News WWE Has Officially Acquired AAA

[LeonardoBjj]

BY MATT BLACK
Ahead of WrestleMania 41, WWE announced that they have officially acquired AAA.

Those who expected an uneventful kickoff show for WrestleMania 41 night one got quite the surprise this evening as Triple H announced that WWE had officially acquired AAA.

It was reported by WrestleVotes earlier this afternoon that a Worlds Collide event between WWE NXT and AAA was happening later this summer. The news surrounding this event turned out to be much bigger than anyone could have imagined.

One of the most popular AAA wrestlers in recent memory, El Hijo del Vikingo, was on hand for the announcement. As were multiple WWE Superstars who have all honed their craft in AAA.

You can check out the complete announcement in the embedded video below:



This is obviously a breaking story, and more news regarding this acquisition should be incoming this weekend.

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More from Triple H regarding this announcement​

UPDATE: Triple H took to social media following the announcement to state the following about the acquisition of AAA, tweeting out:

“A partnership that will benefit the entire world of sports-entertainment. @luchalibreaaa has been a cultural mainstay in Mexico and the home to many @WWE Superstars. This partnership will guarantee that AAA remains the premier destination for wrestling in Mexico. A special thank you as well to Patrick Dooley & Kevin Rohnke from @TKOGrp for helping to make this possible. Get ready for these two worlds to collide soon… The future flies here *Flame emoji,*” Triple H said in a post.

https://www.wrestlezone.com/news/1555203-wwe-has-officially-acquired-aaa

 

[Pittie Petey]

As a big time Lucha Libre fan, this is legit horrible news, there is not one single promotion ever in the history of the past 40 years that WWE acquired or even worked with that was made better or even allowed to exist for very long afterwards, this will be no different
RIP AAA , thankfully CMLL is on fire right now so I got one major promotion left to enjoy

 

[HereticBD]

As a big time Lucha Libre fan, this is legit horrible news, there is not one single promotion ever in the history of the past 40 years that WWE acquired or even worked with that was made better or even allowed to exist for very long afterwards, this will be no different
RIP AAA , thankfully CMLL is on fire right now so I got one major promotion left to enjoy

ECW was fire!

ZOMBIE! ZOMBIE! ZOMBIE!

 

[milliniar]

America Automobile association?

 

[David Street]

I remember Vince was gonna buy CMLL but CMLL wanted to sell their arenas as part of the deal: México, Coliseo, Puebla and Guadalajara. Vince backed out as he had no need of those arenas. (TKO could have used those arenas MMA matches in them too). But now that CMLL has reached new audiences partnering with RevPro, MLW Fusion & AEW not sure the Lutteroth family would consider selling anymore.

(AAA) Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide. Commonly referred to as simply AAA (pronounced "triple A" (yep like Triple H); an abbreviation of its original name Asistencia, Asesoría y Administración de Espectáculos, lit. 'Attendance, Advisory, and Administration of Spectacles') is a Mexican Lucha Libre (professional wrestling) promotion based in Mexico City, Mexico. It was founded in 1992, when Antonio Peña broke away from Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) to set up his own promotion to have more creative freedom. For awhile it was doing better then CMLL but has had serious down loss of popularity.

I think WWE will keep AAA not destroy the promotion these days many platforms/channels want WWE promotions/branches NXT, Smackdown, RAW...AAA...

 

[Pittie Petey]

I remember Vince was gonna buy CMLL but CMLL wanted to sell their arenas as part of the deal: México, Coliseo, Puebla and Guadalajara. Vince backed out as he had no need of those arenas, but TKO could of used those arenas. But now that CMLL has reached new audiences partnering with RevPro & AEW not sure the Lutteroth family would consider selling anymore.

(AAA) Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide. Commonly referred to as simply AAA (pronounced "triple A" (yep like Triple H); an abbreviation of its original name Asistencia, Asesoría y Administración de Espectáculos, lit. 'Attendance, Advisory, and Administration of Spectacles') is a Mexican Lucha Libre (professional wrestling) promotion based in Mexico City, Mexico. It was founded in 1992, when Antonio Peña broke away from Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) to set up his own promotion to have more creative freedom. For awhile it was doing better then CMLL but has had serious down loss of popularity.

I think WWE will keep AAA not destroy the promotion these days many platforms/channels want WWE promotions/branches NXT, Smackdown, RAW...AAA...

They may keep the name but they have no idea how to book Lucha Libre for Mexican fans, the spirit of the promotion will be crushed as it gets turned into just another training school putting out the WWE's version of bland, homogenized, slick, overproduced soulless corporate wrestling, with Taco Bell as a sponsor

 

[David Street]

They may keep the name but they have no idea how to book Lucha Libre for Mexican fans, the spirit of the promotion will be crushed as it gets turned into just another training school putting out the WWE's version of bland, homogenized, slick, overproduced soulless corporate wrestling, with Taco Bell as a sponsor

Nah, think they will mostly leave AAA alone, Maybe hire some better writers. The problem Triple H has with his new plan of WWE ID (WWE Independent Development™) to Identify, Support and Develop Independent Wrestling Schools and Wrestling Talent is to get them more experience to develop their style and develop an audience will be to send them to Mexico. Most new fighters develop best in Mexico and Japan. Once they are stars they will move up to their Netfix shows.

 

[Pittie Petey]

Nah, think they will mostly leave AAA alone, Maybe hire some better writers. The problem Triple H has with his new plan of WWE ID (WWE Independent Development™) to Identify, Support and Develop Independent Wrestling Schools and Wrestling Talent is to get them more experience to develop their style and develop an audience will be to send them to Mexico. Most new fighters develop best in Mexico and Japan. Once they are stars they will move up to their Netfix shows.

Hiring "better" writers is the very definition of interfering and changing everything so youre contradicting yourself in your very first sentence

These writers that you love so much are what fucked up WWE for so many years and turned it into the disaster it was for so long

AAA doesnt use writers, its a wrestling promotion, it uses a booker, changing that, which Im sure they will do, will in fact be a major change that starts us on the road to ruin

Can you name one single promotion that they ever acquired and then "mostly left alone"?

Spoiler alert, you cant because that is not how WWE operates, this isnt some guessing game based on opinions, they have a 40 plus year track record that shows you exactly how they operate, every single the playbook plays out the exact same way but, yea, Im sure this time will somehow magically be different

 

[David Street]

Hiring "better" writers is the very definition of interfering and changing everything so youre contradicting yourself in your very first sentence

These writers that you love so much are what fucked up WWE for so many years and turned it into the disaster it was for so long

AAA doesnt use writers, its a wrestling promotion, it uses a booker, changing that, which Im sure they will do, will in fact be a major change that starts us on the road to ruin

Can you name one single promotion that they ever acquired and then "mostly left alone"?

Spoiler alert, you cant because that is not how WWE operates, this isnt some guessing game based on opinions, they have a 40 plus year track record that shows you exactly how they operate, every single the playbook plays out the exact same way but, yea, Im sure this time will somehow magically be different

Vince is gone, WWE ID was something Vince would not do. The main WWE on Netflix is locked in a multi year contract. And to the surprise of all the other shows are doing well NXT has become the biggest draw on Fox. WWE and Triple H have discovered something that Japanese ProWrestling has known, that is you can have many succesful promotions Bushiroad inc. has women promotion ST★RDOM with audiences that love the women and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) the biggest promotion in Japan. And CyberFight [a part of CyberAgent) has Ganbare Pro-Wrestling which is comedy fun and Pro Wrestling Noah (who WWE was gonna buy) as very athletic, and they also have a women brand...

Fans focus on different areas Lucha is a unique area frankly they should bring the actor Jack Black in to promote it. And a script does not harm Lucha as not followed closely.

 

[Pittie Petey]

Vince is gone, WWE ID was something Vince would not do. The main WWE on Netflix is locked in a multi year contract. And to the surprise of all the other shows are doing well NXT has become the biggest draw on Fox. WWE and Triple H have discovered something that Japanese ProWrestling has known, that is you can have many succesful promotions Bushiroad inc. has women promotion ST★RDOM with audiences that love the women and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) the biggest promotion in Japan. And CyberFight [a part of CyberAgent) has Ganbare Pro-Wrestling which is comedy fun and Pro Wrestling Noah (who WWE was gonna buy) as very athletic, and they also have a women brand...

Fans focus on different areas Lucha is a unique area frankly they should bring the actor Jack Black in to promote it. And a script does not harm Lucha as not followed closely.

You have clearly never watched Lucha Libre a day in your life, no we dont want Nacho Libre as our champion, stick to your David Arquette fan fiction and leave us be

 

[Thrawn33]

I admittedly know jack shit about lucha wrestling, but despite our sometimes disagreeing: @Pittie Petey has proven track record of knowlege....

...and I agree, WWE/F has never improved a brand after purchasing it, they just use the name for as long as they can to make inroads into that market, pillage the assets then close down the company after absorbing what benefits them.

 

[DW=HERO]

You have clearly never watched Lucha Libre a day in your life, no we dont want Nacho Libre as our champion, stick to your David Arquette fan fiction and leave us be

We run the show

 

[Based God]

Vince is gone, WWE ID was something Vince would not do. The main WWE on Netflix is locked in a multi year contract. And to the surprise of all the other shows are doing well NXT has become the biggest draw on Fox. WWE and Triple H have discovered something that Japanese ProWrestling has known, that is you can have many succesful promotions Bushiroad inc. has women promotion ST★RDOM with audiences that love the women and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) the biggest promotion in Japan. And CyberFight [a part of CyberAgent) has Ganbare Pro-Wrestling which is comedy fun and Pro Wrestling Noah (who WWE was gonna buy) as very athletic, and they also have a women brand...

