Konnan on AAA’s future after WWE purchase: ‘With money, you’ll see what we can do’
Konnan addressed several questions regarding WWE’s purchase of AAA during a recent episode of his Keepin’ It 100 podcast.
News of the sale was announced at WrestleMania 41, and shortly after, it was revealed that Jeremy Borash will head up creative for AAA alongside Konnan, someone he has worked with dating back to WCW and continuing in TNA Wrestling.
“He’s a creative genius, no doubt about it,” Konnan said about Borash. “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 also stressed that now that AAA is under WWE’s umbrella, the production quality of its broadcasts will improve.
“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,” Konnan said.
“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.”
At one point, Disco Inferno suggested that a future AAA main event could feature Dominik Mysterio defending the AAA Mega Championship against El Grande Americano. Konnan responded:
“We’ve already kind of talked about that. They will both be involved, but I don’t think that will be the match.”
Konnan said the reason Dorian Roldan sold the company was not that AAA was at risk of going out of business, but that Roldan recognized they could not grow without outside help.
“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, Konnan responded that this was “1000 percent” correct. He also confirmed that he will not be writing Disco Inferno into AAA storylines.
“Let me tell you, for all the haters that were out there and throwing shade at me this weekend, bro. What happened? You can’t stop it. And what’s going to happen? You can’t stop that either. And the only thing we’re going to give you is a much better finished product, and that benefits everybody, and more work to a lot of people, and more work to other Latinos that a lot of people complain and say why aren’t they being used correctly? Now they will.”
The full video of Konnan discussing WWE’s purchase of AAA is available below: