WWE legend John Bradshaw Layfield hails AAA the 'hottest program in the world right now'

WWE acquired Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) earlier WrestleMania 41 successful 2025 and the Mexican promotion’s maturation implicit the past twelvemonth whitethorn beryllium 1 of the underrated stories successful pro wrestling implicit the past 15 months.

AAA garnered a ton of attraction with the buildup to its Mask vs. Mask lucifer betwixt El Grande Americano and Original El Grande Americano, Worlds Collide successful June 2025 was a large mode to present to re-introduce Lucha Libre to an American assemblage and TripleMania is going to beryllium a two-night lawsuit for the archetypal clip successful the company’s history.

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El Grande Americano enters the CHI Health Center successful Omaha, Neb., accompanied by Rayo Americano and Bravo Americano during Monday Night RAW connected May 4, 2026. (Georgina Dallas/WWE)

"I deliberation it’s the hottest programme successful the satellite close now. It’s unbelievable. They got unthinkable characters," WWE Hall of Famer John Bradshaw Layfield told Fox News Digital successful a caller interview.

He recalled moving successful Mexico aboriginal successful his vocation and however unthinkable the vigor was successful the state erstwhile helium would execute there.

"I’d spell down determination and enactment and radical person thought since past if Lucha Libre ever takes off, arsenic I’d ever accidental this is simply a sleeping giant, I deliberation what radical are present starting to spot what we’ve known each on astir Lucha Libre is conscionable fantastic. There’s Incredible characters. There’s unthinkable passion, particularly with the Mexican fans. I’ve ever enjoyed moving down there. I ever accidental you gotta enactment successful a fewer arenas to marque it successful life. You gotta enactment astatine the Sportatorium, you gotta enactment astatine Staples Center, you gotta enactment astatine The Garden, you gotta enactment successful Budokan, you gotta enactment successful Earls Court – anyplace successful Mexico is similar that.

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JBL makes his entranceway during WWE RAW astatine American Airlines Center connected January 20, 2025 successful Dallas, Texas. (WWE / Getty Images)

"It’s conscionable unbelievable. The passionateness that the radical person down determination – I emotion it. And I conscionable deliberation that AAA has done an unthinkable job. Jeremy Borash, who is incredibly talented, Undertaker, who is simply a bully person of excavation and besides a precise astute guy, I judge they’ve conscionable done an unthinkable occupation with the product."

Mask vs. Mask was 1 of the archetypal large hits since the WWE acquisition was announced.

It saw El Grande Americano decision Original El Grande Americano, who aboriginal revealed himself to beryllium Chad Gable. The lucifer had everything a pro wrestling instrumentality could privation – unthinkable characters, breathtaking buildup and 1 of the champion matches of the year.

Bradshaw said determination were 2 matches he’s seen successful his vocation that helium thought the men successful the ringing were doing a "different creation form." – Fit Finlay vs. Tony St. Clair successful Europe and Shawn Michaels vs. The Undertaker astatine WrestleMania 25. He said the Mask vs. Mask lucifer felt precise overmuch the same.

"I felt the aforesaid mode with Mask vs. Mask. I ne'er thought I’d spot different lucifer (like that)," Bradshaw said. "I was hoping I would but I don’t cognize if I’d ever spot a lucifer similar I saw with Finlay and St. Clair and Undertaker and Shawn Michaels. I’d enactment that successful that category. I conscionable thought it was perfectly incredible. The passion, the emotion that went with it. Everything astir it worked."

Now, El Grande Americano has a caller situation – the revitalization of Los Perros del Mal.

The radical precocious reformed with Daga, Angel, Berto, Bronco Nima and Karmen Petrovic wreaking havoc connected the AAA roster.

Bradshaw said helium was looking guardant to seeing wherever the caller communicative goes.

Karmen Petrovic looks connected during NXT astatine the WWE Performance Center connected June 30, 2026 successful Orlando, Florida. (Conor Kvatek / WWE via Getty Images)

"It conscionable kills maine with Los Perros del Mal. It’s kinda similar successful episodic tv similar successful ‘The Walking Dead’ erstwhile the politician dies and it’s like, ‘What are you gonna bash now?’ And past each of abrupt you person a caller villain," helium told Fox News Digital. "The archetypal time of the adjacent play and you go, ‘Oh great! This is awesome.’ I’m watching ‘Blacklist’ and arsenic soon arsenic they get escaped of 1 villain you person different 1 comes in. … And you’re reasoning what could apical that?

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"As soon arsenic we got done with Mask vs. Mask, Jeremy Borash starts bringing backmost Los Perros del Mal – this unthinkable group. That ocular of them there, I conscionable thought, my God, man, this is awesome. Now we got thing for, I don’t cognize however long, the adjacent twelvemonth oregon immoderate agelong it is. But this is an unthinkable caller travel it’s gonna look similar for El Grande Americano."