Fans focus on different areas Lucha is a unique area frankly they should bring the actor Jack Black in to promote it. And a script does not harm Lucha as not followed closely.

Bushiroad fucked up Stardom pretty bad after they bought it. They burned a ton of good will of Joshi wrestling fans and even other Joshi promotions. They literally had a mass exodus recently too including the founder leaving with a bunch of talent and starting a new promotion Marigold because of how badly Stardom has been ran.

Pro Wrestling NOAH also has largely sucked after Cyberfight bought it. Some of the most head scratching booking you'll ever see and full tours with like a 150 fans in attendance for each show. NOAH at one point had a run as the best wrestling promotion on the planet, now it's a glorified indy.

Your examples of big corporations buying out wrestling companies aren't very good if you're trying to say it's a good thing.

 

[Based God]

Remember when Evolve was a dope indy with the best indy talent in the world coming through it? Their list of Evolve World Champions included Drew McIntyre, Timothy Thatcher, Chris Hero, Zack Sabre Jr., Swerve Strickland, etc.

WWE bought Evolve, closed it down for 5 years, and just brought it back as a developmental brand for their PC trainees to get ring time before they go to NXT.

This is it now, Shawn Michaels giving PC trainees pep talks with "Evolve" puns

 

[David Street]

Your examples of big corporations buying out wrestling companies aren't very good if you're trying to say it's a good thing.

Not saying it is a good thing, nor bad. Read a couple articles and see that AAA was barely hanging on and see that WWE bought not from the family that runs it but from the holding company Fillip and was in trouble. If it was TKO that bought it I would feel safer that AAA would stick around, but looks like it is WWE that bought it to turn NXT into a Promotion that will challenge other promotions like NJPW/AEW/CMLL/Rev-Pro team up shows. But with AAA/NXT/TNA.

What I want to know is did WWE get the rights to Lucha Underground (TV Series 2014 – 2018) the American professional wrestling promotion & TV series founded in 2014 by United Artists Media Group. Partly owned by Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA), Lucha Underground had its weekly television program, which featured characters portrayed by wrestlers from AAA and the American and Mexican independent circuits. The series originally aired in English on El Rey Network and in Spanish on UniMás.

 

[Frank23]

 

[Frank23]

As a big time Lucha Libre fan, this is legit horrible news, there is not one single promotion ever in the history of the past 40 years that WWE acquired or even worked with that was made better or even allowed to exist for very long afterwards, this will be no different
RIP AAA , thankfully CMLL is on fire right now so I got one major promotion left to enjoy

They may keep the name but they have no idea how to book Lucha Libre for Mexican fans, the spirit of the promotion will be crushed as it gets turned into just another training school putting out the WWE's version of bland, homogenized, slick, overproduced soulless corporate wrestling, with Taco Bell as a sponsor

This is how I feel about it too. Well said.

 

[Big Nasty Edison]

I would like to acquire a bottle of Stephanie vaquers sweat.

 

[TheBrownRanger]

Not saying it is a good thing, nor bad. Read a couple articles and see that AAA was barely hanging on and see that WWE bought not from the family that runs it but from the holding company Fillip and was in trouble. If it was TKO that bought it I would feel safer that AAA would stick around, but looks like it is WWE that bought it to turn NXT into a Promotion that will challenge other promotions like NJPW/AEW/CMLL/Rev-Pro team up shows. But with AAA/NXT/TNA.

What I want to know is did WWE get the rights to Lucha Underground (TV Series 2014 – 2018) the American professional wrestling promotion & TV series founded in 2014 by United Artists Media Group. Partly owned by Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA), Lucha Underground had its weekly television program, which featured characters portrayed by wrestlers from AAA and the American and Mexican independent circuits. The series originally aired in English on El Rey Network and in Spanish on UniMás.

I'm also not sure about Lucha Underground ownership but I doubt AAA actually owned that promotion. It belonged to some media group who worked in conjunction with AAA to make that a possibility. If the WWE had interest in Lucha Underground, they could have just bought that instead.

While I do agree that the AAA product has been pretty bad in the past decade, this is not going to be good for Mexican wrestling at all. I doubt any other Mexican promotion like The Crash or IWRG will step up to that spot after AAA gets snuffed out. I would have felt a little better about CMLL buying AAA, if anything. When I watch Mexican wrestling, that's what I want. Not a WWE product.

 

[deezy]

@Pittie Petey is right, WWE does not keep running what they acquire they absorb their talent , assets and more importantly their video library.