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WWE acquired Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) before WrestleMania 41 successful 2025 and nan Mexican promotion’s maturation complete nan past twelvemonth whitethorn beryllium 1 of nan underrated stories successful pro wrestling complete nan past 15 months.
AAA garnered a ton of attraction pinch nan buildup to its Mask vs. Mask lucifer betwixt El Grande Americano and Original El Grande Americano, Worlds Collide successful June 2025 was a awesome measurement to present to re-introduce Lucha Libre to an American assemblage and TripleMania is going to beryllium a two-night arena for nan first clip successful nan company’s history.
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El Grande Americano enters nan CHI Health Center successful Omaha, Neb., accompanied by Rayo Americano and Bravo Americano during Monday Night RAW connected May 4, 2026. (Georgina Dallas/WWE)
"I deliberation it’s nan hottest programme successful nan world correct now. It’s unbelievable. They sewage unthinkable characters," WWE Hall of Famer John Bradshaw Layfield told Fox News Digital successful a caller interview.
He recalled working successful Mexico early successful his profession and really unthinkable nan power was successful nan state erstwhile he would execute there.
"I’d spell down location and activity and group person thought since past if Lucha Libre ever takes off, arsenic I’d ever opportunity this is simply a sleeping giant, I deliberation what group are now starting to spot what we’ve known each on astir Lucha Libre is conscionable fantastic. There’s Incredible characters. There’s unthinkable passion, particularly pinch nan Mexican fans. I’ve ever enjoyed moving down there. I ever opportunity you gotta activity successful a fewer arenas to make it successful life. You gotta activity astatine nan Sportatorium, you gotta activity astatine Staples Center, you gotta activity astatine The Garden, you gotta activity successful Budokan, you gotta activity successful Earls Court – anyplace successful Mexico is for illustration that.
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JBL makes his entranceway during WWE RAW astatine American Airlines Center connected January 20, 2025 successful Dallas, Texas. (WWE / Getty Images)
"It’s conscionable unbelievable. The passion that nan group person down location – I emotion it. And I conscionable deliberation that AAA has done an unthinkable job. Jeremy Borash, who is incredibly talented, Undertaker, who is simply a bully friend of excavation and besides a very smart guy, I judge they’ve conscionable done an unthinkable occupation pinch nan product."
Mask vs. Mask was 1 of nan first awesome hits since the WWE acquisition was announced.
It saw El Grande Americano conclusion Original El Grande Americano, who later revealed himself to beryllium Chad Gable. The lucifer had everything a pro wrestling instrumentality could want – unthinkable characters, breathtaking buildup and 1 of nan champion matches of nan year.
Bradshaw said location were 2 matches he’s seen successful his profession that he thought nan men successful nan ringing were doing a "different creation form." – Fit Finlay vs. Tony St. Clair successful Europe and Shawn Michaels vs. The Undertaker astatine WrestleMania 25. He said nan Mask vs. Mask lucifer felt very overmuch nan same.
"I felt nan aforesaid measurement pinch Mask vs. Mask. I ne'er thought I’d spot different lucifer (like that)," Bradshaw said. "I was hoping I would but I don’t cognize if I’d ever spot a lucifer for illustration I saw pinch Finlay and St. Clair and Undertaker and Shawn Michaels. I’d put that successful that category. I conscionable thought it was perfectly incredible. The passion, nan emotion that went pinch it. Everything astir it worked."
Now, El Grande Americano has a caller situation – nan revitalization of Los Perros del Mal.
The group precocious reformed pinch Daga, Angel, Berto, Bronco Nima and Karmen Petrovic wreaking havoc connected nan AAA roster.
Bradshaw said he was looking guardant to seeing wherever nan caller communicative goes.
Karmen Petrovic looks connected during NXT astatine nan WWE Performance Center connected June 30, 2026 successful Orlando, Florida. (Conor Kvatek / WWE via Getty Images)
"It conscionable kills maine pinch Los Perros del Mal. It’s kinda for illustration successful episodic tv for illustration successful ‘The Walking Dead’ erstwhile nan politician dies and it’s like, ‘What are you gonna do now?’ And past each of abrupt you person a caller villain," he told Fox News Digital. "The first time of nan adjacent play and you go, ‘Oh great! This is awesome.’ I’m watching ‘Blacklist’ and arsenic soon arsenic they get free of 1 villain you person different 1 comes in. … And you’re reasoning what could apical that?
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"As soon arsenic we sewage done pinch Mask vs. Mask, Jeremy Borash starts bringing backmost Los Perros del Mal – this unthinkable group. That ocular of them there, I conscionable thought, my God, man, this is awesome. Now we sewage thing for, I don’t cognize really long, nan adjacent twelvemonth aliases immoderate agelong it is. But this is an unthinkable caller travel it’s gonna look for illustration for El Grande Americano."
Ryan Gaydos is simply a elder editor for Fox News Digital.
