AAA is having a moment, and the way some of its stars are coming across has fans asking a wild question: why does this feel bigger than WWE’s main roster right now?
During Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer talked about the reaction to the recent AAA match that had fans all over social media arguing after his star rating became part of the conversation. Garrett Gonzales compared the whole thing to the old NXT TakeOver debate, when fans used to watch those shows and say they were smoking WWE’s main roster. Gonzales said the WWE product is still good, but the conversation around AAA feels very familiar.
“What is the frustration that I’ve seen about. Not, it’s not, I guess it’s the rating, but also how it relates to WWE because of WWE main roster. Like, like, you know what this argument reminds me of? It reminds me of late 2000 and tens when we watch the NXT shows and they’re so much better than the main roster shows. It feels like the same dialogue is happening with this Triple A show and the Triple H product right now. By the way, products good.”
Meltzer’s answer was pretty simple. AAA has a tight one-hour show, the crowd is hot, and everything feels alive.
“I mean, they do a one hour TV show every week and it’s, it’s a fun hour. It’s well produced, great crowd reactions.”
That’s where the comparison to WWE gets interesting. Meltzer said AAA is still giving fans promos and storylines like WWE does, but the wrestling is faster and the crowd is reacting harder to almost everything inside the ring.
“You know, you, you get the, you know, you get the promos and the storylines you get from WWE, but you get, you know, much faster style of wrestling and you know, far greater crowd reaction to the wrestling for everything.”
That kind of energy has made certain names feel enormous. Meltzer specifically pointed to El Grande Americano and Dominik Mysterio, who have both been treated like huge deals in Mexico.
“You know, the stars feel bigger and things like that, you know, in Grande Americano and Dominic, you know, just come off. I mean, it’s funny. They just come off as like giant, giant stars.”
Of course, a big part of that comes from the Mexico crowd. Meltzer said the wrestling scene there is on fire right now, and that atmosphere is helping push everything to another level.
“A lot of it’s Mexico, you know, and we’re gonna, you know, that Mexico thing, you know, they, it’s crazy.”
Still, Meltzer warned that this kind of hot streak does not last forever. With major wrestling shows being stacked into the same market and ticket prices rising, he said there will eventually be a breaking point.
“Something’s gotta, I mean something’s got to give… Mexico City is the perfect example of wrestling got really, really, really hot and for a number of reasons. And now you know, they’re, you raise ticket prices, raise ticket prices still sell out… but you know, more product and more product and there’s going to be, you know, I mean there’s going to be a point of reckoning.”
Meltzer even compared the current Mexico wrestling scene to the Monday Night Wars era in the United States. In other words, fans should enjoy the chaos while it is still this hot.
“I think that for people who are CMLL fans especially, I think that you should probably like enjoy this. This is the attitude era versus Nitro, you know, Monday night wars here in the United States there. And that doesn’t last forever either, but that is what this is.”
This does not mean WWE’s main roster is falling apart, but it does say a lot about what AAA has going right now. The show is short, the pace is quick, the crowd is rabid, and names like Dominik Mysterio and El Grande Americano are being presented in a way that makes them feel massive.
AAA has found a groove, and fans are noticing. Whether that can last once the market gets more crowded is a different story, but right now, the promotion has the kind of electricity that makes everything feel bigger than it probably should.
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