Konnan addresses WWE’s acquisition of Lucha Libre AAA

During the WWE WrestleMania 41 Countdown Show, WWE announced its acquisition of Lucha Libre AAA. Former WWE/WCW star Konnan, who has worked with AAA for years, commented on the news during his podcast…

“Here’s the thing that I’ve been telling people but of course the fans are so passionate, and some of them are just to fanatical. Our problem in AAA isn’t our talent. It’s not our booking. It’s that we didn’t have any money. So, for example, they said in WWE that if you (AAA) put all our TVs together for one year, it’s not as much as they (WWE) spend on one TV in the United States. We’re working with WWE. It doesn’t get any better than that, and so our show will look a lot better, and we’re going to be be able to work with their talent, and now with money, you’ll see what we can fu**ing do.”

The reason they sold the company is because Dorian Roldan [long-time key executive in AAA] 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 was not bad. I’ve said this a million fu**ing times that if business was bad, and this is very well documented, okay, the last two years, all of our TVs have been from 85% to full.” (quotes courtesy of WrestlingNews.co)

Konnan added that he will be having a role with the creative team moving forward.