going the same way as old NXT. It's an easy show to book, being taped one every three weeks or so. They have some cool workers who can do more than they would elsewhere in the WWE landscape. It's still fresh to the eyes of US WWE audience for now. So Taker is gonna get much more credit than he deserves for doing a real easy job, that he isn't doing by himself anyway. (don't get me started on the political aspect of a MAGAhead booking a Mexican promotion bought by a Trump adjacent American company)

The thing is, after one year, they still haven't sold the rights to a US TV, which was the basic reason they bought the thing.