During his most recent Keepin’ It 100 podcast, Konnan spoke on WWE’s acquisition of Lucha Libre AAA World Wide.
The former WCW star confirmed that Jeremy Borash will be heading up creative for AAA.
“He’s a creative genius, no doubt about it. 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 noted that the issue with AAA is not the talent or booking, but that the promotion lacked money, so now with the financial resources backed by TKO, now the fans will see what AAA can do.
“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. 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.”
On the main reason AAA was sold to WWE.
“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.
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The first event under the TKO umbrella will be Worlds Collide on Saturday, June 7 emanating from the KIA Forum in Inglewood, California. The event will stream live on Peacock in the US and Netflix for international fans, beginning at 12:00pm PT/3:00 pm ET. Later on in the day, WWE will hold Money in the Bank at the Intuit Dome in the same city. MITB will have a start time of 4:00 pm PT/7:00 pm ET.