During an appearance on the Something To Wrestle podcast, JBL revealed that he will join Corey Graves at the announce desk for the upcoming AAA event TripleMania XXXIII.
Noting that the company asked him to do it, the WWE Hall of Famer added:
I just got the deal from WWE — not a deal. They asked me to come out and do commentary. Some of you call that a deal or not. It’s an engagement, it’s an appearance, whatever you want to call it but, I’m very excited to go be a part of Triplemanía.
Graves was previously announced to lead the English commentary team for the event, coming off his work at Worlds Collide in July alongside Konnan.
Layfield worked with AAA prior to the company’s acquisition by WWE in April, something he makes note of when talking about the call asking to join the call at TripleMania.
It’s gonna be a lot of fun down there… I’ve been going down there ever since the early 90s. That’s where I first met Konnan right after the first Triplemanía which he headlined by the way. I think it was the biggest crowd in AAA history down there… I’ve been going down there ever since and so I’ve been working some with AAA. I love Dorian Roldán down there.
I mean, it’s the Antonio Peña, the whole legacy of everything that is AAA, and then, didn’t know if I was coming back, you know, because of the WWE buying AAA, and then they give me a call last week saying, ‘Hey, would you come do commentary for the show?’ And I said — that doesn’t take but a nanosecond. ‘Yes! Yes! Absolutely, I’d love to.’ I can’t wait to be down there.
AAA TripleMania XXXIII takes place Sunday, August 16 from Arena CDMX in Mexico City, and will stream live on WWE’s YouTube channel with English and Spanish-language commentary.
Source: Fightful