Posted April 19Apr 19 comment_6029129 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.
April 19Apr 19 comment_6029132 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 ?)
April 19Apr 19 comment_6029134 I thought these types were worried about Mexicans taking their jobs, not the other way around. I'll see myself out.....
April 19Apr 19 comment_6029137 Clap clap clap. Mexican people being fed pro-wrestling by a Trump supporting company is quite the irony.
April 20Apr 20 comment_6029229 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.
April 20Apr 20 comment_6029244 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.
April 20Apr 20 comment_6029246 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.
April 20Apr 20 comment_6029247 Man, this news having barely any traction here and basically none at DVDVR really shows how these boards are truly dead
April 20Apr 20 comment_6029249 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.
April 20Apr 20 comment_6029250 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.
April 20Apr 20 comment_6029251 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.
April 20Apr 20 comment_6029252 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.
April 20Apr 20 comment_6029253 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.
April 20Apr 20 comment_6029255 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.
April 20Apr 20 comment_6029256 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.
April 20Apr 20 comment_6029257 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).
April 20Apr 20 comment_6029261 Great write-up by cusbfan : https://thecubsfan.com/cmll/2025/04/20/wwe-buys-lucha-libre-aaa/
May 24May 24 comment_6030297 On 4/20/2025 at 2:17 PM, El-P said: Great write-up by cusbfan : https://thecubsfan.com/cmll/2025/04/20/wwe-buys-lucha-libre-aaa/ One thing that stood out to me while reading this is that most of the luchadors AAA uses aren't under contract or as the article puts it, they work "verbal deals". I;m no businessman but that seems like it could complicate matters.
May 24May 24 comment_6030299 4 hours ago, Autistic Dragon said: One thing that stood out to me while reading this is that most of the luchadors AAA uses aren't under contract or as the article puts it, they work "verbal deals". I;m no businessman but that seems like it could complicate matters. Thats actually pretty common in Mexico outside of CMLL. Promotions there run like the territories used to for the most part, folks will come and go fairly often. Also based stories that go around, AAA contracts are only contracts in the loosest sense of the word. That's why WWE is getting top AAA people to sign new contracts, so they have them under something that's actually legally enforceable.
May 24May 24 comment_6030311 If I recall, a lot of that had to do with giving folks freedom to work elsewhere given AAA knew they had money problems, so they couldn’t just keep folks under a binding contract knowing they wouldn’t be able to make money otherwise.
June 1Jun 1 comment_6030637 There was a graphic on Raw that advertised El Hijo del Vikingo vs. Chad Gable for the World's Collide show on 6/7, and announced it for the AAA Mega Title. Our friendly neighborhood CubsFan jumped right on it, pointing out that Vikingo isn't the champion, and that he's challenging Alberto for the title on 5/31. And wouldn't you know who won the pony; Vikingo defeated Alberto last night for the title.
June 11Jun 11 comment_6031144 So, Triplemania Regia will indeed have Alberto vs Vikingo as the main event. Uh. Really no WWE talent at all. They do get some WWE's third developmental TNA guys, with Moose and Joe Hendry in an X-division match including El Mesias and Hijo de Dr. Wagner (yeah, the X-division has basically been killed by Moose holding the title for months) and the Nemeth Brothers in a 4-way tag team title match, which means Samson & Forastero are also on the card. No La Hiedra though. So, very much somewhat of a AAA card of old on paper.
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