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Konnan on AAA’s future after WWE purchase: ‘With money, you’ll see what we can do’

Posted on by Ian Carey

Konnan addressed several questions regarding WWE’s purchase of AAA during a recent episode of his Keepin’ It 100 podcast.

News of the sale was announced at WrestleMania 41, and shortly after, it was revealed that Jeremy Borash will head up creative for AAA alongside Konnan, someone he has worked with dating back to WCW and continuing in TNA Wrestling.

“He’s a creative genius, no doubt about it,” Konnan said about Borash. “And there’s nothing more fun, as you know, wrestling against your friends or working with your friends, right? He’s a good friend, so it’s going to be a lot of fun.”

Konnan also stressed that now that AAA is under WWE’s umbrella, the production quality of its broadcasts will improve.

“Our problem in AAA isn’t our talent, isn’t our booking, it’s that we didn’t have any money. So for example, they said in WWE that if you put all our TVs together for one year, it’s not as much as they spend on one TV in the United States,” Konnan said.

“Our show will look a lot better and we’re going to be able to work with their talent, not just NXT talent. And now with money, you’ll see what we can do.”

At one point, Disco Inferno suggested that a future AAA main event could feature Dominik Mysterio defending the AAA Mega Championship against El Grande Americano. Konnan responded:

“We’ve already kind of talked about that. They will both be involved, but I don’t think that will be the match.”

Konnan said the reason Dorian Roldan sold the company was not that AAA was at risk of going out of business, but that Roldan recognized they could not grow without outside help.

“Bro, the reason they sold the company is not because we were going out of business. The reason they sold the company is because Dorian Rodan put his ego to the side and he understood we could never grow if we didn’t have help and capital, and now we have it. But business is not bad.”

“The last two years, all of our TVs have been from 85% to full, right? Our business is not bad.”

Asked if WWE’s purchase would make AAA more accessible to English-speaking fans and audiences outside of Mexico, Konnan responded that this was “1000 percent” correct. He also confirmed that he will not be writing Disco Inferno into AAA storylines.

“Let me tell you, for all the haters that were out there and throwing shade at me this weekend, bro. What happened? You can’t stop it. And what’s going to happen? You can’t stop that either. And the only thing we’re going to give you is a much better finished product, and that benefits everybody, and more work to a lot of people, and more work to other Latinos that a lot of people complain and say why aren’t they being used correctly? Now they will.”

The full video of Konnan discussing WWE’s purchase of AAA is available below:

Penta El Zero Miedo makes surprise appearance at AAA TV tapings

Posted on by Matt Boone

There was a Penta El Zero Miedo sighting on Saturday night.

Following the expiration of his AEW contract, the popular masked luchador made a surprise appearance at the AAA Lucha Libre television taping on Saturday. He came to the ring during the show and led the fans in a “Cero Miedo” chant before cutting a brief promo for the live crowd in attendance.

After making the brief unadvertised appearance, the international wrestling star was featured in a post on the company’s social media channels.

He recently entered free agency following the expiration of his AEW contract after working for the promotion since its inception back in 2019, primarily with Rey Fenix as the Lucha Bros and with Fenix and PAC as Death Triangle. Earlier this week, his profile on AEW’s website was removed.

Penta hasn’t wrestled since late-September.

Fenix is still under contract with AEW due to injury time being added under his existing deal.

AAA announces September 15th MSG debut, LA date coming soon

Posted on by Ethan Renner

Additional reporting provided by Dave Meltzer

AAA is officially heading to Madison Square Garden. 

At a Thursday press conference, Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide announced a show for NYC on Sunday, September 15: the first time they have been back since July 1994 when they ran the adjoining theater.

Tickets will go on sale May 4th on Ticketmaster with expected streaming options to be announced at a later date. No matches were announced, but it was said there will be a lot of surprises.

Both the event date and on-sale date have intended Mexican significance. The show is the day before Mexican Independence Day while the on-sale date is Cinco de Mayo, a nod to the Hispanic community in New York which they hope to draw from. 

MSG officials were talking about the event selling out thanks in part to fly-ins. 

After years as a WWE stronghold, the AAA show will be the second high profile, non-WWE pro wrestling event held at MSG this year, following this Saturday’s joint ROH/NJPW show. 

Peter Luuko of Oak View Group is responsible for bringing AAA to MSG which is the start of the promotion coming to major arenas around the country. A Los Angeles date at The Forum will be announced in a few weeks.

At this point, there is no AEW involvement.

At the press event, AAA managing director Dorian Roldan said, “This is one of the important moments in the history of the company since its founding in 1992” and that it’s the start of “their new strategy.” This Venues Now feature speaks to the Arena Alliance partnership and possible cities AAA could also try to go to.

Part of that strategy is to focus on the U.S., Latin America, and Colombia markets through 2020.

The press event featured Roldan, Hugo Savinovich, Konnan, Daga, Puma King, Aerostar, Fenix, Drago, Taya, Tessa Blanchard, Blue Demon Jr., and Pentagon Jr. with several of them speaking during the event. Ed Nordholm and Scott D’Amore of Anthem/Impact Wrestling were also in attendance